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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:04 AM, jmroll AT bellsouth.net wrote:

> Lynda, Gene what say ye?

First, I always like to see some reference to a place I can go to  
verify strong statements.
> Celeste and Loren Davis are Missionaries in Africa and can shed some  
> light on one of our Presidential candidates.

Second, would you say these people have an agenda?
> Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. 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.

Third, we are all related to people who do or have done bad things.  
Shall we be tarred by the relationship?
> 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.

Fourth, I would ask you, have you verified this claim?

> 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.

Fifth, these are missionaries. Do we know their background? Their  
particular religion? What is their basis for knowing "for sure" of any  
American political tactics anyone might use?
> 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 fullfillment 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.

Sixth and perhaps most important, this is where they are provably  
wrong. Obama is not a Muslim. His religion is Christianity. Which  
affiliation, I will add, has brought him much difficulty.
> Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by  
> those that are promoting him.

I tend to try to persuade my friends to not be taken in by false  
accusations.

> It is world wide jihad  .All our friends in Europe
> are very disturbed by the mulsim infiltration into their countries.

You probably do not want my views on Christian-Muslim history. Whose  
hands would you judge dirtiest, bloodiest? I presume you are aware of  
The Crusades, a period of about 200 years in which Christians  
committed most horrific acts upon Muslims and those of other religions.

Finally, I will tell you that I think this post is a good example of  
well-meaning but deluded people who would help most if they stayed out  
of politics.