Obama can heal this rift between the US and Muslims and the world at large

BY Aijaz Zaka Syed

5 June 2008

This amazing man of mixed parentage, exotic roots and a name that rhymes with Osama has gone as far as no African American ever has. Whether he eventually wins the White House or not, Obama is already a winner. He has already made history. He is the first person from a disadvantaged, marginalised minority community to lead one of the two main political parties in the world's most significant democratic exercise.

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