Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a speech recently upon which PJ Media's Roger Simon comments with considerable approval. As I read the speech excerpts I echo that approbation. See some key quotes:
It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!Many have had those thoughts; few in positions of influence and power have been brave enough to enunciate them in a public forum.
That corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world.
Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!
