One question people have always asked is the religion of former US president Barack Obama. 

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The general agreement is that Obama is a Christian, but questions still arise over his link to Islam. 

For a start, his father Hussein Obama was a Muslim from the Luo community of Kenya.

The mother, Ann Dunham, was a Christian who worked as an American anthropologist. 

Ahead of his inauguration as senator in 2004, conservatist Republicans in the US branded him a Muslim, arguing that in his childhood Obama had spent a considerable quality of time at a madrasa Islamic school in Indonesia. 

It is also in this childhood he stayed with a relative at Kibera during a holiday, it is not clear what house of worship he attended. 

However, truth is that Obama was baptised into the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination where he joined in 1888 and continued to be a member till 2008. 

Sources say that Obama left the church in 2008 after a controversy involving one Rev Jeremiah Wright.

Presently, he worships with a Southern Baptist pastor at Camp David although he has not yet formalised it. 

Claims that he practices another religion apart from Christianity are therefore false. 

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