How many people do you know who have Hussein as a name and are not Muslim?
Stupid thing to ask from such a "smart" man.
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How many people do you know who have McCain as a name and are not Scottish? Clearly, John McCain is not an American citizen and thus ineligible to be president.
srsly this is all kinds of stupid.
I grew up with a guy that had Hussein as a first name, and he didn't have a drop of Arabic blood in him nor was he a Muslim. In fact, he is a Catholic Mexican. His parents just liked the name I guess.
People have names that don't reflect their ethnicity all the time. My first name is Greek, my Middle name English, and the last German, and I'm not any of those. Religion-wise, my sister and my mother both have Hebrew-derived names of old testament women, and yet neither is Jewish.
And as far as I know Hussein means something like "pretty boy" not "hidden west-destroying jihadi" so I fail to see what his middle name has to do with anything- having an Arabic name doesn't make him a Muslim any more than my Greek name makes me Orthodox.
Hussein (Husayn) is a diminutive form of Hasan, which means "handsome" alright. Hasan is not really connected to Islam and is a name given to many Christians in the Middle East. The same could go for Husayn, but Husayn is a central figure in Shi'a Islam and thus might not be considered a neutral names in all parts of the Arabic world. Not to say that Christian Arabs don't name their sons Husayn. And anyway, Obama is not an Arab.
Probably MANY, MANY Middle Eastern Christians, i.e., Syrian orthodox, Coptic, Lebanese orthodox, Assyrian orthodox, etc.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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