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Obama Reaches Out to Muslims on Indonesian Trip

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Listen closely and you’ll hear the sound of Glenn Beck frothing at the mouth. What’s today’s reason? Well, on Tuesday, President Obama was in Indonesia(!), where he expressed the need to “build trust” with Muslim societies(!!) such as that of his host country, which he called home for several years when he was a child. —KA

BBC:

President Barack Obama has admitted the US must do “a lot more work” to improve ties with the Muslim world, as he continues an Asian tour in Indonesia.

Mr Obama said his efforts had been “sustained” but accepted “mistrust” remained in the Islamic world.

He said the US would expand co-operation on economic issues, security and climate change with Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

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By Aaron, November 10, 2010 at 9:27 am Link to this comment
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Those protesters are only representing a very small percentage of the majority Moslems in Indonesia.
By comparison those fanatic group have a member of 8 millions (self proclaimed by them) while the majority of moderate Moslems are around 192 millions (based on recent census less their numbers), which mean 4% compare to 96%.
Most Indonesians (both Moslems and other religions) are dislike them very much.
However as a nation who follow democracy system, Indonesia government give freedom to speech for all citizens.
And since only them who didn’t like Obama and the US, then only them who you can see on the news while other 96% remain at home watching the TV
Greeting with peace from Indonesia