Obama a Muslim? Really?

In a 2006 file photo, then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.
by Opinion Staff

Eighteen percent of people think that President Obama is a Muslim.

That’s up from 11 percent who said he’s a Muslim in a poll in March 2009.

Thirty-four percent of people in the more recent poll say President Obama is a Christian.

That’s down from 48 percent in the 2009 poll.

The fact is, President Obama is a Christian. Maybe people were confused earlier by his name or by the fact his father was a Kenyan Muslim or by the fact he spent part of his youth in Indonesia, which is a Muslim country.

But Mr. Obama has been president since January 20, 2009. He’s been in the news, to say the least. Folks have had plenty of time to form and change opinions about Mr. Obama and his policies. That’s great. Opine away.

But the president’s religion isn’t a matter of opinion. It’s a matter of fact. It’s such a matter a fact that we wonder whether people answering the poll might have been kidding the pollsters. Yeah, (wink, wink) Obama is a Muslim.

What do you think? Do 18 percent of people really think that President Obama is a Muslim?

Source: palmbeachpost.com