3,300 people surveyed is hardly a representative sample of the USA though is it and as the sample selected were all from religious groups I think it is even less representative of the American people generally.

It's racism and bigotry and it's about the right getting rid of Obama and sticking the knife in anyway they can in an attempt to weaken Obama's vote. It's been going on for years and it's being perpetuated by the right wing media and commentators as well as the religious zealots.

Wow, what a revelation most Americans are ignorant. In other news, the sea is a liquid.

Lets start with "some Americans stupidly believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim"

Obamas father was a Muslim and this in Islamic law makes him a Muslim.

He attended St. Francis of Assisi School in Indonesia but was educated as a Muslim and registered as Muslim i.e he took classes in Islam something only Muslims are allowed to do other faiths are excluded from those classes.

He chose to use the name Barack Hussein Obama II during his college years,after his father Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.a Kenyan government economist.

Obama, Sr. was a son of Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979), who had at least three wives.

Whilst living in Zanzibar he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein. He made all his wives convert to Islam.

Therefore Obama Sr. was born into a Muslim family as was Obama II.

Obama II states

"My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition."

This would mean that Obamas father was an apostate and this may very well be true but in Islamic law this does not alter Obama's status as a Muslim.

As he was mainly absent his fathers 'atheism' would not have influences the young Obama.

Obama also recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind."

So he is mixed race not 'African American' to say otherwise is to deny the heritage of his white mother.

His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro after divorcing his father

From ages six to ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School.

In mid-1981,when he was twenty Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and sister Maya, and visited the families of college friends in India and Pakistan for three weeks.

So we can say that up until the age of ten he was a Muslim and educated as such.

So much for those stupid Americans.

He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988 for eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago's far South Side.

If he was baptized as a Catholic at this time were is his baptism certificate or his confirmation certificate no one can find them.

Obama attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist church for 20 years,

but they can not produce a baptism certificate either so when did Obama apostasies from Islam and become a Christian?

It appears that in a formal sense that he is still a Muslim as he has not rejected Islam or in any formal sense has he become a Christian.

So much for those stupid Americans.

What make someone a Christian? Is it just because one's parent claim to be a Christian or one's name is just Peter or John. Jesus Christ said except one is born again he/she cannot enter the Kingdom of God John Chapter 3 verse 3. Matthew Chapter 16 verse 24 here Jesus said except you deny yourelf and take your cross and follow me you are not of me. Finally 1ST John Chapter 4, here it was stated if you do not love your neighbours you are not of the Lord Jesus Christ. From above who can decide whether another person is a Christian or not.