Wanted: Reformist Muslims In Obama's Campaign

How painful it must be for Irshad Manji not to volunteer herself and instead recommend two other "marginal" Muslims for Obama's vacant Muslim outreach coordinator's post.

She has recommened:

* Zainab Al-Suwaij -- executive director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), which promotes Muslim introspection and personal responsibility. Sound familiar? These are precisely the themes that animate Obama's adult expectations of his African-American community.

and

* Asra Q. Nomani -- journalist and activist for the rights of women in Islam. She was a close colleague of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter slain by militant Islamists in Pakistan. That moment sealed Asra's conviction about the need for religious reform.

You can click on the heading to read her post. Asra Nomani is the same former WSJ reporter I wrote about earlier.