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Last month, I received the following letter . Under different circumstances I might have considered a hoax or prank.
It began: “Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama’s (candidacy for US President). We are living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the dead.
Obama under 'friends of Obama' gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race war in America.
What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping a dirty little secret. Obama IS a muslim and he IS a racist and this is a fullfilllment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only true Muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is world wide jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the Muslim infiltration into their countries.. . “Pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, including America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some with people in them, burned alive. Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and survive. It won't be so.”
God Bless you. Christian Missionaries in Kenya (names removed to protect their privacy.)
To investigate these claims, I contacted the senders. I confirmed their solid background, of long standing missionary work, in Africa. Mutual email correspondence since has resulted in stunning documentation showing their concerns to be neither malicious nor exaggerated. In fact, in the main, they are supported by cumulative evidence, Cumulatively, this fleshes out a rational, if alarming explanation for Obama’s rapid catapult into US Presidential politics. It also demystifies the dark veil of secrecy that has intentionally obscured, distorted and repressed the full facts behind his candidacy. In fact, on closer examination, correlations between Odinga’s ODM campaign strategies and objectives with those of Obama’s own campaign become self-evident. For instance, Obama, in his own biography, refers to (what he calls) Malcolm X as offering some “hope” for whites to be “brothers in Islam” and, claims he, himself, is looking “to see where the people would come from . . . to populate this new world”
Authors of above letter will not be identified here because they have become a target of rumors and viciousness. Many bloggers know, first hand, the venomous attacks made on any who dare to question or critique Obama. Growing numbers have been subject to hacked websites, disrupted comment threads. obscenities, intimidation and worse. Since the Obama camp’s invasion into the US democratic process. - psychological warfare has replaced political discourse. Indeed, no legitimate candidacy, in the history of civilized government, has been subject to the degradation, false allegations and chaotic disruption that Hillary Clinton and her supporters have endured in this 2008 campaign. No one even discusses the disruption of two Hillary campaign offices (one by fire and one by gunfire) - those ‘misfortunes’ being left, like so much of this recent political trail, left to the realm of remarkable coincidence.
Having lived in a 3rd world country for several years, experience has taught me how closely the terror and innuendo tactics of the Obama camp resemble the low grade political punches of unevolved nations and dictatoriships rather than what expects in a mature democracy. Is it another coincidence the head of Daily Kos, Obama’s internet arm, was born a US citizen, then like Obama, was was raised outside the US - in this case, in turbulent El Salvador?
In March, this poison pen agitator targeted those opposed to Obama, equating the Democratic primary to a “civil war.” Since then a tsunami of disruptive techniques have assailed pro- Hillary supporters online. As a popular anti-Obama blogger recently commented “Barack Obama can't kill those of us who will never support him like Cousin Odinga is doing, so instead he is working deliberately to kill our spirit, our dignity, our status as human beings, and our Choice of President. Remember, this is the same man who eliminated all of his competition when he ran for State Senate.” In subsequent correspondence the missionaries expanded their somber warning:
“Danger of a Race War: Our main concern is that because Obama's race has become a black thing, it is just like Kenya when Raila's race became a Luo thing (his tribe). When Raila cried rigged, it triggered a tribal war. We see the same parallel here with race becoming the main issue here. Believe me, all Africa is looking at this US Presidential race. Among most blacks it is no longer analyzing the candidates regarding issue, but just because he is the same color. This is now starting to stir up the old racial devils in whites which most had let go.
If Obama loses and he cries rigged like his Kenyan cousin, believe me the potential is for US to have a race war like there was a tribal war in Kenya. We have seen this first hand, and see the exact same seeds growing here. If people of all races don't look at this rationally instead of racially, its a real possibility we will see the same hell here they saw in Kenya, and it could be much worse. Believe me, every body will lose. It also brought economic ruin to Kenya.” It’s worth noting that the gloomy forecast foreseen by these missionaries was originally initiated not only from far off our shores, but as far back as last year. An illustration - featured in Part 2 of “Obama - the ODM Candidate” - will demonstrate that, what Americans have yet to grasp of the true nature of Obama’s candidacy, far away Kenyans have seen coming well before our 2008 Democratic Primaries had even occurred.
If one examines Obama’s endorsement by the Black Panther party, an uncomfortable resemblance to Odinga’s own army of machete armed thugs can be seen. Baby boomers may recall this violent, mob-action group from earlier decades. Sadly, they have resurfaced, are well organized and, not surprisingly are 100% behind Obama. This connection has been so blatant that, prior to Father Pfleger’s notorious “outing” on TV, the Black Panther website featured photos of their hero, Obama and was linked directly to the official Obama Presidential campaign website includes a radical 10 pt. platform demanding 1) the exemption of all black men and women from the military service and 2)the release of all “people of color” from US prisons.” The site’s hip-hop background soundtrack of incitements and obscenities correlate to a popularized current Obama pitch book, “Party Crashers” Attractively mass marketed, this new politics manual was published in February by a young AA author, who appeared in May on Fox Noon News show. Overwhelming an otherwise intelligently staffed panel discussion of F. Pfleger, this Obamanite hurled racial rants throughout the show’s airtime. Typical of this ‘movement’ she gave neither other panelists nor moderator opportunity to speak. Instead, her constant interruptions justified Pfleger’s virulent comments, not only about Hillary’s supposed “supremacist’ agenda, but also the author’s insistence that US blacks “do feel raped” by the white race. Interesting, that a google link which originally turned up her “hip-hoppers” guide for political disruption has since seemed to vanish from the web. One suspects her Fox appearance didn’t have its intentional effect. (On a side note, those interested in F. Plegers most inflammatory rants ought to download them before they disappear. In completing this article, I had to change the above link 3 times because his pulpit rants are vanishing from youtube. See here a partial summary of Obama’s terrorist-related supporters now scrubbed from his campaign website.)
Originally posted by paxnatus
I have friends who have family members working as Christian missionaries
in Kenya. The Luo tribe is killing christians and people of the Kikuyu by the thousands! It is hard to believe that Obama's cousin is responsible for the murdering of thousands, I know, but on second thought not really.
abcnews.go.com... Perhaps this news source better suits your needs.
[edit on 1-8-2008 by paxnatus]
Originally posted by paperplanes
I am certainly not a Barack Obama supporter, but I am principled enough to demand that his detractors craft tenable and honorable arguments. This is anything but tenable and honorable.
Kenya Connection
Claim: E-mail from missionary describes Barack Obama's connection to political events in Kenya.
Status: False.
Origins: This widely-circulated message from Celeste Davis (who operates a ministry with her husband Loren Davis, whose previous works include an article explaining why the five-pointed stars used on the U.S. flag are Satanic) references Kenyan politician Raila Amolo Odinga, who represented the Orange
Democratic Movement Party of Kenya against incumbent Mwai Kibaki in a presidential election held on 27 December 2007.
The real subject of this message is Barack Obama, however, and virtually everything included therein about him is either unsubstantiated or demonstrably false...
Loren Davis is the most obscenely wacko opponent of Barack Obama you could imagine... Rarely is it that a news story can combine
a popular leader, a religious visionary, a secret terrorist plot, football and an allegation of satanism in the United States Senate...
Davis claims that Barack Obama is a sleeper terrorist agent aligned with the Islamic jihadists.That's a mighty big claim, but then again, Loren Davis is used to making mighty big claims. He also claims that the NFL - yes, the National Football League - is secretly conspiring with Satan to destroy Christianity...
Loren Davis said that anyone who puts up a five pointed star is displaying a satanist symbol. Oops! John McCain has a five pointed star for his presidential campaign logo! Loren Davis has gone into a full blown coverup of this satanic panic coverup...
Although Loren Davis has tried to cover it up, documents show that he has promoted the idea that the American flag is a symbol of evil - a banner for Satan himself.
Comments I contacted Loren Davis Ministries to verify that this email indeed came from Celeste and Loren Davis, a husband-and-wife team of Christian missionaries stationed in Kenya, and their reply was yes, they did write it, though the message was never intended for public consumption.
Whatever its intended scope of distribution, the widely forwarded letter makes a number of patently false claims, among them that presidential candidate Barack Obama is a Muslim and that his full name is "Barack Hussein Muhammed Obama." When I wrote to ask the Davises for proof of these statements they did not respond. Needless to say, the implication that the Illinois senator, who has belonged to the same Christian church in Chicago for 20 years, somehow stands at the forefront of a worldwide jihadist movement connected with the 9/11 attacks is not merely false but delusional (see "Is Barack Obama a Muslim?" and "Barack Obama's Church").
Ken Beckloff, a longtime missionary to Kenya, already had received the e-mail and wrote a response. He stressed that he wasn’t endorsing a presidential candidate, but he felt he had to reply to the message, which he called “a combination of outright lies and half-truths.” Beckloff makes regular trips to Kenya and said the recent violence there didn’t result from the actions of any one ethnic group.
“The violence was horribly wrong,” he said, “but people from several tribes … are responsible. And not all members of any tribe are responsible.” Many of our brothers and sisters in Christ crossed ethnic lines to protect members of other tribes from the mobs that burned homes and butchered the innocent.
Even if the violence were the fault of one tribe, it’s ridiculous to predict that an American presidential candidate would start a “race war” since he descended from that tribe.