Wingnut Debbie Schlussel Questions Barack Obama's Religion

You knew it would happen, probably sooner than later, and it has -- the wingnuts are going after Barack Obama with insinuations and flat out lies. The source of this first major attack is a third-rate attack dog by the name of Debbie Schlussel. Maybe she wants to be the next Ann Coulter?

Here is the post in question, entitled "Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, Always A Muslim":

I decided to look further into Obama's background. His full name--as by now you have probably heard--is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Hussein is a Muslim name, which comes from the name of Ali's son--Hussein Ibn Ali. And Obama is named after his late Kenyan father, the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., apparently a Muslim.

And while Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that's not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he's a Christian, but they do not.

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So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father's heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?

Is that even the man we'd want to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, if Hillary Clinton offers him the Vice Presidential candidacy on her ticket (which he certainly wouldn't turn down)?

NO WAY, JOSE . . . Or, is that, HUSSEIN?

Emphasis added.

What a load of crap. Where will his loyalties be? As if he is going to direct the CIA to support the jihad against the US? Is Ms. Schussel serious?

I can't believe the wingnuts are going this far already.

Media Matters for America has the details that refute this idiotic post -- by a person who regularly is a guest on MSNBC. It seems that the media, or at least the cable news media -- those leftists the neo-cons are always complaining about -- are waging a campaign to mention Obama's middle name as often as humanly possible. Even the somewhat politically confused Chris Matthews is playing along.

It's going to be an ugly next two years.

Tags: Barack Obama, Debbie Schlussel, personal attacks, Islam, slander, wingnuts