Obviously you do not know much about sharia law. It states that the son of a follower of Islam is Islam by way of birth.
Scott, quit being so damned deterministic and picking and choosing details to jack up the choir. The Rabbinical determination is that one is Jewish if a convert or born to a Jewish mother. Muslim tradition and Sharia law say that one is Muslim if he is born to a Muslim father. Apostasy is even considered punishable by death in the more extreme interpretations of Sharia law. So those are "the rules."
Bull.
What's it mean in the real world? He was a kid born to a Kansan on US territory who bounced around the world some. Big damn deal.
If he lived in the middle east in a mixed marriage of a Jewish woman and a Muslim man (it happens) is he both Muslim and Jew? Do Rabbinical and Sharia guidances coexist, cancel each other out or is there a wink and a nod and the family figures it out as they go?
People leave faiths. It happens. Fundamentalists of any faith may not like it. God knows (pardon the pun) that evangelicals here have conniptions when it happens in their flock.
Those looking to shout from the rooftops may choose to ignore when basic human nature gets in the way of attracting attention by screaming like chicken little. So the guy was born of a Muslim man who was non practicing then lived awhile longer in the household of another who leaned toward the radical. Big deal.
The kid was also an American. American traditions are that eventually when the kid isn't a kid anymore he picks for himself. And he did. Big damn deal. No crisis of international conspiracy. No fatwah against him for changing either.
Hell (which is an odd thing to say when to discussing Jews and Muslims), even Imams can't agree on whether apostasy should actually be sanctioned or not. So it almost never is. I don't remember the verse but the 2nd Sura of the Koran quotes God saying "there should be no compulsion in religion."
It is later pronouncements of Mohammed that (sometimes) suggest Muslims shouldn't be allowed to leave their faith. Many Imams think Mohammed misinterpreted Allah (or was just having a bad day). That's why outside of more radicalized discussions if someone leaves the faith they just quietly go; especially in Western societies.
If someone is looking for history to tar Obama with it's not his family's religious upbringing. Truth be told he really didn't have much of one. He was, however, someone who quickly and effectively fit in to Illinois statewide politics. This is the state that almost guarantees its governors an indictment for something as part of those post-service retirement package.
If someone doesn't like Obama then prosecute the case against his opionions and his policy choices, not the name his parents gave a little kid. This is America. We don't believe in the sins of the fathers inhabiting the children. Everyone stands on their own, remember?
So quit twisting crap just for the hell of it. It's obvious you're enjoying the audience. But it's gotten boring.
Obama is an American with a name that opportunistic or unthinking dinks will use against him. George Washington really was the first President of the United States of America. What the hell Admiralty had to do with any of that other blather the other night I don't have a freaking clue. And you wrote of being a "rightwing firing lunatic" (or something like that); you don't have to try so hard to prove the latter by so poorly prosecuting the positions of the former. It's embarassing to informed, analytic and thinking conservatives everywhere.
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