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Obama Speech To Muslims “Deceptive,” Taliban Says



Jun 5, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) – The Taliban said on Saturday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was full of “deceptive slogans” and did nothing to change relations between America and Muslims.

The speech, which Obama delivered at Cairo University on Thursday, “had nothing substantial in terms of content in order to reduce the dissonance that has reached its peak between Muslims and America,” the Taliban leadership said in a message posted on Islamist Internet forums and translated by SITE Intelligence Group.

“His occupation and transgressing forces continue to kill, torture and arrest Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, trample upon their deserved rights with their feet, mercilessly kill them for defending their rights and throw them in the most horrible prisons in the world,” the message added.

Obama’s address, lasting almost an hour, was merely the “continuation of the previous deceptive slogans of America,” the message said.

Violence in Afghanistan has surged to its highest levels since the 2001 U.S. invasion toppled the Taliban, which had harbored the al Qaeda network responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States.

Washington also is worried about the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan in face of a growing insurgency and has urged action against militants to help defeat al Qaeda and disrupt support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army launched an offensive against Taliban fighters and their allies in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country last month.

The message from the Taliban was its first reaction to Obama’s speech, which has been widely scrutinized in the Muslim world.

Many Muslims who listened to Obama’s address welcomed the change in tone from Washington but said they wanted to see more specifics about how he would heal long-running sores that include the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood, a group that renounced violence decades ago, said the speech was mainly for public relations.

(Reporting by Michael Roddy)


  • SgtJenz

    “Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood, a group that renounced violence decades ago, said the speech was mainly for public relations.”
    In other words it was bravo sierra to them and to us. Gee, imagine that.

  • Jim

    F&&k the Dhimmi-crats.

  • mike3481

    I’d like to see Obama wander into the the Afghan / Paki border wilderness by himself so he could, “Dialog to a Consensus” with the Taliban.

    That would solve so, so many problems around the world. :wink:

    I get all warm and fuzzy thinking of the video showing the end result.

  • politicalfish

    Clearly the external enemy is smarter than the domestic enemy. This is a recipe for disaster. The only thing propping-up the usurper is the MSM propaganda apparatus.
    This illusion will not be sustained much longer. Take note of the Rassmussen poll showing a ZERO approval rating for the usurper. The blow-fish can only remain inflated for a short period of time.

  • Sully

    The Muslim Brotherhood renounced violence? Decades ago?
    They are the very cornerstone of terrorism.
    Dumbfuck English ‘reporter’.

  • Vehement

    Suck on this Taliban:
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525320,00.html
    “Some 400 villagers from Upper Dir district’s Haya Gai area, where a homicide bomber killed 33 worshippers at a mosque on Friday, formed a militia and attacked five villages in the neighboring Dhok Darra area, said Atif-ur-Rehman, the district coordination officer.
    The citizens’ militia has occupied three of the villages and is trying to push the Taliban out of the other two. Some 20 houses suspected of harboring Taliban were destroyed, he said. At least four militants were killed, he said.
    The government has in the past encouraged local citizens to set up militias, known as lashkars, to oust Taliban fighters.”

    God bless the militias!

  • tlk

    I think the guy on the right is the person that keeps harassing me on flickr. :twisted:

  • Jeff

    “His occupation and transgressing forces continue to kill, torture and arrest Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, trample upon their deserved rights with their feet, mercilessly kill them for defending their rights and throw them in the most horrible prisons in the world,” the message added.

    Wow. It’s very sad that people will listen to this propaganda because they have no other way to get access to other points of view.