No Offense. Really.
I'm empathetic but not sympathetic to a couple of Muslim women who feel violated and excluded by the Obama campaign. I understand the deep and latent knee-jerk human need to feel incredibly slighted by the slightest slight -- but if you're a Muslim who supports Obama, you're well aware of the image he's battling as either a secret Muslim or a softie on terrorism. Politics is about symbols, these women have chosen a hijab symbol that the majority of Western Muslim women and even most Pakistani women don't employ, and right now Obama doesn't need the sort of symbolism that would make Michelle Malkin go ape-nuts again.
Democrats in recent decades have been too quick to apologize to every offended minority (while being overly eager to offend the culturally conservative majority). They need not apologize here, they need to remind the offense-takers of the larger stakes and issues.
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