Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written a commentary on patheos.com about US President Barak Obama's June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world ("President Obama Passes the Muslim Test"). Prof. Fadel writes that that Obama’s speech could genuinely represent an important break from U.S. policy towards the Islamic world in general and the Arab world in particular, adding that while one speech cannot change the world, if Obama follows through with the ideas that he announced in yesterday’s speech, there may be renewed cause for optimism.

Read the full commentary on the patheos.com website.