Obama's Salute, A Muslim Religious Signal?

[From article]
The hand sign that the president appeared to be flashing at the African Leaders’ Conference in August, described by F. W. Burleigh on these pages last week, is not merely a Muslim gang sign. It has a long and venerable history.
As Burleigh notes, it represents the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith: there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his messenger.
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Thanks to the efforts of British Evangelicals and the Royal Navy, the slave trade was virtually ended early in the 19th century. But it was never extinguished in Dar al Islam, and it now has been revived with a vengeance. After all, God’s messenger owned slaves and enslaved hundreds.
In flashing the Muslim salute, if that’s what he was doing, the president was giving the finger to Christians and Jews throughout the world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/obamas_finger.html

February 23, 2015
Obama's finger
By Jeff Lipkes