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Obama’s Arab winter: President plays active role in America’s decline, Islam’s rise
The Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2011 | Jeffrey T. Kuhner

Posted on 10/25/2011 6:49:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Obama is empowering radical Islam across the Arab world. He is presiding over both the American decline and the rapid advance of our mortal jihadist enemies. From the Middle East to North Africa, the Arab Spring has turned into an Islamist winter. Contrary to the administration’s claims, the popular uprisings have not led to a “rebirth of freedom” - the emergence of liberal democracies in distant Arab lands. Rather, Muslim fundamentalists have used street protests against corrupt, autocratic regimes as a Trojan horse to expand Islamic militancy.

In Tunisia, an Islamist party with ideological ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is poised to win national elections. Its goal is to repeal the nation’s secular traditions (inherited from the French empire) and erect a Muslim theocracy. Its platform calls for banning alcohol, forcing women to wear the veil and implementing Shariah law. Non-Muslims and women are to be treated as second-class citizens.

Next month, it will be Egypt’s turn to hold elections. The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to gain the largest number of parliamentary seats. Its aim is to restore the global caliphate and return Cairo to the rule of fundamentalist clerics. Its foreign policy is based upon hatred of Israel and America. The Sinai already has become a sanctuary for terrorists and a staging ground for attacks on Israeli cities. Since the overthrow of strongman Hosni Mubarak, rampaging Muslim mobs have murdered numerous Coptic Egyptians and destroyed Christian churches. More than 100,000 Christian Copts have been expelled - an act of deliberate religious cleansing. About 8 million Copts are left in Egypt. The Brotherhood views them as a “threat” to the “Egyptian nation.” The country could be on the verge of religious and civil war, yet Mr. Obama is shamefully silent about the anti-Christian pogrom taking place....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: egypt; islam; libya; mayhiskidneysfail; obama
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
1 posted on 10/25/2011 6:49:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bttt


2 posted on 10/25/2011 6:57:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is anyone surprised? 0 gave his game plan away in his books, just as Hitler did in Mein Kampf. 0 is the spawn of an anti-Western Kenyan commie and an anti-American expatriate commie.


3 posted on 10/25/2011 7:03:43 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just 452 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes, 8 seconds left in the reign of this communist dictator. Run clock run !!!!


4 posted on 10/25/2011 7:10:50 PM PDT by lwoodham (There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am sickened that no one calls this administration out and if they do they are called racist.


5 posted on 10/25/2011 7:10:50 PM PDT by The Mayor ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat" — Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Treasonous! Where’s Joe McCarthy?


6 posted on 10/25/2011 7:12:02 PM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In future commentaries on the 21st Century Omni War there will be the question- how could they not have recognized the signs?


7 posted on 10/25/2011 7:15:20 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And he is dismantling our country right before our eyes! Losing whatever protection we have against the threat that we will soon face..... I have no doubts on what his plan is!

U.S.’s Most Powerful Nuke Being Dismantled in Amarillo, TX

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/USs-Most-Powerful-Nuke-Being-Dismantled-in-Amarillo-132525888.html


8 posted on 10/25/2011 7:23:01 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: lwoodham
Just 452 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes, 8 seconds left in the reign of this communist dictator. Run clock run !!!

Do you really think they will not pull out all stops to prevent the election?

Do you think anyone in Washington is gong to lift a finger to stop them? They all knew what he was doing in Egypt and Libya. Did they lift a finger to stop it?

Better dig in - and grow carrots on the side. He's getting bolder by the day regarding rule by fiat. He simply ignores our laws, the Constitution, Congress.

He and his czars - the real gov't - have taken over our country - a total coup.

And no one stops them.

Who's going to stop the Mahdi Wannabe from declaring a National Emergency - Martial Law - total rule for 6 months - no elections.

They haven't, after all these years, gotten this kind of control only to let a little thing like an election get in their way.

9 posted on 10/25/2011 7:37:56 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Occupy Wall Street crowd are the people Obama plans to spread the wealth to.


10 posted on 10/25/2011 7:42:43 PM PDT by OrioleFan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Arrest him for treason tonight.


11 posted on 10/25/2011 7:42:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Democrats are violent. Prisons are overflowing with democrats convicted of violent crimes.)
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12 posted on 10/25/2011 7:50:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


13 posted on 10/25/2011 7:52:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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Just like Carter’s Iran and South American policies. Rulers who had been friendly to the USA, began to be criticized for human rights violations etc.

Next thing you know, the country was destabilized (with covert help, sometimes)and replaced with a supposedly better leader who wound up being less than friendly to the USA.

Same old play book if you ask me.


14 posted on 10/25/2011 7:57:11 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Jeff Head

Next Iraq - then Afghanistan - Does Israel stand a chance?

Then US? At least in their plans.


15 posted on 10/25/2011 7:58:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s obvious that he’s allowing the fundamentalists to reestablish the Caliphate. I would be nervous if I lived in Spain, Malta and Sicily.


16 posted on 10/25/2011 8:46:06 PM PDT by Feasor13
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama: “... my Muslim faith ...”


17 posted on 10/25/2011 10:20:29 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Jeff Head
How did Chad get included among the "enemy" countries in 2008? For years the French were supporting Chad and bombing Libyan assets that Khadafy was using against the Chadians, in trying to tip their civil war.
18 posted on 10/26/2011 12:46:16 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Feasor13
I would be nervous if I lived in Spain, Malta and Sicily.

Or Greek Cyprus, or Rhodes.

Turkey is slipping away as Erdogan gradually overreaches the Kemalist secularists who were our vanguard allies above 50 years.

And actually, France itself is looking a little dicey these days.

19 posted on 10/26/2011 12:52:58 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: maine-iac7

Now you can understand why people have been buying guns the last few years. They sense a new revolution down the road.


20 posted on 10/26/2011 9:40:37 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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