‘Change’ Of Plans; Obama to visit mosque in Indonesia as ‘protocol’
RWB News: We knew the earlier reports coming from the White House about the ‘President missing out on a planned visit to a mosque in India over fears that photographs of him wearing muslim head gar would revive claims that he is a Muslim’ had to be joke. This guy never misses an opportunity to “reach out” to Muslims…..so much so it is now called “protocol”.Funny what we call ‘protocol’ now days. Was it ‘protocol’ when President Obama made history as the first sitting president on a daytime talk show when he visited with the ladies of “The View”? His appearance on “The view” caused him to miss out on another historic occasion — the Boy Scouts’ Jamboree marking the group’s 100th anniversary, right in the president’s backyard…….Amazing what is now “protocol”. The President moved this trip up a few days earlier so he could leave right after the election on Nov 2nd, leaving his party to answer the question “What the hell just happened?”
montrealgazette.com-Barack Obama has reportedly abandoned plans to visit Amritsar’s Golden Temple during his visit to India next month over fears that photographs of him with his head covered would revive false claims that he is a Muslim.
Members of Mr Obama’s White House team reportedly visited India last month and told Indian officials of their concerns.
Mr Obama, whose father was a non-observant Muslim, has been dogged by rumours regarding his faith since his battle for the Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton in 2008. At times since becoming president he has highlighted the fact that his middle name is Hussein to boost his credibility abroad.
In August, a poll conducted by Time magazine found that almost one in four Americans thought he was a follower of Islam. The results came days after he waded into the dispute over controversial plans to build an Islamic centre near the site of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
Temple sources said on Tuesday that three teams of officials from the U.S. embassy in New Delhi had visited them in the past six weeks but that they were unaware there was any concern over wearing a headscarf. According to the Indian Express, one American official had told his Indian counterparts that Mr Obama had to remind America “each day that he should not be mistaken for Muslim just because his middle name is Hussein”.
A compromise was reportedly explored in which the president might wear a “modified baseball cap” but it is unclear whether this would have been acceptable to Sikh traditionalists.
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politico.com- 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.
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