I find it very compelling that she is becoming one of the rational and BRAVE voices of our party....keep it up Liz!
I also have to say I went back and read the speech again this hour in its entirety. I am deeply disturbed by it; most alarming to me is Obama’s pattern once again of using I...I...I..as if he is the sole moral compass by which the world must navigate. Scary stuff.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026426.php
Platitudes and naivete: Obama’s Cairo speech
Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4 — with 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 source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting — Peace be upon you — to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say, “Peace be upon those who are rightly guided,” i.e., Peace be upon the Muslims. Islamic law is silent about what Muslims must do when naive non-Muslim Islamophilic Presidents offer the greeting to Muslims.