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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Fugly,
I believe the Muslim faith states that any child born to a Muslim father is Muslim. So, generally, Muslims in America probably do consider him Muslim. Could that account for some small percentage of the numbers?
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actually, that's where you're wrong.
Islamic belief is that all children are born 'muslim'. That is, children are born with the innate nature of being born under the 'oneness of god' and that children then follow the religion of their parents.
in saying that, i dont know if it would be a bad thing if a progressive muslim was president. But it really doesnt bother me whether obama is muslim or not. it wouldnt make me vote for him if he was.
what i am afraid of is people voting for him or against him for purely that reason and not for his policies... a bit like the phenomenon of the black community voting for obama because he was black.