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The Obama campaign is hosting an outreach event for Virginia-area Muslim Americans on Sunday, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.

Brian Moran, the chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, will represent the Obama campaign as a surrogate at an event in Sterling, Va. at a local community center

It's one of the first real outreach events this cycle by the Obama campaign to a community that is largely overlooked - and sometimes demonized - by both sides of the aisle.

There are more than 2 million Muslim-Americans in the United States, most of Arab, South-Asian and African-American decent.

That's less than 1 percent of the US population, but Muslim voters are concentrated in a number of states and major metropolitan areas - including the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.

According to research by Pew, Virginia is among the ten states with the highest number of Muslim Americans - and the only real contested swing state on that list aside from Ohio.

Those pockets of voters - by all indications, likely to vote for Obama - could play a role in a close state like Virginia. President Obama leads among Arab Muslim-Americans in a recent poll by a whopping 75 to 8 percent.

The Obama campaign has always treaded cautiously around the Muslim community - given the false and hysterical rumors that have circulated about Obama's own religious beliefs and background.

Left out, intentionally no doubt, is the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) is a Virginia mosque with a history of terror links:

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