Posted on 02/04/2011 9:03:39 AM PST by Qbert
WASHINGTON — In 1985, as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Seventeen years later, in 2002, I took part in a political campaign to win votes for the conservative party in the Netherlands.
Those two experiences gave me some insights that I think are relevant to the current crisis in Egypt. They lead me to believe it is highly likely but not inevitable that the Muslim Brotherhood will win the elections to be held in Egypt this coming September.
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The secular democrats’ next challenge is the Brotherhood. They must waste no time in persuading the Egyptian electorate why a Shariah-based government would be bad for them. Unlike the Iranians in 1979, the Egyptians have before them the example of a people who opted for Shariah — the Iranians — and have lived to regret it.
The 2009 “green movement” in Iran was a not a “no” to a strongman, but a “no” to Shariah. ElBaradei and his supporters must make clear that a Shariah-based regime is repressive at home and aggressive abroad. Moreover, as the masses cry out against unemployment, rising food prices and corruption, Egypt’s secular groups must show that a Shariah-based government would exacerbate these agonies.
The Muslim Brotherhood will insist that a vote for them is a vote for Allah’s law. But the positions of power in government will not be filled by God and his angels. These positions will be filled by men so arrogant as to put themselves in the position of Allah. And as the Iranians of 2009 have learned to their cost, it is harder to vote such men out of office than to vote them in.
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And yet the American media continues to peddle the lie that the MB is a small group with limited influence in Egypt.
Get Ready for the Muslim Brotherhood
You mean that wasn’t Obama’s goal all along???
The media is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they want to make it sound as if the radical MB is insignificant and no threat; on the other hand, since they want the MB to take over, they have to make it sound like it’s truly “moderate” and very popular. Pity the poor propagandist...er, I mean, journalist.
This trash will be taken out!
“In 1985, as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Seventeen years later, in 2002, I took part in a political campaign to win votes for the conservative party in the Netherlands”
At first, I thought I was reading a confession from BHO himself.
You’re not the only one.
“At first, I thought I was reading a confession from BHO himself.”
Ditto that!
Ping.
Muslim radicals in control of the Suez Canal, Somali (Muslim) pirates at the southern end of the Red Sea, and Iran perched atop the Straits of Hormuz. What could possibly go wrong?
Napolitano met with the Muslim Brotherhood just a little while ago.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kouri/110203
Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood romance
Posted: February 05, 2011
1:00 am Eastern
By Jamie Glazov
In the summer of 2009, when the world witnessed brave Iranians taking to the streets in an effort to overthrow the Islamofascist regime that was terrorizing them, the president of the United States merely shrugged his shoulders and shuffled his feet. Encouraging words somehow failed him. But today, as the world watches the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 occur right before its eyes, Obama suddenly sees it fit to stretch out a hand of solidarity to the Muslim Brotherhood – giving the Islamist group a green light to share power in a post-Mubarak Egyptian government. In other words, instead of taking a concrete stand against a jihadist entity, a U.S. president has given it his own personal blessing and stamp of approval. It’s the Jimmy Carter-1979 shah betrayal all over again – and with horrific deadly consequences once again on the horizon.
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