China May Be Bigger Economy Than US Within Two Years
Barack Obama greets China's Paramount Leader, Hu Jintao. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH – BLOGS – JEREMY WARNER: Here’s a finding that will have any red-blooded American spluttering into his cornflakes. According to the Conference Board, a highly respected economic research association, China will overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy by 2012, or within two years. Read on and comment >>> Jeremy Warner | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Millbank Tower: Student Fees Protest Turns Violent

Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin Go to War on de Gaulle's Anniversary
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: President Nicolas Sarkozy is dangerous for France, warned Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister, as the bitter Right-wing rivals competed for Charles de Gaulle's mantle on the 40th anniversary of his death.

Nicholas Sarkozy, left, and Dominique de Villepin. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
With De Gaulle nostalgia in full swing in France, President Sarkozy yesterday seized the commemoration to liken himself to the revered wartime leader who refused to collaborate with the Nazis and was the architect of the country's post-War recovery.

In a thinly-veiled reference to his deeply unpopular pension reforms, which brought millions to the streets in the past few weeks, the President quoted De Gaulle's phrase: "If France has called me to serve as its guide, it is certainly not to preside over its sleep."

But Mr de Villepin, a staunch Gaullist who famously opposed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, was the most vocal in denying the president's right to claim such a heritage. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Michelle Obama Brushes Off Indonesia Handshake Row
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Michelle Obama has brushed off a row with an Indonesian minister who was reluctant to shake her hand.


America's First Lady visited southeast Asia's biggest mosque with her husband on Wednesday, a day after Indonesia's communications minister had told Twitter followers that he had reluctantly shaken hands with her at a formal reception.

Tifatul Sembiring, a conservative Muslim who refuses to touch women he is not related to tweeted: "I tried to prevent it with my two hands but Mrs Michelle moved her hands too close to me, then we touched."

Video footage of the meeting suggested otherwise, however, showing Mr Sembiring reaching out to shake Michelle's hand like the other dignitaries.

The Obamas much-anticipated visit to the Istiqlal Mosque in central Jakarta was one of the last stops on Mr Obama's twice-postponed visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.

Grand Imam Haji Mustafa Ali Yaqub showed the Obamas around the massive domed structure, which was still being built when a young Mr Obama lived in the nearby suburb of Menteng as a child in the late 1960s. >>> | Wednesday, November 19, 2010

Flashback: Indonesian Mosque Obama Visited Greeted Ahmadinejad as a “Rock Star” Where He Called For The Destruction of Israel, Predicted Sharia Would Rule World >>>

HT: Pastorius of iBloga >>> Pastorius | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Student Protests Turn Violent as Tory Headquarters Evacuated
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A student protest against rising tuition fees has turned violent with demonstrators forcing their way into a building and smashing windows as they approached Parliament.

Demonstrators barge into the lobby of Millbank Tower, smashing windows and setting fire to placards outside the entrance. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
A group barged into the lobby of Millbank before being forced out by police and security officers. They then began setting fire to placards outside the entrance.

Windows in the office block were smashed and a number of smoke bombs thrown.

Up to 50,000 people, many waving placards, are marching though the streets of London in the biggest show of opposition to the Coalition Government.

Students from towns and cities across the UK have travelled to London in coaches, to join lecturers, pensioners and medical trainees in voicing their opposition to the rise. >>> | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

‘Matthew Taylor on the student protesters inside Conservative HQ at Millbank Tower’

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: David Cameron admits tuition fees increase will keep cost to foreign students down: The Coalition’s decision to increase tuition fees by thousands of pounds will help keep down the cost to foreign students of studying in Britain, David Cameron has admitted. >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Cost of a degree 'has tripled in 20 years': The cost of a university degree has more than tripled in 20 years as thousands of teenagers are priced out of higher education, according to research. >>> Graeme Paton, Education Editor | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ausländer und Integration - Strache, FPÖ

WHO: Russians Smoke the Most
THE MOSCOW TIMES: With 44 million adults, or almost 40 percent of the population, Russia has the biggest percentage of adult smokers among the 14 countries surveyed by the World Health Organization.

More adults smoke in Russia than in any other heavy-smoking country, and their average life expectancy is one of the shortest among former Soviet countries, according to two separate but thematically linked reports released Tuesday.

Politicians and analysts said the popularity of smoking, which contributes to worsening demographics by killing up to 500,000 Russians a year, could be stopped through tougher regulations, but tobacco producers have blocked all efforts for years, successfully lobbying their interests with the ruling United Russia party.

With 44 million adults, or almost 40 percent of the population, Russia has the biggest percentage of adult smokers among the 14 countries surveyed by the World Health Organization in a poll presented at a Moscow conference Tuesday.

More than 60 percent of Russian men and almost 22 percent of Russian women smoke, according to the WHO's Global Adult Tobacco Survey.

The poll also covered Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay and Vietnam — countries that “bear the highest burden of tobacco use,” the survey said.

The survey is "not a document but a call to take action," Luigi Migliorini, acting head of the WHO's Russia office, said at a conference where the report was presented Tuesday, RIA-Novosti reported.

Some 400,000 to 500,000 Russians a year die from smoking-related causes, a figure that accounts for 17 percent of the country's yearly mortality rate, a co-author of the report, Oleg Storozhenko, told the conference, Interfax reported.

Separately, a study the Audit Chamber released on Tuesday said Russia lagged behind most other former Soviet republics in life expectancy. >>> Natalya Krainova | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

David Cameron's Obsession with Image and Spin Is Failing the Country
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The public is paying dearly for the Prime Minister's cult of personality, argues Simon Heffer.

David Cameron is obsessed with spin. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
That the public mood lightened last week when the BBC went on strike, and we were spared for a day or two endless earnest reports and analyses of the activities of our pygmy politicians, should hardly be a surprise. What perhaps requires further thought, both by politicians and those of us who report or analyse their doings, is whether there is generally just too much of it out there for anybody's good.

We know that in a democracy information (preferably truthful) is essential. I, like many of my colleagues, came into journalism precisely to throw bricks through windows. The Fourth Estate has a role, without doubt, in fulfilling the import of that pompous phrase "holding politicians to account". But since so much of what the politicians tell journalists is either only half the truth or, at times, none of the truth at all, some of us do start to wonder why we bother. I rarely sit down on a Tuesday without the thought crossing my mind that it would be better all round if I were to write a column about the cultural importance of Ealing films, or a defence of Wagner, or a philippic against much contemporary architecture. I do not doubt many of you would agree. Yet again, however, this week there is a subject, related to what I have just said, that requires all our attention.

The Prime Minister has put no fewer than 26 people on the public payroll, on short-term contracts, without advertising their posts. Most of these people are trusties, and the most prominent of them are in the business of managing Mr Cameron's image: and, in one case, Mrs Cameron's. One of them is his photographer. Another is described as being his "web guru", a man whose contribution to the lexicon of conservative thought so far has been to seek to "pimp your party" and to throw a fund-raising event that was "so hip it hurts", whatever the hell that means. The Prime Minister also has his own film-maker. There is also someone being paid £50,000 a year working for something called the "behavioural insight team" in the Cabinet Office. She, and they, must have their work cut out. I believe there are even some young people who advise on policy, and we must judge the quality of their contribution to our governance by its results.

It is reported that a senior civil servant warned Mr Cameron of the injudiciousness of appointing at least some of these people at all, and especially in this way, at a time of stringency in the public sector. The act has also been interpreted as a means of Mr Cameron getting around his own much-trumpeted policy of reducing the number of special advisers in government. But the real issue here is one of image, and image management. We knew that Mr Cameron was obsessed with this when in opposition, usually to the exclusion of developing any policies or principles. Many of the people hired in this compromising way were in charge of massaging the Cameron image before he entered Downing Street. Nicky Woodhouse, the film-maker, did his saccharine and nauseating "WebCameron", by which the public who cared to watch were deceived into believing they were witnessing real slices of Cameron family life. Read on and comment >>> Simon Heffer | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

This article hits the nail right on the head. We, the electorate, are sick and tired of our vain politicians who think far too little of the 'little people' and far too much of themselves. David Cameron is an exemplar par excellence of such a politician. One can see his vanity in his face. In short: He loves himself. And he is using these spin creatures to try and make the rest of us love him equally as much. The strategy will fail. The electorate has had quite enough of spin during the Blair years. Look where that got us!

How nice it would be to be governed by real politicians. Winnie was the complete opposite of Cameron: Churchill thought little about his appearance, but a hell of a lot about the country.

Thank you so much for this insightful article. It was a pleasure to read it. – © Mark [This comment can also be read here]

L'adhésion de la Turquie, de la Croatie et du Monténégro à la loupe de l'UE
LE MONDE: La Commission européenne a dressé mardi un tableau peu encourageant de l'avancée des négociations d'adhésion de la Turquie à l'UE, s'inquiétant de l'impasse chypriote, alors qu'elle a ouvert la voie, dans son rapport annuel sur les projets d'élargissement de l'Union, à une candidature du Monténégro. Bruxelles a par ailleurs salué l'entrée de la Croatie dans la dernière phase des négociations d'adhésion, conditionnant la fixation d'une date à la démonstration de son engagement dans la lutte contre la corruption. >>> LEMONDE.FR | Mardi 09 Novembre 2010

Les attaques contre les chrétiens d'Irak continuent
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: BAGDAD | Bagdad a encore souffert de 3 morts et 26 blessés mercredi matin dans des attaques contre des domiciles de chrétiens. La branche irakienne d’Al-Qaïda avait annoncé qu'elle viserait les chrétiens.

Une série d’attentats a visé mercredi matin les domiciles de chrétiens à Bagdad faisant trois morts et 26 blessés, selon une source du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ces nouveaux attentats anti-chrétiens surviennent dix jours après l’attaque meurtrière contre une église catholique de la capitale irakienne. >>> ATS / AFP | Mercredi 10 Novembre 2010

Österreich – Tezcan: "Warum habt ihr 110.000 Türken eingebürgert?"
DIE PRESSE: Der türkische Botschafter in Wien rechnet mit der gescheiterten Integrationspolitik ab und schont auch seine Landsleute nicht. Den Österreichern wirft er vor, sich nur im Urlaub für andere Kulturen zu interessieren.

Kadri Ecved Tezcan. Bild: Die Presse
Kadri Ecved Tezcan: Wollen Sie, dass ich im Interview als Diplomat antworte, was langweilig wird? Oder soll ich als jemand antworten, der seit einem Jahr in Wien lebt und viele Kontakte zu den 250.000 Türken hier hat?

Ich ziehe die zweite Variante vor. Was läuft bei der Integration der Türken in Österreich falsch?

Ich möchte eines vorweg sagen: Anders als Griechen oder Italiener begannen die Türken erst vor 35, 40 Jahren zu emigrieren. Österreich war übrigens das letzte Land, in das türkische Bürger kamen. Die Löhne in Deutschland waren höher.

Hat das zur Folge, dass es für Türken nicht einfach ist, sich an Regeln im Ausland anzupassen?

Das nicht. Ich wollte damit nur sagen, dass auch Einwanderer in den USA ihre Probleme hatten. Aber diese Probleme sind nun vergessen. Integration ist ein Prozess. Ich war vor fast zwanzig Jahren Generalkonsul in Hamburg. Jedes Jahr lud ich die Mädchen und Buben, die aufs Gymnasium aufgenommen wurden, in meine Residenz ein und gratulierte ihnen mit Geschenken. Es gab damals so wenige türkische Gymnasiasten. Heute könnte ich das in Österreich nicht tun, denn es gibt hierzulande ungefähr 2000 türkischstämmige Studenten, die hier geboren wurden, plus 20.000 türkische Gymnasiasten. Das ist wunderbar. >>> Von Christian Ultsch (Die Presse) | Dienstag, 09. November 2010

THE GUARDIAN: Austria treats Turks 'like a virus', ambassador claims: Kadri Ecved Tezcan causes diplomatic storm with interview accusing public and political elite of xenophobia >>> Ian Traynor, Europe editor | Thursday, November 11, 2010

FPÖ: ''Diplomatische Beziehungen zur Türkei aussetzen''
DIE PRESSE: Die FPÖ kritisiert die jüngsten Aussagen des türkischen Botschafters in Wien als "schier ungeheuerlich".

FPÖ-Generalsekretär Harald Vilimsky fordert die sofortige Aussetzung der diplomatischen Beziehungen Österreichs zur Türkei. Grund sind die Aussagen des türkischen Botschafters in Wien, Kadri Ecved Tezcan, im Interview mit der "Presse".

Es sei schier ungeheuerlich, was der oberste türkische Diplomat den Österreichern ausrichte und in keiner wie immer gearteten Weise akzeptabel, erklärte Vilimsky am Mittwoch in einer Aussendung. Der türkische Botschafter habe sich nicht nur massiv im Ton vergriffen, sondern einen Beweis mehr geliefert, dass die Türkei bzw. die türkische Mentalität niemals Teil der Europäischen Union werden könne, so Vilimsky. >>> | Mittwoch, 10. November 2010

Amnesty International fordert Anklage von George W. Bush: Einsatz von Waterboarding gegen einen Terrorverdächtigen erlaubt
NZZ ONLINE: Amnesty International hat die Anklage des früheren US-Präsidenten George W. Bush wegen seiner Anordnung zum Einsatz von Waterboarding gegen einen Terrorverdächtigen verlangt.

Die Regierung von Präsident Obama sei verpflichtet, strafrechtliche Schritte gegen Bush zu unternehmen, nachdem dieser sich in seinem am Dienstag veröffentlichten Memoiren zu dem Einsatz der umstrittenen Verhörmethode bekannte, sagte der Vertreter von Amnesty International, Rob Freer, am Dienstag. >>> sda/afp | Mittwoch, 10. November 2010

Matthew Norman: How did this wastrel ever find his way to the White House? : It takes a certain minimal intelligence for the truly dim to have a notion of their own dimness, but this is denied George Bush. He has the self-awareness of a bison >>> | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Barack Obama Reaches Out to Muslim World in Indonesia
THE GUARDIAN: US president urges all sides to look beyond 'suspicion and mistrust' to forge common ground against terrorism

President Barack Obama arrives on stage to deliver a speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. Photograph: The Guardian
In the Muslim nation that was his boyhood home, President Barack Obama acknowledged today that US relations are still frayed with the Islamic world despite his best efforts at repair. He urged all sides to look beyond "suspicion and mistrust" to forge common ground against terrorism.

Forcefully returning to a theme he sounded last year in visits to Turkey and Egypt, Obama said: "I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam ... Those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy."

Beaming with pride, Obama delivered perhaps the most intensely personal speech of his presidency, speaking phrases in Indonesian to a cheering crowd of more than 6,000 mostly young people who claimed him as their own. "Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia is part of me," he said in Indonesian at the University of Indonesia.

He praised the world's most populous Muslim nation for standing its ground against "violent extremism" and said: "All of us must defeat al-Qaida and its affiliates, who have no claim to be leaders of any religion. This is not a task for America alone." >>> Associated Press in Jakarta | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Guardian Photo Gallery: Barack Obama visits Indonesia: US president returns to Jakarta, where he lived for four years as a child, to meet the president and visit the country's largest mosque >>> | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

[Obama] said both sides have a choice: either "be defined by our differences and give in to a future of suspicion and mistrust" or "do the hard work of forging common ground and commit ourselves to the steady pursuit of progress." [Source: The Guardian]

Barack Obama Asia Trip: US President Reaches Out to Muslims in Indonesia
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama has acknowledged that US relations are still frayed with the Islamic world despite his best efforts and urged all sides to look beyond "suspicion and mistrust" to forge common ground against terrorism.

Speaking in Indonesia, where he lived from the ages of six to ten, he declared that "Indonesia is a part of me".

And he forcefully returned to a theme that he sounded last year in visits to Turkey and Egypt.

He said: "I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam. ... Those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy."

Beaming with pride, Mr Obama delivered perhaps the most intensely personal speech of his presidency, speaking phrases in Indonesian to a cheering crowd of more than 6,000 mostly young people who claimed him as their own. It felt oddly like one of the campaign speeches Mr Obama had been giving in the US, with music blaring over speakers inside the auditorium.

For Mr Obama's standing abroad, the speech was closely watched and consequential, an update on America's "new beginning" with Muslims that he promised last year in Cairo.

"Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia is part of me," he said in Indonesian at the University of Indonesia. Read on and comment >>> | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Muslim minister defends shaking Michelle Obama's hand: A conservative Muslim government minister admits he shook hands with Michelle Obama, the US First Lady, in welcoming her to Indonesia but says it was not his choice. >>> | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

THE GUARDIAN: Barack Obama returns to Jakarta and confesses 'I barely recognise it': Vist to capital of Indonesia – home to US president in 1960s – stripped to diplomatic essentials >>> Toni O'Loughlin in Jakarta | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

NZZ ONLINE: Obama im Land seiner Kindheit: Wirtschaftliche Beziehungen im Vordergrund des Staatsbesuchs >>> afp | Dienstag, 09. November 2010

LE TEMPS: Barack Obama, grand admirateur de l’Indonésie: Le président américain a érigé ce mercredi en modèle de tolérance et de démocratisation ce grand pays méconnu sur la scène internationale qu’il voit «jouer un rôle important au XXIe siècle» >>> AFP | Mercredi 10 Novembre 2010

German Feminist Calls Family Minister 'Hopeless' and 'Incompetent'
THE GUARDIAN: Alice S[c]hwarzer responds after her claim that heterosexual sex involves 'inevitable' subjugation of women was called 'absurd'

Germany's leading feminist campaigner and its minister for families, pensioners and women have locked horns over the role of feminism in relationships and the workplace, unsparingly attacking each other's views in a row that has escalated into a nationwide debate.

Alice Schwarzer, considered the country's foremost women's rights campaigner, labelled Kristina Schröder "hopeless" and "incompetent" after Schröder said she thought some of her views were wrong.

Schröder, 33, of the Christian Democratic union, was recruited by Angela Merkel and became the youngest woman ever in a German cabinet. She told Der Spiegel that she could not agree with certain views expressed by Schwarzer, including that "heterosexual sex was hardly possible without the subjugation of women".

Schröder said: "It's absurd to define something that is vital to the survival of humanity as subjugation." She said she was unconvinced by the feminist argument that rejecting heterosexual relationships in favour of homosexuality was a "solution to the disadvantage to women", and blamed boys' underperformance in school on the disproportionate number of female carers and teachers. She also rejected the idea of quotas to improve the standing of women in the workplace. >>> Kate Connolly in Berlin | Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Dhimmitude*! Judge Blocks Oklahoma Ban on Sharia Law
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A ban on sharia law that was voted into Oklahoma's state constitution last week has been blocked by a federal judge.

Sharia law is based on the teachings of the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
Voters in the state backed a measure to bar the use of Islamic and international law by 70 per cent to 30 per cent, in a referendum held on the same day as the US midterm elections.

However Muneer Awad, the head of the regional branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, promptly filed a lawsuit against it.

Mr Awad argued that the measure violated the right to religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

"Islam was the target of this amendment," Mr Awad said. "This amendment does not have a secular purpose."

Judge Vicki Miles LaGrange granted a temporary restraining order against the measure, in advance of a hearing on November 22. >>> Jon Swaine in New York | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

* My God are these lawyers STUPID! How can Shariah law possibly be compatible with the US Constitution? Or the Bill of Rights? Only a moron such as this judge could possibly give this credence. Fie on her! – © Mark

Christian Woman Sentenced to Death in Pakistan 'for Blasphemy'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A Christian woman has been sentenced to hang in Pakistan after being convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination.

Christian groups and human rights campaigners condemned the verdict and called for the blasphemy laws to be repealed.

Her supporters say she will now appeal against the sentence handed down in a local court in the town of Sheikhupura, near Lahore, Pakistan.

Ashiq Masih, her husband, said he had not had the heart to break the news to two of their children.

"I haven't told two of my younger daughters about the court's decision," he said. "They asked me many times about their mother but I can't get the courage to tell them that the judge has sentenced their mother to capital punishment for a crime she never committed." Mrs Bibi has been held in prison since June last year. >>> Rob Crilly in Islamabad and Aoun Sahi in Lahore | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

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Confiscated Jewish Wealth 'Helped Fund the German War Effort'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Jewish wealth confiscated by the Nazis paid for almost a third of the German war effort, a new study has found.

The Nazis made vast profits out of selling off the possessions of Jews who were later deported to die in the extermination camps in occupied Poland. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
Nearly 120 billion Reich marks – over £12 billion at the time – was plundered from German Jews by laws and looting.

The official study commissioned by the ministry examined the years from 1933 to 1945. Hans-Peter Ullmann, a Cologne history professor, said the tax authorities under the Nazis actively worked to "destroy Jews financially" and to loot wealth in the nations the Germans occupied.

Even Jews who managed to escape from Germany before the Holocaust had to leave part of their wealth behind in the form of an "exit tax". Tax laws discriminated against Jews from 1934 onwards.

The ministry raised money for the war effort through taxes, borrowing and "outright theft," Prof Ullmann said. "Conservatively, their money financed at least 30 per cent of the German war effort," he added.

Christine Kuller of the University of Munich, who also worked on the study, said tax offices built whole hierarchies of bureaucrats "who discovered dwellings and bank accounts and emptied them". The bureaucrats then disposed of all traces of those who disappeared in the extermination camps.

She added; "Post war there was a myth that the civil servants of the finance ministry were neutral; the reality was that anti-Semitism among them was an everyday occurrence." >>> Allan Hall in Berlin | Tuesday, November 09. 2010

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: German Foreign Ministry 'actively encouraged Holocaust': A German government report has concluded that German diplomats were complicit in the murder of millions of jews during the Second World War. >>> | Thursday, October 28, 2010

Obama Visits Indonesia Seeking to Build Bridges with Muslim World
THE GUARDIAN: US president returns to Jakarta, where he lived for four years as a child

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at an arrival ceremony at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photograph: The Guardian
Barack Obama arrrived in Jakarta today for a brief trip to Indonesia, where he lived for four years as a child.

On the second stop of his 10-day Asian tour, Obama will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, visit the country's largest mosque and deliver a speech supporting the country's democratic progress.

But the US president's visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation will last for less than 24 hours, and may have to be cut even shorter because of concerns that volcanic ash from Mount Merapi could disrupt his flights.

Speaking at a joint press conference with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Obama said he thought the US was on "the right path" to a better relationship with the Muslim world, but acknowledged that some "misunderstandings and mistrust" were likely to remain.

"What we're trying to do is make sure that we are building bridges and expanding our interactions with Muslim countries," he said.

Obama's visit to the Istiqlal mosque – the biggest in south-east Asia – is seen as his best chance to improve relations with the Muslim world since an address in Cairo last year. >>> Toni O’Loughlin in Jakarta | Tuesday, November 09, 2010

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