[JesseHousman]

"Muslims are completely wrong to think that the US is engaged in a war against Islam,"

Those aren't Southern Baptists that are ambushing our soldiers.

[BayouCoyote]

SHHhhh!!!

[JesseHousman]

Good evening. Ramadan Kareem. Welcome to the White House. I'm pleased to host all of you, our distinguished guests, during this blessed month of Ramadan. For Muslims in America, and around the world, this holy time is set aside for prayer and fasting. It is also a good time for people of all faiths to reflect on the values we hold common -- love of family, gratitude to God, and a commitment to religious freedom. America is a land of many...

Wonder if the WH metal detectors turned up anything suspicious?

[aristeides]

Was Grover Norquist at the dinner? Can we have a list of the attendees?

[zerosix]

Look at how Muslims started their own "Holy Month of Ramadan": killing infidels.

When, oh when, will everyone who wishes to see the world as they would like to believe it is (Bush Administration) take off their rose colored glasses and admit - Islam is NOT a religion of peace and people who point this out are not Hate Mongers, they are just telling the truth!

[SquirrelKing]

Big deal. If he refused to hose muslim leaders it would only confirm media accusations of war againt Islam. Besides, if Clinton had a Ramadan dinner he would be praised as "America's First Muslim President".

[LurkedLongEnough]

As you know, it's all right for Muslims to lie to "infidels". We can play the same game.

[JustAnAmerican]

Guess he figures since his reelection is pretty well a lock, given the current crop of contenders, he can do what he wants when he wants. Which includes pissing off most of the Conservative base. My hope at this point is that a good "True Conservative" 3rd party candidate pops up(and I don't mean Libertarian), at least then my conscience will be clear. And we can put someone in office who will do something about our Borders,stop kissing up to the Muslims and stop spending taxpayers money like it grows on trees.

[Kerberos]

"America is a land of many faiths and we honor, and welcome and value the Muslim faith,"

Wait a minute, I thought America was a Christian country.

[mewzilla]

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[truthandlife]

Looks like Rove in action again. Bush needs to start leading instead of taking advise from his political advisors.

[MissAmericanPie]

The servants all wore blue surgical gloves during Clinton's homosexual victory dinner at the "White House", lest they contract aids, a victory dinner President and Mrs Clinton were not able to attend, btw.

So I wonder what the servants wore during the Islamic victory idolitry feast at the "People's House"? Burqa's?
Where women allowed to serve the guests? Perhaps they wore body armor, provided by the D.C. bomb squad. Certainly they all had their antrax innoculations.

[NYC GOP Chick]

"Americans think terrorists are evil people who have hijacked a great religion," Bush said, responding to a reporter's question.

Well, no. We think that it's a religion whose fundamentalists find aid and comfort among the so-called mainstream.

In the days after 9/11, I was flipping around the TV channels and came across something on MTV, I think, in which they sent their version of intrepid reporters around Manhattan to interview Muslim and Arab kids (high school and college). Without exception, they were all *far* more upset by the concept of bigotry (not that they experienced any, but were nonetheless still traumatized by the mere thought of it possibly occurring) than by the smoldering people in the pit a couple of miles south of them. Oh sure, *some* expressed some sorrow or even slight anger over the attacks, but it was ALWAYS followed with a qualifier about how "arrogant" and "imperialistic" the evil U.S. is.

These people may think that they're so *wonderful* and high-minded, but the reality is that they provide cover and aid for the very worst among them -- the terrorists.

My point? We (and they) need more outspoken Muslims and Arabs to loudly and frequently offer unqualified condemnation of the extremists and do everything possible to separate from them. Americans have been remarkably tolerant, more so than I thought we'd be in the aftermath of 9/11, but doing what I just suggested would go a loooong way toward proving Bush right.

[Semper Paratus]

Should have had a Ramadan luncheon instead.

[a_Turk]

>> Iftar, the evening feast

That's really a modest dinner..

[hobbes1]

No. They are Wahabbists.......

Holding all Muslims accountable for the acts of a distorted sect is every bit as ignorant as hloding All Pro Life people responsible for Clinic Bombers and murderers.

[a_Turk]

>> Those aren't Southern Baptists that are ambushing our soldiers.

No, they are enemies of freedom and democracy. We fought this battle 80 years ago within our borders. Now the same is being fought over again in the context of globalization.

By misconceptualizing this as a war between Islam and Christendom you will 1) make it unwinnable, and 2) never begin to understand us Turks..

BTW, Turkey is celebrating her 80th anniversary as a secular republic today.

[truthandlife]

"All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith -- face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate." President George W. Bush Holds Roundtable with Arab- and Muslim-American Leaders Afghanistan Embassy, Washington, D.C. September 10, 2002

Hosting a dinner celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, President George W. Bush addresses ambassadors from Islamic nations and other distinguished guests in the State Room. File photo. White House photo by Tina Hager. whole webpage dedicated to Ramadan and Islam on the White House website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/ramadan/index.html

[GraniteStateConservative]

"It is highly likely that Bush himself, a genuinely devout Christian by all accounts, agrees with at least some, perhaps much, of what Boykin said," the Post speculated.

Are they sure this was an editorial? Sounds like straight from the regular news pages. Those reporters have ESP don'tcha know.

[Happy2BMe]

Tue Oct 28, 7:34 PM ET

US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks while Imam Faizul Khan (C) and His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahayan (R), Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister for the United Arab Emirates, listen before the Iftaar Dinner held with ambassadors and Muslim leaders at the White House(AFP/Nicholas Roberts)

What in God's name is going on in Bush's mind? Anybody know?

Yesterday, he announced a special Inspector General investigation is going on against the U.S. 3-Star General who spoke the truth about Islam.

He follows it up with this "special" meeting at the White House.

Is this madness or what?? I am personally getting very, very impatient with this load of carp!

[FITZ]

It was so much easier when we were fighting the Nazis because we weren't so politically correct back then that we had to invite Nazi leaders to the White House and sing praises to them. Of course there were more peaceful, tolerant Nazis just like there might be muslims --- but we didn't have to play games.