{"id":97,"date":"2010-04-27T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/with-business-summit-obama-continues-outreach-to-muslim-world.html"},"modified":"2010-04-27T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:30:00","slug":"with-business-summit-obama-continues-outreach-to-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/with-business-summit-obama-continues-outreach-to-muslim-world.html","title":{"rendered":"With Business Summit, Obama Continues Outreach to Muslim World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/19\/us\/politics\/19muslim.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\"> ongoing efforts to repair America&#8217;s relationship&nbsp;with the Islamic world<\/a>, President Obama is hosting a gathering of Muslim enterpreneurs in Washington this week. The two-day&nbsp;Presidential Summit on Entrepeneurship has brought together about 250 people from more than&nbsp;50 countries, <u><font color=\"#0066cc\">Agence France-Presse reports.<\/font><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The AFP notes that in his opening remarks, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke explained that boosting Muslim business also&nbsp;helps improve U.S. security and trade. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/0426\/At-summit-on-entrepreneurship-Obama-s-approach-to-Muslim-world-on-display\">The Christian Science Monitor has more on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will close the summit today, followed by a breakfast recognizing Muslim women enterpreneurs tomorrow. Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Edrogan has offered to host near year&#8217;s gathering; until then,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/04\/obama-to-muslim-world-a-new-beginning-has-started\/1\">USA Today reports that <\/a>Obama plans to set up exchange programs&nbsp;so that enterpreneurs from Silicon Valley and Muslim-majority countries can continue sharing their expertise on technology, health care, education and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his ongoing efforts to repair America&#8217;s relationship&nbsp;with the Islamic world, President Obama is hosting a gathering of Muslim enterpreneurs in Washington this week. 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