Obama’s Grandmother Changes Islam Story
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 6, 2008 at 9:50 am PST • Views: 1,661
Yesterday’s edition of USA Today had a story about Barack Obama’s grandmother in Kenya, in which she slams the Clinton campaign for circulating photos of Obama in Muslim garb—and then states that she is a Christian: Obama’s grandma slams ‘untruths’.
Obama’s grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.
“In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents,” she said. She, too, is a Christian.
Just one little problem with this statement.
In April of last year, Sarah Hussein Obama told the New York Times she is a devout Muslim.
Sarah Hussein Obama, who is his stepgrandmother but whom Mr. Obama calls his grandmother, still rises at 5 a.m. to pray before tending to her crops and the three orphans she has taken in.
“I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.
(Hat tip: Abu Maven.)
UPDATE at 3/6/08 10:21:58 am:
That didn’t take long; the Diggbats are already calling this post “racist:” Digg - RACISM IS ALIVE AT LGF…POUNCING ON OBAMAS GRANDMOTHER.
UPDATE at 3/6/08 11:13:01 am:
The person who posted this at Digg has now explained in a comment that he was being “ironic,” not seriously accusing me of racism. But the problem with posting “ironic” titles like that at Digg is that they’re indistinguishable from the genuine titles posted by the Diggbats.
Frank says: