Women wearing hijab in accordance with the way they practice their faith were discriminated against by the Barack Obama campaign on Monday. The two Muslim women were told that they could not sit near the podium where Obama would be speaking. The campaign does not officially state that women wearing hijab should not be associated in any way, shape or form with Obama but in practice the campaign discriminates against these American Muslim women at, what one assumes to be, the will of Obama himself.

The Islamophobic presidential candidate has recently denied his Muslim background, much like Hitler denied his own family background. Obama has even gone so far as to call his half-brother Malik’s assertion a “smear.“

As I have said in the past, being a Muslim, having an Arabic name, and/or being liked by Muslims is nothing to be ashamed of, and for Barack to call it a smear is insulting to all tolerant, freedom loving Americans. Barack has a thing or two to learn about the ties that bind all Americans together in harmony, the ties that, in fact, make these individual states The United States of America.

From the AFP (NOT the AP)

Obama’s vigorous denials have frustrated some followers of Islam because of the implication that there is something wrong with the religion.

In separate incidents Monday at the rally in Detroit, which boasts one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States, two women were told they could not sit in the section that forms the visual backdrop behind Obama.

“I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change,” Aref told Politico.com.

“The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters,” she said.

A friend accompanying Aref said a campaign volunteer had specifically cited “the political climate” as an explanation.

The other woman, Shimaa Abdelfadeel, said she was told no one with any head coverings, including baseball caps and scarves, could sit behind the stage, and that the rule was not an attack on her religion.

But, as I said above, the campaign seems to pick and choose when they feel religious discrimination is prudent. The article continues:

The Obama campaign insisted that the volunteers had acted on their own initiative without any kind of official approval. It distributed photographs from other events that show the Democrat standing with women in Islamic dress

The fact that these people are volunteers is meaningless, Jim Johnson was also a “volunteer” but that does not negate Obama’s decision to entrust him with vetting potential VPs. Ditto for Obama’s relationship with Revs. Wright and Pfleger, the fact that these men were not official employee’s of the Obama campaign, does not negate the fact that Obama ran to men who see the world through the eyes of racists when he need consolation. (Obama has edited his website, but the internet cache still has the link to Rev. Wright on Obama’s website) Perhaps this explains his discrimination against American citizens of different religions.