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Obama could address Muslims from Cairo's Al Azhar mosque |
2009-05-13 |
LAHORE: The grand mufti of Egypt has invited US President Barack Obama to address Muslims around the globe from Egypt’s Al Azhar mosque – one of the most important mosques in the Muslim world. Al Masri Al Yawm, an Egyptian state-run newspaper, said Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa and other clerics from Al Azhar University invited Obama to use the mosque as the venue for the president’s upcoming visit, “explaining it would promote a culture of dialogue between Islam and the West”. It is highly unusual for a non-Muslim to speak at the mosque, according to World Net Daily news website, and an Egyptian official it contacted could not think of any non-Muslim world leader who had previously received an invitation. |
Posted by:Steve White |
#11 I'd love to have the secret service turn the place upside down and shake hard, no telling what would fall out of the cracks. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-05-13 20:35 |
#10 Geez, balthazar, it's almost seems like you think there might be...weapons in a mosque! It's a Religion of Peace™, ya know... |
Posted by: tu3031 2009-05-13 14:00 |
#9 Keep your shoes on, Barry. |
Posted by: mojo 2009-05-13 13:07 |
#8 Well, barry isn't european/white (he's not actually a black per se, but he's definitively embraced his "not whitey" identity, and that's what got him where he is now anyway), has a full muslim name set (except if you consider the sotero alternate ID), his deadbeat daddy was a muslim, he spent his formative years at a madrassa where from all accounts he was a devout muslim kiddie, no muslim leader or scholar ever has denounced him as an apostate... So, even if he's not REALLY a muslim, just a practicing commie, just think of the banquet scene in "Freaks" : "one of us! One of us! One of us!...." Less than 8 years after 9/11. Makes you really wonder, doesn't it? |
Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-05-13 12:06 |
#7 And I feel sure that the Mufti will greatly appreciate the scores of Secret Service prowling around the place. |
Posted by: balthazar 2009-05-13 11:16 |
#6 He will, of course, insist on the covering up of all religious symbols as he did at Georgetown, correct? CORRECT??? |
Posted by: Zorba 2009-05-13 10:00 |
#5 non-muslim ya say? |
Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-13 09:43 |
#4 It'll be good practice for his commencement address at Notre Dame ... |
Posted by: Steve White 2009-05-13 09:23 |
#3 Appears he's well practiced and all limbered up with his genuflecting. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2009-05-13 09:05 |
#2 "It is highly unusual for a non-Muslim to speak at the mosque." Maybe he will even get another honorary degree? |
Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-05-13 08:55 |
#1 What a lovely setting for his shahada! (Ok, it's more likely to be yet another stop on his "Why America Sucks" tour, but you never know.) |
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-13 08:39 |