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Obama (finally!) Reaching Out to American Muslims
By
Omid Safi
After some major bumps along the way, there is finally a very encouraging sign in terms of the relationship between the historic Obama Presidential campaign and the six million strong American Muslim community. The Obama campaign has had a complex relationship with Muslims. Muslims have loved Obama, but for long time the campaign hasn’t seemed…
Why Muslim Americans should find their political home among progressives
By
Shahed Amanullah
Only a few election cycles ago, the trend in the Muslim American community (at least the 2/3rds of it that come from an immigrant background) was to vote Republican. The argument was that the combination of socially conservative personal values and free-market economic views (many immigrants came to the US as entrepreneurs) made Muslims and…
Obama’s Outreach to the Muslim Community
By
Welton Gaddy
First of all, I want to thank BeliefNet for assembling such an outstanding panel for this blog. I am grateful to be included, and I am looking forward to spirited debates in the weeks and months to come. While Senator Obama tours the Middle East this week, his campaign is still making news back home…
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