Obama campaign denies women in Muslim scarves to appear with candidate
POLITICAL REPORT
A young Muslim woman claims she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama and in front of TV cameras at a Michigan rally where Al Gore endorsed the Illinois Senator.
Hebba Aref says she and Shimaa Abdelfadeel were told the could not sit behind the podium where Obama was speaking because they were wearing head scarves.
Aref and Abdelfadeel were two of 20,000 people at the rally, and both were a member of groups invited to appear behind Obama as he spoke. The catch is that those wearing the traditional head scarves were told they were not invited despite the fact that the rest of their group was.
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