[Erin] Is Obama snubbing Muslim voters?

Did you miss the follow-up to that story?

John E:

No one missed the follow up to the story. And certainly not the New York Times. The REAL follow-up is the question why his campaign is putting distance between himself and the Muslim community?

Why not at least have the decency to respond to their invitations? Barack Obama is a phony.

Muslims are political pariahs. I have a hard time seeing any politician wanting to have a strong affiliation with them.

Steve

He should differentiate being Muslim from being a terrorist. Muslims are suspect in this society because of terrorism. It should be possible to welcome Muslims into his coalition of supporters while rejecting terrorist completely. That is a challenge for Barack, and our society as a whole.

Obama may be snubbing Muslims, but apparently he welcomes the support of Hindus.

Today, in New Delhi, India, a dozen Hindu priesta chanted around a sacred fire as a group of Indians offered prayers to the Hindu god Hanuman to grant victory to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.

According to the Associated Press, Obama supporter and Democrats Abroad India Chairperson Carolyn Sauvage-Mar wore traditional Indian turban to the sacred event and flashed the victory sign as she was surrounded by devotees of Hindu God Hanuman.

Hanuman is the name of a Hindu monkey god. Hindu priest Brij Mohan Bhama will send the statue to Obama next week, devotees of the temple said Tuesday.

President Bush doesn't get any credit for doing this, but immediately following the attacks of 9/11, he invited American representatives of the Islamic faith to the White House.

It was an important symbolic act and drew the distinction between sincere people of faith and the terrorists who have hijacked this Abrahamic religion. During the past seven years, the Bush administration has taken great pains to avoid causing any insult to sincere Islams. Some have suggested that at times this has gone too far, but the contrast between Bush and Obama on this is impossible to overlook.

If Bush could do this, why can't Obama do this? Is he a post-racial unifier as he has promised from the beginning of his emergence on the national scene ... or just another political hack?

Daniel: "A candidate desperate to control his message is always in a bind."

Your description sounds like that of a political hack.

BO threw Grandma under the bus ... then Reverend Wright ... then Father Pfleger ... then campaign finance reform ... and now Arab American voters.

"And Shimaa Abdelfadeel, the other woman allegedly excluded by the Obama campaign, was chair of SAFE, a University of Michigan-Ann Arbor group that hosted the 2002 Divestment Conference against Israel at which "Annihilate the Jews!" was chanted and Islamic Jihad founder Sami Al-Arian was keynote speaker. She's the author of vehement anti-Israel vitriol and propaganda."

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/06/muslim_grievanc.html

Is it true? If yes, than enjoy.

Obama is a political hack, an eloquent hack, but a hack all the same.

It isn't?

The very first line quoted: While the senator has visited churches and synagogues, he has yet to appear at a single mosque."

Methinks it is about "visiting Muslim mosques" yet Erin gives us no indication whatsoever how many Muslim mosques Obama's rival has visited.

Why else the post, but to slur Mr. Obama (who, btw, has personally apologized for the mistake his staff made).

Got it?

How come people ask: "Is it true? If yes, than enjoy.", but never add, "If not, stop spreading rumours/lies/innuendoes/slurs."?

Please address what's a person to do to stop false rumours. Isn't bearing false witness a sin anymore?

REP, I think your issue is with the New York Times, whose article casts the question in terms of "Why hasn't Obama been more welcoming of Muslims?" etc.

I think the perception is that American Muslims tend to vote for Democrats, so why hasn't Obama's campaign sought their votes or treated them like Democratic constituents?

Part of the problem for Obama is that he has made absolute statements about his faith affiliations ("I've always been a Christian" ... and ... "I've never practised Islam") which are contradicted by the simple facts of his life and by those who knew and remembered him as a young person.

In late April, Daniel Pipes wrote a detailed article for FrontPage magazine entitled, "Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood." The son of renowned Harvard historian Richard Pipes, Daniel Pipes is no obscure internet blogger but rather a veteran commentator and scholar. The article can be read here at: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5544

When you compare the absolute denials issued by Obama and his campaign ... against the facts laid out and assembled by Pipes, you're drawn to a simple conclusion: Obama would have been better off admitting the complexity of his own upbringing, including a not casual acquaintance with the Muslim faith, rather than trying to make the blanket statements he has made about his faith.

Obama is a politician, period.
Mark Shields(a staunch Dem)says that Obama's dropping public financing from his campaign was an "epic reversal."
David Brooks, commenting on the same topic said something to the effect that if Obama was willing to abandon his stance on this issue, then what wouldn't he do?

In other words, Obama will do and say anything to get to the White House.

He knows that some folks think that he's Muslim, so he is not about to allow any Muslim women to sit behind him at a rally!

"I have a great deal of sympathy for American Muslim voters who feel disrespected by the fact that the Obama campaign is keeping its distance. But as a social conservative Catholic voter, I can assure them that it's not much better to be eagerly courted once every four years--only to have all the soft promises and strong platforms vanish into the pale dawn the morning after election day, leaving in their wake famous quotes about suckers and fooling people and a feeling which can only be described as "voter's remorse."

Oh, I see-- you're discriminated against, just like them!

Even when discussing their issues, somehow, it's all about you and YOUR pain.

Give me a break.