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From: B-Haile (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2011 - 18:40:26 EST
The American debacle in Egypt
Thursday, 10th February 2011
The lethal results of Obama's jaw-dropping incompetence have just got a whole lot worse.
By reaching out his hand of friendship to the enemies of America and the free world and dumping on its allies, he has alienated those upon whom America has depended. By trying to push Mubarak under the Islamist bus, Obama has now managed to lose Saudi Arabia which, we learn, has actually been moved to revolt against America's ditching of the Egyptian president -- indeed, the Saudis actually threatened the US that if it withdrew its aid programme to Egypt in order to force Mubarak out, the Saudis would step in to bankroll Egypt themselves. For King Abdullah has well understood the message that is flashing round the world in neon lights as a result of Obama's behaviour: America shafts its allies.
By its own standards, Obama's efforts have backfired: at time of writing, Mubarak is diggng in his heels against this American pressure and is refusing to step down. Since Obama was already congratulating himself for Mubarak's departure, this is an utter humiliation of the American president -- and as a consequence, a terrible weakening of America, whose powerlessness is now apparent for all to see.
The consequences of this debacle for the free world are likely to be disastrous. Of course this is complicated: Saudi Arabia is the original cause of the Islamist problem, it is not a reliable ally to put it mildly, it speaks out of several corners of its mouth simultaneously, and so on. But to bring about a possible Saudi/Egyptian axis against America....what an epitaph for the Obama presidency that would be! Moreover, the outcome of losing trust in the US is that Saudi - and the rest of the relatively less extreme Arab states - will now line up instead with the regime they recognise as the strong horse in the region and which is getting stronger by the day as a direct result of Obama's policy: Iran.
But then, it's not just Obama but significant elements in the US governmental machine who are also bigging up and sanitising the enemies of the west. At Politico, Josh Gerstein reports:
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called Egypt's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement 'largely secular.'
In response to questioning from Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) about the threat posed by the group, Clapper suggested that the Egyptian part of the Brotherhood is not particularly extreme and that the broader international movement is hard to generalize about.
'The term "Muslim Brotherhood"...is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam,' Clapper said. 'They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera.....In other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally.'
Of course not! They're really boy scouts! When they say they are at war with America, what they actually mean is that they want to turn their mosques into McDonald's! When they say they want to Islamise the world, what they actually mean is that they want to introduce a woman's right to choose and civil union into Mecca! When the Brotherhood in Egypt says it will tear up the peace treaty with Israel, what it actually means is that it wants the recipe for chopped liver!
As further backup for the brilliant assessment provided by the Director of National Unintelligence, here is a video clip of the west's favourite moderate Islamist and apologist for the moderate Muslim Brothers, Tariq Ramadan (grandson of their founder, Hassan al Banna) praying very moderately for Allah to 'strike down' his enemies which include Jews, Russians and Americans.
And here, thanks to Palestinian Media Watch, is the translated text of a 1995 book, Jihad is the Way, the last of a five-volume work, The Laws of Da'wa by Mustafa Mashhur, who headed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1996-2002. Here's a flavour:
'It should be known that jihad and preparation towards jihad are not only for the purpose of fending off assaults and attacks of Allah's enemies from Muslims, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state and strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world.
...Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries, since the Muslim homeland is one and is not divided, and the banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, and the State of Islam established.
...The problems of the Islamic world - such as in Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea or the Philippines - are not issues of territories and nations, but of faith and religion.They are the problems of Islam and all Muslims, and their resolution cannot be negotiated and bargained by recognizing the enemy's right to the Islamic land he stole, and therefore there is no other option but jihad for Allah, and this is why jihad is the way.'
What was that again about 'no overarching agenda' and 'not particularly extreme'?
This stupendous idiocy -- matched, let's be in no doubt, within equivalent circles in Whitehall -- is due in no small measure to the mind-twisting influence of such revisionist sanitisers 'scholars' of Islam such as John Esposito and Karen Armstrong, whose work has been fallen upon with enthusiasm by government officials desperate to be told that Islam is a 'religion of peace' and that the jihadis of the Muslim Brotherhood are really just providing a social service.
If this is what passes for intelligence in the United States government, is it any wonder that its foreign policy has now become a sick joke?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6689945/the-american-debacle-in-egypt.thtml
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