Obama to beam message to Irish Muslim entrepreneurs
25 April 2010 By John Burke, Public Affairs CorrespondentUS president Barack Obama will address Irish-Muslim businesspeople and community leaders during a two-day entrepreneurship event this week.
Obama’s message on the benefits and opportunities of enterprise will be broadcast over the internet from Washington to a gathering in Dublin of Irish Muslims from the worlds of trade, investments and markets.
During the presidential entrepreneurship summit, the president will speak about developing closer links between the Muslim community and providing the capability and funds to develop new business and co-operative networks.
The US embassy in Ireland is hosting the Muslim business people and community leaders at Boston College on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Tuesday. Other Muslim leaders across the globe will also participate in Obama’s entrepreneurship summit.
The idea for the event, which will bring together Muslims with an interest in developing close business links, dates back to an address Obama gave last year in Cairo. He announced a vision for a new beginning that would ‘‘deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs’’ in Muslim communities around the world.
The Irish event begins on Tuesday at 12.30pm at Boston College, where the US embassy will stage a meet-and-greet, lunch and a discussion on Obama’s ‘Cairo objectives’ and his initial address to the global conference, which starts tomorrow.
After the discussion, the Irish participants will plug into a live online broadcast of the summit, where ‘‘the important discussion will be on entrepreneurship and enabling business’’, according to the US embassy’s director of public affairs, Karyn Posner-Mullen.
Among the community leaders taking part in the Dublin leg of the summit are Mubarak Habib, who owns Maasail and Adventures, a travel agency that runs tours to Kenya.
It offers a visit to the village of Kogelo, where Obama’s father was born and raised. The other participants include Manan Hameed, whose family are connected to the Madina Asian Food Company, and Hyat Syed of the Kohinoor Company, a Dublin-based food company.
The themes of Obama’s summit are identifying entrepreneurs, developing training and education programmes, university partnerships and mentorships, developing networks to foster innovative programmes, and funding entrepreneurship projects.
Obama has said that the aim of the summit is to convene leading entrepreneurs from Muslim communities around the world and start ‘‘new conversations exploring how to rise above current challenges’’.
They will share resources and lessons learned from the US public and private sectors, and forge relationships with US public and private bodies and overseas partners to develop innovative solutions to commonlyshared problems.
In the final stages of the process, the US hopes to develop and sustain the entrepreneurship networks generated through the summit.
That will involve supporting locally-run annual regional conferences to which Ireland’s Muslim community would also contribute.
Interested parties can plug directly into the Obama summit next week and hear the president’s address by logging on at www.entrepreneurship.gov/summit.
This Monday and Tuesday our Islam loving President, will be holding a conference on entrepreneurship with Muslims. Catering to Muslims is a failed policy, which can easily be seen in the UK. That will not stop Obama though, as he is intend on trying to force us to respect the Islamic world. Don’t cave in!
Thanks for the information, really appreciated
So Mr Hate-preacher, Are you against this. What about if Obama extends such invitation to the Zionist occupiers.
Go to Hell
Obama is doing for the best for America
and you are preaching and spreading a hate. Do you hate his colour.
Yes you hate his Colour and Islam both so you are fascist, racist, propogandist Stupid Hate preacher.
Doesn't the koran say that blacks are only fit to be slaves? What is it you arselifters call blacks in arabpig? It means slave, doesn't it?
You are going to have to do much better than the race card, and Obama is destroying America. Catering to Muslims is a failed policy, and the UK is a perfect example of that.
Using your "logic", Jews were wrong for speaking out against Nazism.
Islam is what preaches hate.
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YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
If Islam is so great, why do Muslims need the help of the infidels?
Because arselifters are inept. 1,400 years of pislam and next to nothing to show for it. No great numbers of inventions or patents, no great universities in the top 1,000, no great hospitals, no great thinkers or philosophers, no great achievements in the arts. Even the Nobel Prize makes them look stupid – especially when compared to Israel.
And, yes, it didn't take the fool long to reach for the race card. Usually the last ploy for trolls. Guess he's too dumb to try anything else.
Muslims only get Nobel prizes for killing Jews (Arafat).
Arabfat died of AIDS, didn't he?
He did.
Imagine his surprise when he found that it wasn't perpetual dames awaiting him in the afterlife but . . . perpetual flames.
It will be worse than that once his wife meets up with him.
"Go to Hell"
How can you expect to go to Heaven when you serve someone who not only commanded and practiced genocide, pedophilia, rape, mutilation, torture, slavery, religious and gender apartheid, wife-beating, polygyny, theft, extortion, deceit, and blasphemy, but claimed that god wanted him — and you — to do so?
What about a genocidal pedophile screams out "prophet of god" to you?
They seem to ignore the fact that Mahound broke all of The Ten Commandments. Six alone in one day –
http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_cont…
Ahmed…
You need "A Med"
Wrong, it’s called rasistfascistnaziislamophobia!
Hey Amed
Hey Mohammed please point out exactly where the occupation of the zionists is occuring?
http://is.gd/bHVeN
Stop trying to get the Christians to murder the jews you piece of lying Islam shit.
Ahmed, the eternal fire is awaiting you. Why wait if you can go to the BBQ party already now? Byeeee!!!
"Irish Muslim Entrepreneurs"
Of which one of those three topics does B. Hussein actually know anything?
Oh, gee, now you've put us on the spot!
He does know about Islam, unfortunately he protects it.
Irish arselifting entrepreneurs? There can't be too many of those, can there?
I doubt it, but Obama is leaving no stone unturned, in his quest to please the Islamic world.
Yes, it will be Eskimo arselifters next.
I'll hope they run into a few leprechauns in the meanwhile. I don't know how serious the modern irish are about such things but they supposedly still are on Iceland though. They supposedly have to check with the "little people" first before they build roads or buildings. I wish the followers of mahound all the ill luck in this world. Like if they happen to run into a place where there is serious paranormal activity going on. Something like the Skinwalker Ranch. They wouldn't be so cocky after a couple of nights there hehehe…
You might want to read this –
http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_cont…
Dublin is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Of course, I thought when I read it, they fought before catholics and protestants so the peace there is fragile. Then I realized that it is muslims, arabs and black people, that holding Dublin in fear. Then I thought, why I am not surprised…….