It's getting worse

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 22 August 2010, 12:52

During the 2008 US Presidential elections the right wing ran an vocal whispering campaign claiming that Barack Obama was a Muslim and so un-American and unfit to lead the country. This was particularly pushed by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, some of whose presenters never missed an opportunity to use his middle name 'Hussein' in a loaded manner.

Now it seems that the perception that Obama is Muslim growing. A recent poll has 18% of Americans thinking that Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March.

With the controversy over the proposed Islamic Centre and mosque two blocks away from New York's Ground Zero becoming a major political issue ahead of November's mid-term elections I can only imagine that soon even more people will think Obama is a Muslim.

It defies belief really.