{"id":468,"date":"2008-03-31T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/one-in-ten-americans-think-oba.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:35:16","slug":"one-in-ten-americans-think-oba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/one-in-ten-americans-think-oba.html","title":{"rendered":"One in Ten Americans Think Obama&#8217;s Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"obama30.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/obama30.jpg\" width=\"92\" \/>There&#8217;s been some squawking from the chattering classes about the challenge this presents Obama, but God-o-Meter is shocked that so <em>few <\/em>Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,342378,00.html\">hold the mistaken belief that Obama is Muslim<\/a>, given the virulence of the false rumor campaign against him. Consider that other recent polls have shown that:<br \/>\n28-percent of Americans think &#8220;Saddam Hussein was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/iraq.htm\">personally involved in the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks<\/a> on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.&#8221; 14-percent are unsure.<br \/>\n26-percent of Americans believe that the American government &#8220;knew the 9\/11 attacks were coming but consciously let them proceed for various political, military, and economic motives.&#8221;<br \/>\n23-percent of Americans say they have actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,305277,00.html\">seen a ghost or believe <\/a>they have been in one&#8217;s presence.<br \/>\nTake heart, Obama.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some squawking from the chattering classes about the challenge this presents Obama, but God-o-Meter is shocked that so few Americans hold the mistaken belief that Obama is Muslim, given the virulence of the false rumor campaign against him. Consider that other recent polls have shown that: 28-percent of Americans think &#8220;Saddam Hussein was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One in Ten Americans Think Obama&#039;s Muslim - God-O-Meter<\/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\/godometer\/2008\/03\/one-in-ten-americans-think-oba.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One in Ten Americans Think Obama&#039;s Muslim - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s been some squawking from the chattering classes about the challenge this presents Obama, but God-o-Meter is shocked that so few Americans hold the mistaken belief that Obama is Muslim, given the virulence of the false rumor campaign against him. 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