President Obama plans to make his first presidential visit to an American mosque on Wednesday to deliver a message about religioustolerance — and to challenge what he sees as Republican intolerance on the campaign trail.<br />The president will visit theIslamic Society of Baltimore, one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest Muslim centers, to urge Americans to embrace the diversity of their neighbors, including the millions of Muslim citizens.<br />While he won’t mentionDonald Trump or any other GOP candidates by name, one top aide said,Obama wants to speak out against what he sees as a strain of Islamaphobia aimed at playing on fears of domestic terrorism.<br />“The kind of rhetoric that we’ve seen from Republicans didn’t just emanate from Mr. Trump,” saidJosh Earnest, the White House press secretary.<br />“It has,unfortunately, infected our political debate in a way that doesn’t reflect the values that are so central to the founding of our country.
