"Yes to Islamic law": Egypt's Islamic supremacists hurriedly approve Sharia constitution as Muslim Brotherhood holds huge rally

But it remains doubtful that they actually have the power to dislodge Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

True. The army could, though. But, would they?

But Robert,

According to Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman on earth, there is no problem here.

14 Jul 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9400749/US-Secretary-of-State-Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-Muslim-Brotherhood-president-Mohammed-Morsi-in-historic-first.html

It was a meeting that not long ago would have seemed totally implausible. But Egypt's newly elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, has warmly welcomed America's top diplomat to Cairo for talks - and heard her affirmation of Washington's "strong support" for the change that had brought him to power.

For years the Islamist organisation, outlawed in Egypt under the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak, had been demonised by successive American administrations; while the Brotherhood regarded the US with suspicion, as an ally of repressive regimes across the Middle East.

On Saturday, however, President Mohammed Morsi declared to Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State: "We are very, very keen to meet you and happy you are here," and heard in return her promise of "the strong support of the United States for the Egyptian people and their democratic transition".

She continued: "We want to be a good partner and we want to support the democracy that has been achieved by the courage and sacrifice of the Egyptian people.

"Democracy is hard... It requires dialogue and compromise and real politics. We are encouraged and we want to be helpful. But we know it is not for the United States it is for the Egyptian people to decide."

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"We are encouraged and we want to be helpful."

Is she out of her mind?

What did all these freedom-loving protesters on Tahir Square, Jan. 2011, think would replace secular-leaning Mubarak whom they and Obama demanded step down immediately? Frontpagemag ran an ebullient young Coptic Christian woman's piece back then. She was certain freedom and democracy would follow Mubarak's ouster. Frontpage readers were less sanguine.

This so reminds me of how the peanut farmer, Jimuh Carter, destabilized the Shah, so we could get this beauty:

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/ayatollah-khomeini.jpg

Maybe the obamnination aministration was not as overtly pro stupid as carter's, but really, the brotherhood takeover of Egypt can be viewed in only one way: another bunch of islamist assholes taking over from a relatively benign (Mubarek) leadership.

R/

Paleologos

Some sly diction from the Muslim reporter Aya Batrawy (more and more these days, in news stories from Western news sources, we see Muslim names in at least one of the reporters listed):

Notice the sleight-of-word Aya deploys:

Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly liberal and secular forces, took to the streets twice this week opposing Morsi's decrees to grant himself sweeping powers. On Friday, up to 200,000 people packed the streets of Cairo alone...

First of all, when you read between the lines, she cannot help (if only because she needs to maintain a shred of reportorial credibility) telegraph the actual fact that this opposition crowd was less than 200,000: That is revealed in her phrase "up to 200,000 people".

Now, a crowd of less than 200,000 is not fairly described as "hundreds of thousands". That would be exactly like reporting an infestation of pigeons -- where it was admitted there were only less than 12 pigeons -- by describing the numbers as "dozens of pigeons".

And what does that mean "mostly liberal and secular forces" as a way to describe those "hundreds of thousands" of Muslims? How does she know about some 190,000 people that they are mostly anything -- except that they mostly have two legs and two arms and two eyes and two ears?

And since when is simply opposition to the Muslim-Dictator-Du-Jour proof of a Muslim's "secular" and "liberal" bonafides? I suppose we should ask our Jihad Watchers who use exactly this Muslim reporter's logic whenever they turn their attention to that strangely unique Islamic country, Iran, where -- unlike all other 56 Islamic countries -- magically has a vast majority of Westernized Persians who love us and hate Islam.

Notice another sly turn of phrase -- "packed the streets of Cairo alone..." this subliminally implies that there were perhaps hundreds of thousands "packing" the streets of other cities as well. But, of course, her diction doesn't have to mean that, technically.

Sophistical technicality, to try to subliminally manipulate the reader -- most of whom probably remain more or less PC MC, and are as receptive to this Muslima's gentle manipulations as a john would be to the soothing massage of a trick, with an eye to the same scripted dogmatic happy ending that Islam and most Muslims are not the problem.

The Muslim Brotherhood is obviously a terrorist organisation. It wants to promote Islam by all means. In America CAIR represents it and in Europe Tariq Ramadan, the founder's grandson wants to make Europe an Islamic continent. No wonder that in Egypt where it was founded the Muslim Brothers want to establish sharia and an Islamic regime.

Islam is the cancer, progress is the answer