Mazen Asbahi, whom Barack Obama chose to coordinate his Muslim American affairs, resigned from that position just days after being selected for the prestigious (or notorious?) post because of controversial alleged ties to a "mosque in Chicago controlled by a fundamentalist imam".
His childhood friend, Rany Jazayerli, of Baseball Prospectus fame, and a physician, writes passionately on fivethirtyeight.com that "Mazen was forced to resign because of a smear campaign that targeted him for the sin of being Muslim: nothing more, nothing less."
Jazayerli examines the media's coverage of Asbahi's resignation, particularly the Wall Street Journal's "expose" on the subject.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/perspective-on-mazen-asbahi.html
The entire affair is a disgrace.
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