enhanced_deficit
12-16-2015, 07:11 PM
Not confirmed yet but it appears Obama may visit a mosque presumably to take a stand against Trump led discrimination calls.
Regardless of your view about Trump's latest statements, do you think Obama should visit a mosque?
President Bush had visied mosque in 2001 to fight any discrimination towards muslims after 9/11.
Answer in poll.
Muslim leaders want Obama, George Bush to visit a mosque to fight discrimination
By Michelle Boorstein
December 14
The White House held three separate meetings Monday with faith leaders to discuss concerns about rising hostility toward religious minorities, and Muslim leaders pressed for President Obama to do something he hasn’t since taking office: Visit a U.S. mosque. Ideally, they said, the visit would be with former president George W. Bush.
The meetings were typical in a way of the ones top White House officials hold all the time to hear people’s concerns, but the crunch of three in one day, and a related meeting there Thursday, shows increased concern about recent reports of hate incidents against Muslims, and Sikhs who people confuse with Muslims. Terrorism incidents in Paris and California have led, Muslim leaders say, to a sharp rise in discriminatory incidents.
Among the approximately 10 Muslim leaders who came to the White House on Monday to meet with several top officials was Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group. The meeting, she said, was called by the White House. According to a White House official, Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muņoz and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes attended.
Khera said she pressed the White House to consider something Muslim Americans leaders have requested over the years: A visit to a mosque.
“I think it would be enormously comforting and also send powerful message to Americans about recommitting to religious freedom — especially if we had Bush and Obama visit together,” she said. She said her group hadn’t raised the question with Bush, who visited a mosque six days after the Sept. 11 attacks and said “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.”
Separately,Jarrett didn’t rule out the idea of Obama visiting a mosque, but declined to say whether it would happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/14/muslim-leaders-want-obama-george-bush-to-visit-a-mosque-to-fight-discrimination/
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Bush visits mosque, urges tolerance
https://www.michigandaily.com/.../bush-visits-mosqu...
Published September 17, 2001. WASHINGTON (AP)
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/PresidentBushDCMosque.jpg
"Islam is Peace" Says President
Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
3:12 P.M. EDT http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/images/20010917-11-2-m.jpg (http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/images/20010917-11-2.html)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We've just had a -- wide-ranging discussions on the matter at hand. Like the good folks standing with me, the American people were appalled and outraged at last Tuesday's attacks. And so were Muslims all across the world. Both Americans and Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens, and Muslims in nations were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens.
These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that.
The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
Kerry visits historic Djibouti Mosque
http://media.worldbulletin.net/news/2015/05/07/kerry-cibuti-cami.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiy2cym2OHJAhWCNSYKHZx2A18QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldbulletin.net%2Fhaber%2F1 58803%2Fkerry-on-historic-djibouti-visit&bvm=bv.110151844,d.dmo&psig=AFQjCNFEWdT-t5odFLx70ZsxVjMSkQXlOw&ust=1450400295226118)
Regardless of your view about Trump's latest statements, do you think Obama should visit a mosque?
President Bush had visied mosque in 2001 to fight any discrimination towards muslims after 9/11.
Answer in poll.
Muslim leaders want Obama, George Bush to visit a mosque to fight discrimination
By Michelle Boorstein
December 14
The White House held three separate meetings Monday with faith leaders to discuss concerns about rising hostility toward religious minorities, and Muslim leaders pressed for President Obama to do something he hasn’t since taking office: Visit a U.S. mosque. Ideally, they said, the visit would be with former president George W. Bush.
The meetings were typical in a way of the ones top White House officials hold all the time to hear people’s concerns, but the crunch of three in one day, and a related meeting there Thursday, shows increased concern about recent reports of hate incidents against Muslims, and Sikhs who people confuse with Muslims. Terrorism incidents in Paris and California have led, Muslim leaders say, to a sharp rise in discriminatory incidents.
Among the approximately 10 Muslim leaders who came to the White House on Monday to meet with several top officials was Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group. The meeting, she said, was called by the White House. According to a White House official, Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muņoz and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes attended.
Khera said she pressed the White House to consider something Muslim Americans leaders have requested over the years: A visit to a mosque.
“I think it would be enormously comforting and also send powerful message to Americans about recommitting to religious freedom — especially if we had Bush and Obama visit together,” she said. She said her group hadn’t raised the question with Bush, who visited a mosque six days after the Sept. 11 attacks and said “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.”
Separately,Jarrett didn’t rule out the idea of Obama visiting a mosque, but declined to say whether it would happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/14/muslim-leaders-want-obama-george-bush-to-visit-a-mosque-to-fight-discrimination/
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Obama cancelled trip to Sikh temple for fear of looking moslem in photos (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?410133-Obama-cancelled-trip-to-Sikh-temple-for-fear-of-looking-moslem-in-photos&)
Bush visits mosque, urges tolerance
https://www.michigandaily.com/.../bush-visits-mosqu...
Published September 17, 2001. WASHINGTON (AP)
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/PresidentBushDCMosque.jpg
"Islam is Peace" Says President
Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
3:12 P.M. EDT http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/images/20010917-11-2-m.jpg (http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/images/20010917-11-2.html)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We've just had a -- wide-ranging discussions on the matter at hand. Like the good folks standing with me, the American people were appalled and outraged at last Tuesday's attacks. And so were Muslims all across the world. Both Americans and Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens, and Muslims in nations were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens.
These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that.
The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
Kerry visits historic Djibouti Mosque
http://media.worldbulletin.net/news/2015/05/07/kerry-cibuti-cami.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiy2cym2OHJAhWCNSYKHZx2A18QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldbulletin.net%2Fhaber%2F1 58803%2Fkerry-on-historic-djibouti-visit&bvm=bv.110151844,d.dmo&psig=AFQjCNFEWdT-t5odFLx70ZsxVjMSkQXlOw&ust=1450400295226118)