May 30, 2008

Barack Obama: Muslim Apostate?

Compiled by EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

At a time when America's reputation among Muslims is extremely low, would the upbringing of Barack Obama — the son of a once-Muslim Kenyan father, a child who spent four years in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather — bridge the suspicion and misunderstanding dividing America and the Muslim world were he elected president? Or would he be viewed abroad as a Muslim turncoat?

In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, Edward N. Luttwak, a senior associate at the

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