# John McCain is a Muslim **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841 "2008-06-13T18:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/1 "2008-06-13T18:57:24Z")
I have recently decided that John McCain is a Muslim. I have compiled the following evidence. - His name starts with “M”, and all kinds of stuff related to Islam starts with an “M”: Muslim, Mohammed, Mecca, Madrassa, and the list goes on and on. - Earlier in his life, John McCain spent several years in Vietnam. Now admittedly this may not look very convincing since Vietnam is a Hindu country, but it’s _close_ to several Muslim countries. So what do you suppose he was doing there, if no training to be a Jihadist? - McCain got angry when the United States tortured innocent people in Iraq, just like all the Muslims did. - Last but not least, McCain has been seen [covering his head](http://www.173rdairborne.com/images/iraq-mccain.jpg), just like Muslim men do. I’d like to know whether there’s any other evidence out there. But even if there isn’t, I just can’t take the risk of voting for him. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/2 "2008-06-13T19:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] - Earlier in his life, John McCain spent several years in Vietnam. Now admittedly this may not look very convincing since Vietnam is a Hindu country, but it’s _close_ to several Muslim countries. So what do you suppose he was doing there, if no training to be a Jihadist? [/QUOTE] Hindu country? [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Vietnam) says: > [@](#): > > The earliest established religions in Vietnam are Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism (called the “triple religion” or tam giáo). Significant minorities of adherents to Roman Catholicism, Cao Dai, and Hoa Hao and smaller minorities of adherents to Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, and Theravada Buddhism were established later, in recent centuries. So Hinduism is a very small minority religion in Vietnam. But perhaps John McCain picked up Mahayana Buddhism while he was there: do we really want a Mahayana Buddhist as commander-in-chief? ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/3 "2008-06-13T19:29:03Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] I have recently decided that John McCain is a Muslim. I have compiled the following evidence. - His name starts with “M”, and all kinds of stuff related to Islam starts with an “M”: Muslim, Mohammed, Mecca, Madrassa, and the list goes on and on. - Earlier in his life, John McCain spent several years in Vietnam. Now admittedly this may not look very convincing since Vietnam is a Hindu country, but it’s _close_ to several Muslim countries. So what do you suppose he was doing there, if no training to be a Jihadist? - McCain got angry when the United States tortured innocent people in Iraq, just like all the Muslims did. - Last but not least, McCain has been seen [covering his head](http://www.173rdairborne.com/images/iraq-mccain.jpg), just like Muslim men do. I’d like to know whether there’s any other evidence out there. But even if there isn’t, I just can’t take the risk of voting for him. [/QUOTE] Sure, makes sense. And I ain’t voting for no damn Muslims, and in spite of the separation of church and state I am going to demand a ‘religious test’ for my candidate, so I guess the only candidate I can vote for in good conscience is Mike Huckabee. At least I know he ain’t no damn Muslim, that’s fer sher. Thank you so much for shewin’ me the laight. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/4 "2008-06-13T19:32:29Z")
This is a revelation to me. Thanks for enlightening me. Well I was never going to vote for Obama because he is a muslim and now we find out McCain is one too. _Sigh_ It looks like I’ll be voting for Bugs Bunny again. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/5 "2008-06-13T19:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] - His name starts with “M”, and all kinds of stuff related to Islam starts with an “M”: Muslim, Mohammed, Mecca, Madrassa, and the list goes on and on. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/6 "2008-06-13T19:37:54Z")
Plenty mosques in 'Nam. Case closed. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/7 "2008-06-13T19:46:08Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Plenty mosques in 'Nam. Case closed. [/QUOTE] And a lot of the temples have swastikas on [them](http://san-shin.net/images/SGS-Bogwangsa-03.JPG). So he’s a islamofascist. Case closed, again. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/8 "2008-06-13T19:46:19Z")
I’d worry more that he is the Manchurian Candidate. No, really. [sub]Kinda. Well, maybe not. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/9 "2008-06-13T19:50:00Z")
Well that figures - after all, his wife’s name is Cindy (“Sin” and “D” as in the devil) and do I have to mention the McCain vs McAbel anti-Christian subtle digs? And he doesn’t wear a crucifix when he is on stage…embarrassed to show you are Christian Mr. Mc **Cain**? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/10 "2008-06-13T20:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Well, he was born in the Canal Zone, now part of **Panama** , which is just one letter off from **Manama** , which is the name of both the capital of Bahrain and a dependency of Ajman, one of the United Arab Emirates. [/QUOTE] Plus Panama Baby Mama is really fun to say. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/11 "2008-06-13T20:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] It looks like I’ll be voting for Bugs Bunny again. ☹ [/QUOTE] My cousin’s wife’s sister’s ex-boyfriend’s therapist says that Bugs Bunny is secretly an atheist. Me, I’m going to vote Cthulhu. At least we know where He stands on the issues.\* [SUB]\*On top of them, so he can devour them.[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/12 "2008-06-13T20:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] It looks like I’ll be voting for Bugs Bunny again. ☹ [/QUOTE] A buddy of mine writes in a very unusual candidate, for whom I suggest you cast your vote. The candidate? “Fuck my ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/13 "2008-06-13T20:26:00Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] A buddy of mine writes in a very unusual candidate, for whom I suggest you cast your vote. The candidate? “Fuck my ass.” [/QUOTE] You know, in my experience, you don’t have to actually write that on the ballot – they do it without being asked. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/14 "2008-06-13T20:50:58Z")
Since I know the OP is facetious, I should say I’m not making this up: I ran into a seemingly perfectly intelligent woman today at a CVS drugstore in central Florida today who said Obama was a Muslim, and wouldn’t put his hand on a Bible when taking an oath of office. I asked her where she’d heard these things, and she said it was on the news. She couldn’t tell me which channel. I’m dubious that even Fox News openly lies about that these days; I’m guessing CBN. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/15 "2008-06-13T20:59:56Z")
Any biographical material about John McCain’s life, when written in Arabic, reveals that he attended more than one madrasa and worships Allah. Also, he has had more than one wife. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/16 "2008-06-13T21:10:43Z")
I heard McCain wants to declare a race war against all Asian or Oriental people. My proof is that McCain called his captors “fucking gooks” when he was in a prisoner of war camp when in his 20s, and he tried to escape and to kill his captors by bombing them from planes before he was captured. I’m sure if he gets elected President he’ll drop the bomb just as soon as he gets the codes and kick off WW3 with China. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/17 "2008-06-13T22:29:01Z")
I saw McCain praying toward Mecca once. Well I mean he was standing up and talking in a microphone and it wasn’t a prayer per se…BUT he was facing Mecca!! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/18 "2008-06-13T22:43:46Z")
I read somewhere that his grocery expenses decreased suspiciously during the month of Ramadan. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/19 "2008-06-14T01:49:20Z")
The letters in John Sidney McCain can be rearranged to spell “Men Sync Hadji Icon.” What more evidence do you need? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841/20 "2008-06-14T02:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] The letters in John Sidney McCain can be rearranged to spell “Men Sync Hadji Icon.” What more evidence do you need? [/QUOTE] It’s right there, in his name: CAIN. He is evil and will be the death of us all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-mccain-is-a-muslim/452841.md?page=2)