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| Obama urges progress on Muslim ties |
| 2010-11-10 |
[Al Jazeera] Barack B.O.Obama, the US president, has said he is making progress towards ending the mistrust between Mohammedan countries and the United States, but that the effort is incomplete. Obama flew from India to Indonesia, his former boyhood home, on Tuesday for the second leg of his 10-day Asia trip. At a joint news conference with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, Obama said his efforts to improve the relationship between Mohammedans and the West had been "earnest" and "sustained". However, The infamous However... he said the progress was "incomplete" and there was more work to do. Obama also said he did not think "we're going to completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings and mistrust". The president said he wanted to make sure the US is "building bridges and expanding our interactions with Mohammedan countries". He needed TOTUS to say all that boilerplate? During their meeting in Jakarata, the Indonesian capital, Obama and Yudhoyono signed a "comprehensive partnership" that they had agreed to a year ago, including co-operation on economic and security issues. Though religious extremism often dominates the tensions between the Mohammedan world and the West, Obama said the relationship must expand beyond security issues. At the news conference, Obama also criticised Israel's plans to build about 1,300 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem. "This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations," Obama said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 For BHO to criticize Israel in a country that does not recognize Israel was a break from diplomatic tradition (and pretty despicable). For BHO to ignore the persecution of Christians, Hindus, etc. in Islamic lands is pretty much par for the course (W pretty much ignored it also). |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2010-11-10 13:05 |
| #4 "we're going to completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings ..." What Bozo doesn't understand is that it's not the "misunderstandings" that are the problem. It is the understanding that Muslims want to kill or enslave us all, especially the Jews and Hindus. There's no misunderstanding there for anyone that's paying attention despite the obtuseness of the left or tacquiya (sp) on this point. |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-11-10 09:49 |
| #3 I thought Muslims were opposed to ties because they're cross-shaped or something. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-11-10 09:19 |
| #2 At the news conference, Obama also criticised Israel's plans to build about 1,300 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem. If we had a president with true American values, he would have said, "Jihadists, tear down that burqua and stop stoning women". |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-11-10 08:38 |
| #1 At the news conference, Obama also criticised Israel's plans to build about 1,300 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem. Just think what a wonderful world we would have if it wasn't' for the Juice. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-11-10 04:20 |