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...Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. But to Hannity's tax-cut Republicanism and O'Reilly's grumpy social conservatism, Beck adds an au courant strain of grievance. Beck had a similar program on Headline News (which I appeared on once), on which he at one point asked a Muslim Congressman to "prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." After he moved to Fox in January, his audience exploded to 2 million-plus viewers - unheard of at 5 p.m. His hook, for the age of economic anxiety: whereas O'Reilly embodies anger and Hannity brashness, Beck...
...Obama showed respect for Islam," says Open Society's Altinay. "But the prism by which the Muslim world will judge him is Palestine. This is a great start, but we need to see more...
...Obama also used his first visit to a Muslim country to send a message of reconciliation to the greater Islamic world. "America is not, and will never be, at war with Islam," he declared in his address to Turkish MPs. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Obama's speech "reflects a clear attention toward the two-state solution" for Israel and the Palestinians and described Obama's words as "important" and "positive...
...have helped that Obama introduced a personal tone to his appeal. Introduced as "Barack Hussein Obama" before his parliamentary speech, he referred to his own identity as the son of a Kenyan Muslim and his upbringing in Indonesia. "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," he told the Turkish deputies. "Many other Americans have Muslims in their family or have lived in a Muslim-majority country." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...President Obama sees the large and painful rift that developed between the U.S. and the Muslim world during the Bush presidency as damaging to the world and as a threat to American security," says Hady Amr, director of the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar. "Obama seeks to be a transformative figure in healing the rift between the U.S. and the Muslim world and is harnessing his personal history - as an America born to an immigrant Muslim father from one part of the world, who spent part of his childhood growing up in another part of the Muslim world...