...Barry is going to have his hands full shoring up support from
"progressive Muslims," at least if one judges the lay of the land
according to this
op-ed/bill of grievances by Brooklyn college professor Moustafa
Bayoumi:
Obama still
hasn't visited a mosque in the United States, though he has
frequented churches and synagogues. He refused to let his supporter
Rep. Keith Ellison, the nation's first Muslim American elected to
the House of Representatives, speak on his behalf in Iowa. In his
famous speech on race in March, Obama acknowledged America's
"pastors, priests, and rabbis" but not its imams. Then, the speech
abruptly veered 6,000 miles east and landed in the middle of the
Middle East, as Obama downplayed any wrongdoing on Israel's part
and blamed the lion's share of the violence in the Mideast on "the
perverse and hateful ideologies of radical
Islam."
***
When his campaign Web site lists his being
called a Muslim as a "smear," many of us take offense at that. We
want him to support us, not run away from us as though we have a
disease. Even a Seinfeld reply on the Muslim falsehood - "not that
there's anything wrong with that!" - would go far. It's as if the
Illinois senator, who stands for an expansive vision of the United
States, has drawn the line at Muslim Americans and Arab Americans.
Evidently, we're too much of a political
liability.
What exactly constitutes an "expansive
vision" of the United States? Who knows. But Muslim Americans
should not take any of this personally. Obama has proven
himself willing to either cower away from, dismiss as
"inartful" or scuttle entirely any politically inconvenient
principle, indiscriminately. His assumption is, no doubt, who else
are you going to vote for? That's what He thought.
Jerry Seinfeld ain't on the ticket, buddy.
topics:
Islam, Israel, NATO
