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Muslim Americans never really made any serious impact or wave in the American politics landscape, even before the tragedy of 9/11, they have been inactive unorganized and frantic to be heard by the political elites; the dominant both party just don’t give us any respect and through all these years we have becoming politically homeless. We don’t usually get into the slicing and dicing of political pundit’s analysis of blue and red states business. In this presidential race the head of the elephant party never forgot the mediaeval crusade with Muslims and in his race and made jihad against Islam his main camping platform issue, as it was reported in Salon the online magazine by Juan Cole ” The American public, worried about mortgages, recession and a seemingly interminable war in Iraq, was … the remaining front-runners, John McCain and has said bigoted things about Muslims and their religion”. The head of the Donkey party never really understood how Muslims Americans vote and never pays attention to thenm, Obama the progressive one, the agent of change runs on the fact that he is not just a black, but most importunely he is not a Muslim, as if this is good enough to convince the Islam-phobic Christians Americans to vote for him, even if his Christian pastor hates America. He gets out of his way and desperately salivating to get the Jewish vote and avoid the AIPAC political wrath; vomiting the same tired old rhetoric of the unconditional support to the Jewish state, and promise to do he all he can in keeping Jerusalem undivided and the capital of the Jewish state; demonstrated his artificial knowledge of history and geography. Keith Ellison the first Muslim in congress, a staunch supporter of Obama, was advised by the Obama camping ad to stay invisible, which resulted in cancelling one of his support rally for Obama, it seems too risky, ‘We have a very tightly wrapped message.’ ”, Obama aid explained. Two Muslim women of Obama supporters were barred from standing behind the first Multicultural American presidential candidate in one of his inspiring speech. The community feels betrayed,” said Safiya Ghori, the government relations director in the Washington office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. So what for Muslims to do comes general election in November, and what choices do they have, should they vote for the anger white man; John McCain who seems to despise them and their religion, or for the eloquent calm black man; Obama who ignores them; the running joke in the Muslims Americans community is: your support the candidate that you want him to lose. So I call on all Muslim Americans to eat their pride, we should got used to that by now, throw our support to Obama still, and show up in all his camping, and be visible. Why not, we just need McCain to win in November and clean up the eight years of political blunders by the republicans and their evangelical leader.

Ahmed Tharwat/ Host and Producer of the Arab American TV show BelAhdan

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Ahmed Tharwat
Right before the election, Osama bin Laden showed up again on the Arab Network, Al-Jazeera, like the release of another scary Halloween movie sequel. Whether or not his appearance played a role in the election results remains to be seen. However, certainly watching Osama all these years unleashing outlandish terror threats with such calm and conviction is horrific. But as a Muslim American, what troubles me most is his sense of divine entitlement to speak for all Muslims all around the world, roughly a billion and half. “The United States must stop threatening the security of Muslims if it wants to avoid ‘another Manhattan,”’ he threatened. I often wonder how many Muslims around the globe are actually inspired by this skinny guy with the funny name. Considering Bush’s crusade of the so called “War on Terrorism”, and his Biblical alliance with Sharon, I’m sure that there are properly a quite a few. As a Muslim American myself, however, I’m inspired by another skinny guy with a funny name who has taken a different road to change America, the son of an African immigrant who was inspired by the generosity of the American dream and, in spite of the last Republican onslaught, was elected a Senator from Illinois. Mr. Barack Obama, is the upcoming Democratic star who single-handily energized millions of Americans of all political convictions during the Democratic Convention. He spook of confident, inclusive, progressive, enlighten America. However, with the outcome of this election; the majority of the American people chose a different America, a fearful America; hateful, evangelical, regressive, and isolated. As Muslim Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Kerry (according to the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 80% voted for Kerry), we have a special obligation to help this country to get ready of its insecurity complex and before starting a mass exodus to Canada asking for asylum, as the whole country is quickly tilting to the abyss of the red right, we need to stay the course, we need to work with the millions of progressive Americans who voted to rid the country of its fear, its hate, its religious fanatic and its political juvenile delinquency. In other words, we need to take the road of Mr. Obama, the road of political activism with the same zeal as a pilgrimages path to Mecca would inspire. As we tried to weed out the Neo-Cons religious extremists and their ideology of “good and evil” from the White House, we also need to use the same vigor to weed out radical hate addicts , from our community, our coffee shops, schools, our mosques, we need to weed out benladinisim from our public and private debate. As Muslim Americans, we need to be inspired by another skinny guy with a funny name… Obama instead of Osama.Ahmed 11/3/04
Producer/Host of the Arab American TV Show BelahdanMinnetonka, MN
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