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Obama Reaches Out To Muslims In Indonesia

   VOA News 09 November 2010
   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  speaks during a news conference at the
   Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010

Photo: AP

   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  speaks during a news conference at the
   Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010

   U.S.  President  Barack Obama is giving a major speech in Indonesia at
   this hour addressed to the Islamic world.
   In  prepared  remarks, the president says the United States is not and
   never will be at war with Islam.
   President  Obama  praises Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim
   majority nation - for its spirit of religious tolerance.
   The president's visit to Indonesia marks a return to the country where
   he  spent  four  years  of his childhood in the 1960s. President Obama
   said at the start of his speech Wednesday "Indonesia is a part of me."
   Mr.  Obama's  speech  at  the  University  of  Indonesia in Jakarta is
   revisiting  themes from last year's speech in Cairo in which he called
   for mutual respect between the United States and the Muslim world.

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