Muslim woman: Scarf kept her from Obama

Now you've probably figured it out by now I'm a Barack Obama supporter and I been down with his candidacy for the president since he announced but the story of his staff removing a Muslim woman from sitting behind the podium in which he was going to be speaking in fear of what some racist will think is really unsettling to me. The full story is from MSNBC:

A young Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama — and in front of TV cameras — at a Detroit rally because they wear head scarfs.

Hebba Aref said Wednesday that she and Shimaa Abdelfadeel were among 20,000 supporters who gathered to see Obama on Monday at the Joe Louis Arena when the groups they were with were separately invited by Obama campaign volunteers to sit behind the podium. But Aref said the volunteers told members of both parties in separate discussions that women wearing hijabs, the traditional Muslim head scarves, weren't included in the invitation and couldn't sit behind the podium.

Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer, said a member of her group was told by a volunteer that she could not invite Aref because of "a sensitive political climate."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton issued a statement saying such actions are "not the policy of the campaign."

"It is offensive and counter to Obama's commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run. We sincerely apologize for this behavior," the statement read.

Now I understand Barack Obama has got tread lightly during this campaign, I understand that there are rumors he been having to deal with but sooner or later you got to stop fearing the ignorant racist people and what they think and stand up for the people that truly support you.