Obama Throws Muslims Under the Bus Too
By PaganPower on June 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM in Barack Obama, Muslim
It’s Headscarves-gate.
Barack Obama is going to great lengths to distance himself from his father and step-father’s Muslim backgrounds. He even joined a radical so-called Christian church and was a member for 20 years just to dispel the notion. But now that he is a big shot Presidential candidate he has taken this distancing stuff to the extreme. His message to supporters: No head scarves allowed in any photographs with The One. If you are Muslim and you support Barack Obama, you are going to have to look like regular folk or you won’t be included.
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
The Obama of course immediately apologized when the women went public with their displeasure (and not before). But we are used to this. Obama does one thing. People react badly to what he does. Obama suddenly appears to change course and offers an apology. Well, his WORMs do.
“This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama’s commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.”
It’s always the same response. Here is the short version:
We are so deeply sorry that you were offended by what you perceived to be a sleight to your character. Please know that what happened to you is completely contrary to Senator Obama’s message of hope and unity. Therefore he couldn’t possibly have meant to harm you in any way. Don’t start acting like those bitter people now. Senator Obama really loves you like he does all of his children. Really, he does.
The two women that this happened to were flabbergasted.
“I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change, who I could really relate to,” said Hebba Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer who lives in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. “The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters.”
I can really feel for this lady. yep, lots of folks are bamboozled into believing Obama’s message only to find out that the reality of it is that he discriminates against a lot of folks. It happens all the time. Not to seem non empathetic but get used to it. They don’t call him Snobama for nothing.
In fact, this wasn’t an accident at all. It was a carefully calculated political ploy to present a non-threatening message to the voters. A shame that the actual message it sent was one of hate and exclusion.
That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref’s friend Ali Koussan and two other friends, Aref’s brother Sharif and another young lawyer, Brandon Edward Miller, whether they would like to sit behind the stage. The three young men said they would, but mentioned they were with friends.
The men said the volunteer, a twenty-something African-American woman in a green shirt, asked if their friends looked and were dressed like the young men, who were all light-skinned and wearing suits. Miller said yes, but mentioned that one of their friends was wearing a headscarf with her suit.
The volunteer “explained to me that because of the political climate and what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with Muslim Americans, it’s not good for [Aref] to be seen on TV or associated with Obama,” said Koussan, who is a law student at Wayne State University.
Both Koussan and Miller said they specifically recalled the volunteer citing the “political climate” in telling them they couldn’t sit behind Obama.
“I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you serious?’” Koussan recalled.
As SusanUnPC explained in her excellent piece, “Brit Hume Raises the Question of Barack Obama’s Muslim Background,” Obama is going to great lengths to distance himself from his own heritage. Why else would the campaign be hiding his real birth certificate? And just why would his supposed Anti-Smear Website go so far as to blatantly lie about his real Muslim background? How else do you explain this?
This incident might have everything to do with the “political climate” and all. But from where I sit, the climate is going to start heating up around Senator Obama. Very Soon!
by Ronald Scott
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