Americans Think Mitt Romney is a Muslim

By: Guest ContributorJul. 26th, 2011more from Guest Contributor

Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney isn’t shy about changing his positions and former decision-making according to the current (and I mean minutes-by-minutes) political climate. But if there’s one area in which Mitt Romney cannot shift into different forms of political department store mannequins, it’s his faith.

Never mind that we live in a democracy and are supposed to adhere to that little thingy called the bill of rights, where “no religious test shall be imposed on individuals seeking elected office,” Americans are too busy watching washed up stars gyrate and they love them some judgmental religion. Also, it really helps if one holding or seeking office can be so eclectic as to be white and Christian in order for the superficiality to sit well with a miserably uninformed (misinformed) electorate. For example, forty-percent of Americans don’t even know Obama is a Christian, and then there’s the tin-foil cap wearing eighteen-percent of Americans who believe Obama to be Muslim (or is it half-breed Muslin?). He’s black and has a last name that’s one letter away from the evil 9/11 terrorist and radical Muslim fundamentalist (the one Obama actually caught and killed), so it’s only natural that this would make some Americans heads hurt.

But the idiot barometer shot up to space when the question on Mitt Romney’s religion came up.

Not only do most Americans fail to identify President Obama as Christian, three in four don’t know Mitt Romney is a Mormon, according to a new survey.

Here were the results of the USA Today poll:

40% of Americans don’t know Obama’s religion

38% correctly call him Christian

18% continue to wrongly identify him as Muslim

4% says he’s not religious.

40% correctly identify Romney as Mormon;

46% don’t know, 11% call him some form of Christian (1% Muslim, 1% not religious, 1% never heard of him) despite saturating media coverage on the matter in the 2008 primaries.

72% say Mormons hold religious beliefs that are somewhat or very different from their own.

56% of the public says it is very important or somewhat important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs regardless of whether those beliefs are the same as their own.

Apparently one-percent of the eleven-percent believes that Muslim is a form of Christianity. Is Fox News no longer doing its job in properly delineating Christianity as the flag-waving, country-club, rich whites-only faith and Islam as the blowing up Americans faith?

Sadly, we live in a topsy-turvy country in which the rich get to steal from the poor and religion (Christianity, that is) matters to voters. After all, Texas governor and potential Republican Presidential Candidate (a sentence that should never be uttered following 2001-2008) is flagrantly violating the Establishment Clause in the U.S. Constitution by giving the appearance that the government prefers evangelical Christian religious beliefs over other religious beliefs and non-beliefs regarding his upcoming prayer rally. Perry is partnering with the American Family Association and other hate groups to hold “The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis” at Houston’s Reliant Stadium on Aug. 6. Indeed, the answer to a country beleaguered by debt, a fractured and radical Congress, rampant unemployment, falling housing prices, and ecological devastation is not to use the power of your public office to come up with practical solutions to these serious non-religious dilemmas, but to hoodwink suffering constituents to collectively pray to an invisible space ghost. Worse yet, that invisible space ghost has to be Christian.

Mitt Romney may have thought he had problems when Americans just thought he was a Mormon, but his trepidations have just got much worse now that a percentage of Americans associate him with being a Muslim.

Americans Think Mitt Romney is a Muslim was written by Guest Contributor for PoliticusUSA.

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17 Responses to Americans Think Mitt Romney is a Muslim

Diane

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Every person whose religious beliefs do not align with evangelical, born again Christianity should be very, very afraid. As those who are atheists.

Make no mistake, these so called ‘christians’ are on a mission from their ‘God’ and will not rest until those of us who are ‘other’ repent and join them in worship.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Jul. 26th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
  
  I for one am very glad you said that simply because of the fact that so many people as soon as they start reading these articles think that Christianity itself is that task when it is not. You are absolutely right it is the evangelical and fundamental people who are messing it up for Christians my wanting to control people’s lives. Nor do they recognize the everyday Christian as being a part of the Christian faith
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- NamelessGenXer
  
  Jul. 26th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
  
  EVILangelicals want to inflict their ludicrous beliefs on me? They *will* have to kill me.
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Shiva (Moderator)

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 12:41 pm

I think the people of this country are getting the word Muslim thrown at them constantly by people who have an agenda of hate. At some point, people who are not actively involved in knowing the differences between religions simply pick up what they hear.

For anyone to think that a Muslim is also a Mormon tells me that religion is being beaten to death and his being paid less and less attention to. This would be an agreement with the following numbers of people who say they are religious.
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kfreed

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 12:43 pm

Correction: anyone not among the top 2% within the Dominionist “circle of trust” should be watching his back. That includes the working class nitwits being led around by the nose by a bunch of snake oil salesman. They, too, become expendable the moment they cast their ballots in favor of that so-called “Christian nation.”
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- kfreed
  
  Jul. 26th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
  
  that’s “salesmen” – plural
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CJS

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 1:07 pm

No, the numbers add up to 100 (40, 46, 11, 1, 1, 1), so it’s 1%, not 1% of 11%. But anyway, it’s insignificant – in a poll, anything on a 2-3% level is noise, you could get that many people saying he’s Xenu, or the Pharoah Ramses.
I am surprised only 1% have never heard of him, that doesn’t seem credible – don’t you usually have 5% who can’t name the President?
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john

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 1:48 pm

with all the comments..yes i have been studying this stuff for a while..its worse than that, we now subsidize the process with taxpayer money under W’s faith based initiative.. not only that but the outfit that used to be called Blackwater is now a group of taxpayer funded christian mercenaries..

why the faith based based initiative hasn’t been challenged on first admendment grounds, to me is an outrage.. perhaps its because in the present judicial climate it might stand..

also im wondering why ththis bunch of grifters for Jesus is not refer to the “faith industry”.. we should be taxing them not sunsidizing them
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michael pistilli

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 2:12 pm

This is not a religious issue. This is a sad statement about how ignorant we have somehow become in this country. Our ignorance of basic historical truths, our willingness to accept the most outrageous lies and distortions(the swiftboaters still kill me), the hatred and loathing that is becoming the stock and trade of the far right(mostly), the drumbeat to distrust and fear the media, our educational insitutions, and the warping by some, of the teachings of Jesus.
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- Cathy
  
  Jul. 26th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
  
  I agree completely–you stated the point extremely well! Thank you.
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- kenjaminicus
  
  Jul. 27th, 2011 at 10:27 am
  
  Thanks, agreed (mostly). I think that both sides are pretty well represented as far as distrust and fear of the media.
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Reynardine

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Sadly, people from other countries have said to me, “You can’t be an American; you’re not dumb!”
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MG

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 2:51 pm

I can’t believe that 1 in 5 people in line at the grocery still think Obama is a Muslim.
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boil

Jul. 26th, 2011 at 6:11 pm

as the GOP silly season continues, it will be interesting to see how many evangelicals really get behind romney. the hard right xtians, think mormons are one step above muslims. they consider the mormons to be a cult. and then theres the catholic church, who are at odds with the LDS. it will come into play, as the circular firing squad primarys move forward. my money is still on perry. too much good ol boy texas money…….. and he sounds like hes got a chaw in his cheek, like a real texan…
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hdj8501

Jul. 27th, 2011 at 5:17 pm

First Obama and now Romney is a Muslim too! Where do these people get this stuff? Sadly, most Americans are just not that bright!
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- hdj8501
  
  Jul. 27th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
  
  …or I should say far too many Americans are just not that bright!
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