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Obama Addresses U.S.-Muslim Ties in Indonesia Speech

HeadlineNov 10, 2010

President Obama has arrived in South Korea for the G20 leaders’ summit after a brief stop in Indonesia. In what was billed as an update to his 2009 Cairo speech on U.S. relations with Muslims worldwide, Obama addressed a large audience at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta.

President Obama: “Innocent civilians in America, in Indonesia and across the world are still targeted by violent extremism. I’ve made it clear that America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. Instead, all of us must work together to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates. We have no claim to be leaders of any religion, certainly not a great world religion like Islam. But those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy. And this is not a task for America alone.”

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