Obama Prayer Room
Obama toured the mosque.
Obama prayer room. Published on feb 9 2015 a graphic claims that president obama hung a muslim prayer curtain in the white house. Bush bill clinton george h w. The rumor that president obama installed a muslim prayer curtain in the white house is false. Bush and ronald reagan.
A series of images purportedly showing islamic writing a sink and a prayer room in president obama s white house actually come from different and unrelated locations. The claim further states that he spoke to the press while standing in front of a muslim prayer curtain. A popular photograph on social media shows former u s. What the photograph does in fact show is president obama removing his shoes per custom before entering the famous sultan ahmed mosque blue mosque in istanbul during his april 2009 state visit to turkey.
These are simply gold curtains which adorn the east room of the white house. Although it is true that president obama chose not to host an ecumenical service in the east room of the white house in observance of the national day of prayer as his predecessor president george. Then obama told his own conversion story to those attending the national prayer breakfast in february 2009 just two weeks after he was sworn in as president. Viral messages circulating since may 2010 feature an image of former president barack obama holding a white house press conference with no american flags on display claiming that he is the first u s.
I was not. Finally obama doesn t pray in mosques. He didn t pray in it. President to do so.
In remarks obama noted that the white house hosts an iftar dinner each year and said that the eid event was a way to do something a little different for his last year as president. There were a bunch of tweets in december 2016 and january 2017 suggesting that potus44 i e. President barack obama alongside former u s. The fake news story was based on a real photo of ahmadi muslims praying in the white house china room during a special celebration of the muslim holiday eid al fitr in july.
Updated december 11 2015 originally published november 2013.