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Muslim American leaders, in private meeting, tell Biden he needs to show more empathy toward Palestinians
CNN ^ | Fri October 27, 2023 | Kevin Liptak and Khalil Abdallah

Posted on 10/28/2023 3:03:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Muslim-American leaders told President Joe Biden in a small private meeting Thursday he and his administration needed to show more empathy toward Palestinian lives and pushed back on his comment this week casting doubt on civilian death figures in Gaza provided by the health ministry there, according to two of the attendees.

The meeting, described as frank and productive, also included calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. It came amid frustrations in the community over the White House’s handling of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The president was receptive to the group’s concerns and sought to clarify his comment about the death toll, saying that he was trying to draw a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian people, according to the attendees who spoke to CNN. Attendees left believing their message was taken to heart.

Since the conflict began earlier this month, Biden and his administration have faced harsh criticism from Muslim-Americans for how they have handled the crisis in the Middle East, including accusations of demonstrating less empathy for Palestinians than for Israelis. Some groups, many of whom led door-to-door voting campaigns for Biden in 2020, have warned the approach could become a political liability for the president as he seeks reelection.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Hamas; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bombsaway; fjb; palestinkians; war
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1 posted on 10/28/2023 3:03:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No we dont!


2 posted on 10/28/2023 3:04:49 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did they threaten to cut off his head?


3 posted on 10/28/2023 3:05:03 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Uh, 🖕!

🙏🇮🇱👍


4 posted on 10/28/2023 3:08:52 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: NWFree

5 posted on 10/28/2023 3:09:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Islam is the problem!

There is no “god” allah, just satan and his pedophile “prophet” muhammed.

“muslim leaders” work for their father the devil, who came only to steal, to kill, to destroy, and to LIE.


6 posted on 10/28/2023 3:10:20 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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There should be no muslim Americans


7 posted on 10/28/2023 3:19:07 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

One word says it all.


8 posted on 10/28/2023 3:37:28 PM PDT by Freeper (My authority? I can read & words have meaning!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

George W. Bush’s “Islam is peace” speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. six days after 9/11 was willful ignorance (or worse), after 1,400 years of jihad warfare..

As Americans still searched the smoking ruins for the remains of their loved ones, Bush surrendered to Dawa, as if the 9/11 attacks had been perpetrated by Americans targeting moslems.

Grover Norquist’s ties to Islamic supremacists and Jihadists have been known for years .. Norquist arranged for an incurious president George W. to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 ..

What should have been the most important teaching moment of the long war became a propaganda tool for Islam. A singular opportunity was squandered.

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9 posted on 10/28/2023 3:38:18 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Even if it was BS, that was the right approach by Dubya. “Religion is peace”.


10 posted on 10/28/2023 3:40:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Biden can not avoid inserting his foot into his mouth often.


11 posted on 10/28/2023 3:58:22 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: MinorityRepublican
 
 
Oh BS. Genocidal maniacs have to have all the war beaten out of them. They've got the Jap & German treatment from 80 years ago coming to them.
 
They put forth no effort to remove the monsters from among them. So now they get the same kind of ass-kicking it took to put an end to all that die-for-the-emperor and sieg heil-ing crap, which with any luck will put a dent into all the current "Death to (fill in the blank)" caca that's been the rage for about the past 4 decades.
 
 

12 posted on 10/28/2023 3:58:39 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not even Pdo Joe spits on corpses


13 posted on 10/28/2023 4:07:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I just remind myself that the muslims started this whole situation. I reckon’ Israel aims to finish it.


14 posted on 10/28/2023 4:08:46 PM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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Funny how they didnt show any empathy to the 1400+ Israeli’s they slaughtered, that was fine though


15 posted on 10/28/2023 4:09:56 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess the meeting wasn’t so “private”.


16 posted on 10/28/2023 4:24:46 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: MinorityRepublican

There should be NO such thing as Muslim American leaders.


17 posted on 10/28/2023 4:26:40 PM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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Hug them to death.


18 posted on 10/28/2023 4:38:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Jewish mother and baby burned alive and only bare spot is where she held the baby so tight against her chest. Screw them.


19 posted on 10/28/2023 5:26:24 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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Dubya threw out the first pitch at the World Series last night.
Maybe he should go spend some time with those that practice the “Religion of Piece”. I’m sure they’ll have fond memories of his invading Iraq and Afghanistan…


20 posted on 10/28/2023 5:31:45 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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