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Obama's ring: 'There is no god but Allah' - Atlas Shrugs

NEW YORK As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obamas practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his colleagues.
Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couples wedding ceremony in 1992.
Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: There is no God except Allah.
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Egyptian-born Islamic scholar Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., examined photographs of Obamas ring at WNDs request and concluded that the first half of the Shahada is inscribed on it.
There can be no doubt that someone wearing the inscription There is no god except Allah has a very close connection to Islamic beliefs, the Islamic religion and Islamic society to which this statement is so strongly attached,
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... the Harvard Law Review published by students in 1990 contains a mock Dewers Scotch profile advertisement poking fun at Obama. Among a list of Obamas Latest Accomplishments is: Deflecting Persistent Questioning About Ring On Left Hand.
The comment suggests the ring was a subject of student curiosity at the time and that Obama was not forthcoming with an explanation.
He still has not explained why he wore the band on his wedding-ring finger before he married Michelle.
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Gabriel, born to Muslim parents in Upper Egypt, grew up immersed in Islamic culture. He memorized the Quran at age of 12 and graduated in 1990 with a Masters degree from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the preeminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning.
He explained that on Obamas ring, the declaration There is no god except Allah (La Ilaha Illallah) is inscribed in two sections, one above the other.
On the upper section, There is no god is written in Arabic letters, from right to left: Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Ha.
On the lower section is except god, written in Arabic letters from right to left: Alif, Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Lam, Ha.
In the lower section, the word Allah is written partially on top of the word except, noted Gabriel, the author of Islam and Terrorism and Journey Inside the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist.
It is common in Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, especially when expressing Quranic messages on jewelry, to artfully place letters on top of each other to fit them into the allotted space.
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Gabriel told WND that a person wearing a ring with There is no God except Allah demonstrates the significance of Islam in his life.
Christians never use the statement, he pointed out. By wearing the Shahada on jewelry, a person communicates that Allah is in control of all circumstances. Allah controls you; Allah is the one and only one.