No Muslim Attire Near Obama, Please

No Muslim Attire Near Obama, Please by Michael Gaynor

These days rookie United States Senator and presumptive 2008 Democrat presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is telling people that he's a Christian (but no longer a member of Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr.'s Trinity United Church of Christ's), he's all white on his late atheist Kansan mother's side and he's all African of his late Muslim/atheist Kenyan father's side.

But Obama's not letting on that he's predominantly Arab African on his late father's side or putting his Muslim relatives front and center.

To the contrary, Team Obama has even taken to dissing respectable Muslim women for dresssing like...rrespectable Muslim women.

Don't tell a priest not to wear a Roman collar, a rabbi not to wear a yamulka or a Muslim woman not to wear a head scarf.

The fear that viewers would simultaneously see Obama and women wearing "Muslim" attire resulted in a problem for the Obama campaign and it certainly should have.

Recently Hebba Aref and Shimaa Abdelfadeel were refused seats directly behind Obama ? and in front of TV cameras ? at a Detroit rally because they were wearing head scarfs.

These ladies were among 20,000 Obama supporters who gathered to see Obama at an arena when the groups they were with were separately invited by Obama campaign volunteers to sit behind the podium.

No Muslim women wearing head scarves need apply!

Obama volunteers told members of both parties in separate discussions that women wearing hijabs, the traditional Muslim head scarves, weren't included in the invitation and couldn't sit behind the podium.

The ladies were NOT amused, or docile.

Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer, said a member of her group was told by a volunteer that she could not invite Aref because of "a sensitive political climate."

If anyone thinks these were crazed volunteers doing their own thing, they don't know how the Obama campaign has been run.

Aref publicly complained, making for a much more sensitive political climate.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton quickly issued a statement not only saying that such actions are "not the policy of the campaign," but claiming that they are "offensive and counter to Obama's commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run."

It's not OFFICIAL policy, of course.

Aref replied by thanking Burton, but requested Obama apologize directly to her and Abdelfadeel, plus invitations to sit behind him at a future campaign event.

Maybe they could sit with Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr. and Father Michael "Hillary Clinton is a presumptuous white woman" Pfleger!

Obama "needs to take the matter seriously and send a strong message against any kind of discrimination," Aref said.

Aref: " I was obviously...profiled and discriminated....'"

Yes.

But, in fairness to the Obama campaign, the presidency of the United States is at stake and the sight of Obama with obviously Muslim women might prompt people to investigate his Kenyan roots and his ties to Kenyan Prime Minister and Obama cousin Raila Odinga.

If that happens before the 2008 Democrat National Convention, folks will realize that Hillary had more than one thought in mind when she suspended instead of ended her presidential campaign.