Summary of the eRumor: An email from a missionary to Africa named
Celeste Davis. In it she says several things about Senator Barack
Obama:
1. His cousin, Raila Odinga, is a Socialist who
is trying to bring down the government in Kenya, Africa.
2. Obama has given almost a million dollars to
his cousin's opposition campaign.
3. Obama and Raila talk with each other daily.
4. Obama is a Moslem, is racist, and is the
fulfillment of Jihad.
5. Obama's real name is "Barak Hussein Muhammed
Obama."
The Truth: This eRumor started circulating in April, 2008. It is from an American
missionary in Africa.
The
missionary is Celeste Davis who, along with her husband, Loren, operate
Loren Davis Ministries in Kenya.
We contacted Celeste Davis and asked for documentation of any of her
assertions. Her reply was that the contents of her email were
"common knowledge in Kenya."
We'll take topics in the email one-by-one, however:
Obama's cousin, Raila Odinga, is a
Socialist who is trying to bring down the government in Kenya, Africa-Truth!
& Unproven! Raila Odinga is a well-known
politician in Kenya. He served in various governmental positions
including Prime Minister and was an opposition candidate for president in
an election in Kenya in 2007. He didn't win but claimed that the
vote was rigged and the uproar and violence that resulted took
hundreds of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Part of the controversy surrounding Odinga is his ties with Islamic
interests. He campaigned for Islamic votes and it was rumored that he had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
with Moslem leaders. The content of the memo was not immediately
released and stories circulated that Odinga had promised that if he was
elected, Islam would be the only religion of
Kenya and strict Islamic sharia law would become the law of the land.
In November, 2007, Odinga and the National Muslim Leaders Forum, with whom
the MoU had been signed, jointly said that there had neither been an
agreement for Islam to be the only religion in Kenya nor a pact to implement sharia law. The Moslem leaders said they simply
wanted assurance
to "safeguard the
interests and welfare of a section of the Kenyan community (Muslims) that
has undergone atrocities over the last 44 years."
Non-Moslem religious leaders, however, claimed to have copies of a signed MoU that
would have declared sharia law as the "only true law sanctioned by the
Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions" and "popularize Islam as the only
true religion."
Odinga claimed to be Obama's cousin. He said that Barack Obama's father
was his uncle. A Reuters article from 1/8/08, however quotes Barack
Obama’s uncle, who is not named, as saying that Obama and Odinga are not
blood relatives. He said, “Odinga’s mother came from this area so it is
normal for us to talk about cousins” but that the two were not directly
related.
World Net Daily has
published photocopies of what it says is the agreement signed between
Odinga and Moslem leaders.
Click
for Agreement
Obama and Raila talk with each other daily-Unproven!
There is no way of knowing how often they talk, but they have met, both in
the U.S. and in Africa and have had telephone conversations. In a
2006, Odinga hosted Obama for a visit to Kenya and Obama appeared with
him and praised Odinga at rallies in Nairobi. At the beginning of the U.S.
presidential primary season in 2007, Obama called Odinga, according to the
London Telegraph. Odinga said they discussed the "destabilizing
constitutional crisis" in Kenya. The Associated Press quoted Obama
spokesman Robert Gibbs as confirming the conversation, which, he said,
lasted for about 5-minutes. The London Telegraph said it was
understood that Obama also tried to call Odinga's opponent, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki.
Obama has given almost a million dollars to his cousin's opposition
campaign-Reported to
be Truth!
This is based on a document that has circulated in
blogs and on message boards on the Internet and that is represented to
be an internal memo of Odinga's party's "CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL
ACTIVITIES." It includes a list of donations, one of which is from
"Friends of Senator BO." The donation is for 66 million Kenya
shillings, more than 1 million U.S. dollars. The conservative website
WorldNetDaily said in October, 2008, that it had confirmed that the
donation was organized by Obama. In a report published on 10/15/08,
WorldNetDaily said sources in Kenya said the money came from a series of
private meetings arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy
advisor in Obama’s U.S. Senate office. The meetings are said to have
taken place during and Odinga trip 2006 trip to the United States.
Obama is a Moslem-Fiction! This has been a
widely-circulated story about Obama. CLICK
HERE for details.
Obama's real name is "Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama"-Fiction! Obama's full name is "Barack
Hussein Obama." We
have not found any documentation of "Muhammed" or "Mohammed" as a
part of his name. The only reference, other than the Celeste
Davis email, to this version of Obama's name was from talk show host Bill
Cunningham in an appearance on Hannity & Colmes on Fox News in
February, 2008. He is said to have called Obama "Barack Hussein
Mohammed Obama" several times during the interview, but he gave no
documentation of why he referred to Obama in that way and eventually
stopped using it.
TruthOrFiction.com looked
into Barack Obama's genealogy dating back several generations and did
not find anyone with the name "Mohammad" or "Muhammed." The senator's
father was "Barack Hussein Obama, Sr," although some records have both
of their first names as "Barak." Obama's grandfather was named "Hussein
Onyango Obama." The gravestone of Obama's father used the name "Barack
Hussein Obama."
In an odd twist of genealogical fate, researchers at the New England
Historic Genealogical Society found that Obama and president George W.
Bush are 10th cousins, once removed.
CLICK HERE for a list of other related
stories about Barack Obama
Updated 10/20/08
A real example of the eRumor as it has
appeared on the Internet:
Dear Billy Sam,
Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. We are
living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his
family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent
Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced
by election violence (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the
dead. Obama under "friends of Obama" gave almost a million dollars to the
opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who
is a socialist trained in east germany . He has been trying to bring Kenya
down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to
subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga
Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily.As we watch Obama
rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same
tactic, cyring rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race
war in America .
What we would like you to know is what the american press has been keeping
a dirty little secret. Obama IS a muslim and he IS a racist and this is a
fullfilllment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the
only true muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this
july! He is not an american as we know it. Please encourage your friends
and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is
world wide jihad.All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the
mulsim infiltration into their countries. By the way. His true name is
Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won't that sound sweet to our enemies as
they swear him in on the Koran!
God Bless you.
Pray for us here in Kenya . We are still fighting for our nation to
withstand the same kind of assult that every nation, including America ,
is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As
believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya , not
one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down,
some with people in them, burned alive.
Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has
infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can
compromise and survive. It won't be so. I will send you a newsletter we
sent out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I've tried
to say in a few paragraphs.
Love, Celeste
Celeste and Loren Davis
About our Father's business!
Luke 2:49b
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