By Mr. Curmudgeon
The New York Times is beside itself over a new Pew Research Center survey that finds more Americans than ever think President Obama is a Muslim. When he was running for office in 2008, Obama was perceived as being submissive to Islam by 11% of the country. Today, that number stands at 18%.
“The findings suggest that, nearly two years into Mr. Obama’s presidency, the White House is struggling with the perception of ‘otherness’ that Candidate Obama sought so hard to overcome,” laments the Times, “in part because of an aggressive misinformation campaign by critics and in part, some Democratic allies say, because Mr. Obama is doing a poor job of communicating who he is and what he believes.”
What’s fascinating about the Pew finding is that Americans define Obama’s “otherness” in religious terms. And they see that otherness as Islamic. His recent White House remarks supporting the building of the Ground Zero mosque didn’t help to discourage that perception.
The influences on Obama’s world view only partially hale from Mecca. They come primarily from James H. Cone – by way of Obama’s minister of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Cone is the angry theologian that crafted Black Liberation Theology in the late 1960s.
In his book , “The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation,” Cone writes:
“The Christian identity of the black self was not important to [Nation of Islam's] Malcolm X. For him, Christianity was the white man’s religion and thus had to be rejected. Black people, Malcolm contended, needed a black religion, one that would bestow self-respect upon them for being black. Malcolm was not interested in remaking Christianity into a black religion…While Martin and Malcolm were prevented from coming together during their lifetime, I was determined to put them together in black liberation theology.”
Obama’s “otherness,” therefore, is correctly seen by a growing number of Americans as Islamic. Obama’s “transformative change” is right out of the writings of Cone, and represents the culmination of Black Liberation Theology and Malcolm X’s demand for “a radical change in the interlocking structures of society.”
This also explains the America-hating radical left’s affinity for radical Islam and its support for the building of a mosque so close to Ground Zero.
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