June 20, 2008
OBAMA COVER UP COVERED UP
(LBP) Detroit, MI, 20
June 2008, 8:00 AM CT A festering scandal that some are calling
"Hijab-gate" threatens to burst and reveal one of the darkest fears that
continues to haunt Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency.
Volunteer workers for the Democratic presumptive candidate
denied seating to two women wearing "Islamic head scarves," or hijabs,
at the Obama-Gore rally in Detroit this past Monday. The women were
not excluded from the crowd attending the rally, but they were denied
seating directly behind the candidate which would have put them within
camera shot of Obama. The presumed concern was that video tape and
photographs of "Muslim-looking" supporters with the candidate would further
fuel rumors that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
What
the mainstream media has failed to report is that it was the women's
Abercrombie & Fitch shirts ― and not their hijabs ―
that worried the campaign workers. It was during an April 22nd
Obama speech that three men sporting tee-shirts with the Abercrombie & Fitch
logo managed to position themselves directly behind Sen. Obama, thus
securing a free advertisement for the clothier, and causing considerable
embarrassment to the candidate. Speaking on condition of
confidentiality, one highly placed campaign official said: "Those shirts are
just too commercial and too WASPish and too homoerotic for us. What?
Islamic head scarves? Really? I hadn't noticed."
Keeping up the hijab cover,
Sen. Obama called the two women involved Thursday and apologized for the
seating incident. Reportedly, both women continue to support Barack
Obama, but both continue to wear tee-shirts from Abercrombie & Fitch.
