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I am sorry...but as a child we have no control over where we go to school but surely what school we are sent to cannot automatically assign us to the religion of that school...because I believe there are thousands of students within the U.S.A that go to catholic elementary, middle, and high schools and are not catholic...I know that this is a fact and I will double check on the exact percentage...there are even colleges and universities that are of a religious orientation but accept students who are not of the religion assoiciated with the school and these same students continue to attend these schools regardless of the religious views of the institution...and these are students who can actually choose where they go to school...but this was a child raised in the 1960s who had traveled back and fourth overseas due to family reasons beyond his control...I myself went to a catholic school for some of my elementary and middle school, but I am not and have never been catholic and most, if not all, of my fellow classmates during those years were not catholic. These are the facts below:



Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather from 1967 to 1971, approximately from the ages of 6 to 10. In 1971, he returned to the United States and graduated from high school in Hawaii.

“Madrassa” is an Arabic word for “school,” but Americans generally understand the word to mean a school where anti-Western Islamic ideology is taught. Indonesia is a Muslim country, and Obama attended a public school there, which taught a small amount of religion. CNN, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune investigated the e-mail claims by visiting the school and interviewing former teachers and students who were there at the same time as Obama. These investigations found a public school where students wore Western clothing and prayer was a small part of the curriculum. The Chicago Tribune reported the school was “so progressive that teachers wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate Christmas.”

THE HOLY TRUSTED, LOL, "MIANSTREAM MEDIA" found no on-the-record sources able to substantiate a claim that the school taught Wahabism or any other form of austere Islam. The great preponderance of substantiated evidence indicates Obama attended a public school that taught a small amount of mainstream Islam. The news reports say that Obama’s registration form indicates his religion was Muslim, but there are errors on the forms and it seems reasonable to assume that he was registered as Muslim simply because his stepfather was Muslim. And it's worth noting — as the chain e-mail does — that Obama also attended a Catholic school in Indonesia for several years.
So while the e-mail gets a few things right, its contention that Obama attended a madrassa that taught Wahabism seems to be a wholesale invention designed to frighten voters.

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., a Black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. They separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw him only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. Even if he were to go to a school that had islamic teachings...what political and religious views did you have between 6 and 10 years old... at the age of 10, he came back to AMERICA to live with his grandparents and from there he worked and was educated solely in AMERICA...and went on to lead an impressive life.