Obama Bowing

White House aide speaking anonymously: ‘It wasn’t a bow ... he’s taller than King Abdullah’

This aide, speaking anonymously, should be fired and the President should be ashamed of his actions. This is not a thing the President of The United States should ever do.

To have anyone say this was not a bow is simply someone thinking that all of us are stupid. It was CLEARLY a bow and it is on video for King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and his supporters to replay for all to see.

This is just the icing on top of the cake. The way that President Obama looked throughout this trip he has been on is shaming to the US as a whole. He looked uneducated, fumbling, weak, and totally overwhelmed. One thing about President Bush, when he was in office, I NEVER saw him BOW to anyone.

Be proud of the man YOU elected to be our president!

Arab-American and Muslim-American

During the next few weeks, as many as 20,000 American Muslims will be returning to the United States from their pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The TSA has ramped up cultural-awareness training for all 43,000 of its screeners. The goal: to remind screeners what to expect from devout Muslims and how to go about screening them so it's in concert with their religious beliefs.

Arab-American and Muslim-American leaders are applauding the effort. But they say it's part of a much-needed larger cultural and political conversation about Islam and Arab culture that can help the nation as it heals from the aftereffects of 9/11.

This from Christian Science Monitor.

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Muslims are allowed to shorten prayers and/or combine them during travel.
Shortening prayers
Combining prayers
Fasting while traveling

These links are from About.com.

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How about just Americans, as in The United States of America?