“Under the past administration, there was a feeling that the Islamic world was a group of terrorists, Islam was hated and Muslims should be watched and that the previous administration was scared of any Muslim,” Mubarak said in an interview with state television, according to Reuters.

“But Obama came and said, ‘We will not fight Muslims and Islam.’ He is a sympathetic man and says the United States will not fight Islam because Islam is a heavenly religion,” he said.