A NEWSWEEK poll this weekend showed Barack Obama storming into a 15-point lead over John McCain, the Republican candidate, but his campaign remains haunted by the damaging and persistent smear that he is a secret Muslim. His Kenyan older half-brother, Malik, inadvertently added fuel to the fire last week when The Jerusalem Post reported that he had told Israel Army Radio in an interview that “if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people despite his Muslim background”.

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