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Obama shifts tactics on Muslim outreach: Changes greeted with hope and skepticism

Nearly a year after President Obama told an audience in Cairo that America wanted a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, evidence of that policy shift has, in recent months, become hard to ignore.

The Obama administration is revising national security guidelines, and officials have also reversed three-month-old guidelines that singled out passengers on flights arriving from 13 Muslim countries, as well as Cuba, for mandatory screening.

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