I tried to tell you. "The Muslim Brotherhood's Salafi pact puts Egyptian Christians in great danger," by Michael Weiss in the Telegraph, May 13 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Well, here’s another dismal “unity” pact for you.The Muslim Brotherhood has announced an electoral coalition with a host of Salafi groups in Egypt, under the banner of seeking an Islamic state. “It was the recent attacks on the Islamic groups that brought us together,” the Brotherhood’s lawyer Sobhi Saleh explained to an Egyptian newspaper on Tuesday.
Saleh’s newfound siege mentality is at odds with the confidence he displayed on Newsnight a few months back. A woman or a Christian, the Islamist attorney told Tim Whewell, could never be president of a post-Mubarak Egypt because Muslims constitute “95 per cent of the population” (not true) and this is the “same policy as in Greece, Spain and in England” (what’s the Arabic for “Iron Lady”?).
Among the Brotherhood’s new parliamentary partners is Jama’a al-Islamiyya, a Salafi group that played a role in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and recently advocated the formation of a Saudi-style “modesty police” for Egypt.
But these are peccadilloes compared with Jama’a’s other claims to notoriety which include:
- Being cited by Ayman al-Zawhiri in 2006 as an affiliate member of al-Qaeda, a courtesy just reciprocated by one Gama’a official who proclaimed that “the assassination [of Osama bin Laden] will open the gates of Hell and set it face to face with the Muslims’ vengeance”;
- Having its spiritual leader Omar Abdel-Rahman (a.k.a. the “Blind Sheikh”) sentenced for life in the United States for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. (The Egyptian caretaker government and the Grand Mufti of Al Azhar are currently soliciting the Yanks for Abdel-Rahman’s release from prison.)
- Killing 18 Greek tourists (14 of whom were women) outside a hotel in Cairo in 1996 because Jama’a militants mistook the travellers for Israelis;
- Killing 9 tourists and injuring 35 more on a bus in Cairo in September 1997;
- Killing another 71 tourists in November 1997 in Luxor.
Jama’a is said to have forsworn violence since the 1990s, but there is a plausible reason why the Muslim Brotherhood would seek an alliance with it now. The movement founded by Hasan al-Banna 83 years ago has lately exhibited signs of ideological schizophrenia, with hardliners overplaying their hand and clawing for absolute control (and media attention) whilst “reformists” break ranks and try to build a base of their own....
I thought these people wanted freedom and democracy...
Will the West ever understand that the Islamic definition of freedom is nothing like the West's definition of that term?
What we're seeing is the birth of the Crimson Arc, stretching from the southern Phillipines to Morocco. What'll be differfent is that the filters will be removed (military dictatorships, monarchies, etc.) and they'll be shooting straight from the Ko-Ran.
Moslems unleashed, able to fully enjoy the Islam experience in unadulterated form.
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And we're invited to join the party, which is the key reason this new Arc won't be good. Add to that the stupditiy of voluntary Islamization in Judeo-Christian countries (EU, Russia, down under, Canada, and even America) and, barring an historical jolt, the 21st century looks to be a continual downward spiral that reverses thousands of years of hard earned progress.
You are so right APF. .an historical jolt is just what we need to prevent a severe backslide to the Jurassic. I do not believe that someone, somewhere out there in the great unknown will suffer that to pass. I'm fairly sure that the eye that first beheld this planet ain't into rewinding back to all that boring monster carp.
(what’s the Arabic for “Iron Lady”?).
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USA is still giving free money to Egypt to the tune of billions of Amercian tax payers dollars per year. Will President Obamna warn the Egyptian government not to harass and illtreat the original people of Egypt- the Coptic Christians. Hussain Obama will never do it. People like Ms.Sarah Palin should take this matter into public platfarms and compel the Muslim supporting Obama government to warn the Egyptian Muslims and the Pakistan governments that they will loose their Billions of free dole money from USA if they illtreat and victimise the local Christians.