By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters: Bush urges clear outline for a Palestinian state
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Title:#14 - of course Obama understands Islam better!
Name:redmike
City: tel aviv and londonState: Israel
Barack Obama is the product of a black Moslem from Kenya, Barrack Hussein Obama, and a white atheist from Kansas and that is why his middle name is the same as Saddam`s, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. His first name is taken from the Islamic term in Arabic for "blessed," baraka, used in the Koran. His mother later married another Moslem after which they moved to Jakarta when he was six and he attended a Moslem medressa (religious school). He was born of a Moslem father, raised by a Moslem stepfather, and received his first education at a Moslem school. In the eyes of all Muslims he is a Muslim and that he subsequently went to a Catholic school in Jakarta before living with his mother`s parents back in Honolulu makes no difference to them.