President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the
White House upon his return to Washington April 25, 2010.
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Posted on 04/26/2010 9:08:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama laid a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world on Monday hosting a summit to boost economic development in Muslim nations.
In a step the White House hopes will help shift relations beyond decades of talk about terrorism and conflict, Obama brought entrepreneurs from 50 countries to Washington for two days to spur economic ties.
The president pledged to host the meeting in a landmark speech in Cairo last June, when he also called for a "new beginning" to relations between the United States and the Muslim world.
Opening the meeting, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said boosting Muslim business would not only help the Islamic world, but would also help US security and trade.
"There are over a billion people living in Muslim-majority countries today, and they represent a vast reserve of under-utilized potential in the global economy," Locke told delegates.
"It is very much in America's -- and indeed, the entire world's -- interest that you succeed."
"Strong and balanced international trade only works if countries have growing economies and a growing middle class that are fully engaged in the international marketplace."
Speaking ahead of the meeting, a senior administration official said there were also hard-headed political goals to the summit.
"One of the principal goals of that vision was to broaden our relationship, which has been dominated by a few different issues, a small set of issues, for at least the last decade, and going back further than that."
"We don't see this as a replacement for our work on things like Middle East peace or work on counter-terrorism, our work on Iran. We see this as part of establishing a more multifaceted set of relationships. It is yet another pillar."
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“Obama hosts Muslim entrepreneurs”
Introducing the spring line of suicide vests?
President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the
White House upon his return to Washington April 25, 2010.
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Has he hosted Christian entrepreneurs?
Catholic entrepreneurs?
Jewish entrepreneurs?
I bet not!
US President Barack Obama greets acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan before a dinner at the Washington Convention Center during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC. on April 12. Nigeria and the United States have agreed to work together to counter the spread of nuclear weapons, a senior US official said after a weekend meeting with Jonathan. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
Next, we’ll be wearing a Star of David or Crosses; sound familiar?
Exactly. He hates businessmen unless they’re about the business of dismantling the United States.
“obama... THE FIRST BLACK MUSLIM PRESIDENT OF THE US... hosts fellow head-choppers in his quest to completely destroy a free America.”
Whoa whoa whoa....don’t you read the papaers and listen to the media?...he is not Muslim. If they say it, then it must be true.
As long as Muslims believe that either you are a Muslim or you are dead,.....I don’t need any “new beginnings” with the Muslim world.
All I can say is that I pray for his conversion to real Christianity. Doubt that he would ever do Catholic. But I would be happy with Christian — and not the Rev. Wright kind of Christian — I’m sure you know what I mean.
And pork rinds.
“US President Barack Obama laid a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world on Monday hosting a summit to boost economic development in Muslim nations. “
Perhaps providing them with automatic stoning and decapitation machines or environmentally friendly Burquas to imprison their women in.
Obama is so insuffferable.
Post summit worksops include:
Clitoridectomies-R-Us franchising
NASA spoils made easy
Funnelling uranium to Iran for fun!
Offshoring political campaigning for the rest of us
Establish a PA call center for $1000 startup
What is this “Islamic world” he speaks of? Our nation believes in religious freedoms, which are not to be found under Islamic theocracy.
Where is the ACLU?
There are so many holes in his autobiography. Even little ones where he gets the years wrong, like the dates he used for Watergate's aftermath which are off by a year.
The fact that someone like him sits in the White House, someone with so little known about him and so many unanswered questions, is really disturbing. Who did he date in college? Who did Michelle date in college? We know virtually nothing about them.
Obama's a specter, a phantasm, a zero followed by a question mark.
And he and the idiot Congress are destroying what's left of this republic.
obama will be their sales spokesperson.
LLS
A US President laid a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Morlock world by hosting a summit to boost economic development in Morlock nations.
What about economic development in this country you loser! Don’t know how much more of this I can take!!!!!
LLS
Wait a minute. I understood what you said. Rummy taught me when he said somthing similar about known unknowns.
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