Obama’s defense of the right of Muslims in a mosque near Ground Zero was to build a blow to the most contemporary Republican Party, but he was very in line with the tone of his predecessor George W. Bush, his own party grave fighting had left his insistence that Islam is a religion of concord.
A former adviser to Bush, speech in Chief, Michael Gerson said, POLITICAL last night that Barack Obama supported the choice.
A very complex and emotional – but in the end to do the right thing, said Gerson. A president is the president of all citizens, Muslim, including all citizens. Obama is right that the way to marginalize the radicals is to respect the best traditions of Islam and protect the religious freedom of American Muslims. It is the radicals, a reflect the American war against Islam. But our engagement with the radicals alone.