Neocons vs. Islamophobes

Salon ^ | May 16, 2012 | Jordan Michael Smith

[rmlew]

The Muslim Brotherhood, a group that was once thought virtually extinct in Syria, has surprised everyone by staging a comeback. The Islamist group is, according to Reuters, a “dominant force” in the Syrian opposition. Similarly, in Egypt, the MB has become perhaps the most powerful group in the wake of the Revolution.

This doesn’t sit well with everyone in the American conservative movement, and two factions are vying to define the Republican response to the increased power of political Islam. Leading what might be called the ‘to-hell-with-democracy’ strain of thought is Andrew McCarthy, a national-security columnist for National Review and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. McCarthy has been relentless in arguing that the MB poses a major threat to America, and that it must be opposed at all costs. McCarthy called Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain “the useful-idiot brigade” for meeting with MB members in Egypt. He accused the senators of “helping install an Islamist government in Libya” that he says is composed of al-Qaida members.

[rmlew]

For the left, and sadly some neoconservatives and some Freepers, if you notice that Al Qaeda's parent organization is anti-American and fanatical, you are an Islamophobe.

[rmlew]

Andrew McCarthy replies to this pablum. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300507/democracy-sharia-andrew-c-mccarthy 

[jobim]

McCarthy’s book is essential, and becoming essentialer and essentialer by the moment.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

The Muslim Brotherhood is alive and well and working its "Stealth Jihad" as it has for some 40 years and though it made inroads during the feckless, naive, uninformed, DUPE, George W Bush, ( thanks in no small part to the TRAITOROUS, SEDITIOUS, Islamic-Jihadist SUPPORTER and phony, pretend "Conservative" Grover Norquist) but their success (and having wormed their way into EVERY Gov't Agency incluing the DHS, DOJ, DOD and White House) have been "kicked up notches" under this Fascist, Hate-America, Neo-Commie, Occupyer of the Oval Office.

PLEASE: Anyone who has not viewed Frank Gaffney's EXCELLENT 10 part series on the Muslim Brotherhood, you need to at least bookmark it and watch it as soon as time permits:

The Muslim Brotherhood in America

[TexasSecede79366]

Ayman al-Zawahiri

This is the man they refuse to even acknowledge exists. Obama killed bin Laden to save his a$$.

[freedomfiter2]

This should read “neocons and other liberals vs conservatives and other people with their eyes open”.

[rmlew]

Ayman Al-Zawahiri is perfectly capable of killing people to save himself. Al-Zawahiri is known for killing untrustworthy or competing members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the rival Gamat Al-Islamiyyah. Zwahiri is one of the possible killers of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. Azzam’s two errors were bringing Bin Laden in as the moneyman for Maktab al-Khadamat. After the withdrawal of the Soviets, Azzam wanted to focus on “liberating” Muslims under non-Muslim rule. Ayman al-Zawahir, ever teh follower of Sayyid Qutb, wanted to take on the corrupt Muslim regimes first.

[TexasSecede79366]

-- and where did he learn? The prisons of Egypt. He is the Muslim Brotherhood. His personal "porch n@@@@@ is Barack Obama.
The revolution in Egypt,the war in Libya have his fingerprints all over them.

[rmlew]

I’m not sure that President George W Bush would have been any better. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577406612351805018.html