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Remembering Some of Those Who Said the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Wasn't a Threat to Democracy
NewsBusters ^ | November 30, 2012 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 12/01/2012 10:43:14 PM PST by george76

Egyptian "President" Mohammed Morsi "is not backing down in the showdown over decrees granting him near-absolute powers," that "clashes between the two camps (Morsi's Islamist supporters and secular opponents) ... left two dead and hundreds injured," and that the country's Muslim Brotherhood-dominated assembly "pushed through the 234-article draft (constitution) in just 21 hours from Thursday into Friday ... (after) Coptic Christians and liberals earlier had walked out."

The draft constitution includes several articles "that rights activists, liberals and Christians fear will lead to restrictions on the rights of women and minorities," and omits "bans on slavery or promises to adhere to international rights treaties." ...

"The Obama administration is declining to criticize Egypt's draft constitution." It's worth identifying at this point several (but by no means all; what follows is surely a small sample) of those who in 2011 reassured the world that Egyptians had nothing to fear if the Brotherhood and Islamists became dominant.

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who else in the media will remember these and other people, including many of their own, who either naively or deceptively reassured us that democratic forces in Egypt had nothing to fear from radical Islam or the Muslim Brotherhood?

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brotherhood; dictatormorsi; egypt; egyptmb; elbaradei; media; moderatemb; msm; muslim; muslimbrotherhood; newspapers; oldmedia

1 posted on 12/01/2012 10:43:23 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

I’m shocked!


2 posted on 12/01/2012 10:46:28 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: george76

Whenever there is a policy decision for Obama, just consider WWMD? (What Would Morsi Do?). Obama has been both a public and private supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, from Egypy to Benghazi to Syria to???


3 posted on 12/01/2012 11:07:21 PM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: george76

If tearing down the pyramids is what it would take to wake up the world, I hope they tear down the pyramids.


4 posted on 12/01/2012 11:34:26 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: george76

There will be a terrible reckoning with these people.


5 posted on 12/02/2012 12:04:42 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: dr_lew

I would much prefer to see every muslim population center and maybe DC nuked out.

WTF did the pyramids ever do to anyone?


6 posted on 12/02/2012 12:07:14 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade

You’re putting things out of order. Right now we have the “power” of the West abetting and cheerleading for the global caliphate. So they’re going to nuke mecca? No, and not that I advocate that. But what will awaken the West? Anything?


7 posted on 12/02/2012 12:18:03 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

These are things that will come to pass.

The nuclear exchanges will begin when they nuke one of ours. And they will.


8 posted on 12/02/2012 12:29:55 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade

When they nuke one of our what? Aircraft carriers? Won’t this just lead to a reassessment of our naval strategy? Better they should level the pyramids. This would be unconscionable.


9 posted on 12/02/2012 12:36:27 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

We were discussing population centers, I believe. And no, you won’t have a choice in the end.


10 posted on 12/02/2012 12:41:07 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: george76
Love that ElBaradei’s two-facedness is on record.

Back in 2011:
You know, the Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with the Iranian model, has nothing to do with extremism ... The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years. They are in favor of a federalist state. They are in favor of a wording on the base of constitution that has red lines that every Egyptian has the same rights, same obligation, that the state in no way will be a state based on religion. And I have been reaching out to them. We need to include them. …
Never mind the blatant lies about the MB not being related to the “Iranian model” when Khomeini and others associated with him came straight out of the MB.

On to this year:
He (Morsi) grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe—it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst. …

We have to look at it in the context of almost two years of transition. We have no functioning parliament and months ago Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention—what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages. …
Yeah right. You knew this was going to happen, ElBaradei, and you helped it along. Deliberately.
11 posted on 12/02/2012 2:01:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: george76

I remember how “inspired” the admin was regarding the takeover.


12 posted on 12/02/2012 2:03:47 AM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: 2010Freeper

Just wondering out loud.... Has anyone ever seen Obama eating any pork?


13 posted on 12/02/2012 2:50:16 AM PST by Bullish (The stench from this amateur regime stinks all the way to Kenya.)
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To: Bullish

Only at Mans Country in Chicago


14 posted on 12/02/2012 2:59:29 AM PST by dennisw ( The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: george76

Eerie similarities between the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt and the Bolsheviks taking over Russia. Before the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky government, even Lenin was quoted as saying that Russia was the freest country in the world. That freedom ended very quickly as soon as the Bolsheviks took over. It looks like the MB contains the same evil, totalitarian bacillus as the Bolshies.


15 posted on 12/02/2012 3:27:07 AM PST by driftless2
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To: dennisw

Hassan al-Banna (left) is the Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Saïd Ramadan (right) is its first international organizer.

More here.

16 posted on 12/02/2012 3:27:25 AM PST by Katechon
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To: dr_lew

If tearing down the pyramids is what it would take to wake up the world, I hope they tear down the pyramids.

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I would hate to see those artifacts go, but it would remove any remaining misgivings about nuking the place.


17 posted on 12/02/2012 6:16:49 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Not so "commanding", not so "inevitable".)
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To: Bullish

A number of times.

He’s not a Muslim, he’s a useful idiot for Islamism.


18 posted on 12/02/2012 9:15:35 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: Bullish

“Just wondering out loud.... Has anyone ever seen Obama eating any pork?”

According to a majority opinion here on FR, Mr. Obama is a pig. So, wouldn’t that constitute being a cannibal?? :-)


19 posted on 12/02/2012 6:03:13 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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