Token Muslim Guy?
MINNEAPOLIS — The State Department is turning to Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, to help burnish the country's image in the Muslim world — despite Ellison's outspoken criticism of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
"I plan to talk to people in the State Department and anywhere I can to help try to improve America's image in the Muslim world, make friends for our country," Ellison, a freshman Minnesota Democrat, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "I want to help win friends for our country and to isolate true enemies."
I'm not really sure what to make of it. Seems like it could be a good thing overall.
Also, those last two CPAC-related articles are still on their way. I just have a lot of school-related work I need to be doing.
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