{"id":456,"date":"2010-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/franklin-graham-obama-was-born.html"},"modified":"2010-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"franklin-graham-obama-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/franklin-graham-obama-was-born.html","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Graham: Obama &#8216; born a Muslim&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/1701\/poll-obama-muslim-christian-church-out-of-politics-political-leaders-religious\">poll<\/a> last week indicating that a growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Obama is Muslim, evangelist the Rev. Franklin Graham commented on the confusion over the president&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44071\/25672573\/Franklin_Grahams_Comments_About_Obamas_Faith\">faith<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think the president&#8217;s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/59723\/25679365\/President_Obama_Is_Muslim_()\">Graham told CNN&#8217;s John King<\/a>. &#8220;The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/19\/confusion-over-obamas-religion\/\"><strong> Full interview<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGraham, who said he believes Obama is now a Christian, prayed earlier this year with the president alongside his father, renowned evangelist and presidential religious adviser Billy Graham.<br \/>\nBut are comments like this planting the Obama-as-Muslim seed? The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/08\/polls-one-in-four-americans-th.php\">poll<\/a> before the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/communities-divided-over-mosqu.html\">president spoke out <\/a>about the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/commission-clears-way-for-mosq.html\">Islamic community center and mosque<\/a> in lower Manhattan, which has become a national issue.<br \/>\nDoes it matter what the president&#8217;s faith is? Share your thoughts on whether statements such as <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44071\/25672573\/Franklin_Grahams_Comments_About_Obamas_Faith\">Graham&#8217;s<\/a> suggest<a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44011\/25679741\/Why_is_Graham_trying_to_give_the_President_a_religious_Litmus_Test\"> a religious litmus test<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a poll last week indicating that a growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Obama is Muslim, evangelist the Rev. Franklin Graham commented on the confusion over the president&#8217;s faith. &#8220;I think the president&#8217;s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim,&#8221; Graham told CNN&#8217;s John&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-beliefnet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Franklin Graham: Obama &#039; born a Muslim&#039; - Community News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/franklin-graham-obama-was-born.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Franklin Graham: Obama &#039; born a Muslim&#039; - Community News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the heels of a poll last week indicating that a growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Obama is Muslim, evangelist the Rev. 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