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President Bush gives remarks before start of Iftaar dinner at the White House President Bush listens to Iman Abdullah Muhammad Khoul deliver a prayer before the start of the Iftaar dinner at the White House U.S. commemorative stamp: EID Greetings Two men share a rice and lamb dish to break their Ramadan fast at New York City mosque Two women and a child dish up food as they end their day of fasting in observance of Ramadan in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A silhouette crosses an inscribed glass panel inside New York City mosque Ismail Syed reads from the Quran at New York city mosque U.S. Navy sailors of Islamic faith pray in the chapel aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Taha Tawil leads men in prayer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, mosque
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 President Bush gives remarks at White House Ramadan dinner
President Bush, center, gives remarks before the start of Iftaar Dinner at the State Dining room of the White House on Monday, November 19, 2001, in Washington. Iftaar begins at sunset during Ramadan, when practicing Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset for a lunarmonth.
(AP/WWP Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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