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As Washington Dithers, Arabs Rally To Egypt's Revolt Against Political Islam
[NYSun] By Youssef Ibrahim
In the past ten days alone Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates pledged $12 billion in cash, fuel, food, wheat, interest-free loans, and gifts.
| We knew that. But somehow this important bit didn't make it over the transom: |
Vast shipments of gasoline and wheat have poured in so fast that the four-hour standard waits at gasoline stations and a shortage of bread disappeared overnight.
In a new vernacular, radical Islam emerges as malevolent monster conspiring against multi-sectarian, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic societies, advocating Wahhabi Islam, civil wars, and financial ruin.
| Wasn't that also the old vernacular? |
The new pan-Arab cynicism is rooted in disappointments with such Islamist militias as Hezbollah and Hamas, piled upon multiple atrocities by Islamists against fellow Arabs in Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq and a loss of interest in the so-called "Peace Process" that has led nowhere.
| Go read the whole thing. Also Mr. Ibrahim's previous effort, on the fate of the Egyptian Palestinians: |
Egypt Could Divorce Palestinian Arabs in Wake of Second Revolution
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-07-17 |
