I read most of it, and while yes, that part is also offensive, it isn’t nearly as offensive as his attack on Christianity and his dismissal of the holocaust.
But for the part you cite: According to Obama, the future belongs to people who care so little about religion that they can’t distinguish between Christianity and Islam, two belief systems that are antithetical to one another. And it belongs only to women, and it has to be educated women.
I’ll assume he isn’t trying to claim that his daughters can’t live THEIR dreams, that he was speaking in some universal language of “tolerance of everybody that we like, and silencing of everybody we don’t like”.
Because in the end, he has declared intolerance to people who actually hold beliefs, people who think a particular world-view is important. Those of us who believe in absolutes are ridiculed by this president, in favor of those who don’t think there are any standards EXCEPT that we must accept whatever perversions they foist upon us or else we will be crushed.
You totally lost me. Where in that speech did Obama dismiss the Holocaust or say that the future belongs only to educated women?
In the speech I read, he said that those who condemn the slander of Islam’s prophet must also condemn the hate displayed by Holocaust deniers. With respect to women, he said the future must be shaped by girls who have the opportunity to go to school and by those who believe that little girls should have the chance to live their dreams just like little boys do.