The resignation of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's Muslim outreach coordinator is triggering a new wave of harrumphing that Muslim Americans are being shut out of the 2008 campaign.
Mazen Asbahi resigned less than two weeks after joining the Obama campaign. It happened after the Wall Street Journal asked about his past involvement with the "Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust. Other fund board members at the time included Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois," the Journal reported.
Charging to cast the move as part of a broader campaign of bigotry against Muslims was Ahmed Rehab, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Chicago executive director. On Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," Rehab dismissed the resignation as a practical political move that reflects bigotry against Muslims:
Source: IPT News
Mazen Asbahi resigned less than two weeks after joining the Obama campaign. It happened after the Wall Street Journal asked about his past involvement with the "Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust. Other fund board members at the time included Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois," the Journal reported.
Charging to cast the move as part of a broader campaign of bigotry against Muslims was Ahmed Rehab, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Chicago executive director. On Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," Rehab dismissed the resignation as a practical political move that reflects bigotry against Muslims:
"I think that Mazen Asbahi is a victim of what I would call the anti-Muslim smear and fear campaign that we have seen in this election cycle time and time again. In this case, like many, the allegations started on a web site that did not corroborate what they are allegating (sic) with any evidence. They stated that he had certain links with fundamentalists, in this case the allegation was against imam Jamal Said, who I know personally to be a great American faith leader and not a radical imam as the Wall Street Journal falsely stated." Read more ...
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