Nicholas D. Kristof wrote an interesting editorial recently about the "sleaziness of this presidential campaign." His point was that the political campaign was transforming Obama into a Muslim after all, but only because "religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice." Actually, this column by Kristof is really scary, and if it's true that a sizeable part of the country has "otherized" Obama, then there will be lasting ramifications for the dialogue between Christianity and Islam. He concludes by saying that journalists have a responsibility to "blow the whistle" if the campaign is magnifying "the ugliest prejudices that our nation has done so much to overcome."
The underlying statistic (from Pew): Only half of Americans know that Obama is Christian.
