A lawyer who worked as the campaign treasurer to GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell in the 2008 race thinks that President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim.
“Yes, actually, I do,” Jonathan Moseley told TPM on Monday when asked if he still believes that Obama secretly practiced the Islamic faith.
“The reason being that becoming a Christian is more than simply rooting for a football team,” Moseley said. “There’s an actual conversion that takes place. And I don’t think we’ve ever seen evidence that he ever converted.”
Mother Jones first reported on Moseley’s views.
Moseley, who told TPM he met O’Donnell at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2003, wrote on his blog in 2009 that Obama’s Christianity was not legitimate. “Once a Muslim, always a Muslim,” he wrote.
Moseley said Obama denies the “key doctrine” of Christianity, that there’s no other way to God but through Jesus. Obama’s views “reflect sort of a pop culture idea of Christianity,” Moseley said.
“Also because, as I think I said there, no one can sing the Islamic call to prayer in perfect Arabic in a perfect accent … without having practiced it a whole lot,” Moseley said.
TPM also asked Moseley if Obama was in fact born in Hawai’i or if he was born in another country, as those in the so-called birther movement maintain.
“I am disturbed that nobody cares what our constitution says,” Moseley said. “Whether in fact he is or not, I don’t know.”
Moseley, who still supports O’Donnell, does not have a current role in the campaign, he said. With all of O’Donnell’s success, “they can get people with much more experience.”
He never spoke with O’Donnell about his views, and said he began thinking about the issues “long after I left the campaign” and hasn’t spoken with her this election cycle.
Mother Jones reported on Moseley’s other attention grabbing views:
In 2009, Moseley maintained an intermittent blog that expressed his conservative views. He defended the Bush-Cheney administration’s use of extreme interrogation methods (declaring they were not torture), hailed the tea party movement, maintained that climate change was caused by changes in the sun’s magnetic field, and contended that Obama was and might still be a Muslim.
Moseley previously told TPM he only quit his position as campaign treasurer because it was understood that his position was temporary, and campaign finance is “not my specialty. I went in there always intending to be a short-term, stop gap.”
Additional reporting by Rachel Slajda.
