[domeika]

He seems to know the koran blood-soaked cover to blood soaked cover. In fact, there was a story out there by the fawning press years ago (that seems to have disappeared) that Obama, in front of the reporter, sang the muslim call to prayer and the dutiful dhimmi said it was one of the most "beautiful things they ever heard". Someone please find that.

[zzeeman]

Someone please find that.

“Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
- from “Obama: Man of the World” by By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, The New York Times, March 6, 2007

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1