Rev. Franklin Graham, shown here at a NASCAR race, says Obama was ‘born Muslim’ and appeared to doubt Obama’s Christianity. Religion professor Stephen Prothero says Graham is spreading ‘disinformation’ about Christianity and Islam, which Graham once described as

Rev. Franklin Graham is leading a ‘disinformation campaign’ against President Obama by attacking Obama’s Christian faith and distorting Islam’s theology, says a leading religion professor.

After CNN’s John King gave Graham a full news cycle to raise a lifted eyebrow at President Obama’s Christian profession of faith, Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, came on King’s show Friday night to undercut Graham and question why CNN would ask an evangelist known to slur Islam, to speculate on its theology.

According to a transcript released by CNN, Prothero, author of God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, told King, the finding in a recent survey that 18% of Americans believe Obama is Muslim …

… is because we have people who are supposed to be responsible public leaders, like Franklin Graham, who are spreading what seems to me like a sort of disinformation campaign… What Franklin Graham should say: ‘Barack Obama says he’s a Christian, he’s a […]