Posted on 03/25/2011 1:09:46 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
You don’t say! This must come as quite a shock to certain experts who assured us that the Ikhwan was a mostly secular movement. Even some hard-nosed realists might find themselves a bit surprised at how quickly the nature of the Egyptian revolution changed after Hosni Mubarak fled:
In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at the forefront, transformed into a tacit partner with the military government that many fear will thwart fundamental changes.
It is also clear that the young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force — at least not at the moment.
As the best organized and most extensive opposition movement in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was expected to have an edge in the contest for influence. But what surprises many is its link to a military that vilified it.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Just a nasty feeling?
I had no doubt from the very start of all this in Tunisia. oscuzbag’s homies just needed a little more help with things in Egypt and Libya.
I’m not a big follower of Glenn Beck’s, but one can easily see the Alinsky tactic of isolate, denigrate and destroy at work in all of these topplings.
People like Wael Ghonim (Google) are simply useful idiots to organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Queda or Communists.
Once his usefulness disappeared, they gave him an unceremonious boot in the arse, and he left in rejected anger, rage, and yes you boy liberals, tears. “We don’t need any stinking capitalist westerners around our revolution! Begone!”
No surprise at all. This is exactly what many of us were warnign might happen.
and others will follow. No wonder Hillary looks so awful.
Obama’s record of turnovers to radical Islam in the next few months is growing: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and perhaps Bahrain. By the end of his term, the President will have Israel surrounded by Islamic theocracies. This is justified by the Responsibility to Protect Islam.
I’ve been called “crazy” for this before so don’t bother reiterating it if you don’t agree but IMO, 911 was Part 1.
Omuslim was Part 2.
Apparently we are now entering Part 3.
Personally, I’ve never *not* considered them to be the ones who bring about ‘the end’.
But, I know how The Book ends so I don’t spend much time fretting over it.
What is written, will be.
God is in control.
In 2008, half of America ‘chose whom they would serve’.
I chose otherwise.
Yes we all did say this was going to be the end result when this first started. Whats the proverb about a fool who opens his mouth and the wise man who listens?
surprise, surprise, surprise... NOT
Notice how Hamas went from homemade Qassams to Soviet Grad rockets?
Take look!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/03/lessons-from-which-we-need-to-learn.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-ignorant-obambi-got-got-elected-by.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/03/20-inch-hihg-horse.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/03/libyan-war-because-of-three-women-and.html
THX FOR THE PING.
It is also clear that the young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force...
An absolutely jaw-dropping sentence. There may yet come a day when it will percolate into the thick skulls at the Times editorial board that the world does not consist of Perrier-sipping Manhattanites, nor is it tailored for their benefit, nor are they likely to run it, nor do they deserve to. There is no revolutionary movement populated by "young, educated, secular activists" that doesn't turn into dogfood the minute the pros show up. Egypt is not about to be governed by Ivy League MBA's in button-down shirts and Yankees ballcaps checking the latest stock reports on their Blackberries. It's time to fall back to plan B, which is to find a Republican to blame.
Yea, as Jim Neighbors/PFC Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise! Surprise!”
And soetoro has exactly what he wants.
Thanks for the ping!
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