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Obama's Cairo speech
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
Obama's Cairo speech wasn't bad. Nor did I expect it to be. Read about the whole thing here. Speeches are what Obama does. He does them well. Of course, some disagree. I have a relative like Obama. He says what you want to hear. On any particular issue he says one thing to one person in my family, and another thing to another member. I don't think he is dishonest, he simply wants to agree or please the person he is talking to. What happens though, is when you discover that he has said something very different to someone else than what he said to you, ...
"Platitudes and naivete"
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Thursday, June 04, 2009 [image] "Platitudes and naivete" [ Andy McCarthy ] That's Robert Spencer's read on the president's Cairo speech at Jihad Watch and he grounds it in lots of analysis. 06/04 09:43 AM [image] Share [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | ...
Cairo Reactions: Conservatives Go Past 'Apology' Meme
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... Robert Spencer
at Jihad Watch calls the speech a "flourish of naive Rodney-Kingism,"
and writes that only Muslims are supposed to offer the greeting
assalaamu alaykum, which Obama offered today, to one another. ...
Reviews of Obama's speech in Cairo
Hyscience —
... Then, there's also Robert Spencer's important, must-read, post: Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech. For example, here's Speicner's response to Obama's comment that "Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims: ...
Hearing What Obama Said in Cairo
Opinionator —
... and tanks which killed some 1,500 people in the besieged Gaza Strip during December 2008-January 2009? Why didn’t Obama mention that Israel bombed homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, and refugee camps? Is this not violence? Is the Egyptian-Israeli siege of the entire Gaza Strip not violence? Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch offers an detailed, virtually line-by-line reading of the speech, beginning with the president’s beginning, in which Obama uttered the phrase assalaamu alaykum. That, says Spencer, is improper : According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting ...
Obama's "Holy Koran" Is Not the "Wholly Koran"
The Corner on National Review Online —
... might and main for mischief through the land, is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: That is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter.* I must say that some of that sounds even worse than waterboarding. But, in any event, it's hard to see how ignoring it is consistent with forming a partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn t. [ Hat tip, Robert Spencer .] __________________ * I'm quoting from one of the copies of the Koran ...
Platitudes and naivete: Obama’s Cairo speech
Israpundit —
by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, June 4, 2009
Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4 — with my comments interspersed:
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
…whose Grand Sheikh, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has given his approval — on Islamic grounds — to suicide bombing.
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a ...
alicublog — ... , in his surprisingly sober assessment, sees fit to wonder if it comes up to Ted White's definition of a "great speech," as if Obama's might have been expected to shake the ground rather than to clear a path. This presumption is also seen in Obama's sterner critics, who think he was "naive"* and cavil that "he is following George W. Bush and every influential American politician, diplomat, and analyst." In a word, duh. Obama is attempting to relaunch America's relationship with the Muslim world without dismantling it. Such changes as he has made are already ...
' Note that he avoids saying his father was a Muslim, which would open him to charges of apostasy'
five feet of fury. (global warming: the loch ness monster of weather.) —
Robert Spencer explains all the crap in Obama's
crappy speech:
The idea that Islamic culture was once a beacon of learning and enlightenment is a commonly held myth.
In fact, much of this has been exaggerated, often for quite transparent apologetic motives. The astrolabe was
developed, if not perfected, long before Muhammad was born. The zero, which is often attributed to Muslims, and what we know
today as “Arabic numerals” did not originate in Arabia, but in pre-Islamic India. ...
McCarthy: Making Believe
Articles on National Review Online —
... world that the president glossed occurred despite Islam (particularly in the areas of literature, art, and music) or are more properly understood as the accomplishments (especially in science and architecture) of better-educated peoples whom Muslims conquered. The president rehearsed the claim that Islam single-handedly carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe s Renaissance and Enlightenment. This is a myth. As Robert Spencer has ably recounted , it is not true that Muslims alone preserved the works of Aristotle, Galen, Plato, ...
Larwyn's Linx: A 10-Minute Leadership Course
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... World Quick notes on Obama's speech : Elder of Ziyon The Fragile Flame of Freedom : Doc Zero "Islam... carried the light of learning through so many centuries" : Instapundit [image] Cairo Reaction Roundup : Founding Is there a war? : Atlas Frum analyzes Cairo speech : HyScience US lawmakers say Saudi texts incite hatred : Maktoob Top Ten Mistakes in Cairo : Telegraph The End of a Strategic Alliance : Glick Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech : Spencer Media Virginian Pilot and the ...
Sound and Fury in Cairo
Gates of Vienna —
... Other bloggers and writers have provided excellent analyses of this speech. Robert Spencer does the best job of fisking it at Jihad Watch, and ...
Obama’s Cairo Address: Distortions, Fabrications, Inaccuracies, Exaggerations, and Outright Fallacies.
Pajamas Media —
... of history scholars. [image]“In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a highway robber who tied travel ers to his bed and made them fit; if their legs were too short, he stretched them; if they were too long, he cut them off.” — Dictionary of Classical Mythology President Barack Obama’s famous (or infamous) Cairo address of June 4, 2009, has been subjected to the unrelenting scrutiny of many reputable observers and distinguished political scholars — and found egregi o u sly wanting . It is replete with distortions, ...
Dershowitz, Paglia and Obama: When Good Liberals Go Wrong
Pajamas Media —
... worked out between Israel and the former American administration, his patently skewed Cairo address that equated the Holocaust with Palestinian suffering and tellingly ignored the historical and continued presence of the Jewish people in the Holy Land, his appointing manifestly anti-Israeli figures like ...
