[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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