Is Obama a Muslim?

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. took the stage at the Republican National Convention on Monday to tout Donald Trump, but, according to Newsmax, “his fairly standard speech isn’t getting as much attention as the remarks he made following his speech where he told ABC News that he ‘absolutely’ believes President Barack Obama is a Muslim.”

“We had a Muslim president for 7-and-half-years,” Sabato Jr. told ABC News. He added, “I don’t believe the guy is a Christian.”

Sabato Jr., continues Newsmax, is not the first to question the president’s background, ABC News reports. Trump himself has — on numerous occasions — questioned whether the president is American or if he is a Muslim.

Is Obama a Muslim?

It doesn’t matter. What matters are his policies. If Obama is a Muslim, he should have admitted it when he first ran for office. But we would have had the same policies, regardless. Why? Because his policies are largely beneficial to the cause of Islamic terrorism, whether it’s his intention or not. These policies are consistent with his generally anti-American “ideals,” which are more prevalent on the so-called progressive left than ever before.

ISIS developed and grew under Obama’s watch. The Middle East has generally destabilized in a way that benefits Muslim fanatics and harms freedom-leaning forces. The greatest pro-freedom nation in the Middle East is Israel. Israel is under more danger now than ever, as Iran prepares to build nuclear weapons it’s entirely reasonable to believe they will use (with American money from the “peace” deal, no less).

If you’re an advocate of jihad, Obama’s presidency has been the best thing to happen to your cause. Obama stays nominally enough on the “side” of America to keep jihadists fired up to go after the Great Satan. Yet by and large, Obama has done everything possible to make jihad easier for jihadists. If you doubt me, then simply compare and contrast the headlines in 2016 with the headlines back in 2006 or 2007. Jihadists are having a party, because to them slaughter is glorious and noble.

Obama runs around the world apologizing for America, even though millions still clamor to get into this country because it’s the best thing the world has ever seen. He refuses to call Islamic terrorism Islamic, and even enlists his Attorney General to threaten criminal prosecution of “hate speech,” which means: criticism of Islam. How is this any different in principle from Sharia Law, which Muslims who take their religion seriously seek to impose on the world?

Politically, the crucial distinction between Islam and other religions is its principled and absolute refusal to accept the separation of church and state. According to Islam and the jihadists who spread the religion in growing numbers, the very idea of church-state separation — which permits equal individual rights to non-Muslims, including even atheists and agnostics — is mind-blowing blasphemy. It will not be tolerated.

I don’t care what other major religions did in the past. We’re talking now. And as of the twenty-first century, Islam is the leading force for dictatorship, including the elimination of church-state separation, and the greatest threat to world peace since Hitler.

In his undue toleration and consideration for Islam, Obama makes it easier for this violence to spread. Part of what brought down Communism in the 1980s was Ronald Reagan’s willingness to use the phrase “evil empire” when speaking of the Soviet Union, combined with his willingness to build up our military arsenal (which worked). Think of Obama as the complete opposite. Not only will he not call jihadists evil; he won’t even call them Muslim. If people start to think Obama is a Muslim, who can blame them?

For all practical purposes, Obama is a Muslim president. Who cares if he’s really a Muslim, or not? Either way, his policies, as well as those of his anointed successor, Hillary Clinton, will lead us to ever greater losses and ultimate ruin. Americans remain asleep and mindlessly prepare to vote for Hillary Clinton while jihadists openly plot — and regularly act upon — the destruction of civilization as we know it.

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