McCain and Palin are Playing with Fire
Tabsir is outraged at McCain’s referral to Barrak Hussain Obama, as he purposely stressed Obama’s middle name.
Twice last week alone, speakers at McCain-Palin rallies have referred to Sen. Barack Obama, with unveiled scorn, as Barack Hussein Obama.
Never mind that this evokes — and brazenly tries to resurrect — the unsavory, cruel days of our past that we thought we had left behind. Never mind that such jeers are deeply offensive to millions of peaceful, law-abiding Muslim Americans who must bear the unveiled charge, made by some supporters of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, that Obama’s middle name makes him someone to distrust — and, judging by some of the crowd reactions at these rallies, someone to persecute or even kill. As a secular Muslim, I too was offended. Obama’s middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah too? Do McCain and Palin think there’s something wrong with my name?
But never mind any of that.
The real affront is the lack of firm response from either McCain or Palin. Neither has had the moral courage, when taking the stage, to grasp the microphone, turn to the presenter and, right then and there, denounce the use of Obama’s middle name as an insult.
I have to give it to him for putting down the idiocy calling Obama a “decent person”
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It’s not just the McCain-Palin campaign though. I think Obama has had many opportunties to come in the defense of Muslims in response to the accusations of him being Muslim, and he’s never done that.
Obama has not done that.
However, a man who knows what is right and what is wrong is easier to bring to the right path than one that is proud of his/her bigotry.
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