Why do Muslims want to assure the voting public that Barack Hussein Obama isn’t a Muslim?  A Christian supported by Allah’s legions?   This doesn’t pass the smell test.

Strange but true:

Faced with White House hopefuls they fear are not entirely sympathetic to their issues, American Muslims are stepping up their activism to unprecedented levels, hoping to influence the new administration in its infancy.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on U.S. landmarks that killed about 3,000 people, many of Muslim or Arab origin have struggled to convince at times skeptical fellow citizens that they can be Muslim and loyal to the United States.

“The number of people who have become more active and visible on the national political front has increased dramatically because people have suddenly sensed that they have to … defend themselves as Americans, defend themselves as Arabs and Muslims,” said Shibley Telhami, a Mideast scholar.

Not all Arabs are Muslim nor vice versa, but they face similar problems and share many concerns.

Tarek El-Messidi, 27, of Cincinnati, went door-to-door in South Carolina for Democratic candidate Barack Obama on an unusual mission. The Muslim volunteer had to assure voters Obama isn’t Muslim.

El-Messidi said younger Muslims lean more toward Obama than Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican choice.

“In talking to Muslims, they’re really struggling between two things: They don’t know whether to view Barack Obama as a lesser of two evils or a really good candidate that they are excited about … there’s no doubt they view him as a better candidate than McCain.”

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Barack Hussein Obama, the Democrat Party Candidate. The party of Pelosi, Reid, Durbin and Schumer… enough said.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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This is too curious to be coincidence.  One of Barack Obama’s advisers has quit the Obama-rama spectacle.

A Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, appointeded as national coordinator for Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, quit his position on Monday. This after he was found to have ties to a fundamentalist imam. The Wall Street Journal asked some questions and Abahi quit his position shortly after.

Asbahi’s introduction on Obama’s campaign website:

Assalamu-Aleikum.
My name is Mazen Asbahi and I’ve been blessed and privileged to be serving the Obama for America Campaign as the National Coordinator for Muslim American Affairs. I’m also coordinating Arab American matters….

In order to get Senator Obama elected, the Campaign needs all of you to continue your support and if possible to take it to another level…. We need Muslim Americans to get excited about the Campaign, and there’s a lot to get excited about!

Sure, there have been mis-steps. And of course there are added sensitivities with our faith given the “smear” campaign trying to paint the Senator as too exotic and too un-American to be President.

If you have not plugged into the Campaign, please do. The Campaign makes it very easy to do….

Please feel free to contact me with ideas, critiques and suggestions for improvements on our outreach strategies. (Please keep in mind that I?ve just signed on ).

Shortly after that intro this from the campaign:

“Mr. Asbahi has informed the campaign that he no longer wishes to serve in his volunteer position, and we are in the process of searching for a new national Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator,” spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.

The Obama-Rama.

More questionable Obama hire.

Cliff Kincaid Writes:

The influential Associated Press (AP) wire service has belatedly run a story about Barack Obama’s Marxist mentor without mentioning the smoking-gun evidence that the mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a Communist Party member. The dishonest (web site) story, which represents damage control for the Obama campaign, was written by AP writer Sudhin Thanawala.

AP is one of the largest news agencies and serves thousands of print and electronic media outlets.

Under the innocuous headline, “Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life,” the story calls Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) when it faithfully echoed the Stalinist line, merely a “left-leaning black journalist and poet” known for “leftist politics” and someone who might be accused by some of having “allegedly anti-American views.”

Davis was not a “journalist” in any real sense of the term. He was a propagandist and racial agitator for the CPUSA. He was also a recruiter for the communist cause.

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Jimmy Carter hasn’t met a terrorist that he doesn’t like. Carter is scheduled to meet Khaled Meshala in Syria in mid-April. Meshala is the exiled leader of Hamas, a Palestinian terror group.

Fox News Reports:

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.

“President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week,” wrote Congileo. “I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time.”

Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The State Department has designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization,” and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, “That’s not something that we could possibly conceive of.”

Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.

“It’s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does,” said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part.”

“I’m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,” said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.

In June 2007 Carter Jimmy Carter called the United States’ policy not to fund Iranian backed terrorist group Hamas, “criminal”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on CNN’s Situation Room that Carter’s comments were “bizarre.”

Jimmy Carter is an embarrassment to the United States. The Middle East Situation can in part be attributed to his disasterous Presidency.

t/b: Hot Air

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