'Hare-brained game of pretending' to believe Obama is a Muslim

Campbell University Divinity School professor Tony Cartledge writes of President Obama's visit to Indonesia:

Unfortunately, since Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, Obama-haters have used the event to play up their hare-brained game of pretending to believe the president is a secret Muslim (this article cites a number of examples). I never cease to be amazed that so many people are so gullible that they believe believe some of the hogwash they read or hear: a recent Pew Research Center poll reported that 18 percent of Americans believe President Obama -- who self-identifies as a Christian and who reiterated his Christian faith while speaking in Indonesia -- is a secret follower of Islam. That's up from 11 percent in March 2009.

Why confuse a mean-spirited conspiracy theory with something as illuminating as facts and a man's word?

Good grief.