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The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and changing communities. All these things must be done in partnership.
And there's another issue we must confront as well. No health care? The market will fix it.
Hope in the face of uncertainty. My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere.
As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer. Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.
They must be pursued - and they must be defeated. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways.
God bless you.