USA Today Has Some Explaining to Do: Obama's "Christian" Grandmother Arrives in Hajj for Holy Muslim Pilgrimage

I know this is just going to result in more Muslim dating ads featured at the top of this blog. generated by the mindless Google Adsense, but it must be told. Someday, you're going to have to explain this to your grandchildren.

And you wonder why Obama took so long deciding whether or not to commit more troops to Afghanistan? Just last year, USA Today claimed Obama's grandmother was a Christian. They were just so happy to debunk all those Obama is a Muslim rumors. They wrote:

Obama's grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said. "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said. She, too, is a Christian.

Did they lie?

The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj' or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama's cousin, Omran.

On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.

Obama, the mother of the American president's father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.

The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is an obligation for all able-bodied Muslims to attend at least once during their lives, provided they can afford it.

Yeah. I'd say they lied. I don't extend any credit for stupidity.