Obama's Egypt Speech - The World Reacts

You forget that Panama Juan McCain was born OUTSIDE the Canal Zone area that would have given him full American citizenship - good thing he had anchor parents, huh.

But at least he has much in common with Panamanians.

How about some respect for the hard working taxpayers in our country. Many of us do not feel respected by our President at the moment, but I am pleased foreigners like him.....why? President Obama is sorely misguided.

Crap, nothing but crap comes out of that mans mouth

Like the first interview he gave with Al-Arabiya, he continues to come across as apologetic for the poor relations between the US and Muslim world. He never has called out the leaders of the Islamic countries to police their own and increase their efforts in rooting out extremists who are against the US. If there were known extremist groups in our country plotting to kill as many Muslims as possible, you know we would all over them.
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I bet you hate it when foreign leaders point out to us all the bad things WE do.

As for us being all over the extremist groups in our country - did you miss the outcry from the Republican Party over the recent release of the Homeland Security report that discussed right-wing extremist groups in America??

Now why would the Republican Party rush to defend Right-Wing extremists??

Clinton was in their country, which is a theocracy. She showed respect as a foreign dignitary should by wearing a jihab. We are a secular nation, therefore we do not have required religous garb. Contrary to what some people feel and try to change we are a nation of man's laws not gods.

"Obama stands beside Hillary while she is 'forced' to wear the muslim garb, and badmouths the US. NOW the US can feel shame."

EXACTLY.

Did you miss the pictures of Orthodox Jews stoning women who dared to pray at the Wailing Wall? I believe that their is a Jewish prayer wherein the Jew thanks God for not making him a woman. And how about that nut group in NY who hung a curtain on a public bus to separate men from women?? Gee, seems like these folks have trouble with the concept of democracy.

Oh sure because women and men are TOTALLY equal in America. And Hilary wasn't forced to wear the hijab; most of the Muslim countries are becoming more and more secular and contemporary. However, it is a sign of respect for the country seeing as how she's a GUEST at THEIR country. Your comment screams ignorance and Islamophobia.

So what do women wear when they enter into the vatican. I seem to remember Laura Bush wearing a head scarf when meeting the pope. Being respectful in other peoples country is not giving up on our secularism.

I'm an American Jew and I sure feel Obama speaks for me!

Islamic clerics have spoken out, are reaching out to Christians and America - you just have to pay attention to what goes on outside of America.

Go to this website - read about what some clerics are trying to do.

http://www.acommonword.com/en/a-common-word/2-general/161-qa-common-wordq-accomplishments-2007-2008.html

"A Common Word" Accomplishments 2007 - 2008

In the Name of God

A Common Word:
Accomplishments of 2007-2008

Over the last year since its launch the A Common Word initiative (see: www.acommonword.com) has become the world’s leading interfaith dialogue initiative between Christians and Muslims specifically, and has achieved historically unprecedented global acceptance and ‘traction’ as an inter-faith theological document.

A Common Word was launched on October 13th 2007 as an open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars and intellectuals (including such figures as the Grand Muftis of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Oman, Bosnia, Russia, Chad and Istanbul) to the leaders of the Christian Churches and denominations all over the world, including H.H. Pope Benedict XVI. In essence it proposed—based on verses from the Holy Qur’an and the Holy Bible—that Islam and Christianity share at their core, the twin ‘golden’ commandments of the paramount importance of loving God and loving the neighbor. Based on this joint common ground, it called for peace and harmony between Christians and Muslims worldwide.

Since the launch of A Common Word in October 2007, over 60 leading Christian figures have responded to it in one form or another, including H.H. Pope Benedict XVI, H.B. Orthodox Patriarch Alexi II of Russia, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, and the Presiding Bishop of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Mark Hanson (see: ‘Christian Responses’ at www.acommonword.com). On November 2007, over 300 leading U.S. Evangelical leaders also responded in an open letter in the New York Times. In the meantime, the Muslim Scholars signing the initiative increased to around 300, with over 460 Islamic organizations and associations endorsing it.

A Common Word has led to a number of spontaneous local grass-roots and community level-initiatives all over the world in places as far apart as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Canada, South Africa, the USA, and Great Britain (see: ‘New Fruits’ at www.acommonword.com).
Over 600 articles—carried by thousands of press outlets—have been written about A Common Word in English alone.
Around 200,000 people have visited the Official Website of A Common Word for further details.
A Common Word has already been the subject of a number M.A. and M. Phil. dissertations in Western universities in various countries (including at Harvard University, the Theological Seminary at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the Center for Studies of Islam in the U.K.).
A Common Word has been the subject of major international conferences at Yale University, USA, and at Cambridge University (UK) and Lambeth Palace, and studied at World Economic Forum in Spring 2008 and the Mediterranean dialogue of Cultures in November 2008.
A Common Word was also the basis for the First Annual Catholic-Muslim forum held at the Vatican in November 2008.
A Common Word was the central impetus behind the Wamp-Ellison Resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives which passed in 2008, and it was commended in this Resolution.
A Common Word received the U.K.’s Association of Muslim Social Scientist 2008 Building Bridges Award, and Germany’s Eugen Biser Award of 2008.

AMEN to that !!!