Iftar dinner - Muslim and non-Muslim Americans coming together


Iftar dinner at the White House 



No, I was not invited to the White House to celebrate the Iftar dinner. However, I did celebrate it with my Muslim and Christian friends an Iftar dinner with the UIC Muslim Students Association. I was able to break a fast with them and pray together with them.  It was a very godly experience.  So, why do I post pictures of the White House Ifat dinner? I think that the Iftar dinner becomes part of our American culture.  We need to break the perception of the world that the Americans are not sympathetic to the Muslims and Islam. Many of us respect Islam and our Muslim Americans and non-Americans. We just do not support any form of religious aggression: Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, etc.

Let me share a few quotes from the President’s speech during his Iftar dinner.  

"Our Iftar is also a reminder of the freedoms that bind us together as Americans, including the freedom of religion -- that inviolable right to practice our faiths freely."[1]

“… we don’t simply endure, but we overcome. Together, we can overcome ignorance and prejudice. Together, we will overcome conflict and injustice -- not just with words, but with deeds. With what a hero of mine, the civil rights icon John Lewis, calls using our feet -- getting out in the real world to organize and to create the change that we seek. That’s what so many of you do every single day. And that’s what we have to continue to do together, here in America and around the world. As the Quran teaches, let us answer with 'Peace.'"[2] 
— President Obama

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/23/president-obama-hosts-ramadan-iftar-dinner-white-house
[2] Loc cit. 

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