Obama reaches out to Muslims in boyhood home

US president Barack Obama told the Muslim nation that was his boyhood home that American relations with the Islamic world were still frayed, but urged all sides to look beyond “suspicion and mistrust” to forge common ground against terrorism.

Forcefully returning to a theme he sounded last year in visits to Turkey and Egypt, Mr Obama said in Indonesia: “I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam. ... Those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy.”