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for the 'Islam' category.  Despite this, Mandell Ganchrow, a
former Orthodox Union president and longtime leader of a major
pro-Israel political action committee, recently posted an item
on his Web site suggesting Obama’s early exposure to Islam could
make him a danger to Israel.  “In the Jewish religion when
someone is far away from observance, however at a certain time
he has a spark of Jewishness, we call it a ‘pintele Yid’ — a
smattering, or a deep-seated unconscious attachment to one’s
roots,” Ganchrow wrote. “With a Muslim father, and being
surrounded in his early youth in a Muslim environment, is there
such a thing as a ‘pintele Muslim,’ with deep-seated feelings
which could color decisions re: terrorism and the Middle East?”
~The Jewish Week  Via Sullivan  This wouldn’t be quite so
ludicrous if Obama had ever shown the slighest hint of
disagreeing with most U.S. policies in the Near East and had
ever gone beyond beyond standard left-libe