“The thing is, you can’t be a leader and not know what Islam means. The average Joe pumping gas on Route 66 – okay, not on top of the issue. But there is no way you can be running for President and not know the hell being wreaked on the free and not-so-free world by Islamic jihad…. Barack Obama went to a madrassa in Jakarta. A madrassa in a Muslim country. Whether he was devout or secular, he knows what was taught. He knows what is in the Koran…. His stepfather and close members of his family are devout Muslims. Not an unimportant influence…. Obama would have had to make a decision to reject Islam. When did he make that decision? How? Why the silence? Why the reluctance to talk about it?”

Pamela Geller at Israel National News, 9 January 2008