Barack Obama: The wildest conspiracy theories launched at the US president…
Barack Obama: The wildest conspiracy theories launched at the US president
America is well known as the land of conspiracy theorists, but President Barack Obama has endured more than his share of bizarre claims since he shot to public prominence, ideas that have spread rapidly via the intertet.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 1:03AM BST 30 Sep 2009
The accusation by Andy Williams , the singer, that the newly-elected president of the free world was at heart a communist is one of the milder charges. Here are five more:
1. Radical Muslim
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Throughout the campaign and during his presidency, Barack Hussein Obama has been accused of being a Muslim. These rumours were based on his name, as well as the misinformation that he attended an Islamic school, from the ages six to 10 in Jakarta. Obama’s Kenyan father was a non-practising Muslim while his American mother and grandparents do not appear to have been religious people. The president started attending church in Chicago 20 years ago.
2. The Odinga connection
Author Jerome Corsi claimed that Obama had familial, financial and political ties with Kenyan opposition politician Raila Odinga.
During the US campaign, Corsi was in Kenya, scheduled to give a press conference at which he promised to expose secret ties between Obama and Odinga and a mysterious plot that would be launched if Obama became president. He was, however, expelled because of visa problems. It turned out that Odinga, facing declining popularity, had made an unsupported claim that he was related to Obama.









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