From WashPost:
U.S. Outreach to Islamic World Gets Slow Start, Minus Leaders And here's the kicker of a subhead:
Effort Involves No Muslims; Hughes Will Not Arrive Until Fall
And let's throw in a couple of alarming paragraphs: Despite the administration's repeated pledges of outreach, the State Department's main program directed at the Islamic world has no Muslim staff, U.S. officials say. "There's a dearth of Muslims in the State Department generally," a senior State Department official said. Like Powell, who is Egyptian American, most Arabs in the administration are Christians, sources said. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States and is expected to become the second-largest religious bloc here in the next few years, but the government has not tapped into its own community as part of the global outreach, U.S. officials say.
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