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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
In Syria, a group of radical Palestinian factions, including Hamas, released a statement calling Obama's speech "an attempt to mislead people." But in a letter, Hamas Foreign Ministry official Ahmed Youssef invited Obama to visit Gaza, writing that...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 5 months ago
Anyone in Israel who is unhappy with Barack Obama's speech in Cairo will have a hard time to come up with a good reason. Indeed, the quick and completely undignified reaction of the settler movement only served to underline the fact that beyond...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
US media has hailed President Barack Obama’s call for a new beginning with the Muslim world, saying while his speech was sparse in detail it marked a historic break with the past. “His message was sweeping and forceful, at times scolding and...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 5 months ago
All during the campaign, the use of his middle name was decried as a subtle form of racism, suggesting his Muslim roots, but when he took the oath of office, there it was and, in Cairo, Obama stressed those same roots...His Cairo speech, however, was...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 5 months ago
There is a change between the language of President Obama and previous speeches made by George Bush ," said Fawzi Barhoum , a spokesman for Hamas . But he added that Obama did not specifically note the suffering in Gaza following the three-week...
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News Source: Daily Nation
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama’s call for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim world was received cautiously by Muslim leaders in Kenya. Although the clerics welcomed Mr Obama’s overtures, delivered in a lengthy speech at Cairo...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 5 months ago
Mr Obama, fresh from talks in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah and with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, drew applause as he sprinkled his text with allusion to the Koran and the Bible. In the university's imposing domed Great Hall, Mr Obama said the...
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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
Barack Obama must have said something right if Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran and the Jewish settlers on the West Bank all lined up to denounce his speech to the Arab and Muslim worlds. Critics may point out that the US President did not...
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News Source: The Economist
| 5 months ago
Arabic daily, it went on to express hope that in his speech at Cairo University, the American president would show support for Egyptian aspirations to freedom and dignity. Those words were penned 99 years ago in advance of a lecture by Theodore...
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News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called for a long war against "infidels and their agents" and warned Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would turn them into apostates. Bin Laden's remarks came in a recording, parts of which had been...