Muslim Americans Looking for More Help from Obama

by Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post
May 19, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1726/muslim-americans-looking-for-more-help-from-obama

Excerpt:

Insiders say the Obama Administration's honeymoon with the Muslim-American community will eventually expire.

Polling data isn't clear but civic groups and experts say the vast majority of Muslim- Americans voted for Obama, as many were fed up with the Republican Party's handling of civil liberties cases and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other issues. But they want to see results, both in terms of issues Muslim-Americans care about (domestically and overseas) but also giving them more access to the White House - a place largely shut to Muslims during the Bush years, they say.

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