Posted on 01/30/2011 2:53:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In my social media universe this morning, there waiting for my perusal were numerous status updates and tweets from my liberal friends, complimenting the protestors in Egypt for taking back their country from a ruthless dictator. “Egypt has a right to elect its own leaders.” “So excited and hopeful for Egypt! Happy and thankful for Tunisia!” These are just a couple of the many NPR-inspired, vestigial Bush-bashing comments from proxy protestors, wielding – once again – a reckless naïveté toward the region.
There are three outcomes to this uprising: (1) Mubarak narrowly maintains power through an iron fist; (2) Mubarak is usurped by this groundswell of support for change with the hope that democratic rule will take over; or (3) Islamic militants kick Mubarak out of office and begin their long rein of tyranny and theocracy.
No matter the outcome, religious fundamentalism will emerge as the victor, both in popularity and in legitimacy. Thus, if Mubarak isn’t ousted now, he will be soon in favor of a sectarian-flavored regime. Equivalently, if democracy sweeps the nation, expect religious coalition factions to wield tremendous power, either as a majority or as a significant minority forcing a secular majority to bend to their wishes.
This is a bad thing. Should I attempt to convince these left-leaning friends of mine that this is the case, they’d undoubtedly attempt to deem me a bigot and then attack Sarah Palin for her backward Christian beliefs. This wouldn’t make any sense on many levels, but for one: I view all religious fundamentalism as a bad thing. It just so happens that, at this moment in time, Islamic fundamentalism has access to far more dangerous, expansive tools to create harm and radically shift the balance of power in the whole world.
Although Hosni Mubarak is a tyrant and a butcher, he has done an excellent job of keeping the country’s Islamo-Fascists in check for the last 30 years. Giving power to this faction – particularly to the thug nation of the Muslim Brotherhood – is opening up the gates of hell if only for the fact that Egypt is a nuclear nation and militants do not believe in John Foster Dulles’s notion of brinkmanship; instead, they believe in pressing the button right away.
What’s going on today is not unlike the 1950s when countries in the Pacific were quickly getting infected by the Communism metastasis. This Domino Effect – as Eisenhower put it – is in full-force today. However, it’s no longer Communism that’s spreading – it’s Islamo-Fascism.
Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt are the recent examples. Algeria and Yemen have joined in the protests, with the latter country being a toothless republic that succumbs either to Sharia law or to the terrorists who train there. There’s trouble now in Jordan.
Turkey, too, a seemingly strong Muslim ally in the region, has shifted its political pendulum in favor of its rising religious fundamentalism. This is best exemplified with Erdogan’s new rhetoric. Once pro-Western and pro-Israel, his public statements are nothing short of cold toward the former and hostile towards the latter.
The status quo has seemingly stayed the same in Syria, Libya, UAE, Iran, and Saudi Arabia . . . until the Wikileaks scandal broke in November of last year. Perhaps it’s too early to tell what the upshot will be. However, I’m of the firm belief that whomever’s got the biggest muscles (Iran) won’t shy away from flexing them at the end of the day.
But the country to be most worried about is Pakistan. A nation of tremendous nuclear heft, Pakistan is no stranger to Islamo-Fascism. The country’s biggest clarion call to that problem? Probably a toss up between Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in 2007 and Pervez Musharraf’s numerous assassination attempts during his reign (11 by the winter of 2003!).
Incidentally, since he left office, Musharraf’s struggles have continued: today, he lives in exile in the UK, under the threat of a fatwa issued against him by religious scholars from Islamabad.
Oh, you theologians! Where’s that grace God has given you?
If and when Mubarak gets overthrown, Pakistan will soon follow. The Islamo-Fascists have nothing to lose. Moreover, now that they’ve seen the act of protest come to a successful overthrow, how could they not resist it themselves? Especially when there’s more at stake for them? After all, the US has unofficially expanded its war in Afghanistan into Pakistan!
Here’s a new clarion call: a nuclear Pan-Islamic region is in the works – and one that will share with America and China the hegemony over the world. Even if the Muslim countries under this umbrella don’t seem to get along, they can at least connect over Sharia law. (They’d have to, actually, or else they’d be stoned or beaten to death.)
Sharia law is the heart of Islamic fundamentalism. It is basically a list of rules of what not to do under observance of Allah. This means if you have any contrary thought towards him or Mohammed, you are dead. This means if you are gay, you are dead . . . or forced into a sex change (as is the case in Iran). This means if you are a feminist, you will only be able to share your thoughts of empowerment between you and your hijab. This means if you are a daughter who kisses a neighborhood boy, your father can kill you out of honor. This means if you are a Coptic Christian, you are a dhimmi, a subject of the Islamic state that must respect the rules of Islam and pay an exorbitant tax for the right to live amongst Muslims.
Basically, freedom and individuality are tantamount to excrement.
So, to my friends on Facebook and Twitter who are rooting for Mubarak to be overthrown, I have some advice: Don’t get caught up in the romance of an uprising. It can be glamorous, emotive, and sexy even. But the region from whence it came is anything but.
I did not think that Egypt had nuclear weapons either.
I don’t think Egypt has any nuclear weapons, but they do have a nuclear reactor with plans for more. That may be what the author is referencing
I believe the regime in Washington would look at doubling or tripling the 1.5 billion annual payments as a form of tribute to any future government, in part to keep Suez open.
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