Obama Urges Muslims to Forge Common Cause Against Terrorism
Charleston Gazette › November 10, 2010
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - In the Muslim nation that was his boyhood home, President Obama acknowledged today that U.S. relations are still frayed with the Islamic world despite his best efforts at repair. He urged all sides to look beyond "suspicion and mistrust" to forge common ground against terrorism.
Forcefully returning to a theme he sounded last year in visits to Turkey and Egypt, Obama said: "I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam. ... Those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy."See the full content of this document
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Obama Urges Muslims to Forge Common Cause Against Terrorism
Beaming with pride, Obama delivered perhaps the most intensely personal speech of his presidency, speaking phrases in Indonesian to a cheering crowd of young people who claimed him as their own.
"Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia is part of me," he said in Indonesian during a morning speech at the University of Indonesia.He praised the ...See the full content of this document
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