Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the Egyptian resistance to the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces in Darfur:
Egypt (see "Mr. Mubarak, We Want Our Money Back"), not content with having been secretly involved in arms projects with Saddam Hussein, and with some of its highest officials on the take from the same regime (this was not the least of the discoveries made by the Americans in Iraq); not content with having ignored every single of the solemn commitments it made to Israel under the Camp David Accords (while Israel scrupulously fulfilled all of its obligations to Egypt); not content with repeatedly blocking American efforts to force something akin to "democracy" and resisting it at every step; not content with permitting attacks on the Copts by Egypt's Muslims and then denying all of it; not content with having created an atmosphere in which Muslim fanaticism may flourish among Egypt's better-off (Al-Zawahiri, Mohammad Atta, thousands of others) who join Al-Qaeda and similar groups or go off to Iraq, as well as among Egypt's poor (who vote for Akef and the Muslim Brotherhood); not content with bullying Ethiopia to prevent its rightful diversion of some of the headwaters of the Nile for irrigation purposes (the Egyptian Arabs apparently believe that they, and they alone, own the Nile and black Africans have no right to it -- in this, they will be proven quite mistaken)-- not content with all these things, Egypt now has organized opposition to U.N. (i.e. Western, effective) troops going to Darfur.Why? Because the Egyptians know that if the black Africans in Darfur received real, as opposed to hollow, protection, that might lead to their expression of dismay in being forced to live under the rule of Muslim Arabs.
For there are two kinds of supremacism associated with Islam. The first is the division of the world between Believer and Infidel, with the former on the side of Good, and demanding loyalty from fellow Muslims, and the latter on the side of Evil, and demanding the hatred of Muslims. Within that supremacist ideology is a second one: Arab Muslims are superior to non-Arab Muslims. It is repeated in Qur'an and hadith: the Qur'an was given to the Arabs, the best of peoples. Muhammad and the Companions were all Arabs. The gift of the Arabs to the world is Islam itself. Non-Arab Muslims must learn Arabic to read the Qur'an properly. Many of them take Arab names, and assume false Arab identities, with false Arab genealogies.It makes no sense, for Arabs, that anyone would bother with non-Muslim or non-Arab civilizations. It was natural for the Arabs of Algeria to ban, for decades, even the mere use of the Berber language, and to attempt to stamp out Berber culture. It was natural -- not unnatural -- for the Iraqi Arabs to seize the oil in Kirkuk and Mosul, the Kurdish lands, to arabize those lands with the wholesale movement into them of Arabs, and even to engage in mass murder of Kurds (182,000 killed by Saddam Hussein's Arab troops).
What is happening in Darfur, where northern Arabs are murdering those they consider to be non-Arabs, and hence not quite fully Muslims, is a subset or a variant on the Jihad ordinarily conducted against Infidels -- such as the one that has been waged for the past 20 years, with nearly 2 million victims, against the Christian and animist blacks in the southern Sudan. That some Darfur blacks are even insisting that the Shari'a not be imposed will merely make their treatment still more barbaric, if such is possible -- for they have, in taking this stand, distanced themselves further from the Arabs (or those who imagine themselves "Arabs" -- which is the same thing) in Khartoum.
But U.N. troops in Sudan, which would not be limited to or led by Muslims, would draw attention to all this. They would shed light on the behavior of Arab Muslims toward non-Arab Muslims, and would necessarily as well have contact with the southerners now being temporarily bought off with a pretend "peace treaty" with the north (useful while Darfur is being ravaged and emptied of its population by the Sudanese government).
Egypt is the key here. But the entire Arab League will move heaven and earth to keep any effective force, including Western troops, out of Darfur. To Egypt, the Muslim Arabs have a divine right to harry and kill the black Africans, whether Christians and animists in the south, or lesser, because merely black and not Arab, Muslims in Darfur. Just as Egypt has a divine right to the waters of the Nile. Or a divine right to the Jizya of foreign aid that successive American governments have been fearful of cutting, lest their "ally" Egypt suddenly do even more damage to American policy, become even more anti-American in thought, word, and deed, than it already is. How it could possibly do so, without Mubarak having to trade in his Family-and-Friends Plan for something offered by the Muslim Brotherhood, seems to have escaped our strategists.
Yesterday, there was a report on Channel One (a brief news program for students shown in some US High Schools) about Sudan. The report mentioned the the racism but did not mention Islam.
What was most interestin about this report was a statement that the Janjaweed have now invaded Chad. If this is true, then it is grounds for intervention since it is now longer legally an internal conflict.
Mubarak allowed Ikhwan to gain political influence while jailing liberal political opposition. He used the Muslim Brotherhood and squelching moderates as levers to make himself look like the only alternative to government by jihadists.
And it worked.
Egypt yesterday also issued a warning about attacking Iran.
I wonder how Bush views this goverment, with us or against?
"Egypt yesterday also issued a warning about attacking Iran.
I wonder how Bush views this goverment, with us or against?"
-- from a posting above
Egypt? Ally. Staunch ally. With us, and therefore not against us. With us against the "terrorists and the killers." With us against "all those who hate freedom." That's Egypt. That's Bush. And that's the elementary-school world view of this Ozymandias of Midland, Texas, at a time of great and growing peril.
Look on his works, ye mighty, and despair!
Hugh and others.. how can you know exactly the views of Bush or any other of his GOP people? what they say in public is one thing, but surely you cannot think he does not understand that Murbank is depsot dictator? this is as plain as could be!
Would that be Murbank with a Maedeker?
Even without a nose, even the Sphinx knows this stinks.
"Ally" my third testicle!
OT Hugh: think the public is starting to get it a little - when one hears talk show hosts almost quoting the Koran, the Sira , the Hadith - means you are doing great work. Many thanks.
As for Egypt, it can sod off (but not with our money).
Hugh and others.. how can you know exactly the views of Bush or any other of his GOP people? what they say in public is one thing, but surely you cannot think he does not understand that Murbank is depsot dictator? this is as plain as could be!
Posted by: Lulu
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All of the terror and murdering by the noble cult of Islam without comdemnation of Islam by President Bush is sufficeint proof that President Bush is not think with his heart or his brain only the pocket books of his friends and his so called Muslim allies.
The war with Islam is inevitable.
Prepare be armed be ready.
The Texican.
Freedom, the only choice.
Hugh,
profitsbeard brings up a point that I’d like some clarification on, if at all possible: knowing now what I know of Muslims destroying past cultures and monuments in places that Islam takes over (such as the Taliban destroying the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, to name only one such example) …what’s the history behind the Sphinx, the pyramids, and other wonders in Egypt?
I remember way back in school being told that they were ransacked by “bandits” and “raiders” and the like, but never once heard them utter Muslim or Islam.
Hugh
Very scholarly article, well researched as always. Why U.S pours money into Mubarak's coffers is beyond me, this guy is an evil dictator just about as bad as Saddam Hussein.
In 1955 Egypt sent a young woman to the Miss World Contest and there is a photo showing her in[shock,horrors]- A BATHING SUIT!No reports of 'rioting' by Islamists either, in those days few women were veiled or wore hijab-now look at 'em... So everything has gone backward in Egypt despite U.S's efforts and lavish funding.
Would say the abundance of veiled Egyptian ladies today is
a sign of PROTEST AGAINST A HATED LEADER WHOM THEY SEE AS KEPT IN POWER BY U.S.
Jacques Baulin wrote a book [The Arab Role in Africa] back in the 1950s --in Nasser's day-- which demonstrated the rather chauvinistic, imperialistic, or colonialist way in which Nasser's Arab nationalist intellectuals understood the Arab role in Sudan. One Egyptian, Dr Ibrahim al-Adwi, claimed: "None contributed more than the Arab nation to the economic and political progress of East Africa... Today, East Africa follows the example of the Arab renaissance..." The Egyptian review Nahdatu Ifriqiya went further: "Centuries ago, the Arabs already represented civilization, progress, and knowledge to the Africans." French and British imperialist writers might have described their own nations' roles as much the same. Yet, one of Nasser's PR men claimed moral superiority to the Europeans in the name of Islam. "Islam is endowed with the mission of liberating Africa from imperialism." Another Egyptian wrote that, through Muhammud Ali's 1820 expedition, "the Sudan was introduced to modern civilization." Only the Arabs could get away with claiming to be both victims of colonialism and civilizing imperialists.
Who damaged the Sphinx? Well, some say it was the soldiers of Napoleon, taking potshots. Others point to the Muslim banning of all statuary, all sculptures, unless -- as Qaradawi nicely says in his book on what is Haram and what Halal (I have a copy but at the moment cannot locate it)-- you, the Believer, have so vandalized the statue that it is no longer an object of any possible respect.
I think the Sphinx was damaged long before 1798, when Napoleon and his soldiers arrived.
That's what I think.
In Egypt the syion was damage by french cannon fire some scientist with the french army wrote about it down. The other temple and worked of the ancient Egyptian where left unharm by the moslim. Than ancient cult of Egyptian Priest and Priestress maintrain the ancient bural place of the ancient king of Egypt, all the Caph and sultan knew about it
and allow them to carry out their work without the moslim causeing touble.
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Here's what I can find on the nose knows issue:
"The nose was the unfortunate victim of target practice during the Turkish [Ottoman] period."
(They also did a lot of damage to the Parthenon, turning into a mosque [chiseling off freizes long before Lord Elgin saved the last], and later using it as a Muslim munitions dump, -which is what caused it to blow it up when a Venetian battleship fired on the Acropolis ...during The Longest War in Human History, that of Islam Against Everybody Else... 1350 years, now, and counting.)
And:
"18th century drawings reveal that it was missing long before Napoleon's arrival."
-from "Guardian's Sphinx" by Andrew Bayuk.
http://www.guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/
Our troops should be in the Sudan driving out the Arabs. There would could be stopping the Jihad and driving the Arabs out of Chad, Nubia (now known as Sudan).
Instead, we are in Iraq, trying to keep the Sunnis and Shiites from killing each other.
A lot of the problem is Dhimini blacks like Tutu who have aligned themselves with Arabs. Instead of following the example of the Jews and freeing their land from the yoke of the Arabs, Tutu instead talks about the so-called Palestinians. With pathetic leaders like that, its no wonder the Africans can't fight off the Arabs.