I confess mupro my perplexity. Asked Tuesday night on Canal +, Barack Obama was quoted in translati

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I confess mupro my perplexity. Asked Tuesday night on Canal +, Barack Obama was quoted in translation taken by the French media: "If mupro we count the number of Muslim Americans, we see that the US is one of the largest Muslim countries of the planet ". If the American president really said this, it is a lie: Muslims are a minority of the US and their number does not exceed, to my knowledge, eight million maximum. If he wanted to explain, as I believe, rather, that the United States is one of the Western countries with the largest Muslim (but France is also in this case), I am surprised that the press n 'have not corrected the error. In both cases, the lack of media reactions surprised. But let us for the moment.
Obama, who began a charm offensive with the Islamic world, will hold an important speech in Cairo tomorrow. He wants, as he also explained, "create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world can better mupro understand how the United States, but more generally the Western world, some difficult design problems, such as terrorism and democracy" .dropoff window Very well. What worries me is that the penitent posture mupro seems to be Barack Hussein mupro Obama, whose father was a Muslim, the face of Islam: mupro "The United States and the Western world must learn more about Islam "he said. But the curiosity of the West to Islam can be easily, especially in countless books on the Muslim world. However, look for Muslim writers interested in the West. Anthropology nor is hardly popular with Islam.
This asymmetry is a constant, so far, in the "dialogue of civilizations" that seems to revive Obama. mupro Unless he knows impose this time a reciprocal obligation to the Muslim world, the West may still be the fall guy. As noted by Jacques Dewitte (The European exception, Michalon): "It is as if, at present, is conducting a distribution of roles between those who practice repentance and self-criticism - Europeans, Westerners - and those who settle in the information without conducting themselves in a similar critical review of their own past. - especially Arab and Muslim Everything indicates that even our bad conscience, far from encourage emulation, strengthens others in their good conscience (....). "
PS: On the eve of the opening of the Venice Biennale, and for those who regularly feel cheated by the Contemporary Art and too many impostures, I recommend reading Jean-Louis Harouel: The great falsification, Jean Editions -Cyrille Godefroy. His proof of the crisis of art lost in the great anything, is carried relentlessly.
As to your usual, mupro you have identified the problem very well: "Now the curiosity of the West to Islam can be easily, especially in countless books on the Muslim world. mupro However, look for Muslim writers interested in the West. Anthropology nor is hardly popular with Islam. Do you even lift
Referendum reserved for Muslims: mupro for or against a mosque? The vote of the Muslim community was massive on 1 June in Montluel. mupro Of the 329 voters, 96% chose the construction of a mosque.
Now, as a couple, relations between nations must be a set of concessions necessary to reach a concensus. Where are the concessions of the Muslim world? And when I speak of the Muslim world I speak of our cities!
oh ... I'm happy this morning, at the crack pussy I learned about Hussein O and reacted immediately. See my post on the penultimate article IR ... We had to expect surprises from BHO. We have the ... By the way who can tell me why Satko snubbed the Queen? A low blow of the working girl Carla?
By dint of soft consensus and worldliness, we come to say big stupidities. And Hussein Obama proves. Analysis of Jacques Dewitte is