Posted on 07/04/2013 12:47:36 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
BEIRUT — The ouster on Wednesday of Egypt’s elected Muslim Brotherhood government barely a year after it took office represents a significant setback for the Islamist movements that have proved the biggest beneficiaries so far of the Arab Spring revolts.
From Tunisia to war-torn Syria, anti-Islamist activists have begun expressing unhappiness with the religious parties empowered by freedoms the turmoil unleashed. That the backlash has crescendoed in Egypt — the Arab world’s political and cultural trendsetter and the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood 80 years ago — is likely to resonate far beyond, perhaps most forcefully in Syria.
“What happens to the Islamists in Egypt will determine their status in the remaining countries of the region,” said Jordanian political analyst Labib Kamhawi. “This is making them nervous because they know that if they lose in Egypt, they will end up losing everywhere.”
It is far too early to write off political Islam as a force in the region, and the Egyptian army’s role in forcing President Mohamed Morsi’s departure sets a potentially worrying precedent for the future of democratically elected governments.
Islamist extremists, in Egypt and elsewhere, may argue that what many are calling a military coup validates the use of violence to achieve their aims. The regimes and monarchies still holding at bay the clamor for greater freedoms will cite the example of Egypt as evidence that elections that empower Islamists will lead to chaos, perhaps braking further progress toward political reform.
But there can be little doubt that the specter of the Arab world’s most populous nation rising up in seemingly unprecedented numbers against an Islamist leader has tainted the Brotherhood’s long effort to present itself as a viable alternative to the region’s mostly repressive regimes, in ways that it may find hard to redress.
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I sense people in America are starting to wake up and smell the coffee about Obama.
If MacArthur can be described as the American Caesar, Obama can be described as the American Hitler.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/03/312095/turkey-blocks-disputed-park-project/
Turkish court cancels plan to redevelop Istanbul’s Taksim Square
A Turkish court has blocked a redevelopment project for Istanbul’s Taksim Square after the country was rocked by four weeks of anti-government protests.
The court ruling is seen as a big blow to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had strongly backed the project,but is also seen as a victory for the opposition that has been staging nationwide rallies against it.
“in about 3 year there will be an official “Barack Obama” day in our calendar April 15th? April 1? Split the difference and make it April 8th?”
And it will only be a holiday for Muslims right?
A good thing for you may be a bad thing for an (ex?)Muslim like 0......
Obama and Hillary picked the losing and wrong side of Freedom in the ME.
The American Pravda will never allow or tolerate any such public disclosure, but to sum it all up...Obama has been am unmitigated foreign policy disaster of epic proportions.
Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
Abbas urges ‘disassociating’ Palestinians from conflicts in Lebanon, Syria
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/793717.shtml
Palestinian refugees not involved in Syrian conflict, says Abbas
http://www.france24.com/en/20130704-palestinian-territories-mahmoud-abbas—involved-syria-lebanon-conflict-war
Anything or anyone who troubles the Islamist jihad movement anywhere gets a thumbs up from me.
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