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July 8, 2009 at 1:39pm
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Did you know that a whopping 89 percent of Americans know that President Barack Obama is not a Muslim? That is correct!  That is a vast majority!

Do you know what this means? This means that a very large and dominant segment of the populace understands that the president does not, in fact, worship Allah or secretly kneel to Mecca 500 times a day behind his desk in the Oval Office while wearing a kufi and a rainbow-colored disha dasha, and therefore all those times he’s been in Christian church and talked up his admiration of Jesus have not been bizarre conspiracy-theory falsehoods designed to confound Bill O’Reilly and make paranoid militant Coors drinkers buy more large caliber handguns.

Is that not heartening? Are you not reassured by this?  What’s that you say? Well, yes, I suppose you could put on your bleak glasses of dour negativity and read that news in reverse, if you absolutely must.

Because it’s true that it also means that fully 11 percent of walking talking voting Americans actually believe their president is a Muslim, even today, even now…

-Mark Moford, SFGate