As the US city of Philadelphia prepares for its most closely watched political primary in generations one significant part of the population seems to have already picked their man.
Muslim-American community leaders, activists and voters in the city of brotherly love, as Philadelphia is known, say Barack Obama is by far their preferred candidate.
Philadelphia's Muslim community is one of the most significant, in terms of size and in terms of prominence, of all US cities.
There are up to 70,000 people worshipping in 34 mosques in the city alone, leading one local leader to describe Philadelphia as "a Mecca for US Muslims".
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It's time for a reality check for the United States of America. We have problems that wont go away by sticking our heads in the sand. We have racism and sexism which is bigger then most want to believe. Yes we see many Americans who believe in equal rights but the Media let's us know there are just as many who are still prejudice. Hate is hard to destroy in America. We've seen Obama who large numbers of White votes but forget this is a small part of the total group. We've had millions of Americans who didn't vote in the Primaries. Many who went to Obama/Hillary speeches just to watch. It's like knowing your sick but not admitting it as if it will go away. Talking about Bobby Kennedy is a crime because we can't face the fact he was assassinated. Fact Obama was threaten with his life after he won Iowa. Fact Prescott Bush with other GOP Leaders plotted to assassinate FDR and yes the US Government played a part in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Those are facts that wont change no matter how much we push it out of history or even try to forget. It took Fox News reporter Liz Trotta to put it out there as she said she wished Senator Obama was assassinated.
if fundamentalistic islamists, like fundamentalistic christians, aren't like nazis, i don't know who is.
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