Since Bill Clinton, the President has sponsored a dinner at the end of Ramadan. The dinner is meant to honor Muslims who are celebrating the end of a day of fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. These dinners have not been especially newsworthy until this year. This year there was a modicum of news. Some Muslims did not accept the invite and protested the event. The President endorsed Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. He also had a good word to say about NSA spying on Muslim-Americans. And he invited the Israeli Ambassador to the US, an outspoken advocate of Israel's settlement enterprise who has claimed Muslim and Arab culture is endemically violent.
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