“Show Me Who Your Friends Are” Or “It Takes One To Know One”

Here’s a Nifty introductory photo of Supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas as they burn the flags of Israel and the U.S. during a demonstration at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003.

Yesterday we read about the $28,500 in contributions to the Obama Campaign by two Palestinian members of a large Hamas-supporting refugee compound  who claimed to live in the nonexistant town of Rafah, Georgia. The total later was calculated to be $33,500.
Today the Obama campaign stated that they actually retured that money but “forgot” to report it to the FEC due to a “technical error”.

According to the upstanding and honest  Obama Campaign:

The donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds weren’t reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

The remaining $2,500 was refunded Monday. The refunds will all be reflected shortly in an amended report. New controls to prevent such attempts are now in place, the campaign said.

Well that settles that, more or less, right?

Nope.

Unfortunately for the Obama campaign, the two USA-hating Hamas lovers Palestinians flat out deny that any of the money was returned to them.

The Obama camp insisted the remaining $2,500 was refunded Monday and all of the refunds will be reflected soon in an amended report. The campaign said new controls are in place to prevent any similar attempts in the future.

But WND asked two of the brothers – Monir and Hasam Edwan – to respond to the campaign’s claims.

“No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time,” said Monir Edwan.

It’s hard to tell which side is lying isn’t it? It takes a liar to know a liar. Let em fight it out.

But that’s not all folks!  Since we are on the subject, however indirectly, of Obama’s ties to the types of middle easterners who love to blow people up, shoot women or set them on fire for a diversion–yet another Obama adivisor has resigned.

Chicago lawyer (where else??) Massen Asbahi,  Barack Obama’s Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator,  has resigned as a result of questions about his connections to various dubious Islamist interests in the Middle East (Translation: Funding for terrorists who love to blow Americans and Israelis up).

The Muslim-outreach coordinator to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has resigned amid questions about his involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups.

Asbahi “briefly served on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust [and a subsidiary of the American Islamic Trust]. Its other board members at the time included Jamal Said AKA Sheik Jamal, the imam at the fundamentalist- controlled Bridgeview Mosque in Bridgeview, Ill., outside Chicago],” Simpson and Chozick wrote

Here is his introductory page at mybarackobama.  Get it while it’s hot. I am sure it will be scrubbed soon.  Not that there aren’t screen shots. No matter though. This is just one more in a long line of Middle Eastern “coincidences” associated with the Obama campaign.

UPDATE: It seems that Winston, directly out of Orwell’s 1984, works for Barack Obama. The mybarackobama page has been scrubbed. For those of you who missed what was written there:

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Assalamu-Aleikum. My name is Mazen Asbahi and I’ve been blessed and privileged to be serving the Obama for America Campaign as the National Coordinator for Muslim American Affairs. I’m also coordinating Arab American matters. I’m treating the two roles separately as these are two separate constituencies, though of course there is some overlap.

In order to get Senator Obama elected, the Campaign needs all of you to continue your support and if possible to take it to another level. It’s a race for every vote in the key battleground states, such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio. We need Muslim Americans to get excited about the Campaign, and there’s a lot to get excited about!

Sure, there have been mis-steps. And of course there are added sensitivities with our faith given the “smear” campaign trying to paint the Senator as too exotic and too un-American to be President.

If you have not plugged into the Campaign, please do. The Campaign makes it very easy to do. Visit your local Obama offices and register voters, raise money, get the word out, and pull in your friends and family to also participate.

Please feel free to contact me with ideas, critiques and suggestions for improvements on our outreach strategies. (Please keep in mind that I’ve just signed on ).

Peace,

Mazen Asbahi

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