Posted on 11/28/2009 11:54:03 PM PST by Dagnabitt
Entrepreneurs from Muslim World Sought for Washington Summit
The 2010 summit follows up on President Obama’s pledge in Cairo to find ways to deepen ties between the U.S. and the Muslim world.By Stephen Kaufman Staff Writer
Washington — Approximately 150 entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities around the world will be invited to a two-day summit in Washington in spring 2010 to meet with their peers and U.S. officials to explore areas of partnership and ways to drive economic and social innovation.
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis Hightower told reporters at Washington’s Foreign Press Center November 23 that the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship is a “direct follow-up” from President Obama's June 4 commitment in Cairo to “identify how we can deepen ties between the business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Muslim communities around the world.”
The 150 delegates can be nominated “by businesses, governments, academic institutions, [and] social entrepreneurship institutions” throughout the world’s Muslim communities and Muslim-majority countries. “Or you can self-nominate,” Hightower said. Non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries are also encouraged to apply.
The Obama administration views the summit as “an unprecedented historical opportunity both to support and highlight the leaders and drivers of economic and social innovation” and to “really craft a new model for a new basis for relationships based on mutual respect and partnership around common challenges,” Hightower said.
The goal is to enhance partnerships that would “link capital, business development, [and] market access,” enabling entrepreneurs to build “high-growth and high-impact ventures,” as well as continue to look at ways to sustain the existing U.S. focus on other types of partnership programs.
Hightower reflected on his career in which he opened businesses in Kuwait, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Istanbul, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and elsewhere in the Middle East region.
The underlying rationale driving his ventures was determined by “what is going to be mutually beneficial” in terms of job creation in those countries along with what would be good for a U.S. company. Both benefits, he said are “equally compelling.”
“The unifying theme of how we are more alike is certainly at the core of why this makes sense now,” Hightower said. At the end of the day, “good business is good business.”
U.S. embassies and consulates in the countries where the delegates will likely be coming from have been told about the summit and will be processing the visas and other paperwork necessary for the 150 participants to come to Washington.
Along with the Department of Commerce and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development will be playing key roles in implementing the summit.
There is a broad and diverse platform from which to get “the best possible range of participation,” Hightower said. “You just never know where the next best or good idea is going to come from.”
More information, including a link to a nomination form that can be submitted online, can be found at the summit’s Web site. The deadline for nominations is November 30.
hunh?
I am listening to Ian (Punit) now on Coast to Coast. I know he’s from MINN, a lib, but I am now shutting him off. For him to say that Hasan was just a “nut” and no proof that Islamofacists had anything to do with his murder, that’s enough for me.
I’m shutting him off.
WE don’t WANT DEEPER TIES... we want OSAMA’s HEAD.. the TOTAL SURRENDER OF ALL terrorist groups..
THEN if theY LEAVE US THE EFF ALONE... then we can talk about TIES..
MULLAH OBAMA... UP YOURS
didn’t say that right. should have been his “murdering rampage”.
Ditto’s, machogirl... He just lost me too!!!
MULLAH OBAMA strikes again...
This sounds something like FDR having a “NICE NAZI” COnference...
WTF
One can only take so much. Ian, if an Islamofacist decided to kill you, he wouldn’t care that you are a lib and you support CAIR.
Summit nominations due November 30!
as our American businesses are being destroyed??
I refuse to purchase anything from a muslim-held business. sorry, but I’m still a little sensitive over 9/11 and Ft. Hood.
I’d like to supply bacon to the Summit.
Moslems don’t even need to pay — they’ve just gotta savor the bacon....
And go to hell.
How about Muzzammil Hassan? He might be available.
Our culture is evil and it must be destroyed, see?
King George had nothing on our President.
Yet, even with all that has happened, Americans remain virtually silent. They seem to be cowards, or consider themselves ‘above’ a fight.
What to think of these millions of spoiled, apathetic do-nothings? They are the heirs to the pinnacle of human greatness yet they wallow like so many fattened pigs waiting for slaughter.
against my better judgment, i left ian on. i just heard ian trash WND, which sometimes IMHO, WND touts it’s horn too much, but as an example that ian used about WND (he was discussing that the author might be tainted by WND association) was that WND in promoting the author’s appearance tonight on C2C am, WND said that ian was a “guest host”.
well that certainly makes me not want to believe the author. what a dumb comment.
i guess it’s back to shutting ian off.
**I’m still a little sensitive over 9/11 and Ft. Hood.**
We let them LIVE... this Business BRAVO SIERA is too much.
MULLAH OBAMA .... got a nice ham and Bacon Sandwich for you!!
The Jizya must be paid.
the book DOES have me Interested... pity... this could be a great forum for it .. but punnett destroyed it.
i have got to just shut it off. i couldn’t believe what ian just said.
previously he decried the lack of proof that islamic leaders pushed hasan to do what he did. just now ian linked abortion providers addresses linked, to the murder of the abortion doctor. the guest asked, well was that done by a leader of the anti-abortion group? and ian responds, well whomever you think is your leader is your leader. completely contradicts his protection of CAIR, the Mosque leaders, the Islamofacists. Hasan was a disciple of an Islamofacist. How much more proof does ian need?
He ought to look at what is happening with his own state for God’s sake.
It’s okay, per Ian to have an Al queda book in the library.
Wonder if ian would think it would be okay to have workplaces shut down so Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. could pray 5 times a day. Me thinks not.
We don’t need to protect Islamofacists. It wasn’t Christians who flew those planes into the towers. We need protection from Islamofacists.
Ian would do well to look at the “what happens to a country when the % of islam is a specific amount”.
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