Fight the smears
The Obama campaign has a website called FightTheSmears.com, on which they give the truth about various smears that have been going around. The lead story currently is the non-existent “whitey” tape.
Posted by Garrett on June 18th, 2008 in Election 2008 | 3 Comments
Senator Obama is NOT a Dirty Muslim!
“What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge,” says Mr. Obama, while denouncing statements of him being a Muslim as a smear. Why is the presidential candidate who claims to be religiously inclusive is treating the word “Muslim” as an insult? Apparently, it is OK for Mr. Obama to be associated with terrorists like William Ayers or racists like Jeremiah Wright, but God forbid somebody would call him a Muslim! No, he won’t stand for that kind of smear! We admit that most terrorists are Muslims, but most Muslims are not terrorists and the statement on Mr. Obama’s website is insulting to hundreds of millions of people.
How could a man who discards his family heritage in favor of political expediency be even considered for presidency of the United States? Where are all the so-called “Islamic civil rights groups” like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, etc. who are quick to defend every Islamic terrorist, but are silent when Muslims in general are being denigrated? Would Mr. Obama have the same reaction if someone claimed that he was raised as a Jew? We sincerely doubt that.
Muslims Against Sharia demand immediate removal of “SMEAR: Barack Obama is a Muslim” statement from the official Barack Obama’s website as well as an apology for giving the word “Muslim” a negative connotation.
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/06/senator-obama-is-not-dirty-muslim.html
Comment by Muslims Against Sharia — June 20, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
I disagree with your points here, but I understand your view. Unfortunately, in the minds of many Americans, “Muslim” _is_ a smear. Hopefully, once we get a government that doesn’t whip up people’s prejudices to keep themselves in power, we’ll be able to start rebuilding America’s ideal of acceptance.
Comment by Garrett — June 23, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Could also be called “Fight the Truth” because you know as well as I that anything that comes out that’s actually true will also be vigorously denounced there as well.
Comment by John Koziol — June 30, 2008 @ 10:06 pm