WASHINGTON - President Bush told a dinner honoring American Muslims that his administration has partnered with those practicing Islam around the world to promote tolerance and spread freedom to millions.
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(Photo: White House / Chris Greenberg)President George W. Bush welcomes guests to the Iftaar Dinner with Ambassadors and Muslim leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2008, to celebrate the traditions of Islamic faith and culture.
"We reject bigotry in all its forms," the president said before sitting down for dinner Wednesday with about 110 guests in the White House State Dining Room.
During the past eight years, the Bush administration has held an Iftaar dinner, a meal served at the end of the day during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
Bush sat next to Kuwait's prime minister, Sheik Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, who will return to the White House on Friday for a meeting in the Oval Office.
This year's event highlighted American Muslims who have made technological, artistic or innovative contributions to society. Bush singled out Maysam Ghovanloo, an immigrant from Iran who is a biomedical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is working on an invention to help people with disabilities operate a wheelchair or surf the Internet by moving their tongues.
"Stories like the professor's remind us that one of the great strengths of our nation is its religious diversity," Bush said. "Americans practice many different faiths. But we all share a belief in the right to worship freely."
The guests, including members of Congress, military personnel and members of the U.S. diplomatic corps, sat at nearly a dozen tables, each adorned with four burning tapers and a bowl of flowers. The guests dined on eggplant soup and halibut with a pistachio crust.
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Yes, a kind and holy dictator
cp "The Lord God said:
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD" Psalms 33:12"
yeah, im sure god said that.........LOL. So god is all about itself, sounds like something a dictator would say if you aks me.
In Indonesia, after Iftaar dinner then it is followed by ramadan taraweeh salat at the mosque where the uzdtaz hajee shout burn the Christians and desecrate their bible if they do not start to embrace Islam this ramadan.
dongard
Our God had written in His book "Pray without ceasing." Our God does demand that His people pray. You are mistaken.
next door on that site for good christian values, both the AFA and the comments are outraged that the muslim employees of a swift packing plant (yes those fine folks of sinclair lewis fame) agreed to move a lunch period so that the muslims could pray on their lunch break. this was according to the good christians there an outrage and all of those muslims(even native born american citizens) should immediately be deported. and the justificiation. our god doesn't demand a time to pray.
how kind of you christians. it becomes more and more clear that many christians when asked to be americans throw a temper fit and demand that the only possibility is to be a christian american.
George Bush said:
"One of the great strengths of our nation is its religious diversity" (worshiping many false gods)
The Lord God said:
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD" Psalms 33:12