He was a Muslim, and an American hero

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was a 20-year-old Stryker soldier based at Fort Lewis. He was killed last August in Baqouba.
Khan was a Muslim. And Powell made a correlation to the decorated Stryker Brigade soldier and Obama in context of negative Republican campaigning somehow insinuating that Obama is a Muslim.


In a moving statement, Gen. Powell posed the rhetorical question to Meet The Press host Tom Brokaw:


"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim. Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, He's a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America."