Ann Coulter and Victor Davis Hanson face-off on the Obama speech in Cairo. Using very different styles, both chide Obama for his historical inaccuracies. 

Coulter comments here:  


Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is
weakness, Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims’ historical contributions
to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient
Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese
again) and medical discoveries (huh?).


But why be picky? All these inventions came in mighty handy on Sept. 11, 2001! Thanks, Muslims!!


Obama bravely told the Cairo audience that 9/11 was a very nasty thing
for Muslims to do to us, but on the other hand, they are victims of
colonization.


Except we didn’t colonize them. The French and the British did. So why
are Arabs flying planes into our buildings and not the Arc de Triomphe?
(And gosh, haven’t the Arabs done a lot with the Middle East since the
French and the British left!)

Hanson comments here:

In the recent Cairo speech, Obama?s historical
allusions were even more suspect. Almost every one of his references
was either misleading or incomplete. He suggested that today?s Middle
East tension was fed by the legacy of European colonialism and the Cold
War that had reduced nations to proxies.

But the great
colonizers of the Middle East were the Ottoman Muslims, who for
centuries ruled with an iron fist. The 20th-century movements of
Baathism, Pan-Arabism, and Nasserism ? largely homegrown totalitarian
ideologies ? did far more damage over the last half-century to the
Middle East than did the legacy of European colonialism.

Obama also claimed that ?Islam . . . carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe?s
Renaissance and Enlightenment.? While medieval Islamic culture was
impressive and ensured the survival of a few classical texts ? often
through the agency of Arabic-speaking Christians ? it had little to do
with the European rediscovery of classical Greek and Latin values.
Europeans, Chinese, and Hindus, not Muslims, invented most of the
breakthroughs Obama credited to Islamic innovation.

Much of
the Renaissance, in fact, was more predicated on the centuries-long
flight of Greek-speaking Byzantine scholars from Constantinople to
Western Europe to escape the aggression of Islamic Turks. Many romantic
thinkers of the Enlightenment sought to extend freedom to oppressed
subjects of Muslim fundamentalist rule in eastern and southern Europe.