Biden Addresses a Gathering of Muslims



When people say Joe Biden is not liberal enough, is too liberal and does not have the energy to pursue the Presidency or conduct the nation's business, I have to smile. Recently he made a gusty move, inviting support from Muslims and condemning discrimination of them. Even Bernie Sanders did not court their vote this aggressively. 

Trump does not have the fortitude to do something like this. He is afraid to step out from the borders of religious and ideological walls built for him buy conservative Christians.

While the Muslim vote is not large, it would be important in some states Trump won but are now competitive or leaning Biden. An interesting one in Michigan.

Detroit has one of the largest percentage of Muslims in U.S. large cities. In the state it represents in some demographic estimates 1.2% Florida, another state needed badly by Trump is at about 1% Muslim. We all know about razor thin election results.

I'm curious about whether Biden will pay any price for courting Muslims. Certainly going back to 9/11 bashing Muslims was thought to be solid gold politics. Apparently Biden does not think this is the case today. I remember the flack I got on this blog years ago when I wrote that bashing all Muslims instead of just Muslim criminals was a mistake. If we want to speculate about the variety of Muslim branches we need only look at the variety of Christian branches.

I wish there were a President, even a President Biden, who would end his speeches with, "May God and Allah bless America and may God and Allah bless you."

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