Thought I found a good source of claims for some decent questions in this article, but when I wrote the question, I did some trivial searches in Wikipedia, which addressed them sufficiently. :-(
@nomenagentis Since you asked: Saw your meta-question first. Upvoted it; I agree it seems harsh. I hear Shog9's reasoning, and can see why it is that harsh. Happy to leave to others to resolve.
The Obama/Muslim question seems to be circling around the drain, with people fretting over the wrong issue.
Do Americans/Republicans say they believe that Obama is Muslim? Yes. Easily answered. Easily notable. Do 59% of Americans believe it? No, unlikely, as your edit points out.
But none of those people are skeptics, because if they were, they would realise there is no substantial evidence for this, so it isn't a reasonable belief to hold.
Could it be that Obama is secretly a Muslim, Buddhist or Atheist? That is an unanswerable claim, and off-topic on Skeptics.SE, and that is the real problem with the question, not notability.
Does Obama regularly attend (Christian) church? That could be a question, but I don't think anyone cares.
We already have other questions that are answerable:
This video, makes the following claim, as aired on Fox News:
[Obama] did bow to the Muslim King, while he did not do it to the British Queen of England, and by bowing he showed the world that "I am subservient, I do bow down to you as a Muslim King." Something that no other president has done...
I saw this article floating around Facebook today. It claims:
It’s the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. President Obama has decided to give $195M of taxpayer money to the Islamic nation of Syria to mark the occasion.
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“To help the many Syrians in need this...
I've been shown this image a few times:
Naturally, it's a little ridiculous, because there are surely at least a thousand pictures of him near an American flag.
But it is making a claim that the yellowish curtain behind Obama is some kind of Muslim prayer related thing. Is that accurate? If s...
@nomenagentis I understand the commenter's point that the web-site doesn't represent mainstream conservatives, but I agree that there is no doubt that this question is - still, amazingly - notable.
In the fantasy world that inhabits my head, Obama's final day as POTUS will be celebrated by a queue of people who accused him, prior to his election, of being a Muslim that would introduce Sharia Law as soon as he was elected, coming up one by one to apologise for the defamatory remarks.
I am not saying I support Obama. I am saying this particular stream of nonsense was beneath us all.
@Oddthinking thanks. I understand shog9's point. That the message is doubly used to tell reviewers when to use that reason and also to tell editors why their edit was rejected.
My edit was to reflect what the source that was linked actually claimed. I am surprised that that is not considered improvement not even a little, but I can live with that.
One of the key tenants of skeptics is that a notable claim must exist before a question can be asked. I understand why this exists, to avoid flooding the boards with irrelevant random questions and speculation that answers lack time to answer, or worse yet frustrate skeptics enough that they sto...
I've been shown this image a few times:
Naturally, it's a little ridiculous, because there are surely at least a thousand pictures of him near an American flag.
But it is making a claim that the yellowish curtain behind Obama is some kind of Muslim prayer related thing. Is that accurate? If s...
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