Posted on 11/26/2011 1:05:18 PM PST by Clive
Revolutions are known to devour their children, and popular uprisings driven by the promise of change for the better have been notorious for turning into nightmares.
The so-called Arab Spring is another dark night unfolding across the Middle East.
This was predictable, and inevitable.
The Tunisian fruit-seller who sparked this Arab Spring by self-immolating was a man driven to despair by the very culture into which he was born, and from which he knew there was no escape.
The act of self-immolation was a terrible display of despair of a desperate man.
And so is the political drama in Arab streets — from Tripoli to Cairo to Damascus — an uncoiling of desperation among people trapped in a tribal culture stamped by authoritarianism.
But the culture is unforgiving, for it has been made by hard men and handed down from fathers to sons.
The history of this region, from the earliest years of Islam to the present time, is one relatively unbroken record of authoritarian rulers.
This is the closed circle where politics move from bad to worse, not good to better.
And this is what we are witnessing in the streets of Cairo — in Tahrir Square that caught the imagination of people afar watching on their television screens what they naively imagined to be the blossoming of freedom in the land of the great pyramids.
I mentioned in my column last week that Arab Spring has been the springtime for Islamists. Mshari Al-Zaydi, an editor of Al Arabiya News in Dubai, echoed my observation when he wrote, “what we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami” and that this has turned out to be “the Muslim Brotherhood Spring.”
Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood has become more or less de facto rulers from Tunisia to Egypt, and likely will take control of Syria once the regime of Bashar al-Assad crumbles.
In the long sweep of Arab history, the authoritarian rule of military men and so-called republican parties — such as Gamal Abdel Nasser and his successors in Egypt, and the Ba’ath party in Iraq and Syria — have held power only for brief intervals.
The political reality has been Arab resignation, as the culture demands, for authoritarian rule under the banner of Islam.
The prophet of Islam had not even passed away when the struggle for power broke out in Medina, and this struggle for power within a few decades turned into a bloody massacre of the prophet’s family at the hands of ruthless men.
Arabs and Muslims have lived for 14 centuries in denial of their own blood-soaked history that became the template of their political culture.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the hard, ruthless, power-hungry face of men who disguise their politics behind the veil of a religion.
The Wahhabi rulers of Saudi Arabia, the Taliban in Afghanistan, the cold and calculating terrorists of al-Qaida, the bearded thugs of the fundamentalist Muslim parties in Pakistan, Iran and elsewhere are the siblings of the Muslim Brotherhood with their faces unmasked.
Arab Spring, without any surprise, turns out to be the desert wind blowing away false hopes and hollow promises for democracy and peace that a naive West, riddled with its own contradictions, wished for the Middle East. ++9
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Salim Mansur wrote this in Canada? Just watch. One of their so-called “human rights tribunals” is going to try him for “hate speech!” and “Islamophobia!”
Arabs and Muslims have lived for 14 centuries in denial of their own blood-soaked history that became the template of their political culture.
When you realize religion as practiced by these primitive barbarians is merely another albeit extreme form of politics, another way in which to control, manipulate the masses to exponential effect by going beyond the here and now, to grant, guarantee eternal bliss in the hereafter, you will understand why, how ruthless men hide behind the veil of religion.
Sums it up..
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The problem people have with Islam is its teachings of violence against and the subjugation of unbelievers. It is with the supremacist ideology and the fervent believers in those noxious doctrines of warfare and subjugation. Yhe ultimate danger posed by a program presenting the “normal” side of life for American Muslims is that it isn’t accurate.
The danger is in the deception and obfuscation of the truth which results in the intellectual disarming of the American people.’
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One of their so-called “human rights tribunals” is going to try him for “hate speech!” and “Islamophobia!”
Don’t think so. No more witch hunts.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/18/no-more-witch-hunts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA
watch it and pass it on to everyone on your email list. Something both wife and husband should view
The Muslim blood soaked history is not a lot different than the history of the atheists working within their Marxist religion. We don’t admit that bloody history in the West, either.
That’s good news. But I’ll believe it when I see(or rather don’t see) it.
Shhhhh - don’t tell the President of the United States; he prefers to live in darkness.
This author doesn’t understand Islam.
He says, “Muslims have lived for 14 centuries in denial of their own blood-soaked history that became the template of their political culture.”
What denial?
There are:
1) Religions
2) Political systems
3) Politico-religions
Islam is the third, their politics and religion are one indivisible thing.
The correct practice of Islam is to strive to replace other political systems with Sharia law and a Global Caliphate.
Islam is as subversive as international communism and should be illegal in the USA.
He misses the point.
The largely Arab struggle is about change. It boils down to what the result of the change will be. Will the tribal Arabs maintain Islam and join the modern world or will they revert to fundamentalism and remain backwater.
When we look at Riyadh and Dubai and Abu Dhabi and Jakarta and other modern trending places, we see money and power. That money and power is not going to be surrendered. The past will not prevail. The Islam of Africa will not trump the power and money. The army, the tool of the money, will prevail
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