{"id":401,"date":"2008-08-06T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestdatacompany.info\/asgroupinc\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-08-06T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:42:00","slug":"obamas-muslim-affairs-coordinator-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/obamas-muslim-affairs-coordinator-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Muslim affairs coordinator resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_covKWMZsX5w\/SJm4zcOEmVI\/AAAAAAAAABg\/6XnL6vUgSCE\/s1600-h\/Asbahi_Mazen_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_covKWMZsX5w\/SJm4zcOEmVI\/AAAAAAAAABg\/6XnL6vUgSCE\/s200\/Asbahi_Mazen_web.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231415636055595346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted: 08:43 AM ET<br \/>From CNN Political Producer Alexander Marquardt<\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2014 After barely a week on the job, Barack Obama&#8217;s Muslim outreach adviser resigned from the campaign after an old business connection with a fundamentalist Islamic imam surfaced last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago corporate lawyer, stepped down Monday after joining the campaign on July 26 as its national coordinator for Muslim affairs. The Wall Street Journal first reported the resignation on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the campaign, Asbahi wrote, &#8220;I am stepping down from the volunteer role I recently agreed to take on with the Obama campaign as Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator in order to avoid distracting from Barack Obama&#8217;s message of change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the entire article: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/06\/obamas-muslim-affairs-coordinator-resigns\/\" title=\"Click here for the entire article\"> http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/06\/obamas-muslim-affairs-coordinator-resigns\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 08:43 AM ETFrom CNN Political Producer Alexander Marquardt (CNN) \u2014 After barely a week on the job, Barack Obama&#8217;s Muslim outreach adviser resigned from the campaign after an old business connection with a fundamentalist Islamic imam surfaced last week. 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