Obama's devotees are still attempting to ridicule those who contend that Obama is a Muslim. But it's really impossible to know what he actually believes. It is clear, however, from his actions that the President has such a tolerance for Islam that it's either a devotion to the religion or fear of appearing to be a non-believer -- his own personal Islamophobia.
Anyway, that's a topic for another day. But here's an interesting article about how Obama flashed the Islamic gang sign and got photographed doing it. The sign is the closed hand held up with the first finger pointing to the sky. Here's the way F. W. Burleigh describes it in Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign:
The extended finger is symbolic of the one-God concept of Muhammad and is understood by all believers to be a symbolic shahada, the Muslim affirmation of faith: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.
Thus when believers stick their index finger in the air, they demonstrate they are partisans of Muhammad’s God concept. And they also affirm their belief in Muhammad’s claim he was the interface between God and man. They also demonstrate they are part of the umma, the exclusive transtribal supertribe of believers that Muhammad started 1,400 years ago.
Click the link to see the photo of Obama flashing the sign in front of delegates at the US-African Leaders Conference in Washington DC in August 2014. But don't skip over Mr. Burleigh's astute observations.
Updated 3/6/2015: Jeff Lipkes provides a plausible explanation that the hand sign was actually in response to a remark about Obama's having just tripped. But click the hyperlink to read about the numerous other indications Obama has given to validate suspicions of his loyalty to Islam.
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