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Did Obama attend a madrassa?
Did Obama attend a madrassa?
Last Modified: 21 Apr 2008
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Channel 4 News
Barack Obama's detractors are claiming the school he attended in Indonesia was an extremist madrassa.
It is all about white voters in Pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton faces Democratic rival Barack Obama tomorrow in the contest that could decide their White House hopes once and for all.
But for Barack Obama it is not just overcoming racial stereotypes. His detractors have made much of his middle name - Hussein - and the fact that his surname sounds a bit like Osama.
Now 10 per cent of voters think that he's a Muslim and that the school he attended in Indonesia was an extremist madrassa.
Channel 4 News went to the school and found that nothing could be further from the truth.
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