Does Obama view his Arab and Muslim support as a "liability" ?
Wed Jul 16, 12:01 AM ET
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine may explain why Barack Obama isn't reaching out to Michigan's Muslims.
Muslim- and Arab-Americans represent 4 percent of the vote in Michigan, a battleground in this year's election. Yet Obama, who has held 13 events in the state during the presidential campaign, hasn't visited a mosque or met with Muslim leaders
Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News in Dearborn, complained that Obama's arms-length approach demonstrates that he views Muslims as ``a liability.''
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