Bush Praises Islam as Religion of Tolerance

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Bush Praises Islam as Religion of Tolerance
Wed October 22, 2003 07:23 AM ET




By Steve Holland and Achmad Sukarsono
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - President Bush praised the world's most populous Muslim nation on Wednesday for its support in the war on terror and said Islamic terrorists defiled one of the great faiths.

But Bush ran afoul of leading moderate Muslim clerics during talks on the resort island of Bali, where Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda blew up two nightclubs packed with foreign tourists just over a year ago, killing 202 people.

Reflecting growing mistrust of the United States among ordinary Indonesians, they criticized Washington for supporting Israel over the Palestinians and for the occupation of Iraq, and said Bush needed to listen more to the rest of the world.

Bush, speaking against the backdrop of a palm-fringed beach and turquoise sea, expressed his gratitude to Jakarta after meeting President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the clerics.

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I'm sorry I kinda had to laugh at this George :bounce:

....that keeps making anti-Islam statements at fundamentalist Christian gettogethers.

in Indonesia.

... when your actions are different from your words, it doesn't help your credibility.

He'll have five or ten Muslim "leaders" over to the WH for a state Iftar and that of course will make up for the thoughts, words and deeds of the entire neo-con circus behind him.

It's a shame that personally exceeding a certain amount of hypocrisy
doesn't cause one's head to explode; life would be a lot simpler if
that were the case.

*POP*

"Oh look, another Republican just blew!"

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