CAJ note: Sensitive readers need to be warned the video content is quite graphic.
“Tonight is part of a rich tradition here at the White House of celebrating the holy days of many faiths and the diversity that define us as a nation. So these are quintessentially American celebrations — people of different faiths coming together, with humility before our Maker, to reaffirm our obligations to one another, because no matter who we are, or how we pray, we’re all children of a loving God.”
~President Barack Obama
10 August 2011 [transcript and video]
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8/15/2011
State-sanctioned sharia law.
Related: Obama’s Ramadan Dinner Speech Pays Tribute to Muslim Americans [article includes guest list]
…The dinner is known as an “iftar,” and it breaks the daylong fast Muslims observe from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan. The tradition of hosting an iftar at the White House was begun by President Bill Clinton, and continued by George W. Bush. This will be Obama’s third as president.
In the audience were the two members of Congress who practice Islam, Reps. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), as well as Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.). Also attending were government officials, Muslim community leaders and other leaders of faith groups…
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