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"I&amp;#x27;ll admit it. It makes me very happy to see Obama win, mainly because I do consider him to be, if not my Muslim brother, a member of the wider Muslim community. Yes, I do know that he is not a Muslim. (Obama went out of his way a few times to point this out.) But his father was Muslim, and, even if his father was non-practicing or atheist, he was still, to me, culturally and by tradition, a Muslim. I would consider someone like Obama, born to a Muslim parent, to be of Muslim heritage (and I don&amp;#x27;t mean to imply a &amp;quot;terrorist&amp;quot; heritage, but simply the partly-cultural, partly-genetic blessings of being of Muslim background). I take a great deal of pride in what is known in Islam as the umma, or the community of Muslims. To me, you don&amp;#x27;t have to be practicing Islam regularly to be my Muslim brother. Obama&amp;#x27;s Muslim heritage makes me feel like a member of my extended religious community is going to be in the White House.The vehemence with which Obama denied being Muslim bothered me often, but I understood that he needed to flat out deny any Muslim inclinations, even heritage, minus any mitigating statements, to preserve the votes of those who may not be as open-minded as many of his supporters. But now that he&amp;#x27;s won, and with a clear mandate, I think he can scoff at that criticism and do what I know must be in his heart. He can embrace those parts of his identity that he couldn&amp;#x27;t before. I&amp;#x27;m not saying he has to declare that he really is a Muslim (and certainly, he is not). I am just hoping that since the stigma of being Muslim, as it turns out, doesn&amp;#x27;t have as much of a bite as we thought it would, I think he can now go visit a mosque! I would like to personally invite Obama to visit the Colorado mosque I go to, which is frequented largely by African immigrants. Those immigrants were no doubt thrilled by his victory and played a role in his win in this swing state. I would like to see our new, talented president-elect turn a smear into a beauty mark! What are you hoping our new president will do?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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