[calcowgirl]

Stand with the muslims cheering in America? It happened even if it is politically unpopular to remind people of it.

Of course, he didn't say that, now did he?

Accurate quote:

"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

“The Audacity of Hope,” 2007, page 261 (paperback version)

He wrote those words in 2007 which I guess, technically, is "following 9/11" as you state. He's talking about the mistreatment of American citizens, specifically immigrants and uses Muslims as an example. You have a problem with that?

[browardchad]

A few points about Obama's statement on 9/11:

• I'd hardly classify "hard stares from neighbors" as "persecution," although, of course, CAIR does. There were very few incidents of actual acts of violence against Arabs or Pakistanis after 9/11.
  
• The overwhelming majority of those detained  were not citizens. Many of them were here illegally, were subsequently deported, or they self-deported.
• The US government never gave any consideration  to "internments" of any ethnic group after 9/11.

These are all rather elementary facts which Obama should be well aware of, since the words you quoted were written at least five years after 9/11 -- but Obama is not really about facts or accuracy, is he?