Did you know that more than one-half of the 300 million people living in the Middle East are under 25 years of age? 65 million of them are illiterate, and two-thirds of them are women. More than 10 million Arab children between the ages of 6 and 15 are still not enrolled in any schooling. The above facts are in a June 3 WSJ column by the ruler of Dubai.
President Obama gives a speech in Cairo today to Muslims. Will he speak about the denial of equal rights to women and minorities? Will he remind the audience of the many times in the past 20 years when the U.S. put its men and women in harm's way to assist people suffering from tyranny or famine who happen to be Muslim (Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan)?
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