Is talk of “Arab money” fair game unlike, say, talk of “Jewish money”?

It appears Barack Obama and John McCain have chosen their ‘opposites’.

(Via Orcinus.)

Seems like a thoroughly unpleasant character.

FP Passport looks more closely at the source of allegations against Abashi:

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report employs a fairly loose definition of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates that includes fairly mainstream organizations such as the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Amusingly, recent FP contributors Graham Fuller and Marc Lynch are also described as Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers. As Passport readers know, Lynch has indeed met with senior Brotherhood leaders in Cairo, but they hardly see eye to eye. Fuller’s supposed ties are of the six-degrees-of-Mahdi Akef variety.

I agree with FP Passport’s assessment that the response by Obama is “an indication of how rattled the Obama campaign is by all the Muslim rumors”.

The comments to the FP Passport post, looking at the owners of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report website are also worth following up.