Senator Obama after White House briefingFox News claims to be “Fair and Balanced” but their report on the childhood of Senator Obama was an obvious hatchet job. But even better from their point of view, they blamed the report on Hillary Clinton. Their source for this story? A right wing magazine called Insight, which is funded by the Moonies.

The Fox News story claims that Senator Obama was raised a Muslim as a child, attended a madrassa (ultra-religious Islamic school) as a child, and since he lied about this he is may be some kind of threat to the US.

Where to begin? First, Senator Obama didn’t lie about anything. In his book, Dreams of My Father, he writes:

 

In Indonesia, I’d spent 2 years at a Muslim school, 2 years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I’d pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended.  

Second, the school was not a madrassa school as we know them from Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was, in fact, a public school that accepted students of all faiths. This was forty years ago before Saudia Arabia was funding madrassa schools. But even today, the schools in Indonesia are not promoting anti-Americanism. To verify this, CNN did what Fox News didn’t bother to do… they investigated the report.

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