During his presidential campaigns, the “Obama is a secret Muslim” conspiracy theory had become so politically radioactive that two American Muslim women in Michigan were removed from an Obama event in Detroit by his own Democratic campaign volunteers who were worried about the optics of their hijabs during a group photo.

QUESTION: What were the women's names, and did they push back or receive any apology afterward?

XREF: Connects to contemporary debates about performative inclusion vs. genuine representation in political campaigning.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 698