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The Associated Press

Published: June 4, 2009

Comments from Muslims, analysts and Obama ahead of his speech in Cairo.

"The Bush administration, with its arrogance, destroyed the harmony between the United States and Islamic world. We hope under Obama, the U.S. will change the way it behaves, that it will be more friendly. ... I feel Westerners have become more prejudiced toward Muslims."

TITY SANDY,

38, mother of a sixth-grader at Obama's old school, Menteng 1, in Jakarta, Indonesia

"I think he can make friends in the Islamic world. He is convincing, he is saying 'live and let live' while Bush said, 'war, war, war.' I pray for him."

AMMAN HUSSAIN,

"People want a reason to love him. But they don't love him yet."

SHIBLEY TELHAMI,

"Our focus will be on what we can do, in partnership with people across the Muslim world, to advance our common hopes and our common dreams. And when people look back on this time, let it be said of America that we extended the hand of friendship to all people."

OBAMA,

addressing the Turkish parliament on April 6

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