Posted on 02/04/2015 7:05:36 AM PST by cll
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt refuses to accept the verdict of the electorate and is trying, through brutal terrorism, to delegitimize President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Ever since the el-Sissi government's democratic election, Egypt has been plagued by a wave of terror perpetrated by the Brotherhood against the country's army and security forces in Egypt proper and the Sinai Peninsula, which has damaged the economy and infrastructure.
In his most recent speech at Al-Azhar University, on Jan. 1, el-Sissi tried conveying to the "sane" senior religious leaders a brave message about the need to fight terror, calling for introspection and for them to implement a "religious revolution" against terror. His call has gone unanswered.
Indeed, Egypt is fighting these days against Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the terrorist group that has renamed itself the "Sinai Province" and has sworn allegiance to Islamic State. Over the past several months, Sinai Province terrorists have inflicted considerable damage and casualties on the Egyptian army, in a series of car bombings and shooting attacks. Last Thursday night, the group carried out four separate attacks on security forces in northern Sinai, killing at least 30 soldiers and police officers.
Egyptian sources pointed a finger at Hamas and its armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, accusing the Gaza-based terrorist group of aiding Sinai Province in its violent campaign. Evidence of this aid can be found in intercepted messages between the groups. Consequently, Egypt over the weekend banned Hamas' military wing, listing it as a terrorist organization. In light of the dozens of slain soldiers, el-Sissi called on his security forces in Sinai to avenge the blood of their fallen comrades, and said: "We are fighting a well-funded global terrorist organization. … I am not tying your hands to prevent you from taking retribution from the terrorists." During the heartfelt speech, el-Sissi announced the establishment of a new headquarters, commanded by a general, charged with waging war on terror and retaking Sinai.
As per its custom, Al-Jazeera distorted his message. One of the network's "analysts" argued that el-Sissi's words constituted a call for vengeance and civil war, and that he has turned the Egyptian army into a jury and hangman.
In contrast, in an interview with the network, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Egyptian newspaper Al-Mashhad protested the consistent incitement by Al-Jazeera against Egypt. Al-Jazeera, meanwhile, continues to incite, provide Hamas with material aid, and exalt the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades as a role model via its documentaries and programs. Within this framework, Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades member Abdel Karim Al-Hanini, in his own series broadcast on Al-Jazeera, boasts of murdering Israeli civilians and soldiers, while instructing his audience, Palestinians and Muslim Brotherhood followers in Egypt alike, on how to build bombs.
Despite the events in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has yet to be outlawed in Europe and the United States. Many leaders still believe it is a legitimate political movement, despite knowing that it engages in terrorism across the globe and the "new Middle East," and regardless of the fact that many Arab states long ago branded the movement and its "offspring" as illegal. In the Arab states, unlike in the West, Arabic is fully understood. This fact raises the suspicion that the U.S., which is losing interest in our region, has come to terms with radical Islam's ascension to power in the Middle East, and is sacrificing its allies in the region. Its abstention from reining in Qatar, which incites and funds terrorism, testifies to the indifference of the United States to the damage this causes to Israel and to Egypt's fight against fundamentalism, and will lead to the fall of other moderate Arab states.
It appears the Americans, who have soldiers based in the manipulative Qatar, along with the Europeans and partnered by Islamist Turkey and NATO, are implementing a policy of "after me, the deluge," and have accepted the partition of the fading Middle East between the subversive Sunnis and the encroaching Iranians, who are establishing outposts and bridgeheads in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, as well as in Bahrain and Yemen. Both camps, the Sunni and Shiite, are now moving toward an arms race and inevitable apocalyptic clash, simultaneous to the completion of Iran's nuclear program, in lieu of sanctions or a deal ensuring it is scaled back.
In the meantime, the European Union is working with Arab League foreign ministers and, bizarrely, Turkey and Qatar, two countries that support these terrorist movements, to create a front against Islamist terror. The criminals have been appointed the guards, indeed.
Unfortunately, the current American administration isn’t apathetic. Its actively supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
That’s not apathy.
It’s heretofore tacit, but of late increasingly overt, support of the islamic terrorists by the current rat infesting the Whitehouse.
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