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zer0 to address U.S.-Islamic relations in Egypt

Faster horses

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This should open some eyes:



Obama to address U.S.-Islamic relations in Egypt




Do we really want our President to bow to the Saudi King?
Do we really want to Handed over control of the American financial system to an international consortium of foreign bankers ?

Do we really want to to take the United States $10 trillion dollars into debt in the next 10 years?

Do we really want to stand mute as secular progressives attack Judeo Christians' culture , customs and values,waiting till the so called next election?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3meSupCME&NR=1










By CHARLES BABINGTON – 33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, who promised to lend a hand to the Islamic world if it unclenches a fist, plans a major speech from Egypt next month as he seeks to repair damaged relations between the United States and Muslims.
The much-anticipated speech will further Obama's efforts to cool down animosities that burst into flame 30 years ago when Iranians overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and were fueled by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At least two other emotional highlights seem certain. Obama will visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald in Germany on June 5. And he will be in France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the allies' invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
Obama, whose father was a Muslim from Kenya, said in Turkey last month that the United States "is not and never will be at war with Islam."
His June 4 speech at a yet-to-be-determined Egyptian site will delve more deeply into U.S.-Islamic relations at a time when predominantly Muslim Pakistan is a major concern to the Obama administration.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama chose Egypt because it "in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world." He later said the president will be addressing non-Arab Muslims as well, noting that non-Arab Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country and a place where Obama spent part of his childhood.
Obama's decision may not sit well with activists pushing for greater democracy in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak has been in control since 1981. Gibbs sidestepped the question of whether Obama considers Egypt a democracy.
"The issues of democracy and human rights are things that are on the president's mind," Gibbs told reporters at the White House. "And we'll have a chance to discuss those in more depth on the trip."
Egyptians' reception of Obama will be closely watched all over the world. With his Islamic name (Barack Hussein Obama) and family links to Islam, many Muslims are fascinated by the new U.S. president.
But Obama is a Christian who fought false Internet rumors that he is a Muslim throughout the 2008 campaign. And he is the president sending thousands of U.S. troops into predominantly Muslim Afghanistan.
In Germany, Obama will meet with government leaders and visit two places steeped in the horrors of World War II. He will go to Dresden, which was virtually destroyed by Allied firebombers in February 1945. And he will visit the notorious Nazi camp at Buchenwald, where thousands of Europeans were starved, worked to death or executed.
A great-uncle of Obama's, Charlie Payne, helped liberate a sub-camp at Buchenwald in April 1945 as a member of the 89th Infantry Division. Gibbs said he did not know whether Payne would accompany Obama to Germany.
Obama will cap his trip in France on June 6, the date that Allies stormed Normandy's beaches to begin driving Nazi forces back toward Germany.
Since launching his presidential campaign in early 2007, Obama has called for greater understanding between the United States and Islamic nations and their people.
In his inaugural address in January he told the Muslim world "we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." He has granted interviews to Arabic-language networks, telephoned friendly Arab leaders and sent special envoy George J. Mitchell to the Middle East on a "listening tour."
Obama's plan to close the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was seen as a move to address a chief source of ill will among Muslim nations since the hijacked jetliner attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Associated Press reporter Steve Hurst contributed to this report.
 
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