- Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:56 pm
#67928
So Obama feels Americans are suspicious of Muslims for no reason and to prove it he's going to visit the Islamic Society Mosque of Baltimore. I'm sure he won't offend the Muslims by checking them for weapons or searching the Mosque prior to Obama arriving. After all it "us" Americans that are wrongfully suspicious of them, not Obama. The 200 plus secret service agents and 20 snipers will just be there to make sure "us" suspicious Americans don't harm him, not to protect him from any radical Muslims or suicide bombers.
President Obama will make the first visit during his presidency to a U.S. mosque next week, the White House announced Saturday, as the administration tries to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is becoming more voluminous.
On Wednesday the president will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a sprawling community center in the the city’s western suburbs, that serves thousands of people with a place of worship, a housing complex and schools, according to its website. It is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest Muslim centers and describes itself as aspiring “to be the anchor of a growing Muslim community with diverse backgrounds, democratically governed, relating to one another with inclusiveness and tolerance, and interacting with neighbors in an Islamic exemplary manner.”
On Saturday, a White House official said in an e-mail that the president is making the visit: “to celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation and reaffirm the importance of religious freedom to our way of life.
“The President believes that one of our nation’s greatest strengths is our rich diversity and the very idea that Americans of different faiths and backgrounds can thrive together – that we’re all part of the same American family. As the President has said, Muslim Americans are our friends, and neighbors; our co-workers, and sports heroes – and our men and women in uniform defending our country.”
