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Muslim Brotherhood Makes Fools of Naive West
YID with LID ^ | November 3, 2011 | Barry Rubin

Posted on 11/05/2011 3:27:23 PM PDT by opentalk

Can you imagine this? The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood lied! And can you imagine this: the two civilians who are Egypt’s greatest hope for avoiding an Islamist dictatorship are very worried.

Let’s start with the Brotherhood. First, it promised to run candidates for only one-third of the parliamentary seats, saying this would proof of its moderation and willingness to share power.

But a little later, it raised that number to 50 percent but said that’s all and they wouldn’t run a candidate for president. Again, we were told: they’re moderate!

Next, it created a front party to run a candidate for president. For months the Western media generally told us that this party was independent of the Brotherhood, had split off from the Brotherhood to run a candidate for president. That made this party even more moderate than the moderate Brotherhood.

Finally, now that the media admits this is a Brotherhood-controlled party, it announces, too, that it will run candidates for all the parliamentary seats.

How do we know they are moderate? Well, because they say so. For example, the Brotherhood has announced that it will not run on the slogan, “Islam is the solution!” Their new official slogan is:

“We bring good [things] for Egypt.”

...Prediction: By mid-2012 everyone will be writing about the failure of the Egyptian revolution and how it has made things worse for the country and terrible for the region. Added prediction: they will be saying the same thing about Tunisia and Libya. Will this combination be enough to wake up the West to the threat of revolutionary Islamism and the catastrophic consequences of current Western policy toward the Middle East?

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cair; egypt; egyptelection; ellison; foreignpolicy; islam; israel; libya; muslimroots; obama; tunisia

1 posted on 11/05/2011 3:27:24 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
related;

U.S. hints it would not object to Brotherhood win in Egypt (How Special)

2 posted on 11/05/2011 3:29:02 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

The MB assassinated Sadat. They are radical moslem to a T.


3 posted on 11/05/2011 3:29:33 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wogga wogga)
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To: opentalk
related thread

State Department training Islamic political parties in Egypt

our State Department seems to be an advocate for Muslim Brotherhood. (imo)

4 posted on 11/05/2011 3:51:27 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
Everyone knew what to expect when the US backed away from a long time ally and supported the "Arab Spring" Barry has been working to make a gift of all of North Africa to the Muslim Brotherhood because it's his duty as a good Mooze Lame to further the recreation of the Caliphate as it existed at its peak. Don't be a bit surprised if he next wants to bomb Spain so it can be given to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ever since Clinton gave them a chunk of the Balkans on a silver platter democrat fascist policy has been to help recreate the Caliphate and destroy Christianity everywhere in the Middle East.

Think about it just one example. Until Putin started warming up to the Orthodox Church the democrat fascists were all for giving Russia all sorts of aid and goodies. Once it was clear that the Mooze Lames were going to be kept on a leash if not outright rolled back inside Russia, the democrat thugs started putting out all the anti-Putin propaganda they could knowing it would be lapped right up by the same sort of folks who lapped up their lies about Bush.

Putin may well be scum backing the Orthodox Church for his own political goals, but the fact that he isn't granting special rights to Mooze Lames is the real reason the media have turned on him, not the fact that he might be every bit as bad as your run of the mill democrat fascist in this country. It's back to religious war between civilizations, not nations, and unless people figure that out soon there's going to be hundreds of millions dead because of it rather than just tens of millions.

JMHO

5 posted on 11/05/2011 3:54:45 PM PDT by Rashputin (Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
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"Muslim Brotherhood Makes Fools of Naive West "

You can't make 'em something they already are.

6 posted on 11/05/2011 3:54:58 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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One bomb, one dam ~ then no more Egyptians.

That's the ultimate limiting factor for the Islamic Brotherhood.

7 posted on 11/05/2011 3:59:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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It gets worse. Tomorrow night The Learning Channel is going to air “Muslim in America’’. If you haven’t seen the trailers for this puff-piece on the plight of the poor oppressed peaceful Muslims(sar.) , get ready to hurl. I have and it was infuriating to say the least.


8 posted on 11/05/2011 4:04:32 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: opentalk

Naive? I think both Barry and Hillary are well aware of what they did in relation to the MB.


9 posted on 11/05/2011 4:16:50 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: opentalk

who’s their candidate, barack obama?


10 posted on 11/05/2011 4:20:00 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Hail to the Thief)
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To: SERKIT

Yep, soros orgs were whipping up civil unrest in Egypt for a year ahead of regime change. The State Department is now getting advice from John Podesta, Center for American Progress. Seems like the Clinton/Soros machine, with Obama fake figure head. Holder is a Clintonite.


11 posted on 11/05/2011 4:26:23 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks opentalk.
How do we know they are moderate? Well, because they say so.

12 posted on 11/05/2011 6:12:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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13 posted on 11/05/2011 7:03:50 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: opentalk

In any chaotic situation, the most ruthless group or organization will seize power. The Bolsheviks weren’t the biggest socialist group, but they were the most organized and ruthless. The other socialists didn’t stand a chance. You can argue that the other parties would have about the same disastrous effect as the Bolsheviks, but we’ll never know. Ditto for the Nazis. The same will be true for the Islamic world. The most ruthless will win out. Which looks like the Jihadis.


14 posted on 11/05/2011 7:05:58 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: opentalk

The West is not niave. The leadership in the West wants totalitarianism and fascism. Their best tool of intimidation is Islam coupled with PC correctness. Everyone knows what is going on, but they are gagged.


15 posted on 11/05/2011 7:10:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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The West is not naive. The leadership in the West wants totalitarianism and fascism. Their best tool of intimidation is Islam coupled with PC correctness. Everyone knows what is going on, but they are gagged.
16 posted on 11/05/2011 7:10:39 PM PDT by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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