{"id":844,"date":"2008-08-01T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/08\/obama-campaign-appoints-muslim.php"},"modified":"2008-08-01T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:01:12","slug":"obama-campaign-appoints-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/08\/obama-campaign-appoints-muslim","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Appoints Muslim Affairs Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adelle M. Banks
\nReligion News Service<\/strong>
\nWASHINGTON (RNS) Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has appointed a Chicago lawyer as its national coordinator for Muslim affairs.
\nMazen Asbahi represents Muslim and Arab American businesses in his corporate law practice, reported Politico.com.
\nA community blog on the Obama campaign’s Web site announced July 25 that Asbahi will serve as national coordinator of Arab American affairs and be based at the campaign’s Chicago headquarters.
\nThe move was welcomed by the Muslim Public Affairs Council. “The inclusion of a Muslim American voice in the presidential campaign reinforces the principle of pluralism in the electoral process,” the council said, urging Sen. John McCain to take similar steps.
\nIn the Obama campaign announcement of Asbahi’s new assignment, blogger Amanda Scott wrote: “The Obama campaign is working hard to connect with Americans of every faith and ethnicity in an unprecedented grass-roots movement to build an America rooted in compassion and a government that, in the senator’s words, `reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all.”‘
\nRepresentatives of Obama’s campaign did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.
\nCopyright 2008 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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