Sunday, June 29, 2008

Obama Supporters Become "Hussein's"

From this article in the International Herald Tribune, via Reliapundit's posting at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS:
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

"Emily Hussein Nordling," her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Oklahoma, to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago....
Read the entire article here. Read Reliapundit's commentary here.

Of course, I'm not a follower of Obama. I wonder what I should change my middle name to?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

*OT*,, but GREAT NEWS for Freedom of Speech for Infidels!!!

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080628/steyn_commission_080628/20080628?hub=TopStories

solsticewitch13

Anonymous said...

Here are some suggestions: Vlad, Martel, Sobieski, Charlemagne, Holger, Lepanto, Juan, John.

Pastorius said...

I've got first dibs on Vlad.

Anonymous said...

It is interesting, don'tcha think that she is using a Muslim middle name....sorta like the cult of Mohammed, too!