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| Terror Networks |
| ISIL, al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood may converge |
| 2015-12-24 |
| [TODAYSZAMAN] In addition to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda coming together, as I argued in my last column, making things worse for Western interests is the convergence taking place between the Moslem Brüderbund (MB) in Egypt and al-Qaeda. Since the July 2013 military coup, the dynamics in Egypt have been characterized by the return of the old autocratic regime with a vengeance. Egypt is now becoming even more autocratic than under former strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . By declaring the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization, the regime of new strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has put an end to what could have been a healthy process of the demystification of political Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 "In short, the brutal suppression of political Islam in Egypt is quickly radicalizing it" That is brutal stupidity. "moderate Islam" is Globalist-Caliphist code for "Moslem Brotherhood," than which nothing is more immoderate. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2015-12-24 18:53 |
| #9 Ridiculous. This guy write for one of those NGOs kicked out for Organizing for Egypt? Or an advocate for the Erdogan model? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-12-24 13:25 |
| #8 Instead of staging a coup, the Egyptian army should have forced the government to call early elections. This would have been a much better alternative because the people would have ousted the Moslem Brüderbund in a democratic way, and Islamists would have had only themselves to blame. If the MB would have agreed to elections and if the elections were clean and if the MB would have agreed to abide by the vote and if an Islamic party more extreme than the MB didn't win the vote... Methinks Mr. Taspinir has also conveniently forgotten Erdogan's remark about democracy being like a bus. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-24 11:27 |
| #7 When the Muslim Brotherhood was crushed in Egypt in the 50s and 60s Sayyid Qtub sought martyrdom, was imprisoned and wrote the book "Milestones" which is thought to be a foundation of the modern Salafist movement that birthed AQ and ISIS. The MB is the father of its AQ and ISIS children. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2015-12-24 10:31 |
| #6 Egypt under the military and Nasser was faced with the same 'crisis' in 1956. Then they crushed the Muslim Brotherhood, and it was not allowed to breathe until Sadat, a lapsed brother, came to power. Under Mubarak the Brotherhood was allowed to regain strength as a political qua social movement. Sisi (and the military) will not make that mistake again. And Egypt will get along with a rais as head of state, just as it has for 4,000 years. |
| Posted by: Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-24 09:46 |
| #5 Moderate Islamist? Sounds like "white Hispanic" |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-12-24 09:44 |
| #4 First, the West is losing the moderate Islamists as they are converging with the forces of Evil in their resentment and anger towards America and Europe. One cannot 'lose' what one never had in the first place. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-12-24 03:22 |
| #3 What part of "Osama Bin Laden's Inner Circle" does the FBI-CIA NOT understand - AGAIN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-12-24 01:18 |
| #2 The implications of this new axis of radical Islam for the West are alarming due to three major reasons. Not alarming at all. In fact a very positive development. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2015-12-24 00:45 |
| #1 They haven't already?? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-12-24 00:09 |