{"id":287,"date":"2010-08-19T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2010-08-19T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T14:20:25","slug":"repeat-after-me-president-obama-is-not-a-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Repeat After Me: President Obama Is Not A Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just the Birthers who have their delusional perceptions about President Obama. A recent PEW poll revealed that 18 percent of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/114941-poll-almost-one-in-five-believe-obama-is-muslim\">believe that President Obama is a Muslim <\/a>and that only 34 percent believe that he is a Christian. The rest are unsure. The fact is that President Obama is a Christian. Naturally, the number of Republicans who believe that Obama is a Muslim jumped from 17 percent in 2009 to 31 percent this year. What does Obama have to do to convince these people that he is a Christian? Join the Priesthood? The ignorance of many Americans when it comes to current events is scary. Jay Leno&#8217;s Jaywalking segments show it best; more people can identify the Three Stooges than they can identify three U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Frustrating. Please comment below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/atheism\/1\/0\/i\/4\/3\/Obama-Cross-Selma-Church-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just the Birthers who have their delusional perceptions about President Obama. A recent PEW poll revealed that 18 percent of Americans believe that President Obama is a Muslim and that only 34 percent believe that he is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}