Investor's Business Daily: "Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests?"

A January 16 Investor's Business Daily editorial claimed that "the core" of Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) "faith -- whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two -- is African nativism" and that Obama's familial ties to Africa "have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications." The editorial also asked what it called a "valid question": "Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests?"

The editorial's claims about Obama's faith being "lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two" echo widely debunked allegations that Obama is or ever has been a Muslim. Investor's Business Daily also cited "the issue" of Obama's "Muslim past," pointing to recent claims by Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes that Obama "had a reasonably Muslim upbringing" and that Muslims may "consider him a 'murtadd' (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore someone whose blood may be shed." As Media Matters for America noted, however, Pipes' claims were based largely on a Los Angeles Times article from March 2007, key portions of which were later challenged by the Chicago Tribune....

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