Sisi’s view of Trump is in stark contrast to his view of Obama, who notoriously supported and emboldened the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadists domestically and abroad. Breitbart reported last June about the MB’s fifth column infiltration of the White House, and Egyptians during the overthrow of the Brotherhood regime denounced Obama’s support for it.
Following the overthrow of the former Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, Sisi said of Obama:
You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that.
Sisi isn’t the only significant Middle East leader to praise Trump’s tough approach to jihad terror. Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman referred to Trump as a “strong president” in the fight against Iran, although that statement was likely motivated by the Sunni-Shia conflict, and doesn’t reflect any genuine opposition to jihad terror on Saudi Arabia’s part.
“‘Special Report’ Exclusive: Egyptian president says Trump has ‘true understanding’ of terrorism”, Fox News, April 5, 2017:
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told Fox News’ Bret Baier in an exclusive interview Wednesday that President Trump has a “true understanding” of the realities in the Middle East when it comes to terrorism, drawing an apparent contrast with the policies of the Obama administration.
“In fact many things over the last four years occurred and caused many, many problems,” El-Sisi said. “That’s a fact. The region is paying a very heavy price for that.”
El-Sisi also described Trump as a “unique personality” and said he had “every confidence of unprecedented success” for the American president.
“There is a true understanding of realities in the region,” El-Sisi said, when asked about changes under the new administration. “And there is seriousness and responsible actions in facing extremism and terrorism in the region. And that’s a wonderful thing indeed.
“There is nothing better than to counter evil,” he said.
El-Sisi, who earlier this week met with President Trump at the White House, said the world needs to “speak with one face as we confront terrorism” and questioned Russia’s ties to the atrocities in Syria.
“Russia has interests in Syria and the region,” he said. “And I think they are defending their interests.”
El-Sisi’s warm White House reception was in stark contrast to the frosty relationship he had with former President Barack Obama.
Obama had repeatedly called out el-Sisi during his tenure over human rights violations and never invited him to the White House. Obama briefly froze some U.S. military aid to Egypt in 2013 but had it restored in 2015.
El-Sisi told Fox that Trump had “promised to support Egypt … and I trust his promise.”
When asked by Baier about his perception as a strongman, el-Sisi pointed out that Egypt has “93 million [people] in a region that is very unstable … [with] ideas and elements that are extremist living in our society.”
El-Sisi and his supporters have criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the uprising in Egypt six years ago. They believe American complacency led to a stronger presence by the Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sisi and Trump met for the first time in September. Since then, Trump has called the Egyptian leader “a fantastic guy” and said there was “good chemistry” between them. El-Sisi was the first foreign leader to congratulate Trump on his White House win….
Charli Main says
Unlike most of Europe’s leaders and political elites, President Trump lives in the real world and not in La La Land.
Dawn says
Correct wish some would come to their sences but no ain’t going to happen . As they say you can’t fix stupid. .
DFD says
Hi Charli,
Nice to see you posting again.
I was very hopeful about Trump. I saw that he was compromised bu only one instance, namely his business interests in the gulf states.
Reality however is far worse. He is essentially ‘controlled opposition’. Look at the money, Soros runs the show, not as effective as with Hillary, but **he does rune the show**!
Check the money, then list they events….
Doesn’t look good, to express it charitably.
Charli Main says
Thanks for your kind thoughts DFD.
What you imply is correct but keep the faith. The thin red line may bend and buckle under the weight of the Islamic hordes BUT IT WILL NEVER BREAK.
Eric says
Trump is the Zionist Christian and leader of the most dangerous terrorist state in the world. the U.S.A.
Benedict says
“To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet.”
underbed cat says
In my opinion, not living in LaLa land, as comfortable as it may be to vanish reality, is exactly the reason Trump was elected to be the President.
I just happen to read an article from March 2003, asking if Bush really has a good idea to bring democracy to the middle east, it is now 2017 and the Robert Spencer article had the information….it was an attempt to change a culture without having knowledge about the Islamic culture that existed, ruled and conquered the middle east. It was also apparent to me when surrounded by the MB, President Bush announced his interpretation as peaceful. I had years previously been presented with some truthful information, limited but it was not as Bush described. The article by Spencer detailed the reasoning made by the president which was perfectly understandable and humanitarian, but without the recognition of the enormous misunderstanding and total control of the doctrine that existed and continued.
Sisi is a brave man.
Allan Mandrowski says
Democracy was just a pretext
anyone who believes we were there for democracy and not for oil and geopolitical strategic reasons, is seriously dangerously naive
Robert says
Agreed, to a certain extent. The oil was the main reason; the establishing of a democratic political system was secondary.
Let’s not forget, that originally ALL the oil fields in the Middle East were discovered, developed, and maintained by outsiders. The Arabs did absolutely NOTHING. It was European businessmen or local non-Muslim business men who struck oil, built the rigs, developed the infrastructures, and maintained the operation for the first few decades. Again, Arab Muslims sat and watched, uncomprehendingly.
Look up the history, for example, of the British oil companies, or the local Christian oil magnates Gulbekian and Mantashev.
The Arab Muslims would love us to think that they did it all. The only thing they did was seize control of other people’s property — in other words, they stole property that they had NO LEGAL RIGHT TO POSSESS.
The joys of socialism, Marxism, and the rise of a pan-Muslim Identity.
Charli Main says
As I have commented on several occasions, if it wasn’t for the trillions of dollars of Western oil money that has poured into the Middle East, these Arabs would still be living in mud huts and goat skin tents.
Strip away the surface glitz, bought with oil money, from places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi and you will be left with just another Muslim shithole.
Daniel Triplett says
Of course. President Trump doesn’t try to hide it or pretend otherwise. Nor should the rest of us.
Muslims control about 40% of the World’s oil.
Why would we want people who seek our extinction to control a commodity we need to survive? They simply use the oil profits as Jizya, expanding Dar al-Islam to cause us even further harm. It’s a vicious cycle we must stop.
epistemology says
Exactly, al-Sisi is a brave man and he brought peace to Egypt and prosperity to a certain extent, the MB terrorists are fighting against him by all means and that’s why Western tourists shun the country, but not all of them. I boycott products from all Islamic countries except Egypt, as al-Sisi needs our support. We’ve got to fight against the Islamic ideology which equals the religion no difference whatsoever and we have to use all means available. Get rid of the scum!
salim says
The Egyptian secular journalist, Ibrahim Issa, who is now silenced by Sissi regime, describes Sissi as a man who nurtures terrorism and at the same time fights terrorists. I believe this is true for Egypt and other Arab countries as well. Sissi just happened to be against terrorism because the MB do not want him.
There have been more Islam reformers/ critics imprisoned under Sissi than under the MB rule.
JIMJFOX says
Without links and references your claims are shite. AS expected of a muslim.
epistemology says
Couldn’t agree more, he only wants to fool us
vlparker says
Trump may have a true understanding of terrorism, but what he needs is a true understanding of islam. His appointments of Mattis, McMaster and Gorka show that he is lacking in understanding islam.
underbed cat says
Agree with you vlparker. Trump needs to understand the use of deception that the doctrine commands that is used to protect itself from any connection to the use of jihad, migration enforced by sharia law and tactics of terrorism. The doctrine also needs to be legally redefined so that the confusion and manipulation ends.
Add to the misinformation of deception…watching our government officials operating in government it appears to be unable to separate politics from facts…in a very slow moving sticky publicity event…as if there are no facts but they were just omitted.
barry campbell says
My caution to President Trump would be to be very cautious when approached by the snake who says he will never harm an Infidel especially when they are of Islamic or Muslim background?
mortimer says
President Sisi lectured Al Azhar University and demanded that they change, but they haven’t, won’t, because they can’t.
Trump is a quick study who assesses matters quickly once they are correctly explained to him. He then finds the motives of troublemakers and exposes them.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the Arab version of the Nazi party. If the Muslim Brotherhood were banned in all countries, much of jihadism would cease. However, Salafite Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran would still be dictatorships exporting terrorism and JIHADIST IDEOLOGY. If those two sources of jihadist IDEOLOGY were shut down, the world would have a thousand years of peace.
revereridesagain says
But the Muslim Brotherhood won’t be shut down here, not yet, since that bold front line of our national defense, the CIA, its collective panties all a-twist, citing its fear that such an action would “fuel terrorism” — because allowing the Brotherhood and its whelps such as CAIR to thrive has been so successful at curtailing that, y’know — has at least temporarily influenced the Trump administration to shelve this deperately needed action.
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/04/cair-thinks-the-muslim-brotherhood-has-triumphed-the-trump-administration-should-prove-them-wrong?utm_content=buffer3ff91&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
It is less than 3 months into the new administration, and we can only hope that harder heads will prevail in the longer run.
JIMJFOX says
One would think if several Islamic countries had banned the MB, Trump might sit up & take notice of the experts in the field?
duh swami says
I don’t know that Donald perfect understands Islamic jihad,,,but he knows enough to form an opinion…he can get details later…
common sense says
Donald Trump appears to put most people in the same category (not Merkel) and treats everyone at face value. This difusses any potential friction at the outset of meeting them allowing them to open up. Trump I’m sure has been lied to and betrayed in his 70 years (Obama, Clinton).
Then he will set to find out all about that person.
I’ve conculded that most if not all political elites (not Pelosi, too stupid) know about Islam and the Quran but simply don’t give a rat’s ass. It’s too much trouble for any of them to confront, that’s a little more than willfully ignorant to me. Its willfully deceptive. They’ve learned to lie as much as any Jihadi and smile, Obama being the chief offender.
Angemon says
Indeed.
goran wrambeck says
Hello, It is impossible for Trump to do all of whats needed to be done. He will do all of what he promissed – just see what hes done so far… the problem with MB is on the table and these muslim guys knows that…
Charli Main says
Agreed. Its completely unreasonable to expect President Trump to reverse the rot and corruption of the last 60 or so years in a couple of months.
The man does not have a magic wand to wave about and put everything right, like yesterday. !!!
ibrahim itace muhammed says
so,sisi is happy with trump, the evil jewish worshiper.but egyptian women should protest against trump visit to egypt for fear that he will get hold of their private parts trying to knock in.i watched baboon trump knocking into a filthy christian lady on video.we don’t want him to do the same to clean muslim ladies.