Since our last Obama post remarking on the distance he has maintained from American Muslims, the campaign has appointed a director for Muslim outreach. Except that he resigned yesterday.

Aziz at City of Brass offers some analysis and Shawna at Islam on My Side connects this to profiling by seeing both as a way of playing on people’s fears.

Apologies to our non-US readers for a regional political post. But hey, it looks like the rest of the world wants Obama as president!