Obama and the Veiled Women

[notfullofit]

By Diana Mukkaled

The controversial campaign story of the week involves two Muslim women wearing headscarves who were not allowed to sit within photograph range of Barack Obama at a rally in Detroit.

Yet again, the connection between Obama and Islam is causing fear. The women were prevented from sitting near Obama as many regard the current political climate unsympathetic of having the presidential hopeful in the same photograph as veiled women.

Although Obama issued an official apology to the women, the controversy persisted, concerning the degree of importance that Obama's campaign attributes to his political image, especially following claims associating him with a Muslim identity which highlight occasions from his adornment of traditional Islamic dress during an official visit to Kenya in 2006 to details of his childhood in Indonesia.

Once again, Obama has slipped up. He broke his promise of changing the prevailing stereotypical image of American politics today.

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Without justifying the headscarf incident, it is a great reality that a black man with Muslim roots is a strong candidate for US president. The rise of such a minority can only take place in the US and the West, and not in the banana republics we live in.

We continue to curse Western states while our own exacerbating our own racist and sectarian illnesses, which wound the black Africans we constantly pretend to weep over.

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There are concrete signs that Obama will implement essential changes and we hope similar changes can take place in our own states.


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http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=13237

Diana Mukkaled is a respected TV journalist in the Arab world

[Ian David]

1. ...

Make your own Obama logos here: http://logobama.com/

[Crazy Dave]

2. Let's see...

Obama himself told the women they couldn't sit behind him, not some dipshit staffer...

[spanone]

3. imagine what our media would have made of two 'muslim looking women' in the audience 'behind obama'

look no farther than the rachael ray scarf incident

[elocs]

4. The headscarf thing struck me as kind of odd...

these women were such Obama supporters that when they were not allowed to sit behind him they then ran to the media to complain about it--something that would make him look bad. Has it been ascertained that it was because of the headscarves that these women were not allowed behind Obama, or was it that not everybody who wanted to sit there were allowed or able to sit there?

[notfullofit]

5. Good questions. nt

[Dogtown]

6. If they are asked to move,

the spinners say he's anti-muslim.

If they'd been included, they'd say he was pandering to terrorists.


I don't think anyone will listen to this nonsense that isn't already a believer. Swing voters are looking for answers on the economy, on loan-fraud, on gas prices, on the environment.

If they're not, they aren't going to vote anyway.