Obama dumped on Christian Arabs while helping Muslims
The latest WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta emails shows the Obama administration kept a list of high-profile Muslims it wanted to appoint to top administration jobs, sub-cabinet jobs and outside boards, agencies and policy committees.
The 2008 emails reveal that it wasn’t enough to be Arab American, you had to be Arab and Muslim to make it onto this list.
“Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian,” notes one email written by Preeta Bansal, who worked on the Obama transition team headed by Podesta, who is now Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager. “In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian).”...