From President Barack Obama –
With the start of the sacred month of Ramadan, Michelle and I extend our best wishes to Muslim communities here in the United States and around the world.
For the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, Ramadan is a time for thoughtful reflection, fasting and devotion. It is also an opportunity for family and friends to come together and celebrate the principles that bind people of different faiths – a commitment to peace, justice, equality and compassion towards our fellow human beings. These bonds are far stronger than the differences that too often drive us apart.
This month also reminds us that freedom, dignity and opportunity are the undeniable rights of all mankind. We reflect on these universal values at a time when many citizens across the Middle East and North Africa continue to strive for these basic rights and as millions of refugees mark Ramadan far from their homes. The United States stands with those who are working to build a world where all people can write their own future and practice their faith freely, without fear of violence.
In the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that millions of Muslim Americans enrich our nation each day—serving in our government, leading scientific breakthroughs, generating jobs and caring for our neighbors in need. I have been honored to host an iftar dinner at the White House each of the past four years, and this year I look forward to welcoming Muslim Americans who are contributing to our country as entrepreneurs, activists and artists.
I wish Muslims across America and around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, peace and understanding. Ramadan Kareem.
This is such a slap in the face to every other Religion, it makes me sick!!! How much more damage will be inflicted by this Muslim “Foreign” President?
Didn’t he wish Christians a Happy Easter? How about Jews? They got a Happy Channukah – why can’t the law abiding decent Muslims get greetings?
It’s nice to see, however, that ignorance is still alive and well.
It is a smart thing to recognize such an important holiday to believers in other religions. By doing so it helps the believers of those other religions think that it is not just “us or them”. Perhaps if we had been a little more sensitive to their religious beliefs in the past we would be living in a different world today. It would be harder to persuade someone to be a suicide bomber if that person didn’t believe that we were desecrating their religion. This is very smart policy on the President’s part.
mrfoad – “if we had been a little more sensitive to their religious beliefs in the past we would be living in a different world today”??
Right, and if Pres. Jefferson wouldn’t have sent the Marines to kick the crap out of the Barbary pirates we and the rest of Europe would still be paying them tribute.
You really are clueless & historically challenged. This “religion” acquired its converts at the point of the sword – within 100 years of Mo’s death they had crossed North Africa and were in Spain.
Didn’t you see the little girl speaking to the UN following her surgery in England due to a Taliban shooting her in the face because she was going to school?
Wake up!!
@MrFoad-come off it. Obama is a closet Muslim and you know it. He will declare that as soon as he is out of office. Those people only respect strength and power. Anything else they kill.
What “closet” are you still in, LVS?
O. M. G!!
I’ve seen pictures of the Muslims added to our Governments sensitive departments. They are actually department heads. We are being taken over quietly and no one is the wiser. One day we will wake up and it will be too late. OMG is right.
Why? What will happen to us?