Talk about a silly question
Wednesday, 21st May 2008
Jonathan Martin posts up a newspaper ad from the Republican Jewish Coalition which asks a series of questions about Obama’s position on the Middle East. The first one is spectacularly dumb:
To which the obvious answer is, because Israel is not a Muslim country. Now, you can make an argument about whether it is right to segregate countries by religion like this—does secular Turkey qualify as a Muslim state or what about India which has the world’s second largest Muslim population yet is a Hindu-majority country—but complaining about Israel not being invited to a summit for Muslim nations is ridiculous.“In an interview, you called for a summit of Muslim nations, including Iran and Syria, but excluding Israel. Why?”