Posted on 10/28/2010 10:25:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
President Obama to visit mosque in Indonesia
By: Kendra Marr October 28, 2010 12:21 PM EDT
President Barack Obama will visit one of the world’s largest mosques when he makes good on a long-delayed promise to visit Indonesia, the island nation where he lived briefly as a child.
The president will visit Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta — the largest mosque in Southeast Asia and the third largest Muslim house of worship in the world — during his swing through the country Nov. 9-10. Islam is the dominant religion in populous Indonesia, making it the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
White House national security aide Ben Rhodes said the visit is standard protocol for Obama, who visited the famed Blue Mosque while on a visit to Turkey shortly after his inauguration. “When he visited Muslim-majority countries as president, he has often visited the most prominent mosques,” Rhodes said.
The president’s high-profile visit, however, could stoke the heated confrontation over the Park51 Project, an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned for a site just north of where the World Trade Center towers fell in Manhattan on Sept. 11. In August, Obama roiled the simmering debate when he declared that Muslims have a legal right to build the cultural center — a statement which angered opponents who saw the center as an affront to victims and rescue workers who died on Sept. 11 — but he later said he didn’t think building the cultural center was a good idea.
Rhodes cautioned against linking Obama’s statement about the Park51 Project and his visit to the Jakarta mosque.
“I would not conflate the two,” he said. “When we planned to go to Indonesia in March, we planned to go to this same mosque.”
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“President Obama to visit mosque in Indonesia”
Screw the Sikhs!
More likely from concern that the Sikhs wouldn’t like it.
Don’t bother trying to apply logic to anything this diptard does. It will just give you a headache.
And he won’t go to church here. Yep, he’s a muzzie.
The Founding Fathers might have wished to include as a Natural Born Citizen a boy who was fathered by a Kenyan and then adopted by an Indonesian and spent years 6 through 10 living in Indonesia . . . but I doubt it.
Briefly? It was four or five years, and not just any four or five years, but probably the first ones he remembers well. It's twice as long as he's been in the White House.
ML/NJ
America’s world wandering assclown....FUBO!
Will he bend over and grovel when the muzzein starts howling?
That will be interesting to see.
So does anyone know how many churches or any other sort of temple O has visited on his state visits?
And the DNC and MSM did not put all of that together?
I am just shocked!
Ain’t that the truth!
No problem here, it will be after the election.
The mosque has an interesting history. The architect was a devout Christian.
Muslim is way too rigorous for a slacker like Baraq to be into.
The Muzzies don’t like slackers and pretenders to their “religion”.
bookmark Islam
Soetoro’s homecoming.
President Obama to visit mosque in Indonesia,Where will Soros be at that time?.
When he visits Christian-majority countries does he often visit Cathedrals and significant churches?
Any Jew, Christian or Sikh who votes for this hateful muslim should have their asses kicked....
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