Malik Obama Confirms, Half Brother Obama Grew Up a Muslim
By Rizzuto

Sat Jun 14, 2008 - Before you start in on me as some kind of "Obama is a Muslim Manchurian Candidate nut", let me just tell you that I've been in the front lines of Obama's anti-smear team with this one. Some of you might know that in addition to being Wilkow's producer, I'm also his phone screener. When Obama started looking viable, we started getting the Obama is a Muslim calls pretty frequently and my answer was always the same, "No sir/ma'am, Obama is not a Muslim."

In addition, I'm slightly skeptical because I haven't seen anyone else run with this yet, but I'm going to throw it out there seeing as Malik Obama is Baracks half brother...that's gotta carry some weight right? This from Israel Insider:
Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.

As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."

The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.

In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."

Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.
I'll throw up some updates if this story gains legs.




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Comments : 1 Comment

Libertygrrl commented, on June 14, 2008 at 11:16 p.m.:

I guess we will get the standard comment from BO that "He's not the Malik Obama that I knew".