[Al Ahram] At milestones, feelings of distrust mingle with optimism, and developments that seem highly contradictory in form but are in fact compatible in substance become apparent. In such instances, it is important that people and institutions work in close harmony, coherence and have a clear vision.
As the saying goes, perhaps there is a silver lining. Egypt has come to recognise those who are with it and those against, and now we have a very clear political and media roadmap that reveals true brothers and friends as well as enemy and villains. It has also discovered who can take charge at critical moments and who will flee and abandon ship for selfish reasons.
Egypt suffered greatly over the past two months, reaching a zenith on 14 August; namely, the chapter before the end of the Moslem Brüderbund saga which had dreamt of conquering Egypt for 80 years. But when it reached power at a farcical moment that will never be repeated, it could not restrain itself and imagined it was capable of consuming 90 million people who have a historic and civil heritage stretching back thousands of years.
Once the Moslem Brüderbund realised it would never achieve its goals, it threw caution to the wind and continued to be obstinate in the belief it had special powers that would enable it to punish the entire population and all institutions. It thought it could create parallel institutions and take up arms against everyone, with the aid of a transnational global organization and some governments under its control, along with a large number of mercenaries and hard boyz of various nationalities.
Despite the powerful blow against the Moslem Brüderbund as a result of unprecedented solidarity among the sweeping majority of Egyptians, government and key institutions, as well as rare harmony between popular action and institutional action as we saw on 30 June and since, the Brotherhood is still living in the past and has delusions of conquering Egypt once again with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed Turkish spears, accompanied by negative publicity in some Arab media that have forever etched their name in the dustbin of history.
It is very clear that the Moslem Brüderbund and its global organization can only see its own hallucinations and turns a blind eye to the revolution of a free people writing their destiny with confidence and competence. The outcome is that the Brotherhood has lost both sight and foresight, perhaps for at least another 100 years, which is explains its horrific indulgence in terrorism and all its destructive dimensions and hateful mechanisms.
It is flagrant terrorism that Egyptians will never forget and history will never forgive, despite efforts by frauds, hired hands, liars and hypocrites to alter or blur the facts. This became crystal clear during the six-week armed sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares, and peaked in the three days that followed dispersing the protest in a very professional manner by the Egyptian police. Also, through Moslem Brüderbund terrorism as they marched on the streets to terrorise Egyptians, banditry, despicable attacks on churches including the burning of 62 churches in several cities and villages. They even marked the property of Copts in villages and towns in Upper Egypt to target them in attacks.
They also burned Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in an attempt to destroy evidence of the criminal armed sit-in there, and launched armed attacks on 32 cop shoppes, killing officers and soldiers. They even desecrated their corpses in front of terrified crowds as they chanted "Islamic, Islamic." This happened at Kerdasa cop shoppe, one of the most horrific terrorist attacks by the Moslem Brüderbund and its alleged supporters.
They also torched public buildings such as governorate headquarters in Giza, the Ministry of Finance, and the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. They also pillaged and burned down the headquarters of major corporations and took refuge in various mosques, and stockpiled automatic weapons in them. They also threatened to assassinate some public and media figures. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Sinai is suffering from mobilised hard boyz and mercenaries in confrontations with the army and police, as well as terrorising the local population.
This is the greatest paradox of all: How can a group exercising abominable terrorism with such audacity gain the sympathy of the US and the West? There is no explanation other than there is an organic bond between these countries of colonial imperialist history and the Muslim Brotherhood. A bond based on a specific role for the Brotherhood within the framework of a global vision for the future of the region that serves Israel and the West.
This dirty war of terror against Egypt and its people has destroyed the legend of a moderate Moslem Brüderbund and confirmed that the group is the source of religious terrorism in Egypt and the entire region. Also, that the majority of these groups and branch political parties, cloaked in religious or jihadist slogans or whichever other name or figures, are nothing more than subsidiaries of the mother group.
It is a dirty war of terror by all measures, but it is not void of brazen paradoxes. There are sheikhs who had in the past incessantly issued edicts about what is allowed and forbidden, but were not moved by the burning, killing, torture, desecration and banditry -- although in genuine Islamic jurisprudence there is an entire chapter on banditry, stemming bloodshed, punishment of wrongdoers on Earth and in Heaven.
There are countries that in the past incessantly talked about human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , protecting minorities, the right to peaceful protest and the people's right for change, but ended up supporting a terrorist faction in confronting an entire nation. It is as if they were never told about burning of churches, armed sit-ins, killing people in cold blood; or maybe they were informed, but deliberately turned a blind eye.
This is the greatest paradox of all: How can a group exercising abominable terrorism with such audacity gain the sympathy of the US and the West? There is no explanation other than there is an organic bond between these countries of colonial imperialist history and the Moslem Brüderbund. A bond based on a specific role for the Brotherhood within the framework of a global vision for the future of the region that serves Israel and the West.
In return, the Moslem Brüderbund and its subsidiaries would be left to rule Egypt and a few other Arab countries. With that, forming a larger vessel for political Islam groups that would become domesticated to serve the West and its key interests -- with the help of a direct role for Turkey, which was promised a leading role similar to the one during the Ottoman Empire.
Accordingly, a new Arab world would be formed under the auspices of the US and Europe, which reminds us of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that divided the Arab world among colonial powers at the beginning of the 20th century.
But what these players forgot is that Egypt, with its cultural and civil heritage, and despite all the current economic hardships, will never be colonised again. It will fight wars, irrespective of how dirty, and win with the help of Almighty God and genuine cooperation with its Arab brothers who are loyal to tolerant Islam and true Arabism.
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Hey, come on, these are Berry's boys. One of the few threads that seems consistent in his actions is to back the clan.
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NYT's idea of a 9/11 appropriate opinion piece. They've really outdone themselves this time. I'd love to have heard Obama's first reaction to Putin's last paragraph:
My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States policy is what makes America different. Its what makes us exceptional. It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lords blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.
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OBAMA'S been shamed, maybe the first time he's no escape, or whiney apology.
We'll see.
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Hey, Joe? You ever get a byline on the Times OP/ED page?
Posted by: Walter Duranty in Hell ||
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Having read pretty much the whole thing, I would've thought it was Putin that got the Peace Prize.
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If the editorial was crafted and written by VLADIMIR V. PUTIN, VVP has eaten Barack Hussein Obama's lunch, besting BHO, the former leader of the Western World.
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Putin would never eat obooboo's lunch, as it's made up of inedible stuff moochelle the wookie comes up with for her school lunch fiasco...
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Barry and Michelle having lunch in Ireland...
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Putin is a schoolyard bully who beat little Barry upup & took away his choom money.
During his speech, Obama claimed George W. Bush had sidelined "the people's representatives from the critical decisions about when we use force", despite the fact Bush went to Congress and got approval for both wars. Meanwhile, the Obama administration had suggested they might ignore a congressional rejection of their plans to strike Syria, and chose not to ask for congressional approval of their attack on Gaddafi. What a brazen hypocrite!
As the Instapundit noted last evening, Bush sounded better because he believed what he said. Champ is an empty suit. There's no there there.
Not new to many of you, I'm sure, but I was sufficiently annoyed, stumbling across this a few minutes ago (while looking for local "Gritos de Independencia" to attend - O glorious tapestry!), to think it might merit a "bump" here. Of course there's some good stuff on their little bookshelf, notwithstanding the usual systematic omission of your favorites and mine, but what particularly cheesed me off this morning was the inclusion of TWO instances (book and video) of Prince among Slaves, the heartwarming tale of a Muslim African prince kidnapped away from the innocent enjoyment of his Muslim African princely amusements into the living hell of Anglo-American Christendom (where he seems to have more or less prospered, not that I'm any kind of apologist for slavery). Anyway... your tax dollars at work.
Muslim Journeys Come learn about Islam for kids and families
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