More On The Pending Disaster In Egypt

The more I read about the "elections" in Egypt, the more concerned I get. It is obvious that the majority of votes will go to the Muslim Brotherhood and those associated with them. OK, fine, it is a majority Muslim country and one would expect that. However, the direction and the instability caused by this move will have far reaching and destabilizing effects when it combines with the other countries that were part of the Arab Spring.

One can only suspect that in the capitols of the Arab world they are giddy with joy in seeing long term dictators (some were bastards but others were moderately progressive) overthrown by naive neophyte individuals who had no plan to govern after they accomplished their goals. Into this vacuum came the religious leaders, the mullahs, who by their position in life allowed them to present an answer to the leaderless masses who quickly gravitated to them.

We now have  religious leaders heading these movements and suddenly people are amazed they want to institute Sharia Law. Why should they be?  Religious leaders follow religious teachings, seems pretty simple to me. Muslims follow Sharia Law and the country is run by Muslim clergy.  This is exactly the same scenario that occurred in Iran.  Has there been improvement there over the Shah? Hardly!

Until our leaders and most Americans come to understand the danger from a world wide Muslim movement, we are going to see country after country fall under the rein of the clerics.  Will the US survive? Europe? It depends upon all of us gaining the wisdom to defend what we have. Sharia Law is not compatible with women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and the Constitution. Until the world realizes this, all of our freedoms are in danger.

Are you willing to defend your rights? I am.

Here's more on the voting in Egypt.

Democracy Project Triumph: Islamists Surge Ahead in Egyptian Elections

Andrew C. McCarthy - National Review Online,  December 1st, 2011

It would be hard to overstate what a catastrophe the Egyptian elections are shaping into. Reports about stage one of the long process show not only that the Muslim Brotherhood may be getting over 50 percent of the vote; an even more extreme Islamist party — called “Nour” — is apparently getting between 10 and 15 percent.

In a bit of sleight-of-hand I’ve noted before, the media describes as “Salafists” the elements that are even more extreme Islamists than the MB. This is a device to help the Obama administration’s assiduous campaign to airbrush the Brotherhood into a “moderate” organization — one that National Intelligence Director James Clapper so memorably (and ludicrously) described as “largely secular.”

Do not be deceived. The MB is itself a Salafist organization. Salafism is a retro-refom movement that seeks to return Muslims to what is seen as the pure Islam of the founding generations (the Salafiyyah — the “righteous companions” of Mohammed). MB founder Hassan al-Banna was a Salafist. So was Sayyid Qutb — the most important MB theorist of the second half of the 20th Century. So is the MB’s leading sharia jurist in modern times, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi (despite efforts by his delusional Western fans to portray him as a modernizing reformer). The difference between MB Salafists and more extreme Salafists (like the difference between the MB and al-Qaeda) is much more about methodology than ideology). It is akin to the difference between Saul Alinksy organizers and the New Left radicals of the ’60s and ’70s. The MB has always believed in working with (and penetrating) government, and boring into society’s institutions, in order to Islamize society gradually. More extreme Salafists reject secular society and refuse to interact with its government — on the theory that such interaction corrupts them while legitimizing the secular government. But the goal of both sides is precisely the same: to install sharia law as the foundation for Islamizing the society.

The fact that Islamists even more extreme than the MB are not only participating but winning substantial seats in the election is a disaster on at least three counts. First, it demonstrates yet again the weakness of the secular democrats who have been portrayed, fraudulently, as the dynamic force of the “Arab Spring.” Second, it will push the dominant MB into an even more aggressively Islamist posture. Third, it will have the perverse effect of helping the Obama administration and Western Islamophiles continue to portray the MB as comparatively moderate. Of course, the Brothers are only ostensibly moderate in comparison to Nour (with whom they’ll be delighted to collaborate) — objectively speaking, they are virulently anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli (indeed, anti-Semitic).

The Islamist ascendancy in Egypt, enabled by the West’s democracy fetishists and its Leftist allies of the MB, will have immediate disastrous consequences — in the imminent drafting of the new Egyptian constitution; in the eventual Egyptian presidential election next year; in overcoming the Egyptian military’s half-hearted attempts to stem the Islamist tide; in the deteriorating security of 8 million Coptic Christians (about 10 percent of the population); in a radically new and more threatening Islamist threat to Israel on a long border it has not had to worry about for the last 30 years; and in ensuring (in cahoots with Islamist Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, a longtime MB intimate) that the Brotherhood will take over Syria when Assad falls — probably sooner rather than later.

Who could have predicted such a grand jihad?