Here We Go Again! Brigitte Gabriel Claims President Obama ‘Praying Just Like Osama Bin Laden Prayed’

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Sometimes I wonder when the right wing wackjobs, the Tea Baggers, the Fox News ninnies, and the other assorted Obama haters will stop recycling their conspiracy theories about the President. And just when I think they’ve run out of attacks, a mindless mole will stick its head up and leave me just as disgusted as before.

This time it’s Brigitte Gabriel. You know her. She appears on Fox News so often that I’m convinced she has a cot in the back of the studio. And she decided she would try to resurrect the well-worn lie that the President is secretly a Muslim.

As a guest on Jan Markell’s “Understanding the Times” radio show, Gabriel was in rare form, alleging that President Obama refuses to say “anything bad about Islam” because:

??…the most beautiful childhood memories he has? (are of growing up in Indonesia and) ?praying just like Osama bin Laden prayed.??

Even as jaded as I’ve become in such matters, when I read that line my first thought was, “What the…? Are you kidding me?” Oh yeah, I was plenty angry and outraged.

But Gabriel was far from finished. She then decided she would take the opportunity to give?some more old lies about the President a thorough airing, saying that he studied at a madrassa–an Islamic religious school–in Indonesia. (Wrong, dunderhead! He attended a public school and later a Roman Catholic school.) The second morsel of misinformation was that the President changed his name when he became an adult. (Strike two! He merely dropped a childhood nickname.)

Just so no one can claim that I’ve taken what Gabriel said out of context, here’s exactly what she told fellow right wing sycophant Jan Markell:


“So part of his homework was reciting the Shahada, the praying just like Osama bin Laden prayed. This is exactly why President Obama said that the sweetest sounds to his ear is the sound of the muezzin, the Islamic mullah, saying that prayers from the minaret. So you cannot take that out of him. People always idealize their childhood, they always look back fondly of certain memories, especially if they were happy memories of their childhood. So this is why President Obama cannot bring himself to calling radical Islam, or anything bad about Islam, because in his mind there couldn’t be anything bad about Islam, it’s the most beautiful childhood memories he has.”

It’s tempting to say something incredibly mean-spirited and snarky about Brigitte Gabriel. But instead, I just ask that you consider the source of the garbage being spewed over the airwaves. That pretty much says it all.

 

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