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PAS : KE ARAH PEMERINTAHAN ISLAM YANG ADIL
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Assalamualaikum
Ini adalah ucapan dari Penyampai Nikmat dari bumi
Amerika Laknatullah. Semoga ada manafaatnya ucapan
dari orang kapir ni :-)
Wassalam
Adam
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 10, 2000
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT EVENT COMMEMORATING END OF RAMADAN
Presidential Hall
11:30 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much,
Eid Mubarak, and welcome to the
White House. N'Imah Saleem, you did a fine job
for a 14-year-old, or a 24-year-old, or a
44-year-old. I thought she was terrific. Thank
you very much, thank you. (Applause.)
And, Imam Hendi, thank you so much for your
words, your prayer, and for serving as the
first Muslim chaplain of my alma mater,
Georgetown University. Congratulations. We're
glad to have you here. Thank you, sir.
(Applause.)
I'd like to welcome others from the
administration who very joined us -- our National
Security Advisor, Sandy Berger; Assistant
Secretary of State Harold Koh. We also have
a White House fellow here, Khalid Azim; and Dr.
Islam Siddiqui, the senior advisor to the
Secretary of Agriculture and the highest ranking
Muslim in the Clinton administration. We
thank him for being here. We have a Muslim Army
chaplain, Captain Muhammad. We
thank him for being here, and the other Muslims
who work here in the White House --
they are all particularly welcome -- and all the
rest of you who have come here. Let me
say welcome to you. (Applause.)
My friend, Rasheed, thank you for leading the
applause there. I always try to have
someone in the audience there who is pumping the
crowd at the right time. (Laughter.)
Let me also say a special word of welcome to you
from the First Lady. Hillary has done
this celebration for the past several years; many
of you have been here with her. And
she had to be out of the city today, and that's
the only reason she's not here, because this
means so very much to her. And I want to welcome
you here on her behalf, as well.
Over the weekend, along with Muslims all over the
world, you celebrated the end of the
holy month of Ramadan. The month of daily fasting
is not only a sacred duty, it is also a
powerful teaching, and in many ways a gift of
Islam to the entire rest of the world --
reminding not simply Muslims, but all people, of
our shared obligation to aid those who
live with poverty and suffering. It reminds us
that we must work together to build a more
humane world.
I must say, it was, I thought, especially fitting
that we celebrated the Eid at the end of the
first round of the talks between the Syrians and
the Israelis. And I thought it was
particularly moving that Imam read the passage
from the Koran that said that Allah
created nations and tribes that we might know one
another, not that we might despise one
another.
There's a wonderful passage in the Hebrew Torah,
which warns people never to turn
aside the stranger, for it is like turning aside
the most high God. And the Christian Bible
says that people should love their neighbor as
themselves. But it's quite wonderful to say
that Allah created the nations and tribes that
they might know one another better,
recognizing people have to organize their
thoughts and categorize their ideas, but that
does not mean we should be divided one from
another.
It has been a great blessing for me, being
involved in these talks these last few days, to
see the impact of the month of Ramadan and the
Eid on the believers in the Syrian
delegation who are here. It was quite a moving
thing. And I hope that your prayers will
stay with them.
Let me say, also, that there is much that the
world can learn from Islam. It is now
practiced by one of every four people on Earth.
Americans are learning more in our
schools and universities. Indeed, I remember that
our daughter took a course on Islamic
history in high school and read large portions of
the Koran, and came home at night and
educated her parents about it, and later asked us
questions about it. (Applause.) And, of
course, there are now 6 million Muslims in our
nation today. The number of mosques and
Islamic centers, now at 1,200, continues to grow
very rapidly.
Today, Muslim Americans are a cornerstone of our
American community. They enrich
our political and cultural life, they provide
leadership in every field of human endeavor,
from business to medicine, to scholarship. And I
think it is important that the American
people are beginning to learn that Muslims trace
their roots to all parts of the globe -- not
just to the Middle East, but also to Africa, and
to Asia, and to the Balkans and other parts
of Europe. You share with all Americans common
aspirations for a better future, for
greater opportunities for children, for the
importance of work and family and freedom to
worship.
But like other groups past and present in
America, Muslim Americans also have faced
from time to time -- and continue to face, sadly,
from time to time -- discrimination,
intolerance and, on occasion, even violence.
There are still too many Americans who
know too little about Islam. Too often
stereotypes fill the vacuum ignorance creates. That
kind of bigotry is wrong, has no place in
American society. There is no place for
intolerance against people of any faith --
against Muslims or Jews or Christians, or
Buddhists or Ba'Hai -- or any other religious
group, or ethnic or racial group.
If America wishes to be a force for peace and
reconciliation across religious and ethnic
divides from the Middle East to Northern Ireland
to the Balkans, to Africa, to Asia -- if
that is what we wish -- if we wish to do good
around the world, we must first be good
here at home on these issues. (Applause.)
I ask all of you to help with that, to share the
wellsprings of your faith with those who are
different, to help people understand the values
and the humanity that we share in
common, and the texture and fabric and fiber and
core of the beliefs and practices of
Islam.
Children do not come into the world hating people
of different tribes and faiths. That is
something they learn to do. They either are
explicitly taught to do it, or they learn to do it
by following the example of others, or they learn
to do it in reaction to oppression that
they, themselves, experience. And those of us who
are adults have a responsibility to
change those childhoods, to give this generation
of children around the world a different
future than so many have played out tragically in
the last few years.
I think it is quite ironic that at the end of the
Cold War, when a system of atheistic,
controlling communism has failed and been
rejected, our latest demon seems to be the
old-fashioned one of people fighting each other
because they are of different religious
faiths, or racial or ethnic heritages. We know
that is not at the core of any religious
teaching. We know it is not at the core of Islam.
So I ask you again to rededicate yourselves in
this coming year to making sure that others
in this country truly understand and appreciate
the faith you embrace, its practices, its
beliefs, its precepts and its inclusive humanity.
Thank you. (Applause.)
The Koran also teaches, in addition, to the fact
that we should do unto others as we wish
to have done to us, and reject for others what we
would reject for ourselves, but we
should also make a commitment to live in peace.
There is a new moon that has risen at
the end of Ramadan and a new millennium marked in
many nations. And again, I say to
you as we leave, in addition to your prayers and
work for peace and understanding and
reconciliation within the United States, I ask
especially for your prayers for the current
mission of peace in the Middle East.
We are on a track in which the Israelis, the
Syrians, I hope soon the Lebanese, and
already the Palestinians, have committed
themselves to work through these very difficult,
longstanding issues over the course of the next
two months -- the longstanding
commitment between the Palestinians and the
Israelis to resolve their business by next
month. So this will be a time of great tension,
where all people will have to search for
wisdom and understanding, where there will be
great reluctance to open the closed fist
and walk out into a new era.
And I think that the prayers of Muslims, Jews,
Christians and people of goodwill all over
the world will be needed for us to get through
these next several weeks. But for you, I
hope it is an immense source of pride that you
live in a country that is trying to make
peace in the land where your faith was born.
Thank you. (Applause.)
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