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Obama: US Must Listen Not Dictate To Middle-east
Riehl World View —
... Peace, love and understanding. Yes, what is it Iran really means when it threatens to wipe Israel off the map? Hmm? The only thing I can think of that we have dictated to them is that some factions must renounce violence. How mean of us! ...
Al-Hopiyah, Al Changiyah
Jules Crittenden —
... Farouk: Look, Achmed. Ali, come quick. The new president of Amerikiyah, Hussein Obama, is being interviewed upon al-Arabiyah! Even before he speaks to his own people upon the TV, he speaks to us! He speaks of our righteous Jihad against the filthy Zionists! It is true what they say … is he not charming? I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what’s happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And what I’ve said, and I think Hillary ...
The Al-Arabiya Move
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... is unremarkable and should be utterly uncontroversial. Bush tried for a while to do the same. But Karen Hughes is not exactly Barack Obama. And the simple gesture of choosing an Arab media outlet for his first televised interview as president is extremely powerful. It has the elegance of a minimalist move with maximalist aims. It is about the same thing as inviting Rick Warren or supping with George Will: it's about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
This respect came with the following astonishing words: Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/27/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Obama’s Interview on Arab Television [JD: Transcript and video at URL. Note excerpt below where he lists Muslim first…] President Obama reached out to the Muslim world Monday in an exclusive interview on Arab television network Al Arabiya. “In all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I’ve come to understand is that regardless of your faith — and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers — regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common ...
The Mailed Fist and the Velvet Glove
Antiwar.com Original —
P resident Obama's interview with al-Arabiya television is remarkable in several ways, but what strikes me the most is that it coincided with the first air strikes on Pakistan under his administration: ...
Charles Krauthammer sets the record straight on US/Muslim relations
Sister Toldjah —
... As most of us expected, President Obama began his presidency by “reaching out” to the Muslim world in his inaugural speech, and then again in his first interview as President - which he did with al-Arabiya. The tone on both occasions was apologetic in nature (in a way that only liberals have mastered), as if to suggest that the US had been nothing but hostile to both Muslims and Muslim nations for the last 20 or so years. This is false. ...
