In FrontPage this morning I discuss the latest outpouring of democracy and pro-Western sentiment in “Arab Spring” Egypt:
In his first public speech after being elected president of Egypt, that country”s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi vowed
to work to free Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993
World Trade Center jihad bombing. In doing so, he revealed the
catastrophic consequences of Barack Obama’s warm endorsement of the
“Arab Spring,” which (contrary to persistent Leftist media myth) is
about as much of a “democracy movement” as was Adolf Hitler’s becoming
Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.Sheikh Omar, aka The Blind Sheikh, is currently serving a life
sentence in prison in North Carolina for his role in plotting the 1993
WTC bombing, as well as for planning to bomb other New York City
landmarks, including the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. He had piously
hoped to murder 100,000 people in the Tunnel bombings and 250,000 in the
World Trade Center attack. Earlier, in Egypt, he had been charged,
although not convicted, of issuing a fatwa calling for the murder of
Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel.Omar was forthright about his role in the New York plots, and his
Islamic motivations for participating in them: “If those who have the
right to have something are terrorists, then we are terrorists, and we
welcome being terrorists “¦ the Qur’an makes it, terrorism, among the
means to perform jihad in the sake of Allah, which is to terrorize the
enemies of Allah.”The Muslim Brotherhood of Mohamed Morsi is dedicated to the same goal
of terrorizing the enemies of Allah and extending the rule of Islamic
law over the world. Morsi recently repeated the Brotherhood’s credo in a
speech: “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader,
jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.” By
calling for Sheikh Omar’s release, he showed his approval of violent as
well as non-violent tactics in the service of Islam.Morsi’s action, as much as it was a poke in the eye to his foremost
international supporter, Barack Obama, came as no surprise. Back in
March, Egypt’s parliament voted unanimously
to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt and declared Israel to be Egypt’s
“number one enemy.” Since then, the Muslim Brotherhood has signaled in
numerous ways that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the
past. Barack Obama’s response to this egregious trampling upon the
agreement that has kept an uneasy peace between Israel and Egypt for
thirty years? He announced a resumption of military aid to Egypt.From the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” I said repeatedly that it
was not a democracy movement, as the Western press was enthusiastically
claiming, but an Islamic supremacist takeover that would result in the
creation of Sharia states that would be far more hostile to the U.S. and
Israel than the Arab nationalist regimes they were supplanting. This
assessment was greeted with the usual scorn: the Islamic supremacist
media machine charged “Islamophobia,” on Fox Juan Williams said I was
“fearmongering,” and the usual suspects made the usual ad hominem
attacks. Yet everything that has happened since then has shown that the
“Arab Spring” is indeed an Islamic supremacist winter, ushering in
repressive Sharia regimes with the blessing of Barack Obama.