politics & religion

Politics & religion are the two issues one is not to raise at a dinner table. So, good that Colin Powell made the following statement in a Sunday morning television interview, which was generally widely reported. However, the following, regrettably necessary, statement was not covered as widely as it should be:

“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that he is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”