". .  .  read the Koran."

Yes, GUEST,"Realistic" Patriot! Read it! It doesn't say any such thing, any more than the Bible does—which, I might add, is a bit problematic. It's only the radical Muslims—just like the Christian fundamentalists—who want to cram their beliefs down other people's throats, or slaughter "heretics" who won't accept their bill-of-goods. They comb through the scriptures (either Koran or Bible) to cherry-pick the verses (more often than not, taking them out of context) to try to "justify" their own heretical beliefs and actions.

These people are neither Muslim nor Christian, no matter how pious their rhetoric.

So Obama's father was a Muslim. But Obama is not. Religious belief is not a matter of heredity, it's a matter of choice.

Besides, what, pray tell, would be so bad about having a president who is Muslim? Apart from certain factions having a hissy-fit over the fact, the same way they had a hissy-fit over John F. Kennedy's being a Catholic?

It sounds like rampant bigotry to me!

Don Firth