Why does obama keep the islamic name?

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This really is a simple question. Why keep the islamic name? If he isn't really Islamic, then WHY?



[edit on 9-6-2009 by heliosprime]

Because it's his name.

Sort of like how despite not being a Christian, I keep my Christian name.

omgwtfbbq, right?

Seriously, some people will freak out over anything.

Why would he change his name, what should he change it to? Barry white? Come on would you change your name if what ever ethnicity suddenly became hated by ignorant people?

If my name was Saddam Hussein bin Laden and some redneck took exception to it, I would invite him to kiss my -------- before changing it.

[edit on 043030p://pm3032 by masonwatcher]

Exactly which name would you expect him to change?

Wow you just keep spamming these muslim negative none saying threads on this board. I think this is the 4th thread you written on these forums about Obama being muslim in some way. Please provide some factual evidence or stop posting ridiculous claims you cannot back up.

Ohh answer for the thread question: Because if was the name his parents decided to give him, and my guess is he do not see anything wrong with it.

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We're all familiar with the old saw that says there are no stupid questions.

Another vote here for "Because it's his name."

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

Actually, he should have changed his name to Barry Bonds, since they both share an uncanny ability to lie with a straight face.

I'm glad he kept his given name. I don't believe it would be in the best interest of the President to have an A.K.A. To use a name that is different from your given name, gives the connotation of criminal behavior.

And if he would have changed it, people obviously would have known that his name "was" barrack hussein obama. If he were elected as barry bama or some variation, people would be asking. Why did you change your name? Are you ashamed of muslim sounding names? What are you hiding? Who are you really? All of which would be far worse than, just sticking with the perfectly fine name he was born with.



Rant over.

Uh, my mom gave me a French name, but I wasn't born in France. Her mother gave her a Spanish name, but she wasn't born in Spain and spoke no Spanish. I don't speak, read or write French. But, uh, we both kept our names anyway...they're our names, and I could care less if an ignorant person (ignorant in the nicest sense of the word) doesn't like it. In fact, I feel really, really sorry for ignorant people. Maybe that's the way Obama feels. I hope so.

President Sotero decided to keep his Islamic name only after the elections were over. His full and complete name wasn't even on the ballot.
God help you if you were to even mention the word Hussein just last year, but now that he's Prez it's OK to use it again.

How conveeenient.

I can personally relate to this. I am an Afrikaans speaking person with a German name "Ziegfried". First of all in Germany you will mostly find the spelling of the name to be "Siegfried" because in German the "S" is pronounced as a "Z".

From the day I opened my eyes everybody - especially my family - called me - "Siegie". Later on people called me "Ziggy" etc. I never accepted this and it resulted in an absolute irrational resistance I developed against these diminutive forms of my name.

After I have left school and moved away from my home town and meeting new friends, I have made a point of making sure they address me by my proper name. I have also told my family that I do not like to be called by these little pet names thy gave me. Today everyone calls me by my proper name and I make a point not to associate with people who address me by any shortened form of my name.

I absolutely understand why Barack does not want to be called Barry. It is nothing to do with the roots of the name itself but a rather a feeling that people disregard an important part of you - which is your name. Nicknames or diminutive forms of names usually are negative (in any event for me) even if the other person using it, does not mean anything negative by that - that is the way I perceive it.

As I have mentioned before, it might sound totally irrational being so adamant to be called by your real name, but it does matter to me.

His (mother) and grandparents who actually raised him called him "barry" for far longer than he decided to call himself "barack". It is an obvious sign of his complete hatred for all things christian and american. He only became prez to destroy both chrisitanity and america. The very thing his vile father satan spawned him to do............

Oh and don't go to the rev wright church lie..........rev wright is about as christian as Osama bin Ladin or the nut job running iran..........

As time moves forward barry will discover publically his roots to Islam.......something he has always held close.

You finally dog-darn dunnit, Dude. You left me speechless and incapable of framing a rational response.

Guess that puts us both in the same sandbox now...

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My first name is Arabic. My last name is Jewish. I am neither. Should I change my name too? Should I just become "Sally Smith" so that no one can assume anything about me other than I'm Caucasian?

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Because that's who he is. Why would he? He's a mature man who's probably grown to respect his roots and embrace his culture. Even if he was a Muslim, so what? We're still passing out hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel and bribes to ensure things remain somewhat stable over there. Nothing has changed except a name, so would there be any relevance to why or why not he would keep his name?

You know my name means Virgin Mother... why do I keep it?

I find this to be slightly pandering to the "ONOZ Islam is bad!" crowd.