Hussein’s Muslim Brother Found
By OLIVER HARVEY - (The Sun)
HE may be living in a Bracknell council house, but soon he could be dining with his brother at the White House.
The Sun was the first newspaper to track down and speak to Bernard Obama, 37.
And he said of Democrat candidate Barack: “I’m very proud of my big brother.
“It’s quite a funny feeling that he might be the next President of the USA.”
Muslim Bernard — an avid Manchester United fan and Sun reader — is staying with his bingo-loving mum Kezia, 67, who has lived in the Berkshire new town for six years.
He was glued to the TV news in the modest suburban bungalow last night as Barack, 46, was due to arrive in Britain.
Bernard leads a quiet life, running a car parts firm in Nairobi, Kenya.
But he is a regular visitor to the UK to visit Elvis fan Kezia.
She married Barack Obama Snr in Kenya in 1957 when she was a teenager.
He later left for the US and went on to meet Ann Dunham, who gave birth to his now widely acclaimed son.
Obama Snr, a Kenyan goatherd who became a leading economist in his east African homeland’s government, was killed in a car crash in 1982.
Barack Jnr was 21 and Bernard 12. He said: “Our father passed away when I was young and I didn’t get the chance to get to know him very well.
“When you lose your dad at such a young age, that’s when you really miss him.”
Bernard smiled when he spoke of his famous half-brother. He said:
I was around 17 when I first met Barack.
He was visiting Kenya and it was obvious from the way he spoke and his charisma that he was going to be a success.
He is charming, very good company and very charismatic.
Happy families … back row from left: Unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Malik, unknown, half-brother Abo, Bernard. Front: Half-sister Auma, stepmum Kezia, stepgran Sarah, unknown
I’ve met him since with his wife Michelle in Kenya. She’s very nice, a very strong and intelligent person. I don’t think we will see him on this visit to Britain. It’s official business and he’ll be very busy.
Bernard is remaining with Kezia for the next month as she recuperates from illness.
Barefoot and dressed in cream shorts and red T-shirt, he said: “I love coming to Britain because I love football and I like reading about it in The Sun.
Converted
“I’m a big Manchester United fan but I think Barack’s more into basketball.”
Bernard converted to Islam 18 years ago. The dad of one said: “I’m a Muslim, I don’t deny it. My father was raised a Muslim.
“But it’s not an issue. I don’t know what all the hullabaloo is about.”
Barack is a staunch Christian. A recent cartoon in the New Yorker magazine caused a furore by portraying him as a turban-wearing Muslim and his wife as a terrorist.
In February, photos emerged of Barack in traditional Somali robes during a trip to Kenya in 2006.
But Bernard dismissed jibes about Barack’s religion and said there was no significance to the photos.
He added: “If you go to Japan or Nigeria you put on the traditional dress. People are trying to look for ways to tarnish him.”
In his biography, Dreams From My Father, Barack told of meeting Bernard in Kenya.
He wrote: “That sweetness, the lack of guile, made him seem much younger than his 17 years.
“As we stepped into the street, Bernard draped his arm over my shoulder. ‘It’s good to have a big brother around,’ he said, before waving goodbye and vanishing into the crowd.”
The pair’s dad left Kenya in 1959 when he took up a US scholarship. Kezia, then three months’ pregnant with daughter Auma, already had a year-old son Malik to look after.
Barack Snr met Barack’s mum Ann in Hawaii, and she gave birth to the now presidential hopeful in August 1961.
The Democrat’s dad returned to Kenya in 1965 and Kezia subsequently gave birth to two sons, Abo in 1968 and Bernard in 1970.
Raunchy
Barack’s former brother-in-law Ian Manners, 55 — divorced from Bernard’s and Barack’s sister Auma — is writing a book about his in-laws.
Daughter Akinyi, 11, spent Christmas with Barack in the US. She said: “I asked him if I could meet Beyonce. He smiled and said he’d see what he could do.”
Barack attended Ian’s 1996 wedding to Auma and famously ran out of a pub in Wokingham, Berks, during Ian’s stag bash when a raunchy dancer took to the stage.
Businessman Ian said: “We were having a few drinks, then a stripper dressed as a St Trinian’s schoolgirl appeared.
“She was no Miss World and it was the last thing I wanted. As soon as Barack saw what was about to happen he made a hasty retreat.
“He was in politics already and left the pub immediately.”
Ian added: “I played a couple of rounds of golf with him in 1997.
“We had to go to a municipal course because golf clubs wouldn’ t have been keen on a black man playing on their course back then.
“He is very competitive and beat me both times. It was obvious Barack was going to get to the top.”
Bernard agreed, saying: “Barack is going to win the election, definitely, and I want to be in the US for his inauguration.
“He will be a breath of fresh air for the world.”
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Harvey found it important to tell us…. “Barack is a staunch Christian.”
Bullshit.
It’s good that we get to know the whole family though.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pmYou know, it’s a shame that Barack’s typical white grandmother isn’t in any of those photos. I’d quite like to see what she looks like.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:58 pmBHO’s Bro said, “I’m a Muslim, I don’t deny it. My father was raised a Muslim.
“But it’s not an issue. I don’t know what all the hullabaloo is about.”
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How about September 11, 2001?
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A few questions:
1. Were BHO’s parents married?
2. If so other people could elect a bastard POTUS?
I’m just asking because the article said they (his parents) met, it didn’t mention marriage.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:08 pmParaphrasing Obama, he wrote in Dreams From My Father that he was a little scared to dig deeper into the issue of his parents’ marriage. His father may still have been married to his first wife when he met Obama’s mother in Hawaii. They “married,” and he left a couple of years later to attend Harvard where he met another woman. He returned to Kenya and the third woman lived with him as his wife. Despite all that, Obama’s father still had relations with his first wife and she had two more children by him. One of these children is the half-brother mentioned in the above article.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:23 pmI read that his Dad and Mother were married but his Dad was never divorced from his first wife–a bigamist. Won’t these folks look good in the Whitehouse. Just the beginning. Better learn to be a minority quick.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:27 pmSo where is his Mother. Is she alive? You don’t heard squat about her.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:50 pm“HE may be living in a Bracknell council house, but soon he could be dining with his brother at the White House.”
Nice from one form of housing provided by the British Taxpayer to one provided by the United States Taxpayer! way to go little brother!
Man if all of this comes out about the Obamessiah’s lineage it will really turn off voters, especially those that cling to their guns and bibles.
July 26th, 2008 at 8:03 amThat “breath of fresh air” could be the last gasp for the U.S..
July 26th, 2008 at 8:15 amHere’s a theory that makes me feel good: McCain is keeping a low profile for now, hoping, I think, to stay just a little behind Hussein so the dems don’t put Hillary on the ticket. If they do that, McCain can’t win and they will be forced to do that if McCain starts to lead. Wait until the VP is nominated, then McCain takes off the gloves and starts bringing out the good stuff on Hussein. Preachers, crooks, birth certificates, Muslims, etc.
And now, half-brothers and sisters, bastards, dead beat dad, bigamist, White House loaded up with barefoot Africans…Hussein could be the gift that keeps on giving to McCain.
Call it MY audacity of hope.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:29 amSo in addition to being an audacious liar, the Obamesiah is also a bastard!! As Mr Spock would say: “Facinating”. LOL
BTW, Black Liberation Theology is anathema to Christianity. Duhbama is no more a Christian than is OBL or Che was.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:45 amSpooky
July 26th, 2008 at 10:37 amAyaan Hirsi Ali talks in her book “Infidel” how her father left her mother and married another. There is no divorce and the culture sees him married to both. This is common practice and one reason why Muslims (i.e.Palestinians) are multiplying at such tremendous rates.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pmThe Obamesiah is also a bastard who it seems cannot prove he is a natural born citizen. MS/Numb Barack Channel has done it again, hitched their wagon to a falling star.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pmjam,
Good theory. Never forget the Clinton factor. We know Johnny can drop bombs and kill a target. And what a load he could drop on Osamabama. Hope he’s not too rusty.
You could be the Senator’s Karl Rove!
July 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm