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=== Coverage of Barack Obama ===
In 2007 ''The Washington Times''' companion news magazine ''[[Insight on the News]]'', also called just ''Insight'', published a story which claimed that someone on the campaign staff of American presidential candidate Senator [[Hillary Clinton]] had leaked a report to one of ''Insight's'' reporters which said that Obama had "spent at least four years in a so-called madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia".<ref name="Wapo 11-29-07">{{cite news|last=Bacon|first=Perry Jr.|title=Foes Use Obama's Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802757_2.html|date=November 29, 2007|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> ''Insight's'' editor, [[Jeff Kuhner]], also claimed that the source said that the Clinton campaign was "preparing an accusation that her rival Senator Barack Obama had covered up a brief period he had spent in an Islamic religious school in Indonesia when he was six." Clinton denied the allegations. When interviewed by the ''[[New York Times]]'', Kuhner refused to name the person said to be the reporter's source
''Insight's'' story was reported on first by conservative [[talk radio]] and ''[[Fox News Channel]]'', and then by ''The New York Times'' and other major newspapers.<ref name="International Herald Tribune"/> [[CNN]] reporter [[John Vause]] visited [[State Elementary School Menteng 01]], a secular [[Public school (government funded)|public school]] which Obama had attended for one year after attending a [[Roman Catholic]] school for three, and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith. He was told by Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the school, "This is a public school. We don't focus on religion. In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment."<ref name="2007debunks-madrassa">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/index.html|title=CNN debunks false report about Obama|work=[[CNN]]|date=January 22, 2007|access-date=January 26, 2007}}</ref> Students at Besuki wore Western clothing, and the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' described the school as "so progressive that teachers wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate [[Christmas]]".<ref name="CBS News August 19">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/09/politics/washingtonpost/main6379181.shtml |title=Indonesia Catholic School Promotes Ties to Obama |access-date=August 19, 2010 |date=August 19, 2010 |first=Andrew |last=Higgins |work=[[CBS News]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116024343/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/09/politics/washingtonpost/main6379181.shtml |archive-date=November 16, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="debunked">{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-070325obama-islam-story-archive,0,3358809.story|title=Obama madrassa myth debunked|last=Barker|first=Kim|date=March 25, 2007|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=September 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="wahabi">{{cite news |publisher=[[PolitiFact.com]] |url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2007/dec/20/chain-email/obama-attended-an-indonesian-public-school/ |title=Obama attended an Indonesian public school |date=December 20, 2007 |access-date=March 8, 2010}}</ref> Interviews by [[Nedra Pickler]] of the [[Associated Press]] found that students of all faiths have been welcome there since before Obama's attendance. Akmad Solichin, the vice principal of the school, told Pickler: "The allegations are completely baseless. Yes, most of our students are Muslim, but there are Christians as well. Everyone's welcome here ... it's a public school."<ref>{{cite news|title=Obama challenges allegation about Islamic school |first=Nedra |last=Pickler |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070124-1317-obama-2008.html |work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |date=January 24, 2007 |access-date=February 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517100058/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070124-1317-obama-2008.html |archive-date=May 17, 2008 }}</ref>
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