American Islamist Groups Shape Arab Revolutions, Frontpagemag.com ^ | 31JUL12 | David J. Rusin Posted on 07/31/2012 8:55:16 AM PDT by bayouranger http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-j-rusin/american-islamist-groups-shape-arab-revolutions/
MARCH 2012 : (EGYPT : DISMAYED EGYPTIAN PROFESSOR COMMENTS ON WESTERN POWERS & THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S SUPPORT OF “NEW AUTHORITARIANS”) “The most dramatic oppression of the region’s civil societies and the Arab Spring is not by means of weapons, or in the Middle East. It is not led by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Bin Ali, Saleh, or Assad. It is led by the powerful Islamist lobbies in Washington, D.C.,” writes Abdallah, a professor at Ain Shams University in Egypt who writes for the pan-Arab publication Elaph.
Abdallah says that months into the Arab Spring, he and other Egyptian freedom fighters realized that “the Western powers, and the Obama Administration have put their support behind the new authoritarians.”
———— The new authoritarians, World Magazine ^ | March 10, 2012 | Mindy Belz ; Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 1:05:53 PM by Joe the Pimpernel