Posted on 06/24/2008 6:32:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In Democratic primaries this year the overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans voted for a man who has, throughout the campaign, vigorously knocked down rumors that he is a Muslim.
But support for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during the primaries doesn't mean the Democrat has a free pass from the Muslim American community.
Last week's incident at an Obama rally in Michigan put some added strain on Obama's support in the Muslim American community. A campaign volunteer reportedly barred two Muslim American women from appearing in camera-range behind Obama's podium after they refused the campaign representative's request to remove their headscarves. After the incident received media attention, Obama called the women personally to apologize. But the hurt still lingers for some Muslim Americans.
"I was quite disappointed. The Obama campaign to me, represents a change from traditional politics and embodies an America which supersedes discrimination and racism. This incident is in stark contradiction to that notion," said Lydia Habhab, a 23-year-old Arab Muslim-American graduate student and Dearborn, Michigan native.
"For a candidate who is talking about change, and who is a minority … who is talking about giving hope to everyone, it was very offensive to me as a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf," said Tuqa Nusairat, a 24-year-old Arab Muslim-American who is a Virginia native and graduate student.
"Although Obama personally called the girls wearing hijab to apologize, it is still disheartening to think that the level of Islamophobia in his campaign and within America is so high, that having women wearing hijab within a camera shot away from Obama was even an issue, especially within one of the most highly populated Muslim areas in the country," said Habhab.
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The perceived “snub” is only a feint and a sleight-of-hand, more for the benefit of the greater number of Americans who see Barack Mohammed (since we are no longer to refer to his given middle name) Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, as being a potential Islamic sympathizer, to somehow calm their hysteria over that particular point.
But once in office, he will revert to type, and show his REAL bias. That is, insofar as a puppet of a really wealthy “mover and shaker”, George Soros, can show any personal bias at all. It depends on which side the bread is buttered on.
http://sailor359.multiply.com/video/item/14
BHO has problems in other areas as well ... check this out!
All the more reason that Hussein should feature women with headscarves, and who knows, maybe even burkhas, in his campaign spots.
Say, maybe some conservative women should dress up in burkhas and attend Hussein rallies:)
Their support isn't going to "wane".
I wonder if the “Bean Pie Muslims” will be supporting Barry this time around.
I don’t buy these MSM stories. The muzzies will come out in force for him.
MSM TELLS DUMBED DOWN AMERICA WHAT OBAMA WANTS THEM TO KNOW-AND HE SURE DON’T WANT THEM TO KNOW HE’S A MUSLIM.
If you did your research, you’d see the evidence is overwhelming. Google ‘The Obama File’ and check under Islam.
Protecting Bwarry’s honor, are we?
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