Pragmatist wrote:Oops again CAT In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies." FYI In the State School he attended it is NOT compulsory for all pupils to study the Koran ONLY Muslims are required to do so and it is DEFINITELY not compulsory to study the Quoran in the MULTI FAITH Francis Assisi Catholic run school he attended and where as a REGISTERED MUSLIM he also took Koranic Studies. He was also registered as a MUSLIM in both the schools he attended AND friends and Teachers remember him as a DEVOUT Mohammedan (...)
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made faces- during Koranic studies, so the teacher had to write to his mother. And that's a prove he was a DEVOUT Mohammedan, says Pragmatist. Once you get to know the Neocon mindset, you'll see that apocalyptic false analogy, such as this, is their trademark.
False analogies are the sine qua non of the Neocon mindset. They'll drown you with them. It's also the basic of all conspiracy theories of which Neocons feed their worshipers with. Once you see their constant analogy falsity, Neocons are -nothing- but be fear-mongered. Here, the false analogy being that since Obama studied in a multi-faith school in Indonesia at age 8 to 10, he's still 'obviously' a 'devout' Muslim!
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There is nothing on record to indicate Obama attended a madrassa (Muslim religious school) run by Wahabbists, and in any case it's unlikely his mother would have chosen to expose him to such an extreme form of Islam given her stated abhorrence of religious closed-mindedness. (...)
CNN has tracked down the school in question, the Basuki School in Jakarta, which a deputy headmaster described as a "public school" with no particular religious agenda. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment," he told CNN. A classmate of Obama's described the school as "general," with students of many religious backgrounds attending.
Not to mention that in the 60s Indonesia was far less committed to Islam than it is now! False analogy still to raise hatred from fear!

CNN debunks false report about Obama
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"This is a public school. We don't focus on religion," Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment." Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes. "I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."
Vause also interviewed one of Obama's Basuki classmates, Bandug Winadijanto, who claims that not a lot has changed at the school since the two men were pupils. Insight reported that Obama's political opponents believed the school promoted Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, "and are seeking to prove it." "It's not (an) Islamic school. It's general," Winadijanto said. "There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. ... So that's a mixed school." The Obama aide described Fox News' broadcasting of the Insight story "appallingly irresponsible."
Appallingly irresponsible is the Neocon agenda of spewing industrial false analogies, of which conspiracy theories are made of. Nothing can kill such theories except plain common good sense, because they come out from our superstitious primitive encroachment.
The belief in 'bad spirit' or Jinn: With the Neocons, it's Halloween all year long...

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