FARK.com: (6991834) By asking the question about whether or not Obama is a "secret Muslim," people are perpetuating the false myth started by idiotic birthers

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		By asking the question about whether or not Obama is a "secret Muslim," people are perpetuating the false myth started by idiotic birthers (theatlantic.com)		72
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Crabs_Can_Polevault		2012-03-13 01:38:31 PM

You mean Glenn Beck might not have, well, you know... that girl? 1990?

Why doesn't he just come clean and put this persistent rumor to rest?

FloydA		2012-03-13 01:39:51 PM

ssa5:
Problem is not the idea that a President could be non-Christian, problem is that we have too many f**king retards in this society who continue to be allowed to vote. Letting stupid people vote for stupid candidates and stupid ideas is far more dangerous than Al Qaeda could ever dream of being.

Don't you see? The Republicans are doing all this out of their patriotic love of the USA! The GOP are trying to destroy the US in order to make sure that Al Qaida can't do so.

atomic-age		2012-03-13 01:42:23 PM

Jackson Herring: keylock71: They were interviewing attendees on the way out of some bible thumping political rally in Alabama on NPR yesterday.

It's doubly sad, because there are a lot of beautiful areas in Alabama.

This is so very true. When I went "home" in September, it broke my heart to see the beauty that I used to enjoy daily, yet know I simply cannot live there again because the people are so stupid that there is absolutely no future for me there.

The other thing that tore me up was the graffiti and garbage at the waterfall. Stupid hicks.

karnal		2012-03-13 01:46:33 PM

aug3

Zeus didn't have a son named Jesus

You don't know that for sure.

draa		2012-03-13 01:51:00 PM

barneyfifesbullet: Obama can stop being called a Muslim and whatever else, when all people that won't vote for Obama can stop being called racist and whatever else.

Practice what you preach. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

So, being a Racist is just like being a Muslim? Don't answer. You're another farking (R)etard that just got put on ignore.

You assholes just refuse to debate honestly and there's no sense in listening to your ignorance anymore. The world is not flat and the 2 examples you used are not even close.

strathcona		2012-03-13 01:54:30 PM

St_Francis_P		2012-03-13 01:54:34 PM

Gergesa: We all know he is a muslim. The question is whether he is one of the shape shifting white lizard alien muslims or just a run of the mill muslim. Until we hold congressional investigations into the matter his presidency will be forever under a cloud of illegitimacy.

And you know who else likes illegitimacy? Sluts. Which is why they love Obama so much.

Jackson Herring		2012-03-13 01:55:00 PM

atomic-age: This is so very true. When I went "home" in September, it broke my heart to see the beauty that I used to enjoy daily, yet know I simply cannot live there again because the people are so stupid that there is absolutely no future for me there.

I spent a few months on internship down in Mobile back in college. I liked it so much that I dragged a dozen people back with me for spring break in Gulf Shores that year.

Tax Boy		2012-03-13 02:07:26 PM

Pants full of macaroni!!: Tax Boy: On Obama before being elected:

OMG! Have you heard about the reverend at the church Obama goes to?

On Obama after being elected:

OMG! Obama is a Muslin!

It's called "taqiyya". Taqiyya is the Golden Ticket that wipes out the cognitive dissonance here.

www.crooklynclan.net

Taqiyya!

Gyrfalcon		2012-03-13 02:29:29 PM

James!: False myth? I only perpetuate true myths, like Odin.

That's because Odin will smite you if you doubt his existence.

Ctrl-Alt-Del		2012-03-13 02:31:12 PM

keylock71: If you still think Obama is a muslim or he wasn't born in America, you're a farking retard. Simple as that.

From a recent poll of likely Republican voters

Question: Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?

Alabama
14% Christian
45% Muslim
41% Not sure

Mississippi
12% Christian
52% Muslim
36% Not sure

That's right, Farkers - HALF of Republican voters in these two back-asswards shiatholes think President Obama is a Muslim. And up to one-third of them think that interracial marriage should be illegal, with another 17% "not sure"

But don't you dare call them racists

Ctrl-Alt-Del		2012-03-13 02:35:49 PM

barneyfifesbullet: Obama can stop being called a Muslim and whatever else, when all people that won't vote for Obama can stop being called racist and whatever else.

I'm pretty sure that simply reading this dropped my IQ by a couple of points. I can only imagine what actually thinking of it did to you. you're actually a very lucky guy - if being stupid caused physical pain you'd be taking more oxycontin than Limbaugh ever did.

BSABSVR		2012-03-13 03:05:40 PM

Jackson Herring: sweetmelissa31: Marcus Aurelius: So why is the Atlantic repeating the assertion in the headline? If they're so damned concerned, then why are they being part of the problem?

Critical thinking? Racist.

PPP, which is a Democratic firm, is sometimes maligned for being an unreliable pollster, but in this case the biggest problem is that they're asking the question at all.

The article is seriously saying "yep it's the libs fault". Unbelievable

PPP are also the real racists for asking about interracial marriage.

mrshowrules		2012-03-13 03:34:09 PM

aug3: im just gonna start agreeing with them, then say something like
1. he will go down in history as America's 1st Muslin President
2. Presidents Day a Federal holiday, will now become a Muslin High holy day, and your children will be forced to praise Fartbama in school
3.Since he is the 1st Muslin President, he gets to go on Mount Rushmore
4. maybe something simple like, " I know, it's great isn't it"

exactly. Now that Obama's secret Muslim identity is out, that opens the door to the metric system and the end of bacon.

The conservatives should know that this is all their fault. All they had to do was be quiet about this and everything would have been fine but now they've forced the issue.

xcv		2012-03-13 03:39:37 PM

Start promoting Mitt Romney - "Secret Mexican alien"
End birthright citizenship for foreign Mormonists.

TheGogmagog		2012-03-13 05:09:17 PM

Ctrl-Alt-Del: keylock71: If you still think Obama is a muslim or he wasn't born in America, you're a farking retard. Simple as that.

From a recent poll of likely Republican voters

Question: Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?

Alabama
14% Christian
45% Muslim
41% Not sure

Mississippi
12% Christian
52% Muslim
36% Not sure

That's right, Farkers - HALF of Republican voters in these two back-asswards shiatholes think President Obama is a Muslim. And up to one-third of them think that interracial marriage should be illegal, with another 17% "not sure"

But don't you dare call them racists

Friday Bil Mahr had a clip of southern voters. The muslim stuff was no suprise. The jaw dropper was when one guy was pressed for answers about why he will never like Obama no matter what he does for him or the country. He proudly proclaimed it's not because he's black, it's because he's a mulatto.

/See not racist.

CujoQuarrel		2012-03-13 05:43:39 PM

soy_bomb: I thought it was the Clinton campaign that started the "Secret Muslim" meme when they started distributing the photo of the President dressed in the traditional Muslim garb. That was long before the Teahaddists showed up on the scene.

It was. And I believe they were the start of the birther movement.

Isn't politics wonderful

Ray_Peranus		2012-03-13 07:55:39 PM

There's several pictures of him drinking beer and sitting in Christian churches and macking on American women not wearing full body tarps on the interwebz. If he were really Muslim these wouldn't exist.

CujoQuarrel		2012-03-13 08:06:58 PM

Ray_Peranus: There's several pictures of him drinking beer and sitting in Christian churches and macking on American women not wearing full body tarps on the interwebz. If he were really Muslim these wouldn't exist.

See, he's even bad at being a mussslimmmm

FloydA		2012-03-13 08:44:25 PM

What 41% of Alabama might look like

Terrible Old Man		2012-03-14 02:17:26 AM

Foundling: Give me an openly Muslim candidate and I'll vote for him just to watch the tea baggers freak.

And this is why Americans fail at politics. Not that it's voting for a Muslim, but you vote for reasons other than you should. Those who vote for the empirically logical 'best candidate' get drowned out by the sea of ham-and-egger mouth-breathing extremists that vote for retarded reasons or because some talking head extremists say to.

Obama being Muslim would hardly be the first giant lie a president has told and there's the distinct possibility that in 20 years when he writes his memoirs we're all going to be trolled. (The man has a poor record of the truth so far, not that politicians ever do. Transparent indeed.)