Obama Disses Michigan Muslims?

Why is Obama so scared of American Muslims? Is he embarrassed of them? His people removed all images of Muslims from his web site and they physically remove them from photo ops. Most American Muslims are patriotic and this blatant snub of them may backfire on the Messiah Obama….mpress

bloomberg–The New Yorker cartoon  intended as satire, is a reminder of the dangers of any association with Muslims for Obama, who has fought false rumors that his middle name, Hussein, indicates he was born into the Islamic faith. 

Muslim- and Arab-Americans represent 4 percent of the vote in Michigan, a battleground in this year’s election. Yet Obama, who has held 13 events in the state during the presidential campaign, hasn’t visited a mosque or met with Muslim leaders.

Bill Ballenger, editor of the nonpartisan newsletter Inside Michigan Politics, said Obama, 46, has to strike a delicate balance. The Illinois senator “doesn’t have to pander” to such voters, who are likely to back him anyway, though he can ill- afford to “dismiss them in an arrogant fashion.”

While Obama is leading in Michigan polls, some politicians said it would be a mistake for him not to actively court the state’s Muslim voters, who went for Democrat John Kerry four years ago and Republican George W. Bush in 2000.

`Peril’ for Democrats

The Democrats “do this at their own peril,” said David Bonior, a former Michigan congressman who is advising Obama.

Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News in Dearborn, complained that Obama’s arms-length approach demonstrates that he views Muslims as “a liability.”