Religious Violence, Uncertainty in Post-Mubarak Egypt Threatens Ties to Israel, U.S

FoxNews.com ^ | October 25, 2011 | Leland Vittert

[Hunton Peck]

In the eight months since the Egyptian Revolution, radical Islamic groups are rising to power, the army seems unwilling or unable to stop a growing rash of sectarian violence and the long-standing friendship between the U.S., Israel and Egypt is in serious question.

“I am the enemy of democracy,” Hesham al Ashry said in an interview with Fox News in his Cairo tailor shop. The devout Muslim is a main organizer in a group called the Salafists, which is working to bring Shariah law to Egypt. They, along with the Muslim Brotherhood, have risen quickly in the past eight months to fill the power vacuum left in post-Mubarak Egypt.

The massive change has billionaire tycoon and financier of the revolution Naguib Sawiris now calling Egypt’s future "dim ... bad."

Mubarak’s heavy handed security apparatus kept groups like the Salafis on a tight leash; now free to organize and recruit the Salafists and Brotherhood have quickly climbed to the top of the political food chain with organizational help and financing from supporters in the Gulf states.

“This is a big opportunity and it's not going to go back. This was mentioned by the Prophet Mohammed. Peace be upon him. He said this was going to happen,” al Ashry said, speaking of the Arab Spring and the opportunity for groups like his to organize.

The past eight months have given a scary preview of what al Ashry’s opportunity might mean. It was a Salafy Cleric who called for the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cario, the rocket and suicide bomb attack on a southern Israeli highway which killed 8 and injured more than 40 was launched from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and it was the Army which intervened in a peaceful Coptic Christian protest killing more than two dozen.

[Hunton Peck]

Good thing that jerk Mubarak's gone, eh?

[doc1019]

Threatens Ties to Israel

Ya' think?

[2banana]

No arab peaceful democracies filling in the power vacuum?

Who could have guessed?

[Jeff Head]

[ClearCase_guy]

Iraq and Saudi Arabia could go in the near future. Won’t that be something?

You can smell the Caliphate coming.

[dr_lew]

You can smell the Caliphate coming.

To me it's more of a vision thing.

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