Obama Backs Brotherhood

www.joytiz.com ^ | 2/7/11 | Joy Tiz

[jazminerose]

Before we get down to the business of excoriating the president for his mishandling of the crisis in Egypt, let’s all just stipulate that we are in favor of democracy, be in in Egypt or elsewhere. The unfortunate reality is, however, that democracy is not one of the options available in that country at the moment. The choices are keeping a flawed, but staunch ally in power versus enabling a terrorist organization in its quest for Mid East domination.

Mubarak can be dealt with as long as he depends on aid from the United States. Allowing his government to simply collapse gives the Muslim Brotherhood the opportunity to seize power which would be a disaster on multiple levels.

Ed Lasky at the American Thinker does a little rewind and reminds us that Obama’s bungling of the Egyptian situation didn’t start recently. He’s been working on screwing that up for months.

"The Los Angeles Times reports that Barack Obama had not just ignored Egyptian human rights issues over the past two years, but actually cut funding for activist groups trying to reform Egypt:"

"Although President Obama has sided firmly with pro-democracy protesters in Egypt, his administration spent its first two years easing the U.S. push for human rights reforms in that country.

"Early in Obama’s presidency, officials cut in half funding to promote democracy in Egypt. They also agreed to restrict certain grants only to organizations licensed by President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime, reversing a Bush administration policy of funding groups at odds with the government."

"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a March 2009 meeting with Mubarak at an Egyptian resort on the Red Sea, seemed to downplay a State Department report documenting torture, rape and political detentions in Egypt."

"‘We issue these reports on every country,’ Clinton told a television interviewer. ‘And so we hope that it will be taken in the spirit in which it is offered, that we all have room for improvement.’"

"Egyptian dissidents were distressed by the administration’s message."

"‘All this sent a signal that was very damaging,’ said Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, a Washington advocacy group."

Nor did Obama use his nauseating Cairo speech to insist on democratic reforms as Secretary Rice did in 2005.

"Not only has Barack Obama been behind the curve, but he worsened the dynamic by slashing funding in half for groups that could have been our allies for true Democratic change. Why the budget-cutting? Obama did the same for a Boston-based Iran human rights group that had been monitoring and publicizing and recording for posterity Iranian human rights abuses — except in that case, Obama terminated all funding. The man who has rung up trillion-dollar deficits tries to save a few million dollars by cuts to human rights groups?"

In fact, since taking office, Obama has done nothing to push for reforms in Egypt. Most terrifying was Robert Gibbs’ yammering about the incorporation of “non-secular actors” into a new government. That would be the Muslim Brotherhood, of course.

David Horovitz of the Jerusalem Post explains what they’re up to.

"Experiences elsewhere have demonstrated the patience that Islamist organizations can exercise, building and gaining power and influence over years, over decades. Yet the absence of the Brotherhood from the protest frontlines for a matter of mere days – an astute tactic to ensure the watching world was not alienated and to maximize domestic support for the uprising – was apparently widely misread as proof of its irrelevance."

How does a terrorist organization worm its way into a government? Lasky sums it up perfectly:

"They burrow into governments and then take over, all but destroying the Democratic process that brought them to power — often at the behest of Western powers. They become anti-American and become terror-supporting states. They fall out of the so-called American orbit — perhaps for many years to come (as has Iran). They trample the rights of women, abuse their children by teaching the tools of Islamism and not the tools needed to live in the 21st century, and use their mosques and media to brainwash their people to hate America. They give rise to more terrorism that can wash up on our own shores."

Our perenially inept Secretary of State thinks a “dialog” with the Brotherhood is a good thing. Only in the same sense obedience classes are a good thing with a rabid dog.

If Obama actually wants the Brotherhood to grab power, he’s been on the right track all along.

[jazminerose]

Links:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/obamas_role_in_empowering_the.html

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206969

[Lucky9teen]

Well, duh...

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” ~ Obama

[bergmeid]

This is about one thing only. War against Israel. Zippy, his leftwing lovers and fellow muzzies want blood so bad, they can now actually taste it.

[353FMG]

Does anyone expect otherwise from this man?

Why there are still people who think that 0 is not a muslim is incomprehensible.

[tutstar]

Oh brother

[curiosity]

Before we get down to the business of excoriating the president for his mishandling of the crisis in Egypt, let’s all just stipulate that we are in favor of democracy, be in in Egypt or elsewhere.

And therein lies the problem: we shouldn't be in favor of democracy in countries in which a significant percentge of the population subscribes to a fundamentlly anti-democratic, totalitarian ideology.