'OBAMA GOES TO CAIRO'
[Al Ahram, Egypt]
Al Madina, Saudi Arabia
With Obama, a 'New
Beginning'
"This new approach is tantamount
to a spiritual return to American values and the great achievements of the
Founding Fathers, who laid the basis for those values which endowed future
generations with the capacity to implement and strengthen them."
EDITORIAL
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
June 5, 2009
Saudi Arabia - Al Madina - Original Article (Arabic)
The speech given to the
Muslim world from the University of Cairo yesterday by the American president,
Barack Hussein Obama, reflected a new and serious U.S. approach toward
establishing a world governed under a new international legitimacy to seek
peace, justice and prosperity for all mankind and a world free of weapons of
mass destruction, a reliance on and compliance with international law and its
decisions, without exception.
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This new approach is tantamount
to a spiritual return to American values and the great achievements of the
Founding Fathers, who laid the basis for those values which endowed future
generations with the capacity to implement and strengthen them.
That is exactly what Woodrow
Wilson did through his Fourteen
Points, and then there was Roosevelt, who oversaw the birth of the United
Nations. Then came Barack Hussein Obama, who brought America back to its senses
after it went off course, losing touch with the freedom, democracy and human
rights that it embodies.
President
Obama with Saudi King Abdullah, after receiving the
King
Abdul Aziz Order of Merit, the kingdom's highest honor, at
the
King Abdullah's Farm in Riyadh on June 4.
He has advocated for a world in
which Islam is not considered an enemy and plays a pivotal role - not only
because it represents a third of the world's population - but because the message
of Islam is eternally a universally humane and civilized one, which urges peace
and tolerance, rejects violence and extremism, and considers that whoever takes
an innocent life, it is as if he took the lives of all humanity.
Obama’s historic call made
during his address for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim
World as well as his call to confront extremism and violence around the world
and establish peace in the Middle East, is welcomed and worthy of praise - not
least because it's based on realistic principles and an aversion to bias and
double standards.
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That was the most salient
feature of the method of approach during previous administrations in regard to
the Muslim World and particularly the Palestinian problem.
But this chance for a
turning of the page in relations will require the United States to translate
these principles on the ground, and for the Arab and Muslim Worlds to demonstrate
adherence to the tolerant message of Islam, which was once a beacon for the world
through its noble principles and lofty values - values that greatly inspired
the Founding Fathers of the United States of America as they laid the
foundations of a country that has now become the world's greatest power.
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