Weird - The reason it posed the question, Invictus, is that I wondered if the writer didn't also want to (again...) raise the question of the President's religious background.
I haven't "dug" into this aspect much at all, but with my basic knowledge of the Islamic religion and Arabic names, I wonder if any Kenyan father would name his son with the wholly Arabic names of Barack and Hussain if he didn't wish those names to be an expression of his own religious (in this case Islamic) convictions, which he clearly desired to transfer to his son. The (presumably?) non-islamic (Irish/English-American) mother obviously did not disagree.
So: This president was born a Muslim and the question is when and how he converted to Christianity, something by the way which I believe is punishable by stoning under Islamic religious traditions.
Also, his own academic theses on his ideal political system have been strenuously supressed by him even before the primaries strated.
Conclusion: I do like him, but do not at all trust these "basic data" about him, especially since they are (quite clearly deliberately, of course) shrouded in major fogs of mystery and obfuscation.......
Nothing new here, but as I am not an american citizen or resident, I probably have missed the vast, continuous and deep and serious national discussions over there on these rather interesting themes - or haven't I......??
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