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Marian Perrin

Published: December 29, 2007

In response to a letter written by Jim Gulledge, he falsely claimed, in referring to Senator Barack Obama, 'born a Muslim and still a Muslim, he could only bring disharmony to our country."

Let us set the record straight since Mr. Gulledge certainly did not verify his assertions or he would have found that Barack Obama was born Aug. 14, 1951, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, a U.S. citizen who met and married Mr. Obama while they were students at the University of Hawaii, where Ann was studying anthropology and Barack Obama was studying economics. Shortly after his son's birth, Mr. Obama left his wife and child to continue his education in a Ph.D. program at Harvard. The Obama's were divorced when Barack was 2 years old. And he did not see his father again until he was ten years old. at which time Mr. Obama spent two months visiting in Hawaii.

Eventually, Mr. Obama returned to his home country of Kenya to work in the Ministry of Finance. He was killed in an automobile accident in l982. Ann Dunham married another fellow student from the University of Hawaii. She and her son moved to Jakarta with Lolo Soetoro, where he worked in the oil industry. Obama lived there from age 6 to 10, attending government schools with mostly Muslim students and a private Catholic school. At the age of ten, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to attend the prestigious Punahou School and to reintegrate into American culture and prepare for college in the United States. Senator Barack Obama has not ever been a Muslim. He has been an active member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ since the mid l980s.

As to your misleading claim that Obama refuses to salute the flag, there are many pictures of Senator Obama with his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance to the flag and as far as his not honoring our national anthem, there is absolutely nothing to substantiate such an assertion. Finally, Mr. Gulledge, if you are attempting to inform your readers, I suggest that you be more diligent in your research. It is prudent to confirm your information by checking several sources. Surely, you didn't intentionally mean to mislead your readers.

Marian Perrin
Sebring

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