Malik holds a photo of Obama and him in Muslim dress,

reportedly when the two first met in 1985

Important Update 10/9/08: Many vistors to this webpage appear to be unaware of the extensive evidence that Barack Obama was raised Muslim and his relatively weak enthusiasm for Christianity to this date. Before you read the story below about Obama's brother, read this: When Obama Refers to "My Muslim Faith," Slip or Not, It's Fair to Ask Questions

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How inconvenient for Barack Obama. His own brother Malik confirms that Obama was raised Muslim. This only adds to a mounting body of evidence that Barack Obama lied when he denied having been raised Muslim:

As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."



The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.



In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."



Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.



Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).



Reuven Koret, Aaron Klein and Daniel Pipes have previously pointed to the attempts by Obama and his campaign to conceal the candidate's Muslim background. The well documented evidence draws upon the on-the-ground interviews by researchers in Indonesia and Kenya, published quotations of Obama's childhood friends and his school records, as well as the candidate's own autobiography.



It is not clear whether Barack Obama will now disown his half-brother Malik, or throw him under the campaign bus, for acknowledging that shared family background.

Obama has been caught in a lie.