Muslim settlers in America just aren't privileged enough. Too often they get categorized as white so they miss out on some official minority benefits. But that's about to change. Courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama.
The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health research.
Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation — or MENA, as it's called by population scholars — is broader in concept than Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would include anyone from a region of the world stretching from Morocco to Iran, and including Syrian and Coptic Christians, Israeli Jews and other religious minorities.
Except that we know quite well that Jews are not going to be included, one way or another. And considering how effectively Obama has excluded Syrian Christians from his toll of 10,000 Syrian migrants, the odds are good that somehow they won't fit either. This is simply a backdoor for providing Muslims with special privileges through diversity categories.