Posted on 03/21/2015 10:46:04 PM PDT by Hojczyk
‘We are keen on a strategic relationship with the U.S. above everything else,’ says Egypt’s new president. ‘And we will never turn our backs on you—even if you turn your backs on us.’
He’s also aware that the most important work will take time. In January Mr. Sisi went before the religious clerics of Cairo’s Al-Azhar university to demand a “revolution” in Islam. The follow-through won’t be easy. “The most difficult thing to do is change a religious rhetoric and bring a shift in how people are used to their religion,” he says. “Don’t imagine the results will be seen in a few months or years. Radical misconceptions [about Islam] were instilled 100 years ago. Now we can see the results.”
That’s not to say he doesn’t think it’s doable. “Popular sympathy with the idea of religion was dominating the whole scene in Egypt for years in the past. This does not exist anymore. This is a change I consider strategic. Because what brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power was Egyptian sympathy with the concept of religion. Egyptians believed that the Muslim Brothers were advocates of the real Islam. The past three years have been a critical test to those people who were promoting religious ideas. Egyptians experienced it totally and said these people do not deserve sympathy and we will not allow it.”
Throughout our interview, Mr. Sisi has been speaking in Arabic through an interpreter. But after delivering this point, he said in colloquial American English, “You got that?”
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WOW. I told my kids I would dis-inherent them if they got tattoo’s, but I may put this leader’s name on my shoulder.
This guy has totally turned Egypt around. A decent American president would call him up with congratulations. What does Barrack Hussain Obongo do? He invites the muslim brohood to our rogue state department for some sort of a pep rally/prayer meeting and sends them out with a swagger in their step, their faith renewed, to declare some sort of a stupid fatwa against all of Egypt including the Egyptian people...
They want our foreign aid - that’s all.
This is total BS - as if Islam was anything other than what the MB and ISIS demonstrate it to be ... more of this “peaceful (misunderstood) religion” hogwash ... I’m not buying his rhetoric. History proves him a liar, on all fronts.
Yes, and he gives that cutesy little muslim hi sign with the index finger. I suspect it means something like the middle finger to the non muslim world.....
And closing 27,000 mosques means WHAT?
El-Sisi has totally turned Egypt around with major new infrastructure projects funded entirely internally with no aid from the World Bank. That includes doubling the throughput of the canal and major water infrastructure projects. He has told everybody willing to work in Egypt that there are jobs for them and he is not lying.
It’s nice to see someone trying to calm down Islam from within, but at best he’s fighting against the scriptures of his own religion. It could be a ploy to gain time too, with world Islam becoming so plainly odious.
Take it in context. Real peace only comes from Jesus. How about getting that tattooed upon your heart?
In practice, Islam holds varying degrees of influence over its practitioners. Maybe the real God is preparing some kind of spiritual exodus, in an irony of biblical history. Let My (now, to become Christian) people go.
Quite correct that this is not the normal picture.
But as soon as the strong-man is deposed (they rarely die of old age) the mullahs go right back to reading all of the verses of the Koran, meaning back to "strike their necks" etc.
Even Kamal Attaturk's "fundamental transormation" of Turkey is being undone, as Turkey goes back to Islamism.
"We are keen on a strategic relationship with the U.S. above everything else," says Egypt's new president. "And we will never turn our backs on you -- even if you turn your backs on us"
I don’t know why the West isn’t lining up behind Sisi to support him. It’s not like he’s just some schmuck out there on the periphery. He is president of the most populous and powerful arab nation. He seems to speak for the majority of his people and probably for a large slice of the Muslim world. He’s in a position to have real influence but he is not being supported.
Well, he is anti-Muslim Brotherhood.
It is almost like our president is pro Muslim Brotherhood
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