This demonstrates the fundamental problem with Obama, his dissimulation.  One just doesn't know what to believe.

In an interview with the New York Times, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."  (Alternate link)

I assume Maya thinks of her brother as a member of her family, and although Anna Dunham is often described as an atheist, I assume Maya thinks of her mother as a member of her family, as well.

How else would one interpret that statement?

It was Obama, who said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on earth," in an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times. Kristof described Obama's recitation of the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."

The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the  Shahada:

"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... "

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim.  This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.

Obama knows this from his Quranic studies -- and he knows the New York Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.  Regardless of Obama's religion, what message is he sending to the world's 1.2 billion Muslims?

And, the fact that Obama can recall the Shahada after 35 years, and the fact that he believes that the daily call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth" says, to me,  that those Muslim prayers run through his head often -- so  what does that make him?

Note: the Original New York Times source has been deleted by Obama's water-carriers at the New York Times, but HERE is the Kristof article on another site -- and, ho, ho, ho -- here's a copy I forgot I cached from Obama's own website.

For reasons of his own, it is Obama who continues to communicate to the ummah that he is a Muslim  -- and they get it!

Asma Gull Hasan, a Muslim woman, wrote, "My Muslim President Obama," for Forbes.  In it she says, "Most of the Muslims I know (me included) can't seem to accept that Obama is not Muslim.  Of the few Muslims I polled who said that Obama is not Muslim, even they conceded that he had ties to Islam."

Al-Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, wrote: "This was the address we had all been waiting for, it hit all the right notes."
 
"He talked about the contribution of the Islamic faith in the life of American Muslims and then he personalised that message by saying 'I know because I am one of them.'  It was a message that reached out to many today...."

Now, Obama, in violation of protocol, is captured in video and still images humbling himself to the Muslim king of a Muslim country, something no other American leader has ever done, and a gesture not made to any other foreign leader by Obama, only Abdullah.

I'm beginning to have doubts that I got it right in that biography.