Franklin Graham told CNN’s John King that President Obama’s family background is creating the perception that Obama is a Muslim.

“I think the president’s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name,” Graham said on CNN’s “John King, USA.

“Now it’s obvious that the president has renounced the prophet Mohammed and he has renounced Islam and he has accepted Jesus Christ. That is what he says he has done; I cannot say that he hasn’t. So I just have to believe that the president is what he has said,” Graham continued.

This is what Obama wrote for Time in 2006 about his father’s religious background.

My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.

CNN says it will fact check Rev. Franklin Graham’s interview tonight and include comments from his opposition.

Read more (including partial video of interview and comment stream) here: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2010/08/franklin_graham_1.html