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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002725.html
Obama's Outreach to Muslims
[Washington Post] Jim Hoagland - President Obama repeatedly extended his hand to the world's Muslims in his first ten days in power. His respectful tone and gestures toward Arab states in particular were as welcome as they were deft. But it would be a mistake to conclude that the gears of history have shifted and what Americans have come to call the "war on terror" is over. Americans did not initiate the conflict with al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists, and Americans will not be the ones to declare an end to the struggle against violent extremism practiced in the name of jihad.