Obama’s speech historical, says Islamic Centre president

September 7th, 2009 According to the sources, the White House is all set to release the text of the back-to school speech of the US President Barack Obama that has caused quite a stir and has triggered a wide array of speculations and controversies among a certain section of parents and pundits who are conservative to the core and by nature. The text of the 18 minute long speech that was delivered by the US president himself will be posted on the Website so that the people of the nation can go through the entire text before it is transmitted through the Internet to the school children.

August 3rd, 2009 AMMAN - A top-level panel of Islamic scholars in Jordan has issued a judgement that bans the examination of a bride-to-be's virginity even if it is requested by her fiance, local newspapers reported Monday. "The examination of hymens is taboo because the genitals of both men and women should not be exposed except out of necessity," according to the judgement issued by the state-funded Council of Eftaa and Islamic Studies.

July 10th, 2009 US embassies plan events for Obama speech in GhanaWASHINGTON — U.S. embassies in Africa are inviting residents to ambassadors' residences and movie theaters on Saturday to watch President Barack Obama's speech in Ghana.

June 7th, 2009 PARIS - US President Barack Obama left Paris for Washington Sunday after a five-day foreign tour that included a landmark speech in Cairo, a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Obama spent the final hours of the journey on a private visit to the French capital with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday said that US President Barrack Obama's speech was conciliatory. Krishna pointed out that Obama had made a broad appeal.

June 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Obama's historic speech to "reboot" relations with the Islamic world received enthusiastic reviews from American Muslims, but the reaction of the US Jewish community was mixed. In the Washington area, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosted a 6 a.m.

June 5th, 2009 BEIRUT - The Hezbollah-run television station in Lebanon said late Thursday that US President Barack Obama had given a sermon and not a speech in Cairo earlier in the day. Al Manar television's main news anchor started the night news bulletin by saying "Obama appeared like he was a giving a sermon or acting like a preacher during his speech which was addressed to the Islamic world." "It is a historic speech with no doubt, but it requires careful reading between its words and lines," the Al Manar anchor said.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Barack Obama's stirring speech at the Cairo University struck a chord in India, home to the world's second largest Muslim population, with academicians and intellectuals seeing in it a new beginning by Washington to repair the US' strained relations with the Muslim world. It is an attempt on Obama's part to build a coalition of Arab-Muslim nations.

June 4th, 2009 Israelis divided over Obama's speechJERUSALEM — Israel, the country most on edge about Barack Obama's outreach to Muslims, had decidedly mixed reactions Thursday to the U.S. president's speech in Cairo and its strong call for Israel to halt settlement expansion on territory the Palestinians claim for a future state.

June 4th, 2009 Obama invokes Koran in key points of Cairo speechCAIRO — President Barack Obama's speech reaching out for a fresh start with the Islamic world was laced with references to the Koran and his Muslim roots. Obama quoted the Holy Koran as commanding, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." He said he shared that conviction, as "rooted in my own experience." The president noted that while he now is a Christian, his father had come from a Kenyan family that "includes generations of Muslims." He pointed to a Muslim — Rep.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - New York's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed that a dinner and Broadway undertaken by Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is a celebration of New York's affordable night life.I can't think of anything that is better as an advertisement for our tourism industry, for Broadway, for our restaurants, for saying that this is a safe city and an affordable city," Bloomberg said Monday. "The President doesn't get paid that much.

February 22nd, 2009 HANOVER - On a visit to Iran, former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was set to criticise Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial that the Holocaust happened, a German newspaper said Friday. In a speech prepared for delivery to the Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Teheran, Schroeder said, 'The Holocaust is a historical fact.

January 31st, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran Sunday celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution by paying tribute to the late supreme leader and architect of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. At the beginning of the festivities, which were this year held one day earlier due to the Persian leap year, current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visited the shrine of his predecessor as well as the graves of martyrs of the Islamic revolution and the 1980-88 war against Iraq.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's two main political parties, the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have welcomed US President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, finding much in it to cheer about. 'It was heartening that for the first time in the speech of a US president the word Hindu figured.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sirajuddin Qureshi, a well known businessman and national leader of the Quresh community defeated Congress leader Salman Khurshid to retain the presidency of the city's India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) here Monday. Qureshi polled 988 votes while Khurshid received 489 votes in an election that was held amid allegations of communalism.