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Though according to his own profession and some others, Obama is a practicing Christian [17] [18] [19] and was chiefly raised by his mother and her Christian parents, his father, Barack Obama Sr., with whom he lived only as a baby, was characterized by Obama as being a Muslim-raised atheist. [20]
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [9] [10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 [2] [3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995 ...
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [10] [11] [12] and married on 15 March 1965. [12] [13] Soetoro, a geographer, [12] [14] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [15] to help map Western New Guinea [16] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist. Marriage: Michelle (Robinson) Obama (October 3, 1992-present)
His stepfather Lolo Soetoro was a liberal Muslim, and his biological father Barack Obama Sr., was raised a Muslim before turning atheist, but there is no evidence that Obama was raised in the faith. During his childhood in Indonesia, Obama attended a Catholic school and later a secular public school that provided Christian religious education ...
President Barack Obama arrived in Kenya to visit his father's ancestral home Friday. He was greeted by President Uhuru Kenyatta and other key officials at the airport. There's one woman in ...
His book opens with a quote by Andy Martin, who The Nation, [33] The Washington Post, [34] and The New York Times [35] have identified as the primary source for the allegations that Obama is concealing a Muslim faith. Speculation about Obama's Muslim heritage has been widely denounced in the news media by both political supporters and political ...
The outgoing president has made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again plan to create a database of Muslims is a bad idea.