Obama camp hires Muslim liaison

[DixieBelle]

Obama's campaign has hired  Hiam Nawas as its Muslim liaison, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Nawas, a Jordanian-American who filled a similar role for the campaign of General Wesley Clark in 2004, has a role complicated by the fact that Obama has been forced repeatedly to deny that he is Muslim, a situation which grates on some Muslim-Americans.

Nawas wrote in 2005 that the Bush Administration should take a more nuanced approach to public diplomacy directed at Muslim women.

"We need to recognise that the social structure in the Muslim world is very different from America's," she wrote. "American women need to understand that what is best for them is not necessarily what is best for Muslim women. Advocacy of women’s rights in the Muslim world must show sensitivity to local political realities."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_campaign_hires_Muslim_liaison.html?showall

That last paragraph is a bit unsettling. While I do agree that cultural considerations must be taken into account (Saudi women can't even drive for example) we're talking about basic HUMAN rights. Not being beaten, stoned, or marginialized simply because you're female.

[Chris_]

McCain has had a pro-amnesty, rabid open borders activist from the old Vincinte Fox administration as one of his advisors for about 6 months now.

Okay, so this shows that the other presidential candidate is actively counselling with an enemy of the American people as well.  So?

[Wretched Excess]

we know he isn't a muslim.  he was a member of a crazy christian church for 20 years where the congregants were taught to suspect white people of trying to kill them and to hate their country.

 

[Wretched Excess]

Obama's campaign has hired  Hiam Nawas as its Muslim liaison, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Nawas, a Jordanian-American who filled a similar role for the campaign of General Wesley Clark in 2004, has a role complicated by the fact that Obama has been forced repeatedly to deny that he is Muslim, a situation which grates on some Muslim-Americans.

Nawas wrote in 2005 that the Bush Administration should take a more nuanced approach to public diplomacy directed at Muslim women.

"We need to recognise that the social structure in the Muslim world is very different from America's," she wrote. "American women need to understand that what is best for them is not necessarily what is best for Muslim women. Advocacy of women’s rights in the Muslim world must show sensitivity to local political realities."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_campaign_hires_Muslim_liaison.html?showall

That last paragraph is a bit unsettling. While I do agree that cultural considerations must be taken into account (Saudi women can't even drive for example) we're talking about basic HUMAN rights. Not being beaten, stoned, or marginialized simply because you're female.

 . . . . or forced marriages, or being killed by your own family if you want to end an arranged marriage.

[DixieBelle]

Exactly WE. It's a pretty big gap to say the least.

And I always wonder, where are the NOW minions? Where are likes of Gloria Steinem? The silence is deafening....

[Wretched Excess]

wait a minute.  it just dawned on me.  the muslim/arab vote is huge in michigan, and he pretty much skipped that state in the primaries.

[Chris_]

   
Obama camp hires Muslim liaison

I really don't see this as anything but the Democrat standard of pandering to every group.

[Wretched Excess]

they are at least getting better and quicker about throwing people under the bus.

Obama's Muslim-Outreach Adviser Resigns

The Muslim-outreach coordinator to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has resigned amid questions about his involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups.

Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed volunteer national coordinator for Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, stepped down Monday after an Internet newsletter wrote about his brief stint on the fund's board, which also included a fundamentalist imam.

"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.

A corporate lawyer at the firm of Schiff Hardin LLP, Mr. Asbahi tendered his resignation after he and the Obama campaign received emailed inquiries about his background from The Wall Street Journal. He did not respond to the email or a message left at his law office; the campaign released a letter in which Mr. Asbahi said he did not want to be a distraction.

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[DixieBelle]

Now we know why you need your tires properly inflated. Throwing people under them must be hard on them.