In the first TV interview of his presidency with Al-Arabiya, a Saudi-financed and Dubai-based TV channel, Obama said: "It is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated."
The Islamic world is going to be at the heart of the Obama administration's foreign policy note George Mitchell's interventions in the Palestine-Israeli conflict, Richard Holbrooke's exertions in Afghanistan-Pakistan, the withdrawal from Iraq and the nascent engagement with Iran.
It couldn't get better for India. Even as New Delhi glowed after Obama rapped Pakistan's knuckles early on for not doing enough to fight the war against terrorism, the US president's willingness to examine the complexities of Islamist politics has opened a new door for Indian engagement.
With the second largest population of Muslims in the world, India is uniquely positioned because every strain of Islamic thought is found in this country. From the mystic Sufis to Wahhabis, from the Deobandis to the Hanafis and the Salafis, from Kashmiriyat to Kerala's Mappilas and Tamil Nadu's Maraikkayars, they're all here.
http://newageislam.com/the-new-great-game--bring-in-iran/islam-and-the-west/d/1206
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Moderate Islamist here
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