Courtesy of David Aikman, another direct question that deserves a clear response to the American people from Senator Obama:
While it’s right to take him at his word that he’s a Christian, the issue of his Muslim father won’t go away so easily. According to Shariah, Islamic law accepted as normative by the world’s one billion Muslims, if you are born to a Muslim father, you yourself are a Muslim. It’s against Muslim law to stop being a Muslim, and if you do so, you are an apostate. In some Muslim countries apostasy is a crime punishable by death and those who murder apostates are often not even punished.
Does Obama’s fondness for the religion of his father and step-father extend to that? Is he willing to denounce Islamic law on apostasy as barbaric and anti-American? As Americans, let’s hope so.
This is citizen-driven government and grassroots-driven scrutiny at work. Regardless of the answer to the question (let’s hope Obama does respond), this is another example of a positive development in American government, founded on the principle of “consent of the governed.”
