September 08, 2011

Report from Egypt: “Islamists Have Hijacked the Revolution”

Our correspondent in Egypt, Huda N. (not her real name), reports:

Now a days all liberal parties are in hibernation within the streets of Egypt. The only active parties are the Horreya and Adala (Freedom and Justice) of the Muslim Brotherhood's party and the Nour (The light) the Salafie's party are the active ones within the poor communities of Egypt, which are the majority.  All you find in television and newspapers are talks and interviews of brotherhood leaders.
 
Islamists have hijacked the revolution. On Friday 29th July 2011 the Islamist arranged a million protestor  march ito Tahrir square. They summoned all their followers from all over Egypt. Their aim was to prove that they are the ones in control and leaders of the revolution. The cries were Islamic Islamic and we are all Osama Bin Laden, calling for the implementation of the Sharia law and establishing an Islamic state in Egypt. Many educated and cultured Egyptians protested and were very angry about it, but nothing was seriously done. It seems were are facing a difficult and dark political future.

Tomorrow Friday 9th, September 2011. the other parties and the Youth of the revolution plan a million protestor revolt to correct the path of the revolution. They have several requests among which are stopping the military trials of civilians and the alteration of the Parliamentary laws that were issued for the upcoming elections at the end of September 2011. These laws divide Egypt into sectors and allow half the number of members to be elected as a combined party lists and the other half as individual members. This will only be in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood and will not give the chance for new parties to have a role in the new Parliamentary elections.  After months of struggle liberals  were unable to postpone the elections nor were they able to set a Bill of Rights to ensure the secularity of the coming government and ensure equal rights among all citizens of Egypt (whether Christians, women, non believers, socialists, left wing, other religions and so on). It seems Egyptians are blinded by religious calls and do not see what is behind these calls a monster that awaits to devour all green and dry.

Note that, per Huda, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was a key organizer of the Friday, July 8th march in Tahrir Square, at which one of the chants was, "We are all Osama Bin Laden."  Yet the Obama administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. From the LA Times:

Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian government.

The LA Times article continues to say that "The organization must reject violence and recognize democratic goals if the U.S. is to be comfortable with it taking part in the government, the White House said." In that case, the Obama administration's support for the Muslim Brotherhood can only be said to have been wildly premature, since the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt supports Osama bin Laden.

From The Atlantic: "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Sticks With Bin Laden"

From The Weekly Standard:

The Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential theologian, Sheikh Yousef al Qaradawi, has repeatedly justified suicide bombings, called on Muslims to support the insurgency against American forces in Iraq, and justified the killing of civilians.....“Those who oppose martyrdom operations and claim that they are suicide are making a great mistake,” Qaradawi added.

From the National Review Online: "When They Think the West Isn’t Listening, the Muslim Brotherhood Praises bin Laden"

From The Guardian: "Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood condemned the 'assassination' of Osama bin Laden..."

Not only that, Obama has three members of the Muslim Brotherhood working in the White House.

Obama's actions are aligned, whether through ignorance, incompetence, or intention, with the enemies of the United States. Obama defrauded the American people when he hid his socialist and Islamist leanings during the 2008 election campaign. The American people would never have elected him had he revealed his true intentions during that campaign. For this reason and many others, Obama must go.