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Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt

President to tackle US-Muslim relations on first Middle Eastern trip

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(Newser) – President Obama will travel to Egypt next month to deliver a speech aimed at mending America's relationship with the Muslim world, McClatchy Newspapers reports. Egypt is a politically risky choice due to President Hosni Mubarak's heavy-handed autocratic rule, but a White House spokesman said the country "in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world" and that the speech would be pitched at ordinary Muslims, not their leaders.

"The issues of democracy and human rights are things that are on the president's mind, and we'll have a chance to discuss those in more depth on the trip," the spokesman said. Obama will make the speech on June 4, probably in Cairo, and then travel to France for the commemoration of D-Day and to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

A White House spokesman said President Obama's speech to Muslims is part of the administration's continuing effort to ensure safety and security in the US and the Muslim world.
A White House spokesman said President Obama's speech to Muslims is part of the administration's continuing effort to ensure safety and security in the US and the Muslim world.   (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
An Egyptian newspaper vendor sits in front of newspapers depicting the inauguration of Barack Obama, in Cairo, Egypt.
An Egyptian newspaper vendor sits in front of newspapers depicting the inauguration of Barack Obama, in Cairo, Egypt.   (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
President Barack Obama gestures, as he arrives at the Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 5, 2009.
President Barack Obama gestures, as he arrives at the Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 5, 2009.   (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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prowlerzee
May 9, 09 8:55 AM CDT
We don't need to "mend" --- they need to catch up to the 21st century. Yeah, the Bush-Cheney administration screwed everything up...that doesn't change the fact that the world owes the toxic plague of fundamental extremists NOTHING and they owe all humans BASIC RIGHTS. If Brand Zero, who is a misogynistic pig himself who praises sexist rap stars and treats his own wife like crap---answering for her on televised interviews, saying she "has to be a mom first" and laying down the law that they weren't allowed to get a "girly dog"---doesn't tell the Muslims to stop the gender apartheid they practice, then he is useless. And he won't. Even when Afghanistan wrote child rape into law, the most Zerobama would say is that human rights is an "ideal" but "not a priority." Useless. And save your breaths, you future moronic posters, who say that draping women, forbidding them to drive or work, forbidding doctors to touch them, chopping their sex organs out, throwing acid in their faces for going to school, stoning them to death for getting raped, and beheading them in "honor killings" is simply Muslim "culture." That's NOT CULTURE, get it? Reply
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freethemall
May 9, 09 11:59 AM CDT
All these bad things the Muslims do, they do because that's what their religion tells them to do. If Jews and Christians followed their religion as religiously as many Muslims follow theirs, they would do things just about as bad. An example of similar behavior by devout Christians would be the inquisition.
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Mad
May 9, 09 12:29 PM CDT
When Obama speaks the world listens carefully. Obama wants to make a speech on human rights to 1/3 the wolds population. Why does that scare you so? Why do concepts like honor, truth, clemency, equality, fairness, piss off republicans? Bush held the world's stage, and at the end, they threw shoes at him. Your time is over. Republicans ARE the weakest link - Goodbye!
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Fondue
May 9, 09 9:08 AM CDT
Prowlerzee, I'm on your side with this, however progress takes time and hard work. No matter how great anyone thinks Obama is, he is not going to be able to just say "You know, um, look...this stuff is bad....stop it". Those things you mentioned not being culture are still ingrained within their society. It takes time for things like that to change unfortunately. But there is hope. Every time one of those disgusting acts happens, someone who witnesses the act turns against it - at least I hope there is. Reply
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NutsInNY
May 9, 09 3:24 PM CDT
How you can say you are on the side of prowlerzee's is beyond me... Such an overgeneralizing moron; folks like that are the problem. (I suppose the Somali clerics organizing opposition to the pirates in Somali waters are not "CULTURE" either?)
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