Obama's outreach to Muslims should begin at home

by Dawud Walid
Detroit Free Press
April 28, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1640/obamas-outreach-to-muslims-should-begin-at-home

Excerpt:

The Obama administration's efforts to improve America's image with the Muslim world cannot be successful without healthy engagement of the American Muslim community,which includes investigating and curtailing abuses against American Muslims that started under the Bush administration.

Since taking office, President Obama has made several positive steps.The President mentioned in his historic inaugural address the desire to seek a new way forward with the Muslim world "based on mutual interest and mutual respect." His first televised interview in office was with Al-Arabiya, in which he reiterated this aspiration. He sent a heartfelt Nowruz greeting on video to the Iranian government and people, and he just recently made his first trip to a Muslim majority country, Turkey, which was the former seat of the Ottoman Empire.

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