Jeryl Bier February 5, 2015
Although the White House has declined so far to release the names of the "Muslim leaders" who met with President Obama at the White House Wednesday, according to comedian Dean Obeidallah, he and Farhana Khera, a lawyer and executive director of Muslim Advocates, were two of the fifteen.
Obeidallah, born in New Jersey, the "son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother," according to his website, hosts a SiriusXm radio show and produced a documentary called "The Muslims Are Coming!" to help "foster understanding and dispel misconceptions about Muslims." In an article for the Daily Beast entitled "Muslims Infiltrate the White House! Me Included!", Obeidallah noted "there are certain ground rules to these meetings, so I can’t disclose everything", but that "clearly the No. 1 issue raised [was the] alarming rise in anti-Muslim bigotry in America."
-go to links-Attendees approached the issue from different ways. For example, Khera noted the need to “enact a tougher federal policy that would ban racial and religious profiling by law enforcement.” The reason being it gives others the sense that it’s acceptable to treat Muslim Americans less fairly simply because of their faith.My comments were specific to the Republican elected officials who have made demonizing Muslims an increasingly visible part of their platform.
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