Indonesian teacher says Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions against his mother’s wishes

The US President’s former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama – who was known as “Barry” when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta – studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

When a guy reaches the ripe old age of 40 with no accomplishments on his record yet still manages to churn out two autobiographies, you’d think he’d need to dredge up every possible story from his past to fill a few pages.

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But, no, not if that man is Barack Obama. If you’re Barack Obama, your life has been so eventful that you actually need to suppress a few memories.

Like this one, for example:

The US President’s former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama – who was known as “Barry” when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta – studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

The teacher’s recollections will add to speculation about Mr Obama’s links to Islam during his much-anticipated visit to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, as part of his ten-day tour of Asia.

…Mr Obama attended classes on Islam while the Christians attended classes on Christianity, said Effendi. Barry, he said, was alone among the pupils in that he insisted on attending both.

“His mother did not like him learning Islam, although his father was a Muslim. Sometimes she came to the school; she was angry with the religious teacher and said ‘Why did you teach him the Koran?’” said Effendi.

“But he kept going to the classes because he was interested in Islam. He would also join the other pupils for Muslim prayers.”

Yup. We’re going with the suppressed memory concept. We’re sure that it was traumatic for the young lad and he was merely suppressing the memories to avoid the pain they trigger.

Source: The Australian

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