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Egypt’s el-Sissi: Muslim Brotherhood will not return

May 5, 2014 8:22 pm By Robert Spencer

APTOPIX Mideast EgyptHe is unlikely to be correct about this. The Brotherhood has survived harsh crackdowns before. And whatever may happen in Egypt, the Brotherhood’s subsidiaries in the United States, such as the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations are thriving, and have gullible government, law enforcement, and media types in their pockets. So it is hard to envision a dark future for the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Egypt’s el-Sissi: Muslim Brotherhood will not return,” by Sarah El Deeeb [sic] and Lee Keath, Associated Press, May 5, 2014:

CAIRO (AP) — Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former military chief who removed Egypt’s Islamist president and who is now poised to win the post in elections this month, said the Muslim Brotherhood will never return as an organization, accusing it of using militant groups as cover to destabilize the country.

El-Sissi spoke in the first TV interview of his campaign, aired Monday, vowing that restoring stability and bringing development were his priorities. The comments were a seemingly unequivocal rejection of any political reconciliation with the Brotherhood, which was Egypt’s most powerful political force until el-Sissi removed President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the group, last summer.

Since ousting Morsi, el-Sissi has been riding an overwhelming media frenzy lauding him as Egypt’s savior, and his status as the country’s strongest figure all but guarantees him a victory in the May 26-27 election. El-Sissi’s only opponent in the race is leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, the third-place finisher in the 2012 election won by Morsi.

El-Sissi’s comments were a stark signal of his intention to ensure the elimination of the 86-year-old Brotherhood as both a political and ideological force in the country. He is building on an unprecedented popular resentment of the group, after its rise to power in the last three years.

Asked whether the Brotherhood will no longer exist under his presidency, el-Sissi replied, “Yes. Just like that.”

“It’s not me that finished it, the Egyptians have. The problem is not with me,” he said….

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  1. Wellington says

    May 5, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    El-Sissi can only be proven correct in his prediction if he uses authoritarian means to keep the Muslim Brotherhood down—–he dare not experiment with freedom in an attempt to accomplish this. In microcosm, this represents the stark choice that all Islamic nations are faced with, to wit, secular authoritarians using non-democratic, even at times brutal, initiatives to prevent total Muslim rule or polities with Islam unleashed in all of its full repressive “glory” (the Saudis and other royal families in the Islamic sphere have straddled this divide with great skill often times but the end result is still an enormous dearth of liberty).

    No Muslim nation, not one, is capable of full and modern democracy because full and modern democracy requires freedom of speech, equality under the law, implicitly a true Golden Rule for all (thus mirroring enlightened religions of which Islam is not one) and real tolerance of diverse opinions. The entire Islamic make-up is completely incapable of this, being totalitarian to its core as it is. And so the stark choice remains for ALL Islamic countries—–secular authoritarian rule, only the degree of authoritarianism being a variable, or Muslim rule, only the degree of Islamic dictates applied being a variable.

    Such dire options stand as an indictment of the entire Islamic world, that is for all those who not only see but can also observe and understand. A curse on Islam for this. And a curse on all those non-Muslims who keep making excuses for the sorry-ass Islamic sphere of mankind which is such a drag on mankind as a whole.

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 5, 2014 at 9:20 pm

      Hello again Wellington —

      Your dozens of posts here are always read by me…

      Robert Spencer has a deep resource of very smart readers, giving me a reason to hope for eventually getting the point across to our “cannot offend any faithful human” morons in Washington about Islam’s essence.

    • Brian Hoff says

      May 5, 2014 at 11:28 pm

      Than Islamist Caliphate is than choice. Than Caliph can declare the mass knipnapping of teenager girls by Boko Haram and marriage of then to his foller illegal and the marriage invalid. He can called for than meeting of Religish Scholar and Islamist rulers to meet on declareing Boko Haram not than muslim based on they action or they are breaking Islamist Law. by bombing other religions place of workship and murdering muslim and unmuslim which is illegal under Islamist law. No western or unmuslim governments can do this.

      • duh_swami says

        May 6, 2014 at 6:41 am

        Did you ever get that young bride you were looking for a while back?

        Yes defender, a Caliphate is the answer. I’m not sure which Islamist law Boko Haram is breaking, but I’m sure they would stop if a Caliph told them to. All a Caliph would have to do is wave him magic wand and all that law breaking would stop, and Boko would go back to raising sheep and goats. They are only murdering people because they think that’s what Allah wants, a Caliph can explain to them where they have gone wrong…They will listen to him…

      • Angemon says

        May 6, 2014 at 7:15 am

        Do tell us the islamic sources the caliph can appeal to to declare BH action’s illegal, because we’ve seem BH appealing to islamic sources to justify their actions. No, islamic rules state that one fifth of the profits (including slaves) are set aside for the state – the caliph being the head of state.

        Frankly, what you’re saying it’s akin to saying “if Al Capone came back he could declare what the mobster are doing illegal”.

      • Veracious_one says

        May 6, 2014 at 5:25 pm

        There is no Caliph…

    • Salah says

      May 6, 2014 at 1:28 am

      Wellington, this time it’s different, Sisi won’t need to use authoritarian means, this time it’s not the ruler against the MB, it’s the WHOLE people against ALL islamic parties. All Sisi will have to do is respect the will of the people and apply the law: That’s true democracy.
      Check out the last sentence in the article:
      “It’s not me that finished it, the Egyptians have.”

      The MB in Egypt is DEAD, forever dead. There’s no place for ANY religion-based party in the new constitution. Yes, Egypt is still a Muslim country, but sharia law has been reduced to its minimum, i.e. marriage, heritage, etc.
      ALL citizens are now equal before the law. It’s not perfect and will never be until Islam is completely annihilated, but it’s a huge step forward for egyptian Copts. It’s also a huge, or should I say a complete, defeat for political Islam, at least in Egypt.
      Mark my words, in the near future we shall witness the domino effect of this glorious Egyptian revolution.

      Egypt: The ONLY country that has actually fought and defeated political Islam.
      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

      • Jay Boo says

        May 6, 2014 at 6:16 am

        Egypt’s domino effect neighbor Libya is still a mess.
        It seems this domino is still being propped up by Islamist elements.
        Will Obama and the others that helped topple Gadhafi clean up the mess they left behind?
        http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/libya-prime-minister/

        • John C. Barile says

          May 6, 2014 at 8:24 am

          No. They are too focused on destabilizing Syria.

    • Kepha says

      May 6, 2014 at 6:02 am

      Wellington, I’ve long been of the mind that well-grounded constitutional liberties (a Western, Christian invention drawing on Old Testament as well as New Testament taproots) are far more important than plebiscatory democracy. The less-than-democratic Britain and America of ca. 1800 are examples.

      Our own civilization has been in the”crisis of democracy” foreseen by Aristotle for over a century now. What is it? It’s when the majority of citizens use their power to rob and disenfranchise the minority. It’s why we have a divide between voters and taxpayers and why socialist re-distributors are having more resonance than anyone with a shred of integrity. It’s also why fraud is no longer an issue, but an acceptable strategy in elections.

      What of Egypt? Much as I hope Salah is right, I fear your are.

    • nothosaur says

      May 6, 2014 at 6:34 am

      “full and modern democracy requires freedom of speech, equality under the law, implicitly a true golden rule for all… and real tolerance of diverse opinions”

      Why do you think that a “democracy” requires any of that? Democracy is government by the people. It is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people. If the people choose Sharia Law with all of its ugliness, then so be it. It is no less a democracy.

      Superior to a democracy is a constitutional republic with elected representatives who are restrained by written words of the constitution. Such constitution should be drafted and enforcedy under a culture that favors Liberty and equality.

      Read about how the United States’ founding fathers and ratifiers explicitly rejected democracy in favor of a constitutional republic.

      • Wellington says

        May 6, 2014 at 12:26 pm

        America is both a democracy and a republic and the Founders most definitely did not reject the concept of a representative democracy (which Madison in The Fedearlist Papers called a republic) but did have misgivings about a pure democracy, for example that of ancient Athens. Numerous Presidents and many Supreme Court justices have referred to America as both a republic and a democracy. In fact, I think it arguable that America is the single most democratic polity on the planet. It has over 80,000 governmental divisions from the federal government to states to counties to townships, boroughs, etc.

        Furthermore, a sound democracy, a true democracy, is not just majority rule but one guided by an enlightened legal system (Islamic law doesn’t measure up here) and an enlightened moral order (Islamic values are, for the most part, somewhere between troublesome to wretched). As long as any nation relies upon Islam for its legal and moral guidance, only a sham democracy, not a real one, can occur.

    • Clare says

      May 6, 2014 at 2:58 pm

      Just so.
      Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hasan al-Banna:
      “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”

  2. DogWithoutSlippers says

    May 5, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    Does this mean that the MB goes underground and commits acts of sabotage and destruction? Will they spare non-believers? Will they enlist help from other groups?

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 5, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      In my humble opinion, 95% of the MB is not going underground — it is about to be sliced and diced by El-Sissi.

      Whatever the remaining 5% can achieve is not likely to count for much.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 6, 2014 at 12:36 am

        ” it is about to be sliced and diced by El-Sissi.”
        =============

        Sounds like Muslim Brotherhood’s Pres. Obama might not to make anymore Cairo speeches there anytime soon.

      • umbra says

        May 6, 2014 at 1:24 am

        5% cancer is still cancer.

  3. Bezelel says

    May 5, 2014 at 11:26 pm

    It seems to me the MB were the ones complaining the loudest about Mubarak and Kadafi. I definitely agree that islam is not compatible with freedom.If you think about it, what good is majority rule in an insane asylum?

    • Mirren10 says

      May 6, 2014 at 2:51 am

      ”If you think about it, what good is majority rule in an insane asylum?”

      The looniest get to rule !

      Paranoid schizophrenics trump depressives …

  4. Thea says

    May 6, 2014 at 4:14 am

    What I fear most is that the IM will start fortifying their stronghold in ASEAN countries. Brunei has announced its sharia commitment: stoning to death, hand cutting, n criminalizing gays. Malaysia has long been the training ground for would-be jihadists. Indonesia is besieged by illegal middle easterns: marrying impoverished local girls n draping them in ninja costumes. Southern Philippines. Southern Thailand. Only Singapore n the Buddhist countries in the ASEAN region are still immune to jihadist infiltration.

  5. duh_swami says

    May 6, 2014 at 6:49 am

    The MB is like crab grass. The only way to get rid of it is to get rid of it. Not in just one spot on your lawn, all of it. Landscapers know that if one viable root is left, the whole lawn will soon be full of crab grass again. I don’t think it is possible to get rid of all MB, so watch for crab grass growing in Egypt.

    • John C. Barile says

      May 6, 2014 at 8:40 am

      “If one viable root is left”–swami, that’s quack grass,a coarse, rangy cool-season perennial–very extensive wiry roots, that. Crab grass, on the other hand, is a mightily prolific seeder, a warm-season annual. You don’t want that crab grass to go to seed; it likes sunlight and disturbed soils; it does, see. I sure hope this helps you see the light now.

  6. jewdog says

    May 6, 2014 at 7:11 am

    Polls have shown that the great majority of Egyptians support provisions of Sharia. I haven’t seen any polls post-Morsi, but would be interested to see if the actual implementation of Sharia under Morsi and his removal after huge protests have changed any attitudes. If not, then I’m afraid a military dictator is necessary to prevent worse oppression and an internationally dangerous regime.

  7. Angemon says

    May 6, 2014 at 7:25 am

    The problem with the MB is that it draws upon islamic beliefs. Even if the MB party and organization as we know it were to disappear overnight that wouldn’t prevent someone from starting a new organization based *exactly*on what the MB believes and having the *exact*same goals: restoring the caliphate, conquering the West and setting up a global Islamic state.

  8. awake says

    May 6, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Muslim countries will remain moral cesspools until Islam is abandoned wholesale. The concept of the eternal defeat of the MB in Egypt is nothing more than unfounded, wishful thinking.

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