Google search results for "Muslim members of Congress" were yielding a few inaccurate results Thursday morning.
Barack Obama, neither a current U.S. congressman or Muslim, was among the four (or five—if you do a search for “congresspeople”) listed in the results.
Obama is a practicing Christian.
The bug in the system appeared to be fixed after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reached out to the company and a Google representative declined to comment on the record.
This isn't the first time that Google has faced questions about results related to the religion of Barack Obama.
New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King is also not a Muslim but showed up in the results. King spoke out in the past against Islam and what he calls "the radicalization" of the Muslim community, according to the New York Times.
Republican Sue Myrick of North Carolina is not Muslim either. The former congresswoman and conservative Christian has been a critic of Islam in the past and according to Politico, Myrick and a team of three other conservative representatives sought to launch an investigation of the Center for American-Islamic Relations in 2009, accusing the non-profit group of trying to infiltrate Capitol Hill with interns and staffers.
Two of the search results, Democrats Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and Indiana Rep. Andre Carson, are Muslims.
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