The following is a translation of Eli King's Israel National News radio broadcast of Friday June 5, 2009.

Yesterday, at 3:00 p.m. the newsmen, editors and VIPs left the auditorium and only the cleaning staff remained. Someone noticed that a few crumpled sheets of paper were left behind on the podium from which President Barack Obama spoke to the millions in the Muslim world who listened intently to his every word. I cannot reveal the way in which these pages were sent to me, dear readers, but since they are extremely significant, I will read them to you.

The title at the top of the first page was "President Obama's Speech"; however, upon reading them, I realized that, unfortunately, Obama did not use these pages for his speech. Perhaps his advisors influenced his decision to ignore them. I realized that these crumpled pages were a tremendous scoop - and, dear readers, I am sharing it with you.

Here it is:

My Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters, Salaam Aleikum.

I am honored to speak to you from the timeless city of Cairo. Cairo is the capital of Egypt, once the center of world culture, politics and statesmanship. I am honored to be the guest of Cairo University and in the country of Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

There are people who feel that you cannot be told the truth. There are those in the West who feel that Muslims must always be flattered, told what they want to hear. Those people are the real racists. They consider Muslims immature children, limited in understanding, and unfortunates who must not be upset at all costs.

I am not one of those people. I know Muslim society well. My father was from a Kenyan family and I lived in Indonesia where hearing the muezzin at evening time was part of my life, for many years.

The fact is that the situation in the Muslim world is very disturbing. Naguib Mahfouz was the exception to the rule, not the norm. I could talk about Islam's contributions to the world, but how many times can one mention things that happened so long ago? I want to talk about today instead. Today, Muslim academic research papers are almost nonexistent, the level of education in Muslim countries is deplorably low, economic production is stagnant. In fact, if not for its oil reserves, Saudi Arabia would look just like Somalia.

It seems to me that Muslims have two paths from which to choose:

One path is that of blaming the world - that is, the Western world - for their problems. That way leads to estrangement and anger, self-pity and stagnation. As a member of the African-American minority in my home country, I know how detrimental it is to oneself to choose this path.

The second path is more difficult to follow, but it is the only way to break the cycle of backwardness and join world leadership. I know how this is done, because that is how I got to where I am today. It is done by taking the path of accepting responsibility for one's own life, for one's own condition.

It means achieving a world record in academic publications, instead of publicizing material filled with hatred and incitement to violence. It means spending trillions of dollars on education instead of on the arms industry. The latter only leads to Muslim deaths. In fact, in the past sixty years, 12 million Muslims were killed, 10 million of them by other Muslims! This occurred in Afghanistan, Algeria, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and, just recently, in Gaza. Muslims kill Muslims for fanatical religious and tribal reasons. The world is not interested. Most incidents are not even reported. That's because the Western world is racist.

"What do you expect?" they say. "That's how they are."

They feel Muslims are different, that you lack the basic human values that other men have.

And do you know? Many of you feel the same way. Instead of decrying violence, many in the Muslim world cheer and support the shahids, the Hizbullah, Al-Qaeda and consider them heroes. They celebrated the horror of the Twin Towers explosions, the terrorist killing of Americans. They claim that Allah loves the blood of child martyrs.

Let me tell you something - these murderers are not heroes. They are despicable cowards, as are those who send children to die from the comfort of their air-conditioned homes.

The policy of violence hurts you. First and foremost, it strengthens those who harm and oppress you.

Why don't you learn from one of your neighbors in the Middle East, a small country that absorbed tens of thousands of refugees, many of them survivors of the genocidal horrors of World War II. These people didn't sit around complaining and feeling sorry for themselves. Just look and see what a few Jewish refugees were able to accomplish in the last 60 years, despite the fact that they were persecuted in almost every land in which they lived. They produce more ideas, inventions and pharmaceutical breakthroughs than the entire Muslim world combined.

They are a perfect role model for the Muslim world. Instead, you use them to give the world excuses for your failures. Did the Israelis prevent the Muslim world from advancing in industry and science? Is what is happening in Darfur their fault? In Somalia?

I must admit that my advisors prepared a different speech for me to deliver today. It spoke about the rights of Muslim women to wear religious garb, about leaving Iran to the Iranians, creating a twenty-third Muslim country, using diplomacy instead of strength, about settlements.

I want to tell you something more important. I want you to remember that only you are responsible for your fate. Only you can bring about a change for the better.

Yes you can!

Translated by Rochel Sylvetsky