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President Obama on Wednesday embraced Muslims in the United States as part of "one American family" and implicitly criticized the Republican presidential candidates in a warning to citizens to not be "bystanders to bigotry."
In a visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, his first to a mosque in the United States as president, Mr. Obama recited phrases from the Quran and praised American Muslims as a crucial part of America's history and vital to the nation's future.
"And so if we're serious about freedom of religion — and I'm speaking now to my fellow Christians who remain the majority in this country — we have to understand an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths," Mr. Obama said.