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Article: The lie that Barack Obama is a Muslim won't go away.(Opinion & Arts)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 17, 2008
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Why does the lie that Barack Obama is a Muslim continue to persist in the minds of many Americans? A July poll showed that about 10-12 percent of Americans believed this falsehood. This number has now expanded to about 13 percent, with almost a third of those polled saying he might be a Muslim. This falsehood did not arise spontaneously. It was intentionally concocted, circulated on numerous Web sites and through e-mails by a variety of sources. The falsehood pretends to be based on reading Mr. Obama's autobiography, Dreams from My Father, but it is reflects a misreading of that book.
Let us briefly review the facts. Mr. Obama's ...