By his own account, Obama became a Christian in the early 1990s at Jeremiah Wright’s church, after a period of spiritual searching and rootlessness. But why? Rush Limbaugh is right: he has been markedly critical of Christianity and has repeatedly and effusively praised Islam. So why did he become a Christian at all?
This is aside from the widespread suspicion that he is or was a Muslim, which is based as much on his statements and policies as President as it is on the fact that his father and stepfather were Muslims and that he says in his first autobiography that he got in trouble as a child for making faces in Qur’an class, which Christian children did not attend. Whether or not one thinks he was ever a Muslim, the question Rush raises is intriguing — if he wasn’t one, and he loves Islam so much, why didn’t he become one? Was it just for political gain?
“‘I’m Just Asking a Question’: Rush Limbaugh Reveals What He’s ‘Always Wondered’ About Obama,” by Oliver Darcy, The Blaze, February 4, 2016:
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh asked aloud on his radio program Thursday why President Barack Obama made the choice to become a Christian.
Limbaugh, referencing the president’s recent trip to a Baltimore mosque this week, argued Obama is “constantly talking [Islam] up.”
“President Obama is routinely defending it, talking it up, promoting it,” Limbaugh contended, according to an online transcript posted to his official website.
“He talks about how awesome Islam is all the time, one of the most beautiful sounds he’s ever heard is the morning call to prayer in an Islamic country,” the radio show host added. “He says it’s the most peaceful, most giving religion out there, that the mosque called a prayer one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. And, at the same time, he’s out there, and look what he says about Christians. He says he is one. Look, he talks about ‘em as bitter clingers and they hold on to their guns when they’re nervous.”
Limbaugh then revealed his question.
“My question is, given all this, why did he choose to become a Christian? I’ve always wondered that,” he told his audience. “He’s such a defender and promoter of Islam, and, on the other hand, he and his party are constantly denigrating Christians. I don’t care what the issue is, whether it’s guns, whether it’s gay marriage, any cultural or social issue, or the bitter clinger comments. I’ve always wondered about this.”…

stinkfoot says
The answer is so obvious that it’s not even worth commenting.
But the implication that Obama is Muslim is kind of silly. As a progressive, he puts Muslims on a pedestal because postcolonial theory (or “the enemy of America is my friend”). But no closet Muslim would push a gay marriage agenda. It would just never, ever, ever happen. Obama’s prophet is Marx, not Mohammed.
Georg says
Although I don’t think the implication Obama may be a Muslim is “silly”, as it seems he may have been raised as such for some period of time, neoliberalism, following Occam’s Razor, most straightforwardly explains/predicts his behavior and so should be considered his most likely core belief.
And yes, there has never been a president who wasn’t Christian. Professing Christianity in American politics is a bit de rigueur. Additionally, watch any clip of Jeremiah Wright of your choice and draw your own conclusions about this iteration of the faith… Like with Jasser’s Islam, Wright’s Christianity brings to mind “If my uncle were a woman she’d be my aunt.”
Michael Brennick says
Lenin cooperated with the German High Command and was transported back to Russia to foment the Revolution and pull Russia from WWI. Similarly Obama as a Muslim could promote a “LGBT agenda” to destabilize and set the groundwork for the kind of social disintegration that eventually will serve the Muslim immigration jihad.
jihad3tracker says
Hello stinkfoot — Please watch this Youtube video after reading my reply below.
That runs about 10 minutes, titled “Obama admits he is a Muslim”, and is filled with statements by OBAMA HIMSELF demonstrating his deep reverence for the Qur’an and other aspects of Islam.
I agree with you that he is a post-colonialist — with extra personal hatred added against Whites because of his partial Black ancestry. And, consequently, with the high regard Leftists have for Marx, I also agree that admiration for him could be termed “prophetic”.
But where we DIFFER is about the impossibility of Obama’s gay-marriage agenda push if he is a Muslim. First, an important NARROWING qualification from me:
I do NOT think he has in his heart the full, devout spiritual commitment of an orthodox Muslim. He is too intelligent to believe in the preposterous literal assertions in the Qur’an about natural phenomena, what “Allah” supposedly commanded, and the convenient cancelling of earlier verses by later ones — abrogation — because even God can change His mind.
But I AM convinced that Islam is a perfect match for his half-Black grievance obsessed mind, because Muhammad’s life was also consumed by victimhood pursuit. Watch David Wood’s superb “Three Stages of Jihad” [25 minutes, with citations from the Trilogy] to understand how cunning the “prophet” was in useful exploitation of humankind’s best traits.
So, back to gay marriage: his pushing of that has been a minor slice of total issues advocated during his time in office, and, for a person whose commitment to literal Islam is lukewarm (as I contend above), quite permittable in the corner of his thinking allocated to excuses. As a further plus, Leftist grievance-consumed Dems\s are the very persons who insist on gay marriage. BINGO — HE’S GOT A WINNER WITH THIS ISSUE.
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jihad3tracker says
OOOPS! HERE IS A LINK TO THE OBAMA VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY
Rev g says
His father was muslim, so he is born one as well.
His step-father was muslim.
His school records in Indonesia say he is muslim.
Nothing silly about not disputing facts.
John Galt III says
He is a Muslim
He is a Communist
Can’t exactly run on that platform and win, so you lie.
Papa Whiskey says
Why indeed? To maintain a political viability that he would have been denied as a Muslim.
Truth is, Obama is neither a Christian or a Muslim. To be either would require him to venerate something besides the guy in the mirror.
Jovial Joe says
He’s not the only ‘Christian’ who talks up Islam though is he; from the Pope on down, the church leadership is an utter disgrace. Give me an atheist with balls any day over these pathetic eunuchs.
Adrian says
good question…. and would be interesting to hear Obama’s answer.
you “become” a member of a faith because you are drawn to its ideology, or are convinced by it philosophy… Obama would probably say this is merely how he was raised. Period.
Next question, infidels?
quotha raven says
What a compelling question! I can’t believe I’ve never heard anyone ask this before, and it never even occurred to me. I’m eager to see what other JW commenters opine.
Cheers…as always!
quotha raven
dragaozao says
Politics. If lying isn’t sin for a muslim, then it ins’t sin for a politician either. So he probably has TWO good reasons to say he’s a Christian.
Paul Leslie says
The “gospel” Dear Leader heard preached by Jeremiah Wright wasn’t the Gospel of Jesus, it was the “gospel” of Marx, racism and anti-Americanism. The church is committed to Black Liberation Theology, which is no genuine theology, but a corruption and subversion of God’s truth.
That is the “gospel” Dear Leader heard, and that is the “chrisitianity” he committed himself to.
Angemon says
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Diane Harvey says
“So why did he become a Christian at all?”
But, the real question, Did he?
Taking on the burdens of being a Christian is a matter of the heart, not, unlike Islam, the uttering of a set bunch of words.
With Obama, “By their deeds you shall know them.”
Stephanie says
By trying to cater to everyone, you please no one. Al-Qaeda sure doesn’t see Obama as a Muslim. Ayman Al-Zawahiri: “Obama rejected the religion of his father and ‘tanasar’ [mildly derogatory term for converting to Christianity].”
Actually from my experience Obama is pretty unpopular in the Islamic world. Generally Muslims I’ve talked to see him as soft with respect to Bashar and Israel (to some people, you can never be heavy-handed enough when it comes to those entities!!) and they don’t like his excessive drone strikes. I remember watching a survey of Egyptians and they all said Obama was a weak president.
But I’m guessing he really has no idea how disliked his policies are in the Arab world and by the Arab media.
mortimer says
Obama is a consistent cultural Marxist: he hates Western civilization and takes every opportunity to weaken it.
Islam is being used by the Leftards to weaken Western civilization. The Muslims are allowing themselves to be used and hoping to get their leg up. The Leftards have not considered that their ‘noble savages’ will eventually turn on them because that’s what Islam does in every case. Islam makes no permanent deals, but breaks them as soon as Muslims can establish Sharia-supremacism.
Obama is helping Muslims to establish Sharia censorship in the US, thus breaking his oath of office to defend the Constitution.
That is an impeachable offense.
Gary Dichtenberg says
Obama has sympathy for Islam as it is familiar to him. He recounted the call to pray as beautiful. Many of his relatives are Muslim. His name speaks for itself. I believe him when he says he is a Christian, but his behavior suggests a leaning to and a sympathy for Muslims and Islam.
Peter says
Obama was registered as a “Muslim” at both the public and private (Catholic) schools he attended in Indonesia. If he was a Muslim, then, his conversion to Christianity, from a Muslim perspective, means he is an apostate. Maybe he is so accommodating of Islam because he doesn’t want to find out how intolerant Islam is towards apostates?
The version of Christianity he converted to merits more attention than it has gotten.
liz-23 says
Islamic doctrine states that any child born to a muslim father is automatically a muslim. It’s very doubtful that Obama is a true Christian, because Islamic law forbids Muslims to convert to any other religion. Muslim children who leave Islam “MUST BE KILLED;” Cairo’s world-renowned Al-Azhar University, the supreme authority of Islamic law in the Sunni world, issued its universal fatwa on apostasy from Islam in 1977: “This man has committed apostasy; he must be given a chance to repent and if he does not then he must be killed according to Shariah. As far as his children are concerned, as long as they are children they are considered Muslim, but after they reach the age of puberty, then if they remain with Islam they are Muslim, but if they leave Islam and they do not repent THEY MUST BE KILLED and Allah knows best.” This fatwah is based on the words of Mohammed himself: “He who discards his [Muslim] religion, kill him” (Bukari 9:89:271). Obama has no history of being persecuted in the least for changing his religion. He is a CINO (Christian-In-Name-Only).
Mo says
Why does this rumor still persist even after all these years of this man in office?
No follower of Christ would sit for 20 years and raise his children in a racist, hate filled, blasphemous “church” like Jeremiah Wright’s.
No follower of Christ would vote to let aborted infants die without medical care. And he did this TWICE.
No follower of Christ would openly, publicly mock Scripture, the way he did on video!
And all of this happened BEFORE he came to power! If I was going to list all the evil things he has done in these endless reign of his, we’d be here all day.
If nothing else, no follower of Christ would repeatedly defend and promote ANY false religion, much less the death cult of Islam! That does not even make sense on a logical level. Why would any follower of Christ be doing that constantly?
This wicked, evil man is not a follower of Christ!
Shmooviyet says
Was thinking the same as you’ve written, with one addition: no Christian has to be ‘reminded’ of it, or ‘corrected’ on it by an interviewer, as he was by Stephanopoulos.
somehistory says
Well said. He never was, never will be. He is a pretender, a fake.
Bridget Ames says
He is both a Marxist and a Muslim, he can some how marry the two( which seems odd to us)because they are both totalitarian ideologies. He is willing to continue to destroy our society by implementing his Marxist ways, and then when it is nearly destroyed he will allow Islamic ways to swoop in to establish it’s ways.
traci94 says
Good point, Rush! I’ve wondered the same thing. He is ALWAYS praising Islam while constantly chastising Christians. In fact, I just sent a nasty letter to him this morning asking who does he think he is, sitting there in a mosque, chastising Christians for being intolerant while daily Christians are being slaughtered all over the globe? Not just by “radical Islamists”, but by Muslims living in those communities. Tolerance has to be a two way street but with Islam, tolerance is always one way. He has to know all of this, and I think by now, he is doing and saying this stuff just to piss of America, it’s like he’s giving us one gigantic middle finger! But, he’s the biggest hypocrite I’ve ever seen and must just really think so little of the American public that he thinks we’re so stupid, we can’t see the reality around us. I absolutely can not stand this man.
Shmooviyet says
“Middle finger”– exactly!
I’ve dreamed of him turning around, a la Nixon, as he boards Marine One— and gleefully making this gesture, rather than that last mournful wave.
quotha raven says
To Schmooviyet – I like your image of Os…er…Obama’s parting gesture to the American people whom he so purposefully “served” for the agonizing last seven-plus years. But I think I can improve on it:
I see him about to board the plane and turning around to deliver a last insult, not by “flinging the bird” in the familiar way but, rather, with his index finger, like the muslims do it. I see that index finger as a mere variation of the “bird” middle finger salute. To use it is, for the America-hating president we twice elected, killing TWO birds with one digit, efficiently dissing everybody except for the muslims he supports.
Always like your comments, Schmoovi – keep ’em coming.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Shmoovie says
@Raven– you hit it!
His own version of “up yours”, with that sickening, mad-scientist grin.
Cheers to you!
Georg says
Although I’m agnostic, his telling Christians to get off their high-horse as they sat down to Easter breakfast made me want to vomit. What an astounding jerk.
JawsV says
President Hussein the Mohammedan.
Kakodaemon says
Obama is a secular humanist. The only reason he joined Wright’s church was for political expediency He was running for office in Chicago and needed the black vote.
.Everything he does political. Everything he does is calculated.
He is his own god. And he is delusional.
Edward says
Rush Limbaugh on Obama: “Why did he choose to become a Christian?”
Obama’s presidential tenure was premeditated……Islam’s tenets has provided his state of being incognito. Otherwise, if had he been known as a devote Muslim during his initial presidential candidacy, he wouldn’t have achieve what he has done so far…..obviously done openly by deception!
Taqiyah: the practice of denying one’s religion, permissible when one is faced with persecution, especially by Sunnites: regarded as a means of protecting the religion.
I’m surprised that Limbaugh, et al, has not questioned why Obama bears surgical scars about his head.
Many Google Images and/or searches produce evidence of his possible past injuries or medical procedures that would aberrated his psyche as other patients have experienced the same; that have been documented.
psyche: (lowercase) Psychology, Psychoanalysis. The mental or psychological structure of a person, especially as a motive force. – dictionary.com
somehistory says
Many years ago, there was a funny cartoon. It involved a very hungry dog. The dog tried everywhere to get food…was chased out of the butcher shop, etc.
Then, the dog got inside a coat and hat which hid the fact he was a dog. After gaining this disguise, he entered a building which housed a company that made hot dogs…wieners…and when approached by people, growled at them in his hunger.
His growl sounded like, “Ralph Gallagher” and so he was thought to be the new CEO of the wiener company. Soon, he was seated in a chair at the head of a banquet table where the new product was being served.
“Ralph” didn’t wait to jump onto the table where he began to eat ravenously. He lost his coat and hat disguise… and then everyone knew he was a dog.
A disguise was necessary to gain the office. Looking at the history of the country, it’s clear that most, if not all, of the presidents have claimed Jesus Christ. Many people still respect our Lord and King, even during this time of attacks on Christianity. His masters knew he would never get in as a moslim.
But, he lost his disguise early on…even before being elected for his color. Only those who wished to believe he has ever been Christian have believed it.
Shmooviyet says
Brilliant. I particularly like your last paragraph.
Get so tired of hearing certain conservatives say, “We all KNOW he’s Christian” or the like.
somehistory says
Thanks much.
I tire of it also. I believe it is due to *group think.* None of them wish to be the first to say *the room is on fire* when others they know are ignoring the smoke and flames.
Champ says
Why Obama Is Not A Christian: Reason #1
https://youtu.be/t4cMB8ktCT8
Champ says
For more reasons “Why Obama Is Not A Christian”:
http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign
Dr. Gonzalo. de Porras says
1.- El Islam permite a sus seguidores que adopten la “Taquiya” cuando estén en peligro de persecución o para engañar al enemigo. Tal fue el caso de los “moriscos ” en España, que aunque exteriormente acudían la a las iglesias seguían practicando su religión en privado y conspirando contra el cristianismo con contactos con los piratas que asolaban las costas peninsular y otros poderes islámicos. Eso es exactamente lo que ha hecho el musulmán Barak Hussin desde que llegó a los estados Unidos y a su Presidencia.
2.- NO CONSTA en los registros de ninguna iglesia cristiana el bautizo de Obama, condición indispensable para ser cristiano. Por tanto Obama NO ES CRISTIANO, sino musulmán encubierto
Oppressaphobe says
A very pregnant question for Limbaugh to ask.
Answer:
He DID NOT EVER become a Christian is the simple answer but he joined the church to infiltrate. He had plans way back then.
Jeremiah says
There is no logic that can rationalize that Obama is a Christian but we don’t want to call a spade a spade do we? Let us just watch ourselves slip into oblivion.
ed says
Some think the reason he joined the church was to cover his down low activity (gay) . It appears the Rev. Wright used his church to cover and arrange marriage for these men .
andrew sapia says
I’ve always questioned why this has never been asked of Oblah blah. Considering it is a capital offense since he was born and raised a Muslim, something that is beyond dispute, at some point he must have mad the decision to convert. Why is no one allowed to ask this question. Those who do are suspect. He’s the US president. We are not allowed to ask why you left Islam and became a Christian. What will the history books say about this. It’s almost like they will have to invent a history for him. It’s so bizarre.
Morrocan Infidel says
I read every post and I learned a lot today! Thanks to all above!
It was big news this week that he attended a mosque for the first time as POTUS. Where was the news about him attending a Christian church in the D.C. area, for the FIRST TIME as POTUS?
NEVER FORGET 9/11/01 – Deceit upon innocent humanity always has the sun shining bright light on an evil deceivers dark shadow!
kb says
MY questions are…Was he baptized? Were his daughters baptized? What is Michelle’s religious background?
jihad me at hello says
It’s clear judging by Obama’s words and actions that he is not a Christian (e.g. enabling ISIS light (“moderate” Anti-Assad fighters, rebranded Al Qaeda fighters), rubbishing Christ’s Sermon On The Mount (thereby blaspheming Christ), constant praise of Islam, Muhammad and the Quran, despite clear sanction of the use of aggression against non Muslims in the Quran and Hadith’s). But I also believe he is not a Muslim either due his fervent support of sodomite “marriage” and lifestyle, also all the praise lavished upon the mentally disturbed, self-mutilating Bruce (A.k.a. Caitlyn) Jenner (yet courageous, according to Obama), who at one time would have been fitted with a straight-jacket and committed to a mental institution so not to bring harm to himself (or other people).
I personally believe Obama is an Atheist, claiming to be Christian for political advantage but still has a strong fondness for Islam, the religion of his childhood.
Carl Munson says
The situation gets sticky when national defense is being compromised.
ISIS is hardly “junior varsity.” At the time Obama made that disingenuous statement, ISIS was on the way to shortly controlling a territory larger than Great Britain, with extensive oil revenues funding international terrorist activity. Al-Queda (bin Laden’s bunch) is still very active; Benghazi was an al-Queda operation. Strong and getting stronger in Pakistan, if Islamabad is falls into al-Queda hands, al-Queda will have nuclear strike capability.
Al-Queda, al-Nusra, ISIS, Hizb’Allah (funded by Iran, in turn funded by Obama), Muslim Brotherhood, etc., first want Israel eliminated from the face of the earth, and, secondly, want to take down the United States, “the Great Satan” “run by Jews,” in order that the green flag of Islam fly over the entire planet. These terrorists groups are all here in the U.S. It’s just a matter of time before something else extraordinarily tragic happens.
Our president is a Trojan horse inside a country whose army, through his efforts, is about to become the smallest it has been since before WWII, and whose navy is the smallest it has been since 1916, 272 ships (we were at 1,113 50 years ago).
The myopic American people were/are so ideologically informed that they elected a man with no evident presidential credentials, elected this man based on solely on race (if it weren’t for race, you would never have heard of him), a man who, based on actions, not words, is subtly using his position to weaken the country he was sworn to serve (but which, like his wife, he evidently detests).
What are we doing? Well, in a nutshell, we’re betraying all those who have gone before us and sacrificed to make America great, and we are betraying all those who go after us, our children and all future generations. Kudos, Americans. Was it worth undermining your country in order to judge a candidate by the color of his skin, not the content of his character? I hope the next administration turns this ship around immediately. We’re in extremis.
quotha raven says
To Carl Munson, who sez, “…The myopic American people were/are so ideologically informed that they elected a man with no evident presidential credentials, elected this man based on solely on race…”
Well, I suggest not “solely”. Another big motivator was the “free stuff.” I don’t recall who – maybe Benjamin Franklin? – said words to the effect that “a democracy only works until voters realize they can vote themselves a paycheck.”
From there, it’s a downward spiral, don’t you think, Carl? We are deep into that phase of the destruction of our republic now, with illegals being rounded up to vote…just the way they are told to, ie, they will vote for the person/party who will give them the most “free stuff.”
Helas!
quotha raven
William Palmer says
He is a psychopath. He can’t have well-formed opinions because he has to be constantly thinking about himself and manipulating others by lying to advance himself . Recall the synonym “malignant narcissism” and “people of the lie”? He has ‘conned’ both Christianity and Islam and is an ersatz Marxist as well. He can’t think through any logical body of thought.
You can’t go after bin Ladin and drone-assassinate hundreds of Sunni Muslims and show favoritism for both Sunni groups (Arabia) and Shia groups (Iran) at the same time and be any consistent Muslim. You can’t want the free trade agreement and be a Marxist.
He is just a banal psycopath. We elect them all the time because they are fun and popular and have exciting personalities. They always leave a trail of destruction.
Carl Munson says
Hi quotha raven,
Thank you for the insight.
Free stuff is certainly a variable. But any Democrat can promise free stuff (although Obama mostly promised “hope,” that is, nothing). Bernie Sanders, for example, makes Obama look like Adam Smith. Again, many on the left are ideologically informed, essentially using their stomach to think, and, again, in that vein, we would never have heard of Obama if it were not for his partial African ancestry. It got him into congress, where he typically voted “Present,” and it got him elected president in spite of that extremely lackluster congressional record.
Thanks again,
CJM
A Fool says
He is an oportunitst! He used Christianity for his politival advancements! He is a True Muslim! The MuIims may lie, cheat, kill, rape, do whateve evil they could think of as long as they are doing it in the name of thier god allah!
vcragain says
“agonizing last seven-plus years” – President Obama was voted into office by the majority of American voters – TWICE – all of you who are so-called ‘Christians’ spewing filthy rhetoric about the sitting President need to examine your hearts – what is the matter with you all – you will no doubt respond to this with the usual nasty hate-filled (loving Christian??) responses that make me just sit here and laugh loudly – you are so insanely ignorant and have no idea that your own souls are being destroyed – by yourselves !!!
You are completely within your rights to argue over political policy and what any President wants to do, and entitled to vote the way you want to when the time comes – but to talk this way is against that very thing you say you believe in – Christianity ? you make a mockery of the Jesus person, who taught the world what charity and love is, even if you do not believe he was the Son of God, you recognize the principles being proposed – even my old atheist father had more ‘Christianity’ than this !!!