Obama asks Muslims for new start
Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, US President Barack Obama on Thursday called for a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims” and said that together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in West Asia.
“This cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” Mr Obama said in a widely anticipated speech, an address designed to reframe relations after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the US-led war in Iraq.
Mr Obama conceded at the beginning of his remarks that tension “has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.”
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“This cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” Mr Obama said in a widely anticipated speech, an address designed to reframe relations after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the US-led war in Iraq.
Mr Obama conceded at the beginning of his remarks that tension “has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.”
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