Colin Powell on Obama’s “Muslim” faith

Remember this?

I tweeted earlier, asking what’s worse: that some Americans stupidly believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim, or that the word “Muslim”, in and of itself, has become a “smear”?

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Mehdi Hasan

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Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics).