I went to law school at the U of MN (Class of 1989) with the only Congressman who is openly a Muslim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison At least, that's as far as I know.

With Keith Ellison then, you knew he was a Muslim; he never hid that. And, back in 1989, it sounded like he wanted to be on the US Supreme Court. I guess he had to settle-- so far at least-- on a Congressional seat from MN.

If Obama were a Muslim in hiding his Harvard Law classmates probably would have outed him by now. Kind of hard to hide very much in the pressure cooker of law school. With that many eyes of the shrewd and ambitious on you as just about every Harvard Law student would be, there is not much that you could really hide well. The competition to be on a law journal is also extremely intense. It was at MN and I can imagine just how much work it would take to become an Editor of a Harvard Law journal.

I did not know this man personally but had a live-in girlfriend who was also in the U of MN Class of 1990-- the same as Congressman Ellison-- who mentioned him from time-to-time.