Fatwa a'comin' down the lane
there’s a song in there, somewhere..
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit 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.
...[They] said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally.
...for Obama, the old-fashioned image-making contrasts with his promise to transcend identity politics
"We’re not letting anyone with anything on their heads like baseballs or scarves sit behind the stage,” she paraphrased the volunteer as saying, an account Marino confirmed. “It has nothing to do with your religion!"
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 her to be seen on TV or associated with Obama,” said Koussan, who is a law student at Wayne State University.
“We’re not letting anyone with anything on their heads like baseballs or scarves sit behind the stage, ... It has nothing to do with your religion!”
Yeah, right.
Maybe this is what it takes to convince Ms Aref that Obama is not the messiah (how’s that for a mixed metaphor) they’ve been hoping for.
Posted by ZZMike on 06/18/08 at 09:27 AM
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