FOX NEWS Obama reportedly wears an Islamic dress at his half brother's wedding

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The images show a young Obama wearing a brown embroidered garment with a white Taqiyah - a Muslim prayer cap. Bill O’Reilly, Fox News presenter, claims they were taken when Obama was attending his half-brother’s wedding in Maryland in the 1990s. Although the photos have not been independently verified, Mr O’Reilly said it showed Obama’s “deep emotional ties” to Islam have stopped him effectively combating terrorists. Obama grew up in Hawaii where he lived with his American mother and Muslim father from Kenya before he left the family when the President was two-years-old. His mother Ann later remarried to an Indonesian man who took the family to his home country, which is a predominantly Muslim nation, where the then future-president lived for four years.

FOX NEWS The US president pictured wearing an Islamic dress

Barack Obama has deep emotional ties to Islam ill O’Reilly, Fox News presenter

During that time the American president attended both Muslim and Catholic schools before returning to live with his grandparents. Mr O’Reilly said that the "details on the ceremony, the location, whether the reports that Barack Obama was the best man are very difficult to verify at this point. "What we can tell you with certainty is that Barack Obama has deep emotional ties to Islam." He said: “There is no question the Obama administration's greatest failure is allowing the Islamic terror group ISIS to run wild, murdering thousands of innocent people all over the world, including many Muslims.

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“Mr Obama has never, never acknowledged that mistake, nor does he define there ISIS threat accurately. “That group is killing innocent people in order to impose a radical version of Islam on the world. The jihad is solely based on theology, perverted as it may be.”

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