How many times (as a youth) did Barack Hussein Obama pray to Mecca?

a lot

But the real question should be: does he still pray to Mecca? I don't think we know that. Only he knows. And if he does, he's not gonna tell us.

Mecca VS Buddha VS God VS The Goddesses

A Royal Rumble indeed.

Does it really matter i pray towards Mecca. These questions are so stupid no offense religion does not have to effect the fact that he may be a good president people are just scared and inconsiderate because of the fact Hussein is his middle name and so forth.

you see, in america, we have freedom of religion. NOT freedom from religion. did you have a problem with eisenhower being president. it wasn't widely known, but he was a jew. do you have a problem with that? are you catholic? if not, did you have a problem with jfk? muslims, jews and christians all worship the same god, has the same stories in each book. muslims and christians actually are closer to each other than christians and jews. at least muslims acknowledge the existance of Christ and the miracles surrounding him. muslims even put Christ as the highest of all the profits, including mohammad. why don't you ask a jew what his thoughts of Christ are? it matters not what direction obama faced when he prayed. by the way, muslims pray to God, FACING mecca. they don't actually pray to a city. what a retarded question.

lifelong republican for the record. now a ron paul republican.

His school registration actually doesn't show him as a Muslim, since the school in question had mixed Christian, Jewish and Muslim enrollment. No one has ever found a reputable source that clearly states he ever practiced Islam -- there are just a lot of ignorant people reporting something they read "somewhere on the interwebs."

My answer is: Ask him yourself. Write a letter. Send an e-mail to him. Who prays to Mecca anyway....don't Islamic people pray to Allah? Anyway...why is this an issue?

Yawn

All I know is this. Would it really matter if his name wasn't ethnic? What has George Walker Bush done for the country lately? Can you say recession boys and girls?

Ever hear of separation of church and state? I'm not crazy about most religions so that wont effect my vote. I'm more worried about his political views he is a raging socialist that is guaranteed to ruin this country and everything we have worked for and stood for.

The passage below comes from Wikipedia

"Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (born in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Bondo District, Nyanza Province, Kenya,[8] of Luo ethnicity) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).[9] Throughout his early years, he was commonly known at home and school as "Barry".[10] Obama's parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[11] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[12] His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident in 1982.[13] His mother married another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967.[14] Obama attended local schools in Jakarta from ages 6 to 10, where classes were taught in Indonesian.[15][16] He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979.[17] Obama's mother, Ann, died of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[18]

In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family. His knowledge about his African father, who returned once for a brief visit in 1971, came mainly through family stories and photographs.[13] Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "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."[19] The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[20] Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."[21]

After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[22] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[23] Obama received his Bachelor of Arts in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group before moving to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer.[24] As Director of the Developing Communities Project, he worked with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development.[25] He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.[26] In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history".[27] He completed his J.D. degree magna *** laude in 1991.[28] On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive.[28] As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.[29] He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.[30]

He joined Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988.[137] A megachurch with 10,000 members, Trinity is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ.[137]"