Obama and Muslims

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I am behind schedule by two days - time to play catch up.

Obama Muslim Coordinator Resigns - Aug. 2008

Barack Obama's national Muslim outreach coordinator has resigned amid a controversy of over his connections to a man who the Justice Department named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers.

Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer who had been appointed to help Obama reach out to Muslims, stepped down on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported late last night.

Jamal Said is the unindicted co-conspirator in question - who is he?
Obama's Muslim adviser a victim of Holy Land Foundation fallout

• member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee
• on the board (w/ Asbahi) of the North American Islamist Trust - part of the Holy Land Foundation group
• imam at controversial fundamentalist Bridgeview Mosque near Chicago - Muhammad Salah was a former leader that gave the tip that they were linked to the Holy Land Foundation

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Obama Administration Lifts US Ban on Muslim Brotherhood Leader - Jan. 2010

The Barack Obama administration has decided to lift a ban preventing Muslim Scholar Professor Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States. Ramadan, an Egyptian currently living in Switzerland, is a leading member of Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood branch and the grandson of the movement’s founder Hassan al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization for Hamas and some of the groups that recently merged into al-Qaeda, including Ayman al Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad.