[PAA-Discuss] O'Donnell Aide: Obama Is a Secret Muslim

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September 22,  2010 
WHAT  WE'RE FOLLOWING THIS WEEK 
_O'Donnell  Aide: Obama Is a Secret Muslim_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=Tyxn1lIZ8QR2GOWrUwoDCA..)  
Christine  O'Donnell, the 41-year-old tea party darling who won the 
Republican Senate  primary in Delaware, has had on her campaign staff a longtime 
conservative  activist who last year wrote an article suggesting President 
Barack Obama  is a secret Muslim. 
According  to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission by 
O'Donnell's  failed 2008 Senate campaign and by her current campaign, Jon Moseley 
has  worked for O'Donnell in both of these Senate bids. But Moseley is not 
a  political operative. For decades, he's worked for conservative policy  
groups. In 2009, Moseley also maintained an intermittent _blog_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=k7XeH1cvuO0kawHC0hdl8A..)  that expressed his 
conservative views. There he _defended_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=q82lISxzWXrl5XM9dPLDyg..)  the Bush-Cheney administration's use of extreme  
interrogation methods (declaring they were not torture), _hailed_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=qk4BDWNocFOU2h15fQmC4Q..)  the tea party 
movement, _maintained_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=pcDuop5ILaGEMJkwQr64bw..)  that climate change was caused by changes in  the sun's magnetic 
field—contended that Obama was and might still be a  Muslim. 
In  an _article_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=STwwEzNLWqrlL5B6N9lkbw..) —titled "Is Barack Hussein Obama (Still) A  Muslim?"—Moseley 
asserted that because Obama had recited to a reporter the  Muslim call to prayer 
(which he apparently learned as a child in  Indonesia) he must be a Muslim: 
"According to Islamic scholars,  reciting this Muslim declaration of faith 
makes one a Muslim." He argued  that Obama's professed conversion to 
Christianity was not authentic. To  back this up, he cited an interview Obama gave in 
2004, during which he  said of religious faith, "I believe there are many 
paths to the same  place." But, Moseley wrote, Jesus "stated there is no 
other way to God  without him." That is, Obama's not a true Christian because 
he's not a  fundamentalist Christian. And in this case not-a-real-Christian 
equals  Muslim. 
_Want  more Moseley "evidence" of Obama's secret faith?_ 
(http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=Yo_dGafW-mMN4PGpVe1_1w..)  —David Corn  _[READ  MORE]_ 
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decried homosexuality; her sister Jennie supports gay rights and says she  
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