WHAT IS THE OBAMA AND KEVIN BACON GAME OF PERSECUTING MUSLIMS?”
Obama and the Kevin Bacon Game of Persecuting Muslims RSS stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust mixx.com Share this on Facebook Posted August 18, 2008 | 11:42 AM (EST) The Obama Campaign, at it’s best, has not been about Obama. It’s been about a mass movement, a coming together of longtime activists and newcomers, who have dared to restore hope to politics, to dream that there is a place in the arena of politics for the good. That’s what makes the character assassination and subsequent resignation of Mazen Asbahi from the Obama Campaign so hard to take, so bitter. The lamentation has been heard from many of the leading voices in both the Muslim and the Arab community. (See here, here, here.) As it had been reported on this blog, Asbahi had been appointed by the Obama campaign as the designated contact with both the Arab and the Muslim populations, two distinct yet overlapping communities who have bore the brunt of post-9/11 xenophobia. I