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Recently I'd sent a message to snopes about one of their pages.

Obama ties to Islam

Ref article page: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

Snopes reply claims there is no evidence Obama has ever been a Muslim radical or otherwise. Snopes also quoted Obamas Senatorial page and statements as if they were irrefutable evidence.

A brief google and it seems to me there is evidence Obama did participate in Islam and Muslim studies and faith and did participate in prayer and attend Mosque.

In January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled, also as a Muslim, in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta.

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Koran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school." - LA Times March 16, 2007

A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack "was a Muslim. He went to the mosque." - LA Times March 16, 2007

Tine Hahiyary, a principal of Obama's school (SDN 1 Menteng, Jakarta) while he was enrolled there, said she recalled he studied the Quran in Arabic. "I remember that he studied 'mengaji (recitation of the Quran)."- Kaltim Post

In Indonesian and Malay society, I found the word mengaji means learning to recite the Quran rigorously in its native language, Arabic.

Obamas campaign announcement, February 20, 2007, produced articles in Indonesian dailys, including the The Kaltim Post and Benjarmasin Post, regarding their belief of Obamas Muslim faith. In addition a March 6, 2007 article in The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof comments on Obamas ability to recite the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic.

"There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama," said Muammar Gadhafi at a rally marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. air strike on him in Libya.

"All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man," continued Gadhafi. "They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.

"We are hoping that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs," - Muammar Gadhafi address aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 11, 2008 (translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI,)

The reply was an enthusiastic thanks for using snopes and a how to use their search to find what I was looking for.