The Muslim Community and Barack Hussein Obama

"The joke within the national Muslim organizations is that we should endorse the person we don't want to win."
Ms. Safiya Ghori, Government relations director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council


Even though Obama's presumed policies would benefit Muslims, apparently he is facing some friction with Muslim voters. Andrea Elliot of the New York Times writes about this in her article, "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama."

Keith Ellison, America's first Muslim Congressman (from the great state of Minnesota), complains about Barack's campaign staff and its message control. He whines that the campaign isn't spending enough time courting Muslim voters. Of course, he doesn't want to hurt Barack's feelings, so he isn't blaming Barack (a man above reproach), he is blaming his aggressive campaign staff.

There are several grievances of people like Ellison.

1) Barack has been to churches and synagogues, but "has yet to appear at a single mosque."

2) Barack has cancelled campaign events with Muslims.

3) "Two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit."

4) Barack has no problem denying that he is a Muslim, but treats the identity as something inherently bad. As Ellison said, "A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, by the way."

This is a case of Barack Obama trying to campaign too hard. He knows that people always connect his name to the Islamic faith. So he is really trying to run away from any type of association. In doing this, he is offending a bloc of voters. Whether, Muslims don't vote for him or not, only time will tell.

It still seems like Muslims will vote for him, as long as they view any problems with his campaign as his campaign staff, not him.

If he is elected ( and hopefully he won't be!), I can pictures liberals and other supporters--They won't blame Barack for anything. It's never him, it's just the incompetent people on his staff. Barack is above reproach and perfect.

It's funny how that method of reasoning didn't apply to George W. Bush. Under Bush's administration, anything that the federal government did wrong was his fault.

Is this fair??.... you decide.