LONDON: Will he or won’t he? His predecessors did. The first was as long ago as 1805. But as the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump is nothing if not a mold-breaker. Which is why, in 2017, he became the first president for more than 20 years not to host an Iftar during Ramazan or for Eid-ul-Fitr. This year, however, rumor has it that there will be an Iftar gathering at the White House “in early June,” although official confirmation has so far proved hard to come by. Relations between the new US administration and Muslims were hardly friendly during Ramadan last year. On the campaign trail in 2015, leading up to the election in November 2016, the president called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the US. Among the first acts of the new administration was an attempt to restrict entry into the US for citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a policy that is still being challenged and counter-challenged in the courts.
05-31-2018, 02:34 PM
Iftar at White House: Trump?s recipefor reconciliationin Ramazan
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