I'm no American but every individual on every corner of this globe very well knows of the tight race between McCain and Obama. Today, Americans have spoken. They've elected their 44th President to be Barack Hussein Obama, Jr - a confident, articulate and charismatic individual.
However, issues brought into media invoking of his middle name "Hussein" shouldn't be 'issues' in the first place. If not, at all. This name's a blessed name, just like yours and mine. It's a heroic name, as heroic and American in its way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley. "Hussein" is from the Semitic word, hasan, and Arabic origin meaning "good" or "handsome".
Barack Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein, a secular resident of Nairobi. There've been lots of Husseins in history, from the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, a hero who touched the historian Gibbon, to King Hussein of Jordan, one of America's most steadfast allies in the 20th century.
And in Obama's case, "Hussein" is just a reference to his grandfather - making Obama 50% Caucasian from his mother's side, 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.
The media also made such great emphasis that Obama, as a young boy, attended "Madrasah" in Indonesia and falsely highlighting that the term "Madrasah" is a radical Muslim school. Again to me, an uproar on this one's unnecessary. Yes, Obama did attend a "Madrasah" for 4 years. But "Madrasah" literally means "school" in Arabic, and is used exactly in English. So one can refer it to a Jewish, Christian or Islamic Madrasah, as well as a public, private, elementary or secondary Madrasah.
Obama clearly went to a school...and even if he did go to a religious school, that certainly doesn't mean it was a place where they learned only the Qur'an and not Chemistry or Math, English or Art.
All in all, I'd put it that the popularity and support for Obama is not a case about white versus black. In the words of Obama during his victory speech - "Change has come to America".
I sure hope this "change" applies to the rest of the world as well, because to me, Obama has transcended race, religion, age, gender and class.
Presenting to you,
President-elect Obama's Victory Speech
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thank you for yet another post! splendid farah!
I personally don't agree with the use of his middle name because there is enough other things, like his record, to attack him with.
However, my understnding is as a boy he went by the name Barry and then as he entered manhood starting using his Barack because he was proud of his roots. Fair enough. Isn't part of his roots his middle name, so why he is ashamed of it. After all, he had the middle name long before Saddam was creating havoc in the Middle East.
Finally, I believe John McCain was born in 1935. What if he was given the middle name Adolph? Hitler wasn't just a small despot in Europe. How much do you think the left and probably the MSM would be making sure every American knew that fact?
congrats barack. great post farah. you should be a
So, what's in a name, anyway?
Sooner or later, the news cycle will get around to finding out more about Obama. And his middle name won't matter.
so farah, what's your middle name? must be "gifted". I found out farah is also Arabic!
farah means beautiful in arabic. a beautiful blog that belong to a beautiful lady farah!
no! farah is "middle english" EVERYONE knows that!
ted, farah is an iranian name
FARAH SHOULD GO FOR POLITICS! WAY TO GO!!!!!!!! GO GO OBAMA! GO GO FARAH!
A lot of people are talking negatively about Middle Easterners. Where do you think you get your precious OIL from to drive around in your "TOYS"? HOW STUPID to judge a whole category of people because of some radicals among them!!! Personally, I wonder if an all-knowing God didn't just make sure they were given most of the oil just to show the ALMIGHTY United States that WE DON'T RUN THE WHOLE SHOW!!!
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