Barack Obama and Africa

Obama’s 1st cousin, Raula Odinga, has promised to convert Kenya into a Muslim state when he wins the Kenyan presidency.

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1963	Under the Independence Constitution of Kenya, Obama became a Kenyan citizen on December 12, 1963. He has never renounced his Kenyan citizenship. On his senate web site, Obama tap dances around his own dual nationality when discussing his father. Obama obviously knows, because his father told him, that he also held/holds Kenyan nationality. Once again, we find Barry O concealing fascinating information about his identity. There is nothing unusual about dual nationality. Indeed, ancient Roman Law doctrines of jus sanguini and jus soli come into play, because both Kenya and the U. S. recognize dual nationality. Once again, the issue is not "legality." The issue is the cover-up; Obama’s concealment of his own identity. From us, and most of all from himself. Obama was also registered in both of the Jakarta schools he attended as a citizen of Indonesia. Does he also enjoy Indonesian citizenship? Inquiring minds want to know.
1987	In August, Obama travels to Kenya for the first time. Obama's 40-year-old cousin Said Hussein Obama commented, "My cousin found it difficult when he came here to learn of his six half-brothers and sisters were born to four different mothers. In this Obama Family photo are: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (Sun Times) Obama's left hand is on the shoulder of Kezia, Obama Sr.'s first wife, who said, "The first time I met Barack Jr. was when he came to Kenya in 1987. He was so much like his father, his looks, his voice, everything. It was like seeing my husband all over again." In addition to Obama's half-sister, Auma (Obama's right hand), Kezia has three sons by Barack Sr. Her two youngest, Bernard and Abo, live in Nairobi. Obama immediately appreciates the sweetness of African life in the bosom of his newfound family -- "For family seemed to be everywhere … all of them fussing and fretting over Obama’s long-lost son" -- but soon discovers its discontents, including how polygamy generates convoluted conflicts too intricate for even the longest-running soap opera. The rival families of his late father -- who died in a drunken car crash a half decade before -- are still suing each other over his meager estate. He begins to notice that the intense family ties he’d longed for are not an unmixed blessing for Kenya since they corrupt its culture. Updike makes the same point when the dictator Ellellou visits the French colonial villa that his most traditional wife had seized and which was now populated by an entire village of his extended family from the Salu tribe: Nephews, daughters-in-law, totem brothers, sisters by second wives of half-uncles greeted Ellellou, and all in that ironical jubilant voice implying what a fine rich joke, he, a Salu, had imposed upon the alien tribes in becoming the chief of this nation imagined by the white men, and thereby potentially appropriating all its spoils to their family use. For there lay no doubt, in the faces of these his relatives … that nothing the world could offer Ellellou to drink, no nectar nor elixir, would compare with the love he had siphoned from their pool of common blood.
1992	Obama visits Kenya for the second time.
1992	Obama’s family connections to Islam would endure, however. For example, his brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as Obama recounted when describing his 1992 wedding. "The person who made me proudest of all," Obama wrote, "was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol." Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture." He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.
2006	Obama visits Kenya for the third time. During this visit, Obama's Criticism Irks Kenyan Government. Government Says Obama Is A Stooge For Political Opposition by Mike Flannery, CBS 2 Political Editor (August) There are signs of tension between Sen. Barack Obama and African leaders. On Monday, Obama stepped up his criticism of government corruption in Kenya. At the University of Nairobi, the senator offered more pointed criticism, something he's done almost every day since arriving last week. After remaining largely silent, the government of President Mwai Kibaki is beginning to respond, suggesting that Obama may have fallen under the spell of opposition leader Raila Odinga, Obama's cousin. Odinga, is a member of Obama's ancestral tribe, the Luo, and a Muslim. He is the son of Senior’s sister, a direct first cousin and nephew of Obama's father. Raila Odinga is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They have four children -- two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela. Raila lives in Nairobi but has a second home in Bondo District. Odinga claims to be a cousin of American Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama through the latter’s father, Barack Obama Sr., who Odinga claims was his maternal uncle. This claim has not been corroborated, but Obama Sr. did come from the same Luo tribe as Odinga. A potential presidential candidate himself, Odinga's been at Obama's elbow here fairly often. "Sen. Obama has to look at critically about where he's receiving his advice from," said government spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua. "Just because somebody, somewhere wants to run for president and is using Sen. Obama as his stooge, as his puppet to be able to get to where he wants to get to."
2006	While he was in Somalia, Obama was photographed in full Muslim regalia. The photo appears in the February 4th, 2008 edition of "The Examiner," under the caption, "Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dressed in Muslim attire while on a trip to Kenya." (Click source image to enlarge) Gateway Pundit has uncovered what is probably the original posting of the photograph at Han-Geeska Afrika Onlline. [Geeska Afrika caption:] U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. The area is at the epicenter of a severe drought that has hit the Horn of Africa region, after erratic and insufficient rains during the April-June season. So it isn’t a faked photograph after all.
2006	Oddly enough, there are other photographs of Mr. Obama during his (taxpayer funded) trip to Kenya in August 2006, where he is wearing what would appear to be the same red shirt, khaki pants and wristwatch. Indeed, there was even a movie made to document Mr. Obama’s historic (taxpayer funded) trip to his father’s homeland. (Again, note the red shirt).
2006	After Obama Jr.'s 2006 visit, Odinga supporters created T-shirts and posters with computer-altered images showing Obama Jr. and Kenyan presidential candidate Odinga standing side by side with arms around each other. That caused one excited Kenyan blogger to write, "in 2009, we might see a Luo president in Kenya, a Luo president in the USA, and a Luo ambassador in Washington, D.C."
2007	Obama's pastor Jeremiah A. Wright told The New York Times in an interview, published March 6th: "When his (Obama's) enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli," with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to visit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, "a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell."
2007	On December 10th, Obama, speaking about his ability to handle international affairs, said, "If, as president, I travel to a poor country to talk to leaders there, they will know I have a grandmother in a small village in Africa without running water, devastated by malaria and AIDS." "What that allows me to do is talk honestly not only about our need to help them, but about poor countries' obligation to help themselves. There are cousins of mine in Kenya who can't get a job without paying an exorbitant bribe (it's called baksheesh) to some midlevel functionary. I can talk about that." What Obama is less likely you tell you is that his step-grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, is a lifelong Muslim. “I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” she says. Obama in dashiki Talk, talk, talk ... one would think that Obama, a wealthy and powerful man, would have done something to directly help his poor relatives.
2008	On the 27th, Raila Odinga, Obama’s cousin, lost the presidential election in Kenya. Obama and Odinga share the same Luo heritage and history and has made it possible for them to share the same spotlight at this defining moment in Kenyan and American histories about hope and fear. Raila Odinga, who is Obama's first cousin, has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Obama. When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at several rallies in Nairobi. Obama’s bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila’s "stooge." According to witnesses, the mob was mostly Kalenjins, Luhyas and Luos, the followers of Raila Odinga. They overran Kikuyu guards in front of the church and then pulled out cans of gasoline. There were no police officers around, witnesses said, and no water to put the fire out. Most people escaped. But in addition to those killed, dozens were hospitalized with severe burns. Witnesses said most of the people hiding inside had been women and children. The Eldoret area has become a killing zone. Residents say dozens of Kikuyus have been hacked to death, including four who were beheaded on Monday. Islam had picked Raila to win. The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya. Here is a summary on the agreement which was signed: * It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila’s election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. * Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions. * Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."] * Popularize Islam, the only true religion… by ordering every primary school in Kenya in the regions to conduct daily Madrassa classes. * Impose a total ban on open-air gospel crusades by worshippers of the cross… * Outlaw gospel programs… on KBC, the National Broadcaster. * Impose a total ban on the public consumption of alcoholic beverages… * Impose an immediate ban on women’s public dressing styles that are considered immoral and offensive to the Muslim faith… Obama's involvement in Kenyan politics, whether tribal or religious, is bothersome. Especially if it is both.
2008	On the 2nd, in classic Marxist tradition, Obama's Kenyan 1st cousin, Raila Odinga, accusing President Mwai Kibaki of stealing the Dec. 27 election, rallied his Luo followers in western Kenya, demanding a new election. Kibaki "must step down or there must be a re-election -- in this I will not be compromised. You cannot steal my cow, and I catch you red-handed, and then expect me to share the milk because the cow is mine." More than 1,000 people, mostly Kikuyu Christians, have been killed and 300,000 forced from their homes by Odinga's followers. This is the guy who made a deal to install an Islamic government in Kenya. Guess he hasn't given up on his goals.
2008	This picture comes not from Wisconsin, Hawaii, Ohio, Texas, or any of the states with upcoming primary contests. Rather, this image comes from President Bush's mid-February trip to Africa, where the race to succeed him has also created quite a bit of excitement.
2008	Residents of a remote Kenyan town plan to demonstrate on Friday, March 1st, after a photo of U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Somali dress took centre stage in an increasingly acrimonious race for the White House. The picture, which appeared on a U.S. Web site, showed the Illinois senator donning a Muslim elder's headdress and robes during a 2006 trip to Wajir in northeastern Kenya. Ahmed Sheikh Bahalow, a retired teacher and elder from ethnically (read Muslim) Somali Wajir, said his community was offended by the insinuation Obama had done anything wrong on his visit. "The Somali community and in particular those living in Kenya have never been that interested in America politics," Bahalow told Reuters in the central town of Isiolo. "But we are following it keenly now because we have been provoked." Wajir residents planned to demonstrate in the town after Friday prayers to show their support for Obama, he said. Those aren't Episcopalians praying on Friday.
2008	Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is calling on Kenya's leaders to make compromises to stabilize a country that plays an important regional role in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism war. Rice visited the East African country on Monday to deliver a message from President Bush, who is visiting five African nations --Kenya not among them -- on his second trip to the continent. Bush earlier called on leaders here to consider forming a "grand coalition" to resolve the crisis triggered by a disputed election last December. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, Obama's 1st cousin, accuses President Mwai Kibaki of rigging his election victory. The dispute sparked political and ethnic violence across the country. Rice held talks with the two men. The crisis alarmed the international community because, apart from the loss of life and economic cost of the fighting inside Kenya, there were also concerns that terrorists based in neighboring Somalia could take advantage of the chaos. A Nairobi-based analyst said Kenya's location in relation to other hot spots --Ethiopia, Sudan and northern Uganda -- adds to the worry. "The recent escalation of violence in Somalia could mean an increase in arms and terrorist flow into the country, especially because the shared border with Somalia is more than a 1,000 kilometers [long] and would need almost an entire army to police," said Phillip Njuguna, a researcher at the Arms Management Program of the Institute of Security Studies (ISS). Kenya's collapse into political chaos would be seen as a great failure for Africa. It has been a regional peace-broker, and a host to refugees from across the region. Kenya is also a hub through which humanitarian aid for a dozen countries passes, and organizations like the US Agency for International Development USAID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.N. agencies have offices in Nairobi. U.S.-Kenya military cooperation started in the 1980's when the nations signed an agreement allowing American troops to use Kenya military facilities. Cooperation stepped up significantly after al-Qaeda terrorists in 1998 bombed the U.S. Embassy, killing 11 Americans and 240 Kenyans. A recent report by the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity shows that in the five years following the attack, Kenya was the second biggest recipient in sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigeria, of U.S. military, counter-terrorist and security aid. Ongoing assistance includes the donation of 50 personnel carriers and attack boats last year, and the sponsoring of a special police agency, the Kenya Anti-Terrorism Police Unit. Bilateral relations go beyond the security field. Kenya has benefited from AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and education programs funded by the U.S., and from the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, a trade initiative that enables selected products from African economies to access the American market under preferential terms. Kenya also sends more students to the U.S. than any other African country, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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