352 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyLike all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith. As the son of the Muslim father, Senator
Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference
that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under
Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant. [...] His
conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from
the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of
all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to
forgive). With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools prescribe execution for all
adults who leave the faith not under duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands
of a cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and hangings. (Some may point to
cases in which lesser punishments were ordered — as with some Egyptian intellectuals who have
been punished for writings that were construed as apostasy — but those were really instances of
supposed heresy, not explicitly declared apostasy as in Senator Obama’s case.) It is true that the
criminal codes in most Muslim countries do not mandate execution for apostasy (although a law
doing exactly that is pending before Iran’s Parliament and in two Malaysian states). But as a
practical matter, in very few Islamic countries do the governments have sufficient authority to resist
demands for the punishment of apostates at the hands of religious authorities. For example, in Iran
in 1994 the intervention of Pope John Paul II and others won a Christian convert a last-minute
reprieve, but the man was abducted and killed shortly after his release. Likewise, in 2006 in
Afghanistan, a Christian convert had to be declared insane to prevent his execution, and he was still
forced to flee to Italy. Because no government is likely to allow the prosecution of a President
Obama — not even those of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the only two countries where Islamic religious
courts dominate over secular law — another provision of Muslim law is perhaps more relevant: it
prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills any apostate, and effectively prohibits interference
with such a killing.’ (Edward N. Luttwak, “President Apostate?” New York Times, May 12, 2008)
DONALD YOUNG: MURDER IN WRIGHT’S CATHEDRAL
A dangerous scandal looming over Obama was the murder of Donald Young, the gay
choirmaster in Wright’s and Obama’s church, whose bullet-riddled body was found last Christmas
morning. The Globe of May 19, 2008 quoted the opinion of a Chicago private detective that Young
was murdered to keep him quiet about Obama, meaning the candidate’s notorious homosexual
activities. These latter are attested to by Larry Sinclair of Minnesota, who has a federal civil suit
pending in which he alleges that he had two gay sex encounters with Obama in 1999, with Obama
indulging in crack cocaine. Sinclair also alleges that Donald Young tried to sound him out about
matters related to Obama before Young was murdered. This first echelon also includes Reverend
James David Manning’s “Trinity of Hell” tape, which names Obama and Wright as closet
homosexuals, a charge repeated by Manning on the Hannity radio program. Was Obama Wright’s
catamite? Murder in the cathedral, gay sex, and crack cocaine now loomed over Obama’s arrogant
claim of victory.
THE OBAMA BODY COUNT
There were other mysterious deaths related to Trinity United and the surrounding area. Two
other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—also died
within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. Nate Spencer was a member of the
TUCC Sanctuary Choir; his funeral was held on Monday January 7, 2008. All three were openly
homosexual. Larry Sinclair stated in sworn affidavits that Obama is a closet bisexual with whom he