Sunday, May 25, 2008

Sherlock-Holmesian Lefties find the source of the "Obama is an apostate" claim

ihad Watch reader James sends me this from Digby's Hullabaloo:

In response to my question about how the new Muslim Apostate meme got started, Gavin at Sadly No emailed with this link to Jihad Watch from David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine. This makes sense. After all, David Horowitz has made his career out of being an apostate so it figures his project would be behind the propagation of this nonsense. It's his thing. We're dealing with some very, very deep thinkers here. A few observations:

1. I wrote the piece linked at Jihad Watch. David Horowitz did not. JW is a Horowitz Center operation, but I am solely and wholly responsible for its content.

2. In the post in question, I explained that Obama would not be considered an apostate according to Islamic law if he left Islam before puberty, as it appears he did. I have never claimed that Obama was an apostate from Islam -- in fact, I have argued just the opposite -- and these geniuses keep attributing just the opposite position to me.

3. Can't Leftists read? Perry Bacon, Washington Post "journalist," made the same mistake.
Thanks Jihad Watch

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