President Obama Quotes the Koran
President Obama made his first real trip to the Middle East recently. Standing in Cairo, he gave a speech calling for peace between the Middle East and the Western world and that speech has been hailed by, well, nearly everyone. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists—all of them are enamored with the speech and the newspapers have been going crazy with coverage of it. One of the reasons that everyone is hailing this speech as "monumental" are the references President Obama makes to the Koran.

CAIR Asks Fla. U.S. Senate Hopeful Not to Attend Anti-Islam Rally
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