Is Obama a Muslim?

That seems to be the buzz around the water cooler these days. And strangely, the more people get to know him, the more they either think he is a Muslim or they're just not sure.

According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say that Obama is a Muslim, while only 11% thought so in March 2009.

43% say that they don't know, compared to 34% in March of '09. And this poll was taken before Obama's pronouncement (and take back) on the Ground Zero mosque/ community center.

Why would anyone think that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim? Let's see... his father was a Muslim. That's enough for some people to consider him a Muslim by birth.

There was the infamous (Freudian?) slip of the tongue when he spoke to Tom Brokaw about his “Muslim faith” during the campaign. Then there's his praise of Muslim prayer calls...

"One of the prettiest sounds on earth" is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset."

-Barack Hussein Obama

How about the direction by this administration of NASA, an agency founded to foster space exploration, to reach out to Muslims?
It's bad enough that the space program has been gutted of its original mission. It certainly doesn't need any touchy feely busy work!

Then there's the fact that Obama has not regularly attended any even nominally Christian church regularly, much less joined one, since he failed to pay attention at "Reverend" Wright's church?

But, what about Bo the dog? Don't Muslims consider dogs to be unclean? Well, it's not like Obama puts the dog on a separate plane when they fly anywhere! Oh, wait!

Look for Obama to borrow Bill Clinton's ten pound Bible and darken the door of a few churches between now and 2012.

Obama's faith or lack thereof, is his own business. There's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, if he is one. The only problem would be if he had lied about it or mislead anyone about it for political expediency.

I think more people have a problem with his character and his economics than worry about his religion.