It's snopes.com, not snoops.com. And if you look at it you'll see that most of the assertions in this email are lies and the rest are mischaracterizations. The link is http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp There's also a good article called "Sliming Obama" on Newsweek's site: http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424. Unfortunately, by replying to this email by saying "The fact that he is Muslim isn't my concern - the fact that he lied is!" without verifying your information shows a really sad pride in your ignorance on this issue. He's not Muslim (freshman congressman Keith Ellison is and after he was sworn in posed for pictures with his hands on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Koran) and Obama's at least as honest as any of the other politicians running for office or running the country. (I'd venture to say more so.) Also Clinton fired a campaign worker who forwarded on a similar Obama smear e-mail. (And please don't mischaracterize this as a claim that it originated from the Clinton campaign...as politically ruthless as they are, I can't imagine them organizing something so laughably false. I actually like the Clintons and feel they are really effective leaders on issues of tolerance among many other things.) I don't know you "xxx", but you've sent easily verifiable lies twice two more than a dozen of your friends. I can only hope that most of your friends are smart enough to investigate before they believe a chain email and cast a misinformed vote. Things like this make me really happy we live in a republic rather than a democracy. (The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic...follow the links, it's edifying). Jason Luckett On 1/13/08, xxx wrote: Sorry I didn't get that at all! What I read was that somebody no matter who he or she is - Is deliberatley not telling the complete truth the people of our country and is asking us to have trust in them and vote for them to represent us and our country! If that person is already with holding the truth to any degree - what will that person be like if they are elected to run our country and how do we trust them. Haven't we had enough of that in politics? The fact that he is Muslim isn't my concern - the fact that he lied is! No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:57:23 -0800 From: xxx Subject: Re: Be Careful, be very careful To: xxx CC: xxx xxx - So I was just going to ignore this because I love you and try hard to respect other people's opinions. But...here's my opion: that email just perpetuates the ignorance, racism and stereotypes that keep Americans in the dark ages and strengthen a climate of fear and hatred. If we continue to teach people this, to teach our children about hate, we may as well just blow up America. The right wing wants to continue to propagandize Americans into thinking that there is a muslim terrorist around every corner and that anyone who is not a conservative white christian is only going to destroy the world. I tend to believe that the world will be destroyed instead by that kind of ignorant terrorist - a closed-minded, evil, hate-mongering, fear-spreading virus that teaches people to continue to hate and fills them with mis-information. xo --- ----- Original Message ---- From: xxx To: xxx Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:30:16 AM Subject: FW: Be Careful, be very careful No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:29:40 -0800 From: xxx Subject: Be Careful, be very careful To: xxx Yes Jimmy, I did some research on this and although Snoops.com sates that the information is false you will see that every claim is indeed supported. Is the US ready to take a chance ?? Subject:Fwd: Be careful, be very careful. Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ). When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school. Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham-a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas-at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two. Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools. Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim. Handsome . . . Charming . . . Winsome . . . Dangerous . . . Deceptive . . . Determined