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	<title>Comments on: PUMAs Give Cougars a Bad Name: Obama is a &#8220;Registered Muslim&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: LM</title>
		<link>http://goatmilkblog.com/2008/08/27/pumas-give-cougars-a-bad-name-obama-is-a-registered-muslim/#comment-859</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right, and that addressed the question of Obama&#039;s current religion. He is almost certainly not currently a Muslim by the standards of your average US Christian. And I personally would agree that those who question the faith of their parents are to be admired. But that&#039;s not the only issue at hand, and I think that ignoring what people are actually complaining about is where you get into trouble.

The claim that he was never, even as a child, a Muslim and that he was raised a Christian is pretty dubious. Who cares. EXCEPT if he lied repeatedly about it, and, and this is what no one wants to talk about, in so far may be seen as apostasy in some of the countries in which a president would interact. 

Lying about one&#039;s past is taken seriously by a lot of people, and considered by many indicative of future behavior. To just keep answering the claim &quot;Barack was raised a Muslim&quot; with &quot;No, not true, Barack is a Christian!&quot; just makes no sense. It&#039;s answering one proposition with a completely unrelated argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right, and that addressed the question of Obama&#8217;s current religion. He is almost certainly not currently a Muslim by the standards of your average US Christian. And I personally would agree that those who question the faith of their parents are to be admired. But that&#8217;s not the only issue at hand, and I think that ignoring what people are actually complaining about is where you get into trouble.</p>
<p>The claim that he was never, even as a child, a Muslim and that he was raised a Christian is pretty dubious. Who cares. EXCEPT if he lied repeatedly about it, and, and this is what no one wants to talk about, in so far may be seen as apostasy in some of the countries in which a president would interact. </p>
<p>Lying about one&#8217;s past is taken seriously by a lot of people, and considered by many indicative of future behavior. To just keep answering the claim &#8220;Barack was raised a Muslim&#8221; with &#8220;No, not true, Barack is a Christian!&#8221; just makes no sense. It&#8217;s answering one proposition with a completely unrelated argument.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;And one also normally submits this information for school registration&quot;

Would &#039;one&#039; do that or would one&#039;s parents do that?  I know my children didn&#039;t fill out their school registration form, I did it for them.

I wonder how many PUMA&#039;s are the same religion their parents foist upon them because they didn&#039;t have the balls to go out and find their own path in life.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And one also normally submits this information for school registration&#8221;</p>
<p>Would &#8216;one&#8217; do that or would one&#8217;s parents do that?  I know my children didn&#8217;t fill out their school registration form, I did it for them.</p>
<p>I wonder how many PUMA&#8217;s are the same religion their parents foist upon them because they didn&#8217;t have the balls to go out and find their own path in life.</p>
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		<title>By: LM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually in Indonesia you do register your religion, and it appears on your identity card -- or at least did when I was last there. This is not optional.  And one also normally submits this information for school registration, which, given the documentation, I suspect this referred to.

Of course, who cares about anyones childhood religion. Or even their adult reason as long as they are progressive and politically secular. Except perhaps when one lies about it. Or in this case when conversion, or perceived conversion, could be a problem in some countries.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually in Indonesia you do register your religion, and it appears on your identity card &#8212; or at least did when I was last there. This is not optional.  And one also normally submits this information for school registration, which, given the documentation, I suspect this referred to.</p>
<p>Of course, who cares about anyones childhood religion. Or even their adult reason as long as they are progressive and politically secular. Except perhaps when one lies about it. Or in this case when conversion, or perceived conversion, could be a problem in some countries.</p>
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