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Bush spoke October 4 with Al Arabiya television and answered questions concerning the War on Terror and the freedom of religion in the United States
President Bush said the Islamic religion “is a great religion that preaches peace,” and that Americans are free “to worship any way they see fit.”
Muslim extremists have “done a good job of propagandizing” the idea that Americans do not like the Islamic faith, Bush said, stating his own belief that the global community, regardless of individual faiths, “prays to the same God.”
“[Y]ou can be free to worship, and it’s your choice to make. It’s not the state’s choice, and you shouldn’t be intimidated after you’ve made your choice,” Bush said, adding that religious freedom is “a right that I jealously guard.”
Those who carried out the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against New York and Washington “do not reflect the views of the vast majority of peaceful people in the Middle East.”
The president said “the last thing” he wants to be is a president during wartime and added the war against terror “is not a struggle against … the Muslim religion.”
Bush Says Islam Is a “Great Religion that Preaches Peace†(http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2007&m=October&x=20071005143134esnamfuak 0.9335138 - broken link)
Taking your post at face value, perhaps Bush is correct. After all, the US ambassador to the UN is a Muslim. There are a billion Muslims in this world of ours. If just one percent were disinclined to be peaceful, we'd be in the middle of WWIII.
Actually I tend to agree based on my own experiences. However, for those that have an irrational fear of all Muslims I was hoping that President Bush could allay their fears.
This is very true. I have friends who are very devote Muslims and they dislike the actions of all the radical Muslim sects just as much as any other American would.
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