Posted on 06/28/2012 5:14:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Throughout America's history, there have been people who denied threats from our enemies. During the Revolutionary War, significant numbers sided with the British monarchy. Enablers in politics, the media and even religion helped Communism remain in power for seven decades in the Soviet Union. German Nazis had their U.S. apologists.
The presidential election in Egypt, won by the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi in a race where three-quarters of Egyptians voted for someone else, challenges contemporary deniers and enablers who refuse to acknowledge the threat advancing Islamism poses to Israel and the West. Enough Egyptians voted for Morsi to allow Islamists to achieve greater political power than at any time since the Brotherhood's 1928 founding.
Morsi mouths the words the West wants to hear (he was educated in America). He speaks of being president of "all Egyptians," promising to honor all international agreements made by the Hosni Mubarek regime.
A cleric, Safwat Higazi, introduced Morsi at a May 1 campaign rally and stated the Brotherhood's objective: "Our capital shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing." That seems to signal the real direction in which Morsi could take his country. It is certainly in line with Muslim Brotherhood thinking.
After more than three years of pandering and apologizing to the Islamic world, the Obama administration has produced a tree bearing rotten fruit. The White House congratulated Morsi on his victory. What else could it do? It won't admit error or acknowledge that the "Arab Spring" is starting to resemble a Siberian winter.
Iran continues its nuclear weapons program and threatens to wipe the "Zionist entity" off the map. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Israel and urges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Iran, to which Russia has been providing nuclear technology. Should Egypt again become hostile to the Jewish state (the recent terror attacks from the Sinai border area are a sign that 32 years of stability along the Egyptian-Israeli border could unravel), Israel may be in greater peril than at any time in its modern history.
Sixteen months ago, the Brotherhood declared disinterest in the Egyptian presidency, vowing not to run a candidate. Add that to the long list of lies and empty promises that numerous Arab and Islamic leaders have peddled to the West.
Columnist Max Boot seemingly buys into the fantasies of the apologists, enablers and deniers. In a Commentary magazine article titled "Let the Brotherhood Rule in Egypt," Boot writes, "As long as a Brotherhood government must face voters in the future, popular sentiment will act as a check on its illiberal tendencies."
Many dictators have been elected once.
"Regardless," Boot added, "it is a tragedy that the will of the Egyptian people, who plainly long for Western-style democracy and not an Iranian-style theocracy or a sclerotic police state, is being thwarted."
Really? The Egyptian parliamentary election confirmed polling that indicates 60 percent of Egyptians favor complete adoption of Shariah law. Shariah law does not require that future elections be held. Those polls also show an overwhelming majority of Egyptians want a religious government, stoning as a form of punishment, and limits on women and Christians in office.
The New York Times' David Kirkpatrick is not fooled by false promises. In an April 23 story, Kirkpatrick wrote, "(Morsi) has argued for barring women and non-Muslims from Egypt's presidency on the basis of (Shariah) law. He has called for a council of Muslim scholars to advise Parliament. He has a track record of inflammatory statements about Israel, calling its citizens 'killers and vampires.'"
The Muslim Brotherhood knows how Westerners think. They are playing us for fools. If we believe what has happened in Egypt and the upheavals in the rest of the Mideast will lead to democracy, human rights, equal rights for women and religious minorities, freedom of speech and press, then we are fools.
These fanatics do not intend to stop with Israel. Their ultimate target is America, by elections and/or other means.
NO.....your life depends on it
Deception and lies, throughout history, have been the way of the Muslim. The Koran calls for it when dealing with infidels - that's us!
YES, you can believe him between now and the election in November. He needs to do what he can to help his fellow Muslim get reelected.
NO, you will not be able to trust him ever again after the election no matter who wins.
Yeah, but the silver lining news for USA liberals is that Egyptian gays will fare much better under the Brotherhood.
(right?)
Should the West believe Egypt’s new president?
No more than we should believe this statement: “I never had sex with that woman”
Moderate Muzzie = out of ammo.
Moderate moozlum: will use a sharp knife to cut off your family’s heads so as to cause less pain
Of course we believe them.
They have turned from MOOCHes to ENEMIES.
What’s difficult about that?
(Mebbie we STOP giving them $$$$$$$$$$$$?)
Until that time comes where it can be proven the new Egyptian president has lied, I say believe him. US president Barack Obama, on the other hand, having been caught in many prevarications, probably should not be believed.
I don't believe the one that CLAIMS to be ours (and for good reason)!
We never learn. How many mistakes do we have to make until it sinks in?? These Muslim countries and their leaders are congenital LIARS and always have been so...wake up AMERICA and the WEST!
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No.
“Should the West believe Egypt’s new president?”
Only if he says he will kill all of Egypt’s Christians and help wipe Israel off the map. Otherwise, if his lips are moving, he’s just being a Muslim speaking to gullible Westerners.
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