The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, stopped by a mosque outside Baltimore on Thursday evening for Iftar, the fast-breaking meal during the month of Ramadan, when practicing Muslims don't eat or drink during daylight hours. "I don't consider coming to your mosque to be anything extraordinary," Neller said, in his brief remarks. But such a visit wasn't ordinary, either. As the Marines' top general, Neller is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which advises the president. Last year President Donald Trump skipped Iftar, ending a 20-year tradition of hosting a Ramadan dinner at the White House. In his remarks to the 100 or so Ahmadi Muslims present, Neller gestured to Mansoor Shams, the former Marine who invited him. "He's a Marine and he asked me to come and I said yes," said Neller. This year Trump did host a dinner, last Wednesday night. The guests were mostly foreign dignitaries. No mainstream American Muslim leaders were invited. "And that points to a
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