What doubt can there be? The design elements are so close and the colors are exactly the same.
Supposedly the redesign started three years ago, even before the Obama campaign.
That may be true, but I’d bet that what they were working on three years ago looked nothing like this. In any case, three years to redesign a logo? Even for a bureaucracy, that’s a stretch. They may have decided to do it three years ago, but I doubt that the design was chosen at that time.
Bambi’s campaign was great at whippping out things like faux Presidential seals and logos, and I have no doubt that his graphic artists were the ones that turned out this monstrosity. And I do think it refers both to Islam and to Obama.