Sen. Barack Obama’s national outreach Muslim coordinator has resigned amid a controversy over his connections to a man who the Justice Department named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers.

The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, who had been appointed to help Obama reach out to Muslims, resigned on Monday.

According to the Washington Post, “the paper had inquired about his relationship with Jamal Said, who served on a board with Asbahi in 2000 that is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust, which holds titles to mosques, Islamic centers, schools, and other real estate around the country. Said had been named in an investigation of alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial last year, the paper reported.

Obama aides claimed Asbahi had only worked in his volunteer position in the campaign since July 26 and they would appoint a new person to the job.

About two months ago, Obama had apologized to two women who were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers in attempt to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate at a rally in Detroit in June.

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