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President to Renew Muslim Outreach
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 10, 2011 | Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee

Posted on 05/10/2011 8:19:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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 Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S.

Mr. Obama is preparing to deliver that message in a wide-ranging speech, perhaps as early as next week, these officials say. The president intends to argue that bin Laden's death, paired with popular uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, signal that the time has come to an end when al Qaeda could claim to speak for Muslim aspirations.

"It's an interesting coincidence of timing—that he is killed at the same time that you have a model emerging in the region of change that is completely the opposite of bin Laden's model," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser at the White House, said in an interview......

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TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: islam; obama; osama; wot
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Between his brackets, golf, Wagyu steaks, vacations and Muslims, it's no wonder real unemployment is 16% and gas is over $4 a gallon.
1 posted on 05/10/2011 8:19:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I can see the next NewsWEAK headline: “We are all Muslims Now”.


2 posted on 05/10/2011 8:25:06 PM PDT by tunedin
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well—didn’t he say something like when the wind blows in the wrong direction he will be found standing with the muslims? Something like that anyway. He is weak man. And he has never put his own country on the front burner.


3 posted on 05/10/2011 8:27:44 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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His man-boy is a FOOL!


4 posted on 05/10/2011 8:29:33 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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snip: “The US will no longer be a Judeo-Christian country but a Christian-Moslem nation. Obama already said it in his inaugural address.”

The “March Newsletter 2011”, in particular....scary stuff. (And, THIS, from a Jew who originally hated Christians, until he realized Christians are Israel’s only friends.)

http://www.vicmord.com/newsletterindex.html


5 posted on 05/10/2011 8:29:39 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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Sorry...

THIS man-boy is a FOOL!


6 posted on 05/10/2011 8:30:14 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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And I can see Congress, SCOTUS and Chiefs of Staff all rise and applaud as they did at the 2002 State of the Union address.

And all will chime in union that Islam is a religion of peace.


9 posted on 05/10/2011 8:38:24 PM PDT by 353FMG (The M1911 is mightier than the sword.)
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The president intends to argue that bin Laden's death, paired with popular uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, signal that the time has come to an end when al Qaeda could claim to speak for Muslim aspirations.

What an ignoramus. The uprisings in the Middle East have several causes and no one knows which is the most prevalent and which groups and causes will eventually prevail. Whether it's al Qaeda, or the Muslim Brotherhood, or just a majority of Koran believing Muslims, I doubt many in the US will be pleased with the message that is eventually sent to the US and the world, whoever is speaking for "Muslim aspirations".

10 posted on 05/10/2011 8:45:41 PM PDT by Will88
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Is he going to apologize for the go-it-alone cowboy diplomacy of the past?


12 posted on 05/10/2011 8:51:01 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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This evil, ungodly man has a Muslim death wish for America! Tagline


14 posted on 05/10/2011 8:57:37 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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If Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Muammar Gaddafi, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all to gather for a pot and beer party, and at their most hysterical moments tried to envision the “perfect” American President from their point of view...

...they would not be able to come up with anyone worse than Obama.


15 posted on 05/10/2011 9:00:30 PM PDT by Ronin ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" -- Bertrand de Jouve)
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Following up on the dead cat bounce on wet cement....

our dear reader readies a lead balloon.

16 posted on 05/10/2011 9:06:54 PM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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What?!?!

He’s getting knee pads?


17 posted on 05/10/2011 9:16:41 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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The guy worries more about Muslims than he does Americans.

What this bum really needs is America outreach. Never going to happen though. He doesn’t like Americans.


18 posted on 05/10/2011 9:30:43 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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Musilm outreach...uh-huh....is that code speak for destroy Israel?


19 posted on 05/10/2011 9:49:55 PM PDT by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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