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Muslim Americans Feel Shunned By Obama: A Presidential Nominee Of Inferiority Complex

June 26, 2008

As Senator Barack Obama courted voters in Iowa last December, Representative Keith Ellison, the country's first Muslim congressman, stepped forward eagerly to help.

Ellison believed that Obama's message of unity resonated deeply with American Muslims.

He volunteered to speak on Obama's behalf at a mosque in Cedar Rapids, one of the nation's oldest Muslim enclaves.

But before the rally could take place, aides to Obama asked Ellison to cancel the trip because it might stir controversy.

Another aide appeared at Ellison's Washington office to explain.

"I will never forget the quote," Ellison said, leaning forward in his chair as he recalled the aide's words.

"He said, 'We have a very tightly wrapped message.'"

When Obama began his presidential campaign, Muslim Americans from California to Virginia responded with enthusiasm, seeing him as a long -awaited champion of civil liberties, religious tolerance and diplomacy in foreign affairs. But more than a year later, many say, he has not returned their embrace.

While the senator has visited churches and synagogues, he has yet to appear at a single mosque.

Muslim and Arab-American organizations have tried repeatedly to arrange meetings with Obama, but officials with those groups say their invitations - unlike those of their Jewish and Christian counterparts - have been ignored.

Last week, two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Obama at a rally in Detroit.

In interviews, Muslim political and civic leaders said they understood that their support for Obama could be a problem for him at a time when some Americans are deeply suspicious of Muslims.

Yet those leaders nonetheless expressed disappointment and even anger at the distance that Obama has kept from them.

"This is the 'hope campaign,' this is the 'change campaign'," said Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota.

Muslims are frustrated, he added, that "they have not been fully engaged in it."

Ellisson’s comments came hours after an aide to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has said he regrets telling a reporter that a terror attack on the US would be "an advantage".

Charlie Black made the comments to a journalist from Fortune magazine.

McCain has distanced himself from Black's comments, saying he "strenuously disagree" with him.

Meanwhile, Mr McCain's Democratic competitor Barack Obama has announced he will be holding a rally with his former rival Hillary Clinton on Friday.

When asked whether a terror attack on US soil would help McCain's campaign, Black told the magazine: "Certainly it would be a big advantage to him."

In the article, Black also said that the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was an "unfortunate event" that had "helped" McCain's presidential bid.

Obama Suffering From Inferiority Complex - Gaddafi

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's expressed support for Israel stems from his fear that the Mossad would assassinate him, just as it did President John F. Kennedy.

"We suspect he may fear being killed by Israeli agents and meet the same fate as Kennedy when he promised to look into Israel's nuclear program," Gaddafi said.

Gaddafi saw a dark motive behind a recent speech by Obama in support of Israel. "Obama offered $300 billion in aid to Israel and more military support. He avoided talking about Israel's nuclear weapons," he said.

Gaddafi said Obama would have an "inferiority complex."

"We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites," Gaddafi told a rally at a former U.S. military base on the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli.

"This will be a tragedy," Gaddafi said. "We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him."

Gaddafi said Obama should adopt a policy of supporting poor and weak peoples such as the Palestinians and be a friend of what he called free Arab peoples rather than U.S. "agents" in the Arab world who, he said, were hated by their own people.

"We still hope he will be proud of Africa and change America and free America of its past policy, namely with the Arabs," said Gaddafi.

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