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SOS Hillary Clinton's Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftar


Excerpts:
[] The Holy Month of Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world fast and pray, and strive to do good deeds. It’s also a time for reflection and introspection, for charity and for compassion.

Ramadan teaches and reinforces values that are honored by millions and tens and hundreds of millions of people from other faiths and beliefs. So tonight, while we celebrate together, let us consider how we can build broader and deeper bonds of mutual understanding, mutual respect and cooperation among people of all faiths in the year to come, here at home and abroad. And let us also reflect on how we can improve our efforts to ensure that we create more opportunity for more people in more places to live up to their own God-given potential.

We sit down together for this meal on a day when the news is carrying reports that a pastor down in Gainesville, Florida plans to burn the Holy Qu’ran on September 11^th. I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths, from evangelical Christians to Jewish rabbis, as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion-makers. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. Many of you know that in 1790, George Washington wrote to a synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that this country will give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”


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This speech by SOS Hillary Clinton is quite impressive.  

I was very pleased to hear of all the youth (mostly muslims) who are working on such great missions globally.  Nice to see more unofficial ambassadors as Hillary calls them.

Even as Hillary calls for PEACE, MUTUAL RESPECT, INCLUSION, and COOPERATION here and globally, she is emphatic about more opportunities for more people -- I have no doubt she meant women, and she meant democracy and equal opportunity for all!


-- Edited by Sanders on Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:50:24 PM