Interpretation of In the Light's posts: You bad people quit picking on the poor innocent Muslim Brotherhood. They are a peace loving organization, loving of all non-Muslims, and only want the best for Egypt, Israel, and the United States.
Obama's clueless staff: "Muslim Brotherhood Secular, not violent"
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by rbell, Feb 12, 2011.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Exactly: Time and time again we hear on the news and other sources of the connection between the Brotherhood and radical Islam. And, just recently I was at Shocco Springs (Alabama Baptist Conference Center) listening to an Egyptian Christian describe to his audience the activity of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is not a peace loving organization and but in the bed with radical Islam.
And, please do show us evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood is innocent if you are so concerned about us tarnishing their reputation to the point of questioning my ability to interpret the Bible (which, by the way, is a cheap shot). -
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There seems to be a school of thought that Egypt is going to be the next Iran in that after the revolution a hard-core radical Islamic faction will take over the country. Right wing radio talk show hosts and Newt Gingrich are espousing this view. Most conservatives are buying it. I'm not so sure. Neither is the Israeli defense minister:
ABC News Exclusive
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the massive
changes unfolding in Egypt are different than the Iran
revolution in 1979.
In a worldwide exclusive interview with "This Week"
anchor Christiane Amanpour -- filmed before
Mubarak stepped down -- Barak was asked if Egypt
was headed towards an Iranian-style revolution.
"I don't believe that something similar to the Iranian
events 30 years ago is happening now. I think that
the Egyptians, they have their own way," he said.
Barak, however, warned against Egypt holding
elections too soon. He said the only group ready to
run and win an election would be the Muslim
Brotherhood.
"The real winners of any short-term election, let's say
within 90 days, will be the Muslim Brotherhood,
because they are already ready to jump and the --
usually in revolutions, if they are violent, there is an
eruption of idealist sentiment at the first moment and
later on, sooner than later, the only group which is
coherent, focused, ready to kill and be killed if
necessary, takes power," he said. "That should be
avoided in Egypt because that could be a catastrophe
for the whole region."
Amanpour asked Barak whether he believed the
Brotherhood when they said they don't want to run for
the Presidency of Egypt.
"I tend not to believe a radical Muslim movement," he
said. But he explained all Islamist groups were not
the same. "I think that we should not very easily
compare them to, I know, to the most extremist
groups of terror and so on. It's an Egyptian version.
Many of them are less extremist," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/excl...hud-barak-egypts-revolution/story?id=12905130 -
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Rush Limbaugh
We have said from the get-go that if you wanted the second term of Jimmy Carter, elect Barack Obama, and here we are, and what happened in the first term of Jimmy Carter? We lost Iran to a bunch of radical Islamist extremists. Are we looking at the second term of Jimmy Carter here, losing Egypt to a bunch of radicalized Islamist extremists?
http://nation.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh/2011/01/31/limbaugh-pharaoh-obama-has-his-egypt-moment
Talking about the increasingly volatile developments in Egypt last night, Newt Gingrich communicated what he thought so far of the Obama Administration’s handling of the crisis. And he had only disparagements to hand out in his description of Obama and company’s series of blunders. Citing the very real potential for great harm and risk to emerge in Egypt if the Muslim Brotherhood takes power (as many expect it to), Gingrich declared that Obama’s performance has been as bad as Jimmy Carter’s performance in the late 1970s regarding Iran, which saw the American alliance there collapse in the face of a hostile, Islamic takeover.
http://www.examiner.com/american-po...-handling-of-egypt-to-carter-handling-of-iran
Hugh Hewitt
A much, much worse Egyptian dictatorship could be around the corner. Would any of the talking heads care to argue the world is better off for the shah having fallen in 1979 as opposed to a quieter exit a year or two down the road with anyone except the fanatical mullah as supreme leader?
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/02/will-mubarak-s-fall-egypt-resemble-shah-s-iran
Bill Bennett
Right now, however, the choice seems to once again be between a tough autocracy that is embarrassing to any rational notion of human rights and a Muslim Brotherhood that respects little outside its own definition of Islam and is even less tolerable to the stability of the region and our relations in the Middle East.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-31/...ans-egypt-al-azhar-university/2?_s=PM:OPINION
Posters only talking about it being a potential outcome? I think not.
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One can debate endlessly the violent aspects of the muslim brotherhood. It does exist, covert though it is.
What one cannot debate is the idiotic statement by Obama's Clapper that it is a "secular" organization.
Posted: February 07, 2011
8:35 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
An Egyptian Islamist terrorist organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood is re-establishing itself amid the political upheaval in Cairo, WND has learned.
Both Egyptian and Israeli security officials said the group, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, is being reconstituted at the direction of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The officials affirmed Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya serves as the de facto "military" wing of the Brotherhood, which originally founded Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is suspected of involvement in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and it took credit for the 1995 attempted killing of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It has carried out scores of deadly terrorist attacks, some targeting foreign tourists.
The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world. Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.
While the Brotherhood claimed it abandoned violence to push for a peaceful takeover of Egypt, the group's new spiritual leader, Muhammad Badi, recently has publicly called for violent jihad, including against the U.S.
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Instead you zero in on the fact that "security officials" would always want to remain anonymous.
It's done in MSM newspapers every day.
But your nitpicking doesn't change the facts in the story. Avoiding them and overlooking them won't make them go away.
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Furthermore...I will agree that for now things don't look Iran-like. But I think the potential is there: An autocratic leader, flush with the spoils of power, forced to leave, a largely youth-oriented uprising...if a charismatic fundy-leader steps up (Ayatollah, 2011-Egypt style), we've got a problem. Egypt is not Saudi Arabia. There's quite a bit of poverty. There are nowhere near the oil resources in Egypt that exist elsewhere.
Finally...folks tend to respond in these situations in reactionary ways. Mubarak will likely be followed (if the people have their way) by an anti-Mubarak. There could be a swing away from secularization (as Mubarak was fairly secular for a muslim country leader). Also, since Mubarak was not so hostile to Israel, a pendulum swing could bring in an incindiery figure. Are the MB that way? Dunno...but there's NO doubt they're more friendly to the fringe than Mubarak was. And keep in mind...all this revolution in Allahland has happened in the last few weeks. Things are very fluid.
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Absolutely - they continually call for the destruction of Israel.
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I read in today Wall Street Journal (a reputable news source for In the Light) that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt seems to be two sided. One side is very conservative in nature and would take on the entire world in the name of Jihad. The other is not so violent and seems to be more open. Which one will win out? Based on what we've witnessed so far from the Muslim world I wouldn't be placing bets for the more liberal minded within the Muslim Brotherhood. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong.
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This is a fascinating subject matter to follow. I think the moderate younger faction will win out eventually, but I agree with you that it could take some time and in the near term, unfortunately for Egypt, the old guard's policies will probably prevail.
Article here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...6135882819143872.html?mod=WSJ_article_related
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