*Excellent article by Daniel Pipes on Barack Obama's muslim history.
-Originally published Dec. 24, 2007
"If I were a Muslim I would let you know," Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim.
But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore, someone whose blood may be shed?![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryMrGRmv4VffSmlRmFK4YrhqlCy8MQI9-LzeHqEBT_z4mAGi7fKiDcpHu4KgKoDynbIhDN1RxRiOaQSroW_Dz3bA1fpem_br_WoNy5T_hjmrNYw-VwomULhORvAt9qv6mnwRCIoVkk5s/s320/362676245_f3f7a0764e_o.jpg)
But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore, someone whose blood may be shed?
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryMrGRmv4VffSmlRmFK4YrhqlCy8MQI9-LzeHqEBT_z4mAGi7fKiDcpHu4KgKoDynbIhDN1RxRiOaQSroW_Dz3bA1fpem_br_WoNy5T_hjmrNYw-VwomULhORvAt9qv6mnwRCIoVkk5s/s320/362676245_f3f7a0764e_o.jpg)
"I've always been a Christian," said Obama, focusing on his own personal lack of practice of Islam as a child to deny any connection to Islam. But Muslims do not see practice as key. For them, that he was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a Muslim.
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His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama's grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.
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