The strongest weapon against hateful speech is more speech

President Barrack Hussein Obama channeled his eastern and western roots in his UN speech and according to many commentators, he hit a home run; did Morsi overlook the Copts in his speech? How many Copts are there in Egypt? and a new view on solving Syria.

U.S. President Obama defended free speech and at the same time spoke out against hate speech.

Eat Bees [3]

Strongest Weapon

President Obama addressed the anti-Mohammed hate video yesterday in his speech to the United Nations. I feel that he got the balance just about right.

Egyptian Chronicles [4]

#UNGA : Our President speaks in front of the world

The Egyptian Christians are angry that he mentioned the “Non Muslims in Egypt”to be honest he could have meant all Non Muslims from Christians and Jews in good way. “I will not even dream that he meant Baha’is as well” Still I feel Morsi should have spoken about Egyptian Christians in particular after they were mentioned in Obama’s speech. I wish that he makes them believe that he is a president for all Egyptians not only the Islamists.

Ahram Blog [5]

Egyptian Copts reject population estimate

Copts of Egypt Coalition says community far larger than 5.13 million estimated by official statistics agency, says it fears low figure will be used to marginalise Christians under new constitution.

Qifa Nabki [6]

Camille Otrakji and Elias Muhanna Talk Syria at Bloggingheads.tv (Part II)

I recorded another segment with Camille Otrakji for Bloggingheads about Syria. (It) is a view that we don’t tend to here much about in the press, and I know that it is not popular with most of my readership, but that’s the whole point of debate. While Camille and I disagree about much of what this conflict is about and how to solve it, I think his perspective is important.