1.0 link 211226 <![CDATA[Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-daou/let-women-wear-the-hijab_b_211226.html I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives. But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things:

1. Aside from a few platitudes, it is disappointingly weak on human rights and specifically women's rights.

2. It betrays a naiveté, perhaps feigned, about how the Arab world works.

I sometimes preface my posts by explaining that my Mideast perspective is that of an American-Lebanese-Christian-Jew who...

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