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Posted on February 11, 2007 23:27
Christina
60 Minutes Kroft left too many unanswered questions about Barrak Hussein Obama. Why the screaming silence about Obama's Muslim roots and family connections? Is it because the countless lacunae in the Obama-story validate suspicions that Obama is a crypto-Muslim? As the wife of two strong Muslim men, given her vague Christian religiosity, how did his mother avoid conversion to Islam? Did she ever have to wear Muslim drapery, veil, burqua? nijab? How -under what rites and what name? - and where was she buried?
In light of his declared misgivings about his ethnic name - particularly the politically embarrassing "Hussein" of the father who abandoned him - why did Barrak not follow an American tradition and take "Denham" as his last or middle name, and thus honor or at least acknowledge his "whiteness" and the maternal grandparents who raised him and presumably paid for his expensive education? (He would not be the first President with a foster name - viz, Ford, Clinton.)
Why - again according to an American, indeed a Western tradition - is neither of his daughters called, "Ann"? Since St. Ann was the mother of St. Mary - is "Ann" too Christian for a Barrak raised during his most impressionable years as a Muslim boy? Was he taught Muslim tactics - taquiya and kidman - to pretend to be agreeable with unbelievers until they are off guard, and then easily disarmed or beheaded? What guarantee is there that "President Obama" will not suddenly - like his brother Roy - turn from "Jesus" to Mohammed?
Obama SEEMS to be a sweet, all-American guy. Indeed, he is not a "black" as some Brooklyn immigrants from Crete. Moreover, by playing the Afro-American he is more likely to be elected than an American with a Greek-Orthodox or Jewish background. There is - as Henry James would say- too much to tell or rather ask.
Posted on February 12, 2007 12:12