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Barack Hussein Obama and the Muslim world.

Hello again, I'm Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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In his first visit to a Muslim country as president, Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament

today, the U.S. is not and never will be at war with Islam.

He invoked his Muslim father and his residence in a Muslim country.

He also called Turkey's secular democracy a model for the 21st century.

Today, we'll talk about Turkey's importance to the U.S. and the Western countries

and about the so-called soft but conservative religious conversion of Islamic youth worldwide.

On reporter's notebook later on, the Obama administration and reduction of nuclear weapons. First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren Olney, back with To the Point. In Turkey today, President Obama is making

good on his promise to reach

out to the Muslim world. We'll hear about Turkey's importance as a strategic ally and a bridge

to the rest of Islam and will discuss the growth of independent conservative religious thinking

among young Muslim people around the world. On reporter's notebook, President Obama makes it a goal

of the U.S. to eliminate nuclear weapons. First, this news update, the tolls of deaths, injuries, and homeless are rising in central Italy,

where a 6.3 magnitude earthquake has destroyed villages and seriously damaged the 13th century city of Laquilla.

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