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This brings up a very serious question with regard to a major limitation should Barack Obama make it to the White House. In this age of conflict between Western Civilization and radical Islam, when the United States must have the most potent of leaders on the world stage, can a Muslim apostate achieve credibility within the Islamic world?

Over the next several decades it is going to be paramount that the United States -- and the West -- have a working relationship with the Muslim world, both ideological and governmental. The President of the United States must be appreciated for his status and be accepted as credible when proposing or agreeing to treaties and accords. Should Barack Obama become President of the United States, his credibility in the Islamic world would be subject to the severity of each individual leader's fundamentalist conviction.

Saudi Arabia, the world's leading exporter of fundamentalist Sunni Islam -- Wahhabism -- would most assuredly view Obama as an apostate and, therefore, an infidel of the worst order. Because Saudi Arabia is considered -- for reasons unknown to this writer -- an ally in the global war against radical Islam, Obama's apostasy presents a problem as to whether agreements between the two nations can be considered ingenuous. When you entertain the Wahhabist ideological tenet of taqiyya, the possibility of insincere agreements entered into by the Saudis, meant to empower a strategic advantage over the United States and the West, becomes more of a problem.

The issue of Obama's apostasy is also valid for the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and especially Iran, and the plethora of countries in Indonesia and Africa who either see their government's mired in conflict with radical Islam or adhering to the tenets of Islamic dogma.

Barack Obama's political credentials for the office of President of the United States may very well be debatable. But the fact of the matter -- as dictated by fundamentalist Islamic ideology, by fatwa and by the Koran -- is that Barack Obama's credibility and status within the Muslim world is already diminished. And the United States cannot afford a leader of limited potency as we battle the war against radical Islamist aggression.

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Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for Basics Project a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. He can be contacted at newmediajournal@comcast.net.

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