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Text of President Obama's Speech at Cairo University in Egypt

by Karen Hatter | June 4, 2009 at 04:29 am

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It has been referred to as possibly one of the most important speeches to be delivered to date, a speech to address the Muslim world, offered by President Barack Obama. Addressing a capacity crowd at the Grand Hall of Cairo University in Egypt, the President spoke on a variety of issues stressing the need for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim world, drawing enthusiastic applause when he spoke of his vision for achieving peace in the Middle East.

So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the co-operation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

Click here for the full text of the President's speech.

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Amy Judd

at 08:42 on June 4th, 2009

As staff did during Obama's Inauguration Day, a separate post with the full text of important speeches can often be a useful addition to our coverage:

Barack Obama Takes Office

Full Text of President Obama's Inauguration Speech

It's not necessary to do a post of every speech Obama makes, but in the case of some important ones, it can be a good sideline piece, such as this piece is to albertacowpoke's story.

As someone remarked in the comments on the other piece, people are looking for the text of his speech, so in this case it works well.

However, if there was too much cross-over we would deem this a duplicate and remove it from the front page at least and ask Karen to contribute to the main piece.

Karen Hatter

at 06:15 on June 4th, 2009

Unlike my post here, the post you have linked does not provide the text of the speech or video.

The video at this post is the entire speech delivered at the university.

Paschen

at 06:03 on June 4th, 2009

We do have a post on this out already.

http://my.nowpublic.com/world/obamas-cairo-university-speech-new-beginning-us-between-muslims

gerrypopplestone

at 02:55 on June 5th, 2009

The speech was a real tour de force.

We too need both to praise his efforts and to support all his endeavours to bring peace. Where are the progressive Jews in North America and Israel calling on the Jewish Lobby in the US and Israel itself to stop doing things that are a barrier to bringing peace - especially the aggressive expansion of settlements? Where are the Arabs working ferociously to bring Hamas and Fatah together in a way that will bring the survival of the Palestinians? We can all call for Israel to open the borders with Gaza so that Palestinians there can get to build a life.

We are all in this together. Unless we all act together and individually to play a vocal part, nothing will change. Obama cannot achieve anything all by himself.