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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 09:59 AM Jan 2017

If Obama is a Muslim, is Trump a Russian spy?

By Kathleen Parker Opinion writer January 6 at 7:27 PM

First, a history refresher: For the past nine years, a smattering of Americans, most recently led by our now president-elect, have insisted that Barack Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya.

For years, Donald Trump was unrelenting in his insistence that Obama prove beyond existing proof that he was born in Hawaii and not in the African country of his biological father. That Obama said he is a Christian wasn’t enough to persuade Trump’s followers, who apparently know a Christian when they see one.

Further, there is no logical basis for assuming that a young person briefly raised in a given country — say, Indonesia — necessarily would adopt the dominant religion of that country. He might, however, observe that though people worship in different ways, we’re all essentially the same. Never mind the cruel and absurd assumption that being a Muslim means that one is, ipso facto, a “bad person.”

Respecting others despite differences is, generally speaking, the hallmark of an enlightened soul, as well as a desirable disposition in a leader. Yet, those who sided with Trump interpreted Obama’s gentle touch toward the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims as evidence of a hidden agenda to advance Islam in the United States — notwithstanding Obama’s rather robust drone operations, which eliminated quite a few bad actors who happened to be, or said they were, Muslims.

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If Obama is a Muslim, is Trump a Russian spy? (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Well, that's the narrative I will be spewing all over the internet for the next four years... Stellar Jan 2017 #1
Trump's not a spy, he's a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin, Inc. Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #2
Nah Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #3
Rumor also has it meow2u3 Jan 2017 #4

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
1. Well, that's the narrative I will be spewing all over the internet for the next four years...
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 12:21 PM
Jan 2017

or for however long he is in office, for him and his cabinet friendly Putin lovers.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
4. Rumor also has it
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 03:02 PM
Jan 2017

that Drumpf also secretly renounced his American citizenship when he first met Putin. He didn't want anyone in the US to know so he could pull the wool over the eyes of repuke voters.

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