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Open Letter To President Obama From A Muslim Family

Kari Ansari | Posted 07.19.2011

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Kari Ansari

While I appreciate your encouraging statements to the people of the Muslim world, I couldn't help feeling that many Americans are not setting the example of which you spoke when it comes to our own Muslim citizens.

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Obama To Renew Muslim Outreach

The Wall Street Journal | Jay Solomon & Carol E. Lee | Posted 07.11.2011

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President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Mid...

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Deconstructing The Latest Anti-Obama Conspiracy

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the past few years, paranoid conservatives have cooked up all sorts of conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama. Some have claimed he has a...

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Obama A Muslim! Lincoln A Catholic! FDR A Jew! Why Americans Don't Like Their President's God

Bruce Feiler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Feiler

Americans taking out their discrimination toward minority religions on the president of the United States is as American as apple pie; the custom has been going on as long as there has been a presidency.

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World's Muslims 'Increasingly Disenchanted' With Obama, Poll Finds

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama Defends Ground Zero Mosque Plans In Ramadan Dinner Speech

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles d...

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Obama Muslim Entrepreneurship Summit: President Seeks To Deepen Economic Ties To Muslim World

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Making good on a promise he made to the Muslim world last year, President Barack Obama will host an entrepreneurship summit next we...

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Sam Stein

Fox News To Gibbs: Does Birtherism Complicate Obama's Muslim Outreach?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down to watch video of Gibbs' exchange with Fox News correspondent Wendell Goler. In between a wave of questions about the president's plans f...

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Obama Administration Takes Low-Profile Approach To Engaging Muslim Community

The New York Times | Andrea Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

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When President Obama took the stage in Cairo last June, promising a new relationship with the Islamic world, Muslims in America wondered only half-jok...

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Sam Stein

Flotilla Response Won't Hurt Obama's Standing In Muslim World, Says Gibbs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed on Tuesday that the administration's response to the deadly raid of a pro-Palestinian relief ship by Israe...

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Obama's Global Popularity: More Challenges Ahead

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wajahat Ali

Citizens worldwide need to look at Obama from a new perspective in which he does not wear a halo. Obama has delivered legislative success and our expectations of him should be grounded.

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Obama Ramadan Message: "May God's Peace Be Upon You" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama wished a blessed Ramadan to Muslims in and outside of the United States in a web video on Friday. He made particular notice of those f...

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Meet the Muslims: Obama in Cairo

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wajahat Ali

Obama's speech, which was meticulously and strategically crafted as if penned by a chess master, had to simultaneously appease millions humiliated and dejected by a hypocritical and brutal U.S. foreign policy, and also justify U.S. objectives without appearing imperialistic or apologetic.

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Jack Shaheen: Obama Delivers a Message of Peace to the Muslim World

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Holocaust" And The Road To Peace

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Feldman

Listening to Obama's Cairo speech has made me wonder: has the "Holocaust"-- while essential to remember and to honor -- become a hurdle on the road to peace rather than a signpost?

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Obama Middle East Trip: Muslims Want Tangible Change

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO, Egypt — Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq _ that's what Musli...

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Obama Egypt Speech: Will Obama The Man Keep Up With Obama The Legend?

Huffington Post Contributors | Ayman Nour and Wael Nawara | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Huffington Post contributors Ayman Nour and Wael Nawara. Ayman Nour is Leader of El Ghad Liberal Party of Egypt and former member of the Parliame...

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Obama in Egypt: Talking to the Muslim World

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wajahat Ali

The US seems more committed to supporting reliable despots who toe the line than to dealing with democratic parties representative of the people's desires and values.

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Obama Charms Many Muslims, Arabs During First Venture Into Islamic World

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — The Middle East is finding, to its amazement, that it may actually like America's new leader. Barack Obama has impressed many Arabs and ...

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Obama Still Planning Major Speech In Islamic Capital

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In its report on President Obama's trip to Turkey, the New York Times notes that the speech in Ankara was not the major speech in an Islamic capital h...

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Arthur Delaney

Obama: U.S. "Not A Christian Nation Or A Jewish Nation Or A Muslim Nation" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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At a press conference in Turkey, President Obama casually rebuked the old chestnut that the United States is a Judeo-Christian nation. "One of the gr...

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Obama Extends a Hand of Friendship to Islam

Kamran Pasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kamran Pasha

As I listened to Obama's speech, I heard one word repeated countless times. Respect. It is a word that Muslims have craved to hear from American leaders.

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Muslims Call For More Inclusion In Obama's Administration

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The American Muslim Taskforce for Civil Rights and Elections called on President-elect Barack Obama for greater Muslim outreach during his administrat...

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Obama Reveals Plans To Reach Out To Muslim World

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration ...

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Obama Campaign Hires Muslim Liaison

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's campaign has hired Hiam Nawas as its Muslim liaison, according to two sources familiar with the move. Nawas, a Jordanian-American who filled...

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