Obama is still (not) a Muslim

It doesn’t need repeating that President Obama’s campaign was dogged by rumors that he was a closet Muslim. That’s all well documented, even though it’s completely false. But what’s surprising is that after more than months in office, that rumor refuses to die. New numbers out from the Pew Research Center indicate that about one […]

It doesn’t need repeating that President Obama’s campaign was dogged by rumors that he was a closet Muslim. That’s all well documented, even though it’s completely false.

But what’s surprising is that after more than months in office, that rumor refuses to die. New numbers out from the Pew Research Center indicate that about one in every 10 Americans thinks Obama is a Muslim, and a suprising (or maybe not suprising, depending on who you talk to) nearly one in five evangelicals buy into it.

More from Pew: “While relatively few Democrats (7%) say Obama is a Muslim, just 55% correctly identify his religious beliefs as Christian, down slightly from 61% last fall. Among independents, 10% say Obama is a Muslim (compared with 12% in October), while 45% say he is a Christian (50% in October).”


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