[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]We are told today that the most image-sensitive President since Dick Nixon intends to scotch a visit to a Sikh temple in India at the end of next week because…

Don’t even whisper this to a soul…

People around the world may think this former used shoe salesman secretly is a Muslim.

Swish Obama walks, squawks and talks like a Muslim. His instincts are Islamic down to their DNA.

He identifies — isn’t that a lovely, loose-jointed, sufficiently abstract concept — more readily with exotic Islamists in the Middle East than with down-home Methodists in southwestern Missouri.

If Swish enters the Sikh temple, he will be required to cover his head — the same way men do when they enter my synagogue.

The picture will be flashed around the world.

Swish’s handlers said “oops!” in a burpingly loud voice when they heard about that provision.

I guarantee you that if this actor entered my synagogue and donned a yarmulke, Mr. Osama is the only conceivable earthling who would think Mr. Obama was a Jew.

We emphatically don’t want him. Besides, he couldn’t pass an ethics test just based on the last two days, much less the larger span of his life.

Swish is no more of a Christian than I am. He has shown not a single sign of believing/practicing/or having vague familiarity with the principles of Christianity, as we will learn after he leaves office.

Why do so many Americans believe he is a Muslim? It has little to do with his father and even less with his upbringing. It has everything to do with his conduct, his instincts, his pronouncements since audaciously declaring his campaign 3½ years ago. I don’t know when he embraced Islam, but the signs stuck out all over him during his campaign and since taking over — I do mean “taking over” — the day after his election two years ago next week.

You may remember the interviews he has given, his travels before and after becoming President, his overt and covert behavior, and slanting his position-stances toward Islam.

But no one is supposed to know.

Swish’s boys roaming the corridors of the White House the last 23½ months have been far more squirrely about the real-life notion that a substantial amount of Americans believe he is Muslim than any other issue — from Obamacare(lessness) to gays in the Army of Obama to global warming, yew-all, and let us not stray from that final point. When he came to Los Asngeles last Friday, this world-class intellectual inserted “yew-alls” so he would sound more like some in his audience. Thanks, Swish.

What Does He Really Think?

The most opaque President since FDR dresses up every morning in his favorite chameleon suit. He is today whatever you want him to be, says one of his hardiest former true believers, Eddie Luce of the Financial Times of London.

The dwindling band of Lawdy, I Do Believe in the Etherealness of Swish loyalists, manages to find at least one journalist every day who will center his next story on the remote notion that Swish is the smartest occupant of the White House since either Bill McKinley or Benny Harrison.

Such distracting reports bob up often enough to shift our attention away from Swish’s latest flirtation with the Muslim world.