Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, had this to say on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday:

I'm also troubled by—not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said—such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He's a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

Powell also mentioned Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, a specialist in the US Army who was killed in Iraq at the age of 20. He was 14 when the September 11^th attacks occurred. He was an American, born in New Jersey, and he died fighting for his country. Is there something wrong with the fact that he happened to be a Muslim? What's wrong with this country?