Was Obama’s Cairo Speech A Response To Air France Flight 447

LuckyBogey's Blog ^ | June 11, 2009 | LuckyBogey

[luckybogey]

This afternoon I finally had a change to read Obama's Cairo speech and I was dumbfounded to understand why the below was included at the end of the speech:

"We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country."

"This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive. But it's being challenged in many different ways. Among some Muslims, there's a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of somebody else's faith."

..."it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit, for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear."

Was this specifically added to the speech after the Air France disaster? If so, why and who specifically is he talking to? We are told that Mr. Obama is a scholar and Ivy League educated. He is a student of religion and its history and I can't figure out why he would have made such an incorrect version of the Iberian history? This was no mistake? Did the speech writer insert this section because of Intel briefings on Flight 447?

The American Government knows far more than is what is being written and stated in the media on the Argentine Bomb Threat, Rio Airport bomb threat, and probable clause of the Air France Flight 447 disaster. My daughter and granddaughter will be flying next week. The American public deserves to know that we can fly without the worry of air safety or terrorism.

[Red_Devil 232]

We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition.

Bambi just does not know history, does he?

[muawiyah]

There were 2 known terrorists on board the flight. No doubt Obama knew that before it took off.

[ml/nj]

dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear

What a putz! It is not the Jews who dictate what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.

ML/NJ

[saquin]

Huh? I honestly don’t understand what you’re talking about and how you think it relates to Air France Flight 447.

[luckybogey]

Iberian Peninsula (Wikipedia)

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France. It is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas—the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean.

[luckybogey]

muawiyah: Here you go. I fixed it for you.... There were 2 known terrorists on board the flight. No doubt Obama knew that before it took off he gave the speech.

[muawiyah]

Well, whichever was earlier ~ speech, flight boarding, in a call on his blackberry a month ago ~ I’m sure he knew about it.

[saquin]

I know what the Iberian Peninsula is. I still don’t know what in the heck your post is talking about.

[luckybogey]

I suggest you read the entire Blog Post and not just the Excerpt.

[saquin]

I did. It still makes no logical sense.

[luckybogey]

Dara: If you don’t understand History, I can’t help you.

[saquin]

Cut the attitude. It’s obvious from the dearth of replies to your post that no one else here thought your post made any sense either.