Obama Needs to Strike Delicate Balance on Islam
Thomas Kidd, USATIn matters large and small, Obama has to strike a delicate balance regarding Islam. It is not that he has taken an unprecedented interest in Islam: President Thomas Jefferson had his copy of the Quran, and President George W. Bush discussed Islam just as much as Obama. But because of the ongoing war against jihadist terror, the controversy about the Ground Zero mosque, and especially because of persistent (if absurd) rumors about the president's own faith, Obama has a special burden to carry about Islam. He must communicate that America's millions of Muslims are fully welcome here,...