President Barack Obama has made history as the first US president to visit the mosque .He visited a mosque in Baltimore on Wednesday in an attempt to recast what he said was a warped image of Islam.
Obama, in his first visit to a mosque in the United States, described Muslims as essential to the fabric of America and decried GOP plans that would single them out for extra scrutiny. He said those plans only amplify the messages coming from terrorist groups who suggest the U.S. is at war with the Muslim faith.Obama told the audience at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a 47-year-old mosque with thousands of attendees...
There are voices who are constantly claiming you have to choose between your identities..Do not believe them.."Let me say as clearly as I can as president of the United States: you fit right here," "You're right where you belong. You're part of America too. You're not Muslim or American. You're Muslim and American."
Obama said of an earlier conversation with young Muslim community leaders.
"Some of them are parents, and they talked about how their children were asking, 'Are we going to be forced out of the country? Are we going to be rounded up? Why do people treat us like this?' Conversations you shouldn't have to have with children. Not in this country."