Barry Obama does not like Muslims

Let's hear it for "change" right?

Muslim Barack Obama fans told to hide from television cameras

By Tim Shipman

Last Updated: 7:14PM 18/06/2008

Barack Obama's campaign has been forced to apologize to two Muslim women barred from sitting behind him at a public event.

The two women in headscarves were asked not to sit in view of cameras at a rally in Detroit on Monday, where Al Gore endorsed Mr Obama.

Hebba Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer, told Politico magazine: "I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against.

"The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters."

Miss Aref's friend Ali Koussan, a law student, said that a volunteer "explained to me that because of the political climate and what's going on in the world ... it's not good for her to be seen on TV or associated with Obama."

A second woman was told to take off her headscarf if she wanted to sit in the special seats.

Polls show that around one in eight Americans falsely believe that Mr Obama is Muslim.

Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said: "This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama's commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run.
"We sincerely apologise for the behaviour of these volunteers."

But the incident highlights the degree to which Mr Obama's campaign is concerned with traditional political image making, something his promise to change American politics claims to eschew.

While he grew up and was schooled in Indonesia, a Muslim nation, Mr Obama's campaign has repeatedly denied that he was ever a Muslim.

Until he resigned over the furor surrounding his former's pastor's comments, Mr Obama has worshipped for more than 20 years at the same Chicago church.

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Once a politician knows that no matter what he says or does, he has your vote, your 100 percent loyalty, you will see more and more tomfoolery. You will have to make more and more excuses for his shady business.

Just like his "speech" on Father's Day, his declaration of war against Iran, Obama fans are going to spend the next 5 months making excuses for this dude when he has never done anything to earn your loyalty.

He is a politician.