“Lupa banyak. Bicara sikit (I have forgotten a lot of the language. I can still speak a little)”

Change through persuasion, not violence, says Obama

By SHAHANAAZ HABIB

Shahanaaz was one of the seven journalists from Muslim nations invited for an interview with US President Barack Obama in Cairo

CAIRO: “Apa kabar?” Barack Obama said in Malay when he heard that I was from Malaysia.

“Lupa banyak. Bicara sikit (I have forgotten a lot of the language. I can still speak a little),” he said in reference to the three to four years he had spent in Indonesia as a child when his mother was then married to an Indonesian.

He made this comment as he greeted us, a group of seven journalists individually shortly after delivering his speech at the Cairo University in which he had called for a new beginning between the US and the Muslim world and to end the cycle of suspicion and discord.

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Hello and thankyou


thereby exhausting my Malaysian (or Bhasa Indonesian) in a single reply.

I love it, keeps 'em off the streets.

And may humus filled pita forever be with your family.

(Dang I'm hungry).

of reasons I voted for him. It's not just about the United States anymore..it's the Planet.

And that's part of what makes him a good President.

"I know--I'll speak a foreign language to foreigners. Cue another week of those right-wing jackasses shrieking about my 'Muslim heritage'. Heh. Morons."