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| Obama tells Turkey: U.S. 'not at war with Islam' |
| 2009-04-06 |
| ANKARA, Turkey - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States "is not at war with Islam" and called for a greater partnership with the Islamic world. Addressing the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in many areas, including the fight against terrorism. He devoted much of his speech to urging a greater bond between Americans and Muslims, portraying terrorist groups such as al Qaida as extremists who did not represent the vast majority of Muslims. "Let me say this as clearly as I can," Obama said. "The United States is not at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Fundamentalist Islamists must be snickering. Nice. President of the most powerfull infidel nation in the world just assured them that they are not at war with the theology that demands Muslims harm infidels in the most painfull way, i.e. 9/11/01... |
| Posted by: Pancho Ulusorong6617 2009-04-06 19:51 |
| #6 no mention of Armenian Genocide. Wasn't that one of his campaign promises? |
| Posted by: airandee 2009-04-06 17:46 |
| #5 Obama is off his head, if 71,000,000 Muslims join the EU ( JUST BECAUSE HE THINKS IT IS A COOL IDEA )the shores of my country will be flooded with yet more " Peace Loving Muslims " We have had enough. |
| Posted by: Dave UK 2009-04-06 16:52 |
| #4 Considering that all obama utterances come with a drop-dead date, abu et al better start worryin... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-04-06 16:12 |
| #3 The core strategy in Iraq, the central front in the war on terror, has been, and is, to defend the MUSLIM population from killers. This is being repeated in Afghanistan. Classic counterinsurgency yes, but it does mean fighting a war to PROTECT Muslims. Now THAT'S irony. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2009-04-06 15:29 |
| #2 "The United States is not at war with Islam" Maybe YOU ain't, cookie, but you don't speak for a lot of Americans (and citizens of quite a few other civilized countries, too). |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-06 14:33 |
| #1 In a sense that's true, but Islam's sure at war with Humanity, and that includes US(A). |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-04-06 14:24 |