Don't Kid Yourself About the Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt's dictator deserves to be overthrown even more than Tunisia's did. At least Ben Ali's government didn't ram the country into the ground as Egypt's Free Officers regime has, beginning with Gamal Abdel Nasser and continuing with the improved but still ghastly Hosni Mubarak.

If he's forced out--though I wouldn't underestimate his ability to survive just yet--a different man will likely replace him at the top with most of the government remaining intact. The armed forces, which are strongly anti-Islamist, don't appear to be going anywhere, but unless the army maintains a level of oppression consistent with what Egypt has experienced for the last several decades, the well-organized Muslim Brotherhood will almost certainly find itself in a position of power, though it will most likely be shared and not absolute.

Most experts and even casual observers seem to know it, too, and there's a lot of naïve talk in the air right now about how the West shouldn't worry because the Muslim Brothers are "moderate" Islamists who have renounced violence. This is nonsense. There is nothing remotely moderate about Islamism. We're not talking here about a movement of mainstream religious-right folks like Europe's Christian Democrats or the socially conservative wing of the Republican Party. Moderate or otherwise, Islamists are theocrats by definition. Few in the West who are busy whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood would dare describe a Christian equivalent as moderate, and only a slightly larger number would stop short of calling it fascist.

http://freedomradiorocks.com/2011/02/08/433/

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“The ultimate goal stated in documents dated 1991 and unearthed in Virginia by the FBI in 2004 “An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal of the Group“, reveals the modus operandi of the Muslim Brotherhood and its mutation groups, CAIR, ISNA, MSA et. al., and their goal, Islamization of America and institution of Sharia law displacing our constitution, without smokescreen.”

No delusions in my mind nor anyone I have talked to. However, I did hear something strange — a friend with connections to an international military organization said they had been advised if anyone had contact with Egyptians to let them know they supported “freedom”............I thought this was dang wierd since the only “freedom” being offered is Sharia law

In the greed instinct sort of analysis of those who effect global control of economies and governments, it's alway's about the money.

I've been trying to figure out where shariah law and islam control of societies makes money for the power elites? IMHO, it does the exact opposite. Then it dawned on me that like peak oil theories, we may have reached peak capitalism conditions. The only way to play the market is to short it.

Are we unknowingly letting the Soros types of the world gut the "company" by strapping it with debt, regulations, security costs, soon to be hyperinflation, labor unrest, and market uncertainty, in order to reduce it's value to near zero?

It's like the global lords want to lower all boats. What would be in it for them?

O’REILLY: The Muslim Brotherhood, a great concern to a lot of people. Are they a threat to the USA?

OBAMA: I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt. They don’t have majority support in Egypt. They are —

(he refused to say YES they are a threat)

O’REILLY: Are they a threat?

OBAMA: But they are well-organized and there are strains of their ideology that are anti-U.S. There’s no doubt about it. But here’s the thing that we have to understand, there are a whole bunch of secular folks in Egypt, there are a whole bunch of educators and civil society in Egypt that wants to come to the fore as well. And it’s important for us not the say that our only two options are either the Muslim Brotherhood or a suppressed Egyptian people.

(even when pushed, he still won’t say they’re a threat. Calls them ‘secular folks’ and compares them to “educators and civil society” The worst he can say is that SOME STRAINS are anti-US)

O’REILLY: But you don’t want the Muslim Brotherhood...

OBAMA: What I want a representative government in Egypt. And I have confidence that if Egypt moves in an orderly transition process, that we will have a government in Egypt that we can work with together as a partner.

(won’t say that he doesn’t want the Muslim Brotherhood in charge. Clearly indicates that he thinks the Muslim Brotherhood should be included in the government as a partner)

O’REILLY: I hope so. Those are tough boys, the Muslim Brotherhood. I wouldn’t want them anywhere near that government.

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