Why It Matters That Obama Is Finally Visiting An American Mosque

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1. "Several Republican candidates called for a halt of Muslim immigration to the U.S. and increased

surveillance of Muslims in America. Republican front-runner Donald Trump was the first to make such appeals, followed closely by many presidential hopefuls. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Florda Gov. Jeb Bush suggested that only Christian asylum seekers should be allowed to settle in the U.S.

Two-thirds of Republican voters polled and nearly half of all American voters said that they would favor a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S.

During his State of the Union address this month, he seemed to directly call out figures like Trump by declaring, “When politicians insult Muslims, whether abroad or our fellow citizens, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong.”

But with even President Obama waiting until his last year in office to visit an American mosque, that level of acceptance seems to signal a very different era when it comes to acceptance for Muslim Americans. "

Let republicans continue with their rants about "See. Obama is a Muslim". Multiculturalism works if you take off your blinders - something republicans seem to refuse to do.