has a long history of spreading conspiracy theories suggesting that
Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim who took orders from terrorist organizations:
Writing on her blog in August 2010, Crowley blasted Obama for supporting the right to build an Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan...Crowley wrote that Obama had loyalties to Islam, and questioned if he could support both Islam and the United States.
“Maybe politics didn’t have anything to do with it, but Islam certainly did. And does. Obama was born to a Muslim father, which under Islam automatically made him a Muslim. He says he converted to Christianity as an adult, which under Islam makes him an apostate,” wrote Crowley. “He grew up in Indonesia, which is the most populous Muslim nation on Earth. His stepfather was also a Muslim. He was steeped in Islam throughout his formative years, so it should come as no surprise that he has loyalties to Islam. During the 2008 campaign, he even slipped and claimed that the United States has ‘57’ states, instead of 50. The number of Muslim states in the Organization of the Islamic Conference is 57. It may not come as a shock that he appears loyal to Islam. The question is: can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?”
Three years later, in June 2013, Crowley
wrote on her blog that “the Muslim Brotherhood is a sworn enemy of the United States,” and “in Obama, they have found an ally. What does that say about Obama? I’m sure you can figure that one out. What it says about America's national security is that it looks increasingly like it’s being dictated BY that sworn enemy.” In a
January 2009 blog post, Crowley blasted Obama for using his full name at his swearing-in ceremony—as most of his predecessors have done—and took issue with his call to close Guantánamo Bay and end waterboarding. “Barack Obama insisted on being sworn in as president with his full name, Barack Hussein Obama,” she wrote. “One of his very first things he did as president was to order the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay...The two things he did along with that was to order a halt to the prosecutions of terrorist suspects there, including the mastermind of the September 11th attacks,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and other top al Qaeda terrorists, like
Ramzi Binalshibh. He also issued an order against the use of enhanced interrogation tactics on such terrorists, including waterboarding. Now comes word that he is granting his first formal television interview as president to Al-Arabiya,” she added. “Tells you where his head is, and possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin.’” In February 2015, she
tweeted what she described as an “important column,” which argued that the president was “conforming US policy to Islam and Sharia.”
Unsurprisingly Crowley also endorsed Trump’s birther campaign, and also questioned how someone like Obama would have been able to gain admittance to Ivy League schools. “If the birth certificate were never a big deal, why did No Drama Obama wait nearly 3 years before releasing it? Why endure and stoke all of the drama? To make those raising legitimate concerns about his origins and policies look like kooks? Maybe,” Crowley wrote. “For over 2 1/2 years, questions have been raised about Obama’s origins and background. He was never properly vetted by an adoring press corps, so outstanding concerns existed about his birth certificate (the long-form of which he had never released), where he grew up, his family’s religious background, his parents’ political beliefs, how he got into top schools such as Columbia and Harvard Law, how he paid for his education, what his grades were, etc. The questions were and are legitimate, and yet were never fully answered. In fact, anyone daring to ask them was painted as a fringe moron at best and racist at worst.” If you say so!