Barack Obama: Kenyan Jihadi

Barack Obama’s family and political connections to failed Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga (pictured here with Obama in 2006) and others seeking to Islamicize Kenya should be deeply disturbing to American voters. Most Americans have no idea that Kenya is literally on the cutting edge of the global jihad thanks, in part, to the efforts of one Barack Obama.

Given the apparent Democrat decision to choose Obama as their offering for U.S. President, it’s time that the rest of America educate themselves as to who Obama really is and what he really stands for. It’s a scary picture — far scarier than I ever imagined. A couple of months ago, I was actually talking about voting for this guy if Romney bowed out. Not any more.

Who is Odinga and why should Americans care about his close ties to Barack Obama? The story is so big with so many tentacles it’s hard to decide where to begin the telling. Key players include Barack Obama, Obama cousin Raila Odinga, Kenyan jihadi Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi and Obama’s father and mother. We’ll start tonight with Obama and Odinga. Later, we’ll try to fit other pieces into the sordid international puzzle that Barack Obama brings to the U.S. political table.

Of greatest concern to Americans should be what Obama’s moves in Kenya say about his likely willingness to encourage global jihad. We’re not talking here about merely pulling troops out of Iraq. This guy, Obama, campaigned for his jihadi cousin, Odinga, in 2006 as Kenya was preparing for the vote in 2007.

In his failed bid to topple the current Kenyan president, Odinga allegedly entered the written agreement linked below with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi. In it, Odinga agreed, among other things, to make Islamic Sharia law the law of Kenya if the Sheikh would deliver the votes to put Odinga over the top (click the pic to access the full text):

[July 8, 2008 update: Some have questioned the authenticity of the above document. See my detailed discussion of this issue here, concluding that this MoU is probably genuine despite popular media reports to the contrary].

On page one, Odinga bows to Islam, acknowledging it as “the only true religion.” And that is just the tip of the political iceberg. We can only hope that it sinks Obama’s boat before it reaches Pennsylvania Avenue. Otherwise, we may have hell and Islam to pay around the globe. Far from being a relatively harmless Carterian peacenik, Obama could ignite world war as no one ever has.

After Odinga failed to capture the Kenyan presidency and Odinga’s followers began hacking and burning their way across Kenya, Barack Obama — according to Odinga’s January 8, 2008 BBC radio interview — called Odinga twice, on January 7, 2008, apparently to express his support for Odinga. More on that interview, including an audio link, at the BBC.

Isn’t it fair to ask how any candidate with this kind of personal and political baggage can be a serious candidate for the presidency of the United States?

Melanie Phillips of Spectator UK was mystified, in January, at the American media’s braindead treatment of Obama’s Kenyan connections and their connection to global jihad:

While I was away, reading about the appalling atrocities in Kenya in which churches were torched and dozens of Christians burned to death, I wondered whether any mainstream media would get the point. They didn’t. As far as I could see, the violence was universally ascribed to ‘tribal conflict’.

What are the Democrats thinking as they teeter on the verge of selecting Obama as their presidential nominee? Why has Hillary Clinton done nothing with this story? Is she stupid or scheming? Both?