The first televised interview that Barack Obama has had as president is with Al-Arabiya, an Arab news organization out of Dubai. It is cathartic to finally hear an engaging and fair minded approach to the Middle East coming from the leadership of the United States. It is an important step, it seems, in reconciling the "dissension and strife, contention, estrangement and apathy, among the loved ones of God."
A few different parts stuck out for me, this one in particular where he acknowledges the part of his Muslim Anscestory:
"I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries ... the largest one, Indonesia. And so what I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith – and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers – regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams."
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