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Lt. Col. Michael Burkert (ret)
The Apostate
October 13, 2008
Prior to
Barack Hussein Obama’s ascension to the lofty position as head of the
democrat party and presumed nominee for president, the issue of his true
religious faith and loyalty has been in question. Personally, I could
care less as to what Barack Hussein Obama is, was or is not. However,
the issue of honesty is always something one looks for in a presidential
candidate, unless of course, the candidate is a Liberal-Socialist
Democrat.
When such a person
emerges in the democrat party, he or she is given a pass by the partisan
media. Veracity and character are simply non-issues in either the
democrat party, or the mainstream media. The unregulated, partisan
media, solidly “in the tank” for Obama could care less as to his honesty
or his loyalty to the nation for that matter. Our mainstream media
luminaries are dishonest, disloyal and disingenuous. They support
Liberal-Socialists of the same character, or lack of it.
If Barack Hussein
Obama is to be elected president, almost immediately there will be
massive eruptions of protest, no doubt violent protest in the Muslim
world. Why you ask would Muslims object to Obama as president? Afterall,
isn’t he one of them? In short, yes and no. While Obama was a Muslim, he
publicly denies any affiliation at any time, with the Muslim faith. So
what is the problem you ask?
In 1995, I
shipped-off to the Middle East on orders. It was an accompanied tour and
my family was afforded the dubious opportunity to live in the Muslim
world for several years. My stepson was 12 years old at the time. Since
I was a registered Christian with the Ministry of Justice, by law, my
stepson was a registered as a Christian. Had I been a registered Muslim,
my stepson would have been registered as a Muslim!
The point here is
that the religion of the foreign mother is on no consequence in the
Muslim world. The status of my wife’s religion was never asked. It was
assumed I’m sure, her religion was the same as mine. That’s the way it
is in the Muslim world. Women are not afforded much in the way of status
in the Muslim world, and Obama’s mother was no exception.
Islamic law is
consistent throughout the Muslim world. Children of a Muslim father,
even secular Muslims, those who rarely attend Mosque services, rarely
keep the Ramadan fast, the Eid holidays etc. are automatically Muslims.
The child of a Muslim father, is a Muslim. There is no wiggle room here.
Koranic law is the law!
Barack Hussein Obama
lived in Indonesia as a child. His mother, no doubt was a convert to
Islam, as a Muslim will not marry a non-Muslim, at least not publicly or
officially. Obama’s mother was married twice—to Muslim men! Young Barack
Hussein would not have lasted long in a Madrasa, if he weren’t a Muslim.
Peer pressure alone would have been intolerable, yet young Obama
attended the Madrasa for several years. Make no mistake about it; he
attended AS A MUSLIM. There would have simply been no other way.
During Obama’s
childhood in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, he attended
an Islamic school, we know as a Madrasa. Young Barack Hussein would have
studied the Koran, the Haddith and the Sunna. He would have received
indoctrination in the Muslim faith, just like the other boys his age and
at his level of schooling. Young Barack Hussein would have participated
in the five daily prayers, either in a prayer room at his Madrasa, or at
a local Mosque.
Obama has attempted
to mask his early religious training and affiliation but anyone who
knows anything about the Muslim religion easily sees through the
charade. So what you say. Why should we care about all of this? The
reason is simple. In the Muslim world, Barack Hussein Obama is an
APOSTATE. An apostate is a person who has turned his back on Islam. In
short, you can’t quit the Islamic faith. It is simply not allowed in
Islam!
Of course there are
many men and women who do just that. They convert to other faiths for a
variety of reasons and for the most part, do so with impunity. However,
each and every man or woman who quits Islam and professes belief in
another faith, such as Christianity, Judaism or whatever is subject to
being killed, in the name of Allah! The Koran demands that an
apostate be killed.
Is it of any
consequence you continue to ask that Obama was once a Muslim, but is now
a Christian? Obama is an apostate and it’s a very serious issue with 1.4
Billion Muslims around the world. Experts on Islam generally agree that
someone who is born a Muslim (in effect, someone who had a Muslim
father), who later renounces Islam, is considered an apostate, and vile
enemy of Islam. Again, it’s Islamic law almost universally.
Should Obama become
U.S. commander in chief, there is a strong likelihood that Al-Qaida’s
media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit Obama’s background to argue that an
“apostate” is leading the Global War on Islam and is attacking
and killing fellow Muslims.
The suggestion that
Obama is an “apostate” leading “Crusader Forces” will be screamed across
the Islamic world and used to galvanize sympathetic Muslims into action.
The apostate tag will be a powerful propaganda weapon that Al-Qaida will
use to marginalize America’s Middle East allies, causing enormous
difficulties in maintaining alliances with moderate Muslim countries in
efforts to neutralize Al-Qaida and other radical Muslim elements.
There is no doubt
that if Obama is elected President of the United States, he will be
renounced by many as an apostate. Somewhere, some Imam, Mullah or
Ayatollah will issue a Fatwa condemning Barack Hussein Obama, and
essentially in so doing, will issue a death warrant for his murder.
Anyone remember Salman Rushdi? All he did was write a book, that the
Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran thought had “insulted Islam.” Rushdi has been
in hiding for years! The Fatwa issued against him cannot be rescinded by
anyone other than he who issued it. Since Khomeini is thankfully under
the sod, the Fatwa is still valid. Anyone who successfully murders
Salman Rushdi is guaranteed paradise and a good place in paradise!
Can a Fatwa be
issued against a President Obama? You betcha! As if that isn’t bad
enough, IF a Fatwa is issued against Obama, no Middle East leader
interested in his own skin will dare sit down and speak with him. Not
even the Iranian nutjob Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that stupid! It may come
to pass that Obama will have no alternative but to run off to Caracas to
see his soulmate Hugo Chavez, or scurry down to Havana to pay homage to
the Castro brothers, and kneel at the alter of Che Guavara.
An Obama presidency
will be problematic for many reasons, but on the foreign policy side,
not even old Joe Biden will be able to save Obama’s bacon in the Muslim
world. If the American people are so taken with Obama’s promise of
change, they will be sadly disappointed with Obama and is ineptness.
Obama is not
qualified to serve as president. Even HE knows the problems he will face
as an apostate in the Muslim world. So, as president, Obama will have
only one choice to avoid the difficulties I’ve articulated above. In
order to avoid the tag of apostate, the probability of immediately being
ostracized and shunned in the Muslim world; and to avoid a death threat
in the form of a Fatwa, Obama will be forced to declare himself a
Muslim.
While it may seem
unlikely that Obama will “fess-up” to his Muslim faith, don’t be
surprised if shortly following his inauguration, in January 2009, he
does just that! |