Obama the Muslim!

This foolishness of Obama being a secret Muslim, like the hoopla over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” only serves to take perfectly innocuous (yea even noble) ideals of faith and defaming them to the point that the mere mention of the words “Islam,” “Muslim” or “mosque” conjure up anxiety. The real issue is not whether Pres. Obama is a Muslim (which if he were would be perfectly okay) or what the prayer facilities of Park 51 are called, but rather that by making so much of either, anything having to do with Islam becomes disqualified and despised in the public square. This is perilous.