AP photo of school register reveals "Barry Soetoro" as muslim
Indonesian
August 14, 2008

http://web.israelinsider.com/Static/Binaries/Article/barryschoolregis...

A 2007 Associated Press photograph, suppressed until now, shows the
school register of the child who is today known as Barack Hussein
Obama but was officially listed then as Barry Soetoro, whose
citizenship was listed as "Indonesian" and whose religion was listed
as "Islam." The visual evidence starkly contradicts the Obama
campaign's claim that he was not a Muslim and confirms that he is a
national of at least one other country.

In addition, it raises the highly problematic issue of what is Obama's
official name. If it turns out to Barry Soetoro, and no official
change of name was ever made, Obama may face an array of charges of
deception and misprision that may throw into doubt, at the very least,
his fitness to run.

Deep doubts remain about the veracity of the "certificate of live
birth" image produced for his campaign by the radical left-wing Daily
Kos blog. There are reports that investigative teams -- from the
Republican and Democratic parties as well as various intelligence
agencies -- are seeking out the details of his murky childhood from
Kenya to Indonesia. There are indications of growing disquiet in the
circles of power that the so-called "smears" may have understated the
gravity of the candidate's identity problem: he may not be American,
he was not raised Christian and, it appears, he was not Barack Hussein
Obama.

The evidence of the candidate's un-American, un-Christian upbringing
is nothing new, and has been documented by bloggers...

http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-p...

...as early as 2007 and by Israel Insider in our very first report on
this subject in June of this year. But until now the photograph of his
school record has been lacking. The image is dated from 2007 and was
apparently taken to accompany an AP article that appeared in January
of that year. Ironically, that article was about how Obama was
rejecting the untrue charge that the public school he attended was a
radical Indonesian madrassa.

Some excerpts:

"We will not be swift-boated," said Obama communications director
Robert Gibbs. "And we won't take allegations that are patently untrue
lying down."

"Obama's mother, divorced from Obama's father, married a man from
Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country
from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus
Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion
of his stepfather. The document required that each student choose one
of five state-sanctioned religions when registering -- Muslim, Hindu,
Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant. Gibbs said he wasn't sure why the
document had Obama listed as a Muslim."

Gibbs may not have been sure, but it appears that the Obama campaign
made sure that this image did not see the light of day, because the
photographic listing of the candidate, even as a child, as an
Indonesian whose religion was Islam was worth, well, a thousand words.
"Senator Obama has never been a Muslim," Gibbs said in the article.
"As a six-year-old in Catholic school, he studied the catechism."

That may be Gibbs' assertion, but evidence from grown-up school chums
of little Barry Soetoro indicates that he studied, and excelled in,
the teachings of the Koran in the original Arabic and could recite the
Shehada, the Islamic article of faith, by heart, and with a decent
tune, according to the New York Times roving columnist Nicholas
Kristof, to whom "Obama" remarked that the sound of the Muslim call to
prayer was one of the world's most beautiful sounds.

The AP article quoted Iis Darmawan, 63, Obama's kindergarten teacher,
who "remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who
quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. 'He
wrote an essay titled, "I Want To Become President,"' the teacher
said." She didn't indicate which country he wanted to become president
of.

The AP caption reads: "This registration document, made available on
Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia,
shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro
into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The
document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August
4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy's
religion as Islam. (AP Photo/ Tatan Syuflana)" Syuflana is a
well-known and frequently published photographer, specializing in
Indonesia.

A representative of the AP confirmed that the photo is authentic.

The most damaging revelation in the AP photo (registration required to
see the large-scale image. A derived image is here.) may turn out to
be the listing of his name as Barry Soetoro. It has been reported that
he used the name Barack Hussein Obama and failed to mention Barry
Soetoro when asked to provide any former names. (He reportedly also
did not respond honestly when answering negatively to a question
concerning illegal drug use, which he has since admitted.) It is
believed that failure to report his previous name is not an isolated
instance, and may have contributed to the perceived need to
manufacture a forged birth certificate listing Obama's preferred
identity as if it were present from the start.

The listing of Barry Soetoro as a Muslim contradicts what appears on
his campaign's Fight the Smears website, where he says that "I have
never been a Muslim." In a private meeting with Jewish leaders in
February, Obama emphatically re-stated the claim, but with a bit of a
twist, declaring: "I am not, nor have I ever been, a Muslim
(especially an anti-American one)."