that Obama speech

"Asaad Abu-Khalil, writing in his Angry Arab Blog severely criticizes Obama for failing to break from the rhetoric of previous administrations: “It was compiled together from various different elements that were contained in speeches of US presidents before, including speeches by none other than George W. Bush.” Abu-Khalil, like el-Hamalawy
slams the choice of Al-Azhar as the sponsor of the event, because under “American puppets, Sadat and Mubarak, Al-Azhar became a force of obscurantism, fanaticism, misogyny, religious intolerance, and violence.” (thanks Mohamad)

Posted on June 20, 2009 by As'ad