This showed up, in French, on the website of the U.S. embassy in Morocco, but here’s the English original, “Muslim Americans Strive to Help Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti.” The same story appears, in Arabic, on webpages affiliated with the U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

It’s all well-and-good to show the important role that Muslim organizations play in U.S. civil society but, especially given the anti-Americanism in the region, shouldn’t the State Department and regional U.S. embassies instead focus on the importance of all U.S. aid to Haiti, including that donated by Christian, Jewish, non-sectarian, and any other organization, so long as it is American? (Other stories on America.gov do, but not the ones picked up by many of our regional U.S. embassies).

It would be interesting to hear a State Department or embassy explanation about the strategy behind such postings, although I suspect that the embassies are acting autonomously and have no overarching strategy.