Posted on 07/04/2013 12:04:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CAIRO The passions fueling Egypt's political turbulence arose directly from the "Arab Spring" of 2011, but they have deeper roots in a decades-long struggle over the nation's identity between two authoritarian forces Islamists and a secular military state.
Egypt won its independence from Britain after a 1952 revolution by army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. From the start, the military was set against the Muslim Brotherhood, a growing and at times violent underground Islamist movement. Strong in the provinces and among professionals, the Brotherhood espoused sharia, or Islamic law, and went so far as to attempt political assassinations to wear down the military-backed government.
The Brotherhood's vision inspired both moderate Islamist groups and terrorist organizations across the region. It renounced violence decades ago and concentrated on social and religious programs, but the group was both co-opted and persecuted by successive military leaders who regarded it as a threat to the westward-leaning secular state they envisioned.
The organization's bitterness simmered through six decades as military men ran the country, until a popular uprising overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The army quickly seized control, but the Brotherhood began a political ascendancy that culminated with the election last year of President Mohamed Morsi, the nation's first Islamist leader.
The young protesters and opposition figures who led the revolt against Mubarak were outflanked by the Brotherhood and unceremoniously sidelined by political naivete, conflicting visions and lack of organization.
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A hugh blow to the ambitions of the Islamist views in the Middl East countries.
Will Al-Queda introduce it's bombers to Egypt.?
Spring has sprung?
BS.
So from the very start the objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood, turning Egypt into a strict Islamic, quasi Wahhabi, Sharia state was not going to be easy. The MB took power after the fall of Mubarak more because they were (and still are) the only unified political organization in the country that could challenge the military than any popular sentiment in their favor. A return to government with the Egyptian military, the main power center in the country and ultimate "guardians of the nation", looking over its shoulder will be to most Egyptians a comforting return to what is for them normalcy.
And as a PS, the Islamists running Turkey are facing a similar problem.
Morsis ouster spells trouble for regions other Islamist movements
The military was wise to act before the Muslim Brotherhood had seized control of all the organs of power. If the Iranian military had been equally wise, Iran would have been spared the decades-long rule of the mullahs.
Turkey used to be the same way but the Islamist (So called moderate) has replaced the military leadership with toadies more in line with Sharia Law.
Actually, independence from Britain came gradually, beginning in 1922, when Britain granted Egypt "full independence," although the country remained essentially a British protectorate. In 1947, British troops were withdrawn to the Suez Canal Zone, and the next year, Egypt, now virtually independent, fought a war with Israel.
Much the same could be said about our own Obama's American and America hating, Islamocommunist, constitution destroying, prosperity destroying regime.
And it is the same with the Turkish military.
...There are decent brands of Egyptian beer......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3039058/posts
Seems that the MB was moving to discourage that
I think Egypt’s problems began when George Soros, Bill Ayers, and Zippy got together. Occupy Wall street was liberal projection of Arab Spring. Zippy’s stupid mouth almost started an Irish Spring too.
“It renounced violence decades ago and concentrated on social and religious programs”
while it is simultaneously alligned with and on good terms with clerics who teach jihad that does not renounce violence
the MB and Al Queda are rooted in the same philosohphy founded by the same leaders
they play good cop bad cop in the Muslim world and on the world stage, with MB suggesting they should be appreciated over the Al Queda types who are violent, all the while their overall Islamist aims are identical
its one giant ruse
while Al Queda seeks the same goals through violence, which they hold in common with the Taliban, someone else had to play the role of the nice guy so that they could work through subversion
...over the nation's identity between two authoritarian forces -- Islamists and a secular military state... From the start, the military was set against the Muslim Brotherhood, a growing and at times violent underground Islamist movement. Strong in the provinces and among professionals, the Brotherhood espoused sharia, or Islamic law, and went so far as to attempt political assassinations to wear down the military-backed government... but the group was both co-opted and persecuted by successive military leaders who regarded it as a threat to the westward-leaning secular state they envisioned... The young protesters and opposition figures who led the revolt against Mubarak were outflanked by the Brotherhood and unceremoniously sidelined by political naivete, conflicting visions and lack of organization....and the socialist basis of the Nasserite movement was itself rooted in Islamic practice, iow, don't buy the op-ed in entire. Muzzies are always locked in a death struggle with their lifelong enemies, other muzzies.
This cancer runs very deep and its target is to surround Israel with fanatic Sunni regimes (Riyadh calling) and destroy her. For Soros this is just finishing the job he started on a tiny scale as a Kapo in Budapest. For all of them its the agenda of the Beast.
Meant to direct this to Yehuda.
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