Egypt's new President Morsi debuts at UN

[Omaha Steve]

Source: By DIAA HADID

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi debuts at the United Nations on Wednesday with a speech that will be closely watched by world leaders for clues about his democratic intentions and plans for lifting his country out of crippling poverty.

Morsi, an Islamist and key figure in the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, is the first democratically elected leader of the ancient land at the heart of the Arab world, and was sworn in June 30.

He is one of a pair of Arab leaders who will be making their first appearances at the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting after being swept into power in the Arab Spring revolutions. Also taking the podium will be Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who took office in February after more than a year of political turmoil and is now trying to steer the country's transition to democracy.

The Egyptian leader previewed his General Assembly remarks in a speech delivered Tuesday at former President Bill Clinton's Global Initiative. Addressing the violence that raged across the Muslim world in response to a video produced in the U.S. that denigrated Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Morsi said freedom of expression must come with "responsibility."

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. Morsi, the country's first democratically elected leader, says freedom of expression must be joined with responsibility in a speech that addressed the violent clashes that erupted across the Muslim world in reaction to an anti-Islam video produced in the United States. (AP Photo/David Karp)

[AAO]

1. Mosri is losing it already. I would expect him to say:

Freedom of expression must be joined with responsibility - or they must be beheaded.

[JDPriestly]

2. Responsibility to whom? Who is entitled to impose a standard, the dogma that should

govern the speech of others? Who is so perfect?

We have to remember Galileo.

And if speech comes with responsibility, is speech that is deemed "irresponsible" to be censored, banned, punished?

If so, then President Morsi should think that many countries would ban the Koran because there are parts of the Koran that are inflammatory and would be deemed by some as irresponsible.

No. I haven't read all of the Koran, but the few parts that I have read were to me inflammatory and irresponsible. Maybe it was the translation, but . . . . they seemed very anti-Jewish. And that is in many countries inflammatory.