In that interview Hala Mustafa reflected with some ambivalence as to whom his speech was addressed:
"When he addresses the Muslim world, I mean, it's very difficult to describe who exactly he's addressing. He addressed the moderate Muslims, the radical Muslims, the Muslims who are choosing to join the West and they are working for democracy and freedom and modernity or the conventional Islamic word or... I mean, it's very tricky in my view."
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Baptist minister of 32 years Mark Tronson, chairman of Well-Being Australia, suggests that whereas Muslims cannot easily be lumped together 'as it's very tricky', so too trying to lump Christians together is also 'very tricky'.
One of M V Tronson's ministry roles is that he provides Olympic host cities a 'protocol of ideas' for Olympic Villages Religious Services and he finds exactly this issue, 'it's very tricky'.
"Last February my wife Delma and I were in Vancouver Canada and met with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic people associated with the planning for the two Village's Religious Services programs (Vancouver City and Whistler Resort)," M V Tronson explained.
The five major world religions are catered for in Olympic Village Religious Services: Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Islam.
Those who are associated with Christianity, to take just the example closest to Mark Tronson's heart, present very diverse perspectives: there are even quite significant theological differences within each group.
The very nature of Protestantism for example, is that it was a 'protest' and each sub-section places importance on one or more numerous historical variations on what, exactly, is being 'protested' against.
"The loose association relating to Roman Catholicism is just as diverse: consider that there are Maronite Catholics, the Eastern Catholics and the astonishingly evangelical Polish Catholics. And the group of Eastern Orthodox Churches is just as splintered," M V Tronson noted. "Indeed, it's very tricky."
This is not confined to the Christian groups. Similar cultural and theological diversity applies within each of the other four main religious groups catered for in the Olympic Villages.
When Hala Mustafa reflected to as to whom President Obama's Cairo speech was addressed and how 'very tricky' such a question is, M V Tronson acknowledges that such issues are never easy.
Driving through any Australian town or rural district, one will see numerous variations of Pentecostal and Protestant churches, and the Sydney and Armidale Anglican diocese (historically Evangelical) are very different from the rest of the country's Anglican scene.
"Church surveys over the past fifteen years have shown a trend away from denominational loyalty among worshippers, to more of a reliance on factors relating to what each family is seeking to fit in with their own requirements." M V Tronson observed.
"Committed Christians are now looking further than just a Sunday service, and are considering which congregations also provide such activities and facilities as children's and youth ministry."
For those Christian leaders responsible for initiating new churches, a plethora of considerations need to be taken into account if they are to establish a market place for their niche in the community. It becomes 'very tricky'.