We all remember Obama’s Middle East speech. Apparently, he had invited members of the Muslim Brotherhood to hear it. Then when Mubarak got in trouble, he kicked the legs out from under the Egyptian President’s chair. Why? According to the Post, because Obama is throwing in with the MB. OB is for the MB! Great…
President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood began three years ago in his famous June 2009 speech in Cairo.
Ten members of the Brotherhood were invited to listen to the address, and they heard a passage crafted especially for them:
“America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments - provided they govern with respect for all their people.”
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak didn’t attend the speech, but there was a message tailored for him, too, when Obama said: “Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.” Obama certainly had that right.
The Obama administration has made what might be described as a “cosmic wager” on the Muslim Brotherhood’s peaceful intentions. By courting them in 2009, the United States helped legitimize their political aspirations; by refusing to come to Mubarak’s rescue during the Tahrir Square protests a year ago, the United States all but guaranteed that the Brotherhood would emerge as a dominant political force in a new Egypt.
The author, in a moment of honesty, decides to take a look at the history of the Muslim Brotherhood. Notice the odd link between why they were formed and Obama’s own family history. His grandfather apparently fought against the British occupation, and the MB was formed to fight against the British occupation. Weird how that works out.
The Brotherhood is so important to the future of the Arab world - and is, still, such a mysterious organization in the West - that it’s useful to review its history. What’s clear is that from its inception, the Brotherhood has stressed the importance of liberating Muslims from Western manipulation. This aspiration for dignity and independence is the Brotherhood’s strongest appeal, but it may make the organization a difficult partner.
The Brotherhood was formed in 1928 by Egyptians who opposed British colonialism. The founder, a schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna, gathered six friends who worked for the Suez Canal Co. To fend off informers, the group developed elaborate initiation procedures.
The movement, at once political, cultural and religious, took off quickly: By one estimate, it grew to 200,000 members by 1938. Banna was assassinated in 1949, after the Brotherhood had attacked the corrupt monarchy of King Farouk.
The anti-Western message was honed by the Brotherhood’s other great martyr, Sayyid Qutb. He was a brilliant essayist whose encounter with the United States in the late 1940s proved poisonous. After visiting New York, Washington, Colorado and Los Angeles, he concluded that “the soul has no value to Americans.”
Qutb’s abhorrence of the open sexuality he saw in the United States is clear in this passage quoted in “The Looming Tower” by Lawrence Wright: “A girl looks at you, appearing as if she were an enchanting nymph or an escaped mermaid, but as she approaches, you sense only the screaming instinct inside her, and you can smell her burning body, not the scent of perfume but flesh, only flesh.”
Honest to god, those guys freak over women at every turn. Any woman, especially any liberal woman who thinks her body is sacrosanct and supports a man who supports the Muslim Brother, or ANY Islamic cult is a foolish, foolish woman. How they think somehow they’ll be exempt in a world run by ninth century misogynists is beyond me.
However, this article does explain why we are sending over millions to help the MB. (Why not just shoot ourselves in the foot with our own guns and save on the return postage because you know at some point, just like in the F&F scandal, their silly ideas will get somebody on our side killed!)
But Obama doesn’t care. Someday, when the “articulate black guy” thing wears off and historians take a hard truthful look at Obama’s mind, we’ll find he was much more a radical and anti-American than he appears today, and that is really saying something!
While we are stumbling around with the MB in the Middle East, it appears the Iranian, who haven’t really figured out how to operate a clandestine assassination assignment, are going around trying to kill Israelis. Surprise! Our take? Wait, is that the sound of crickets?
Thai Blasts: Iranian Suspect Paraded On TV
1:40pm UK, Thursday February 16, 2012
One of the three Iranians held over a series of explosions in Bangkok has been paraded on television - as Thai police claim they now know “for certain” that Israeli diplomats were targeted.
Mohammad Kharzei appeared with his apparently handcuffed hands covered by a dark sheet.
Thailand’s national police chief General Prewpan Dhamapong said: “This issue was about individuals and the targets were specific. This was something personal.”
Mr Prewpan said Kharzei had “partially confessed” and acknowledged knowing one of the other suspects, Saeid Moradi, whose leg was blown off by an explosive as he fled police in the Thai capital.
Surveillance video released by police shows the suspects leaving their destroyed house just after the first blast.
My favorite part is that they are caught on film leaving the blown up house (really how.. how do you do that? “Hey Ali, toss me a grenade. Nooo.. noo. don’t pull the pin…runnn!!!!) The guy blows himself up by throwing a grenade into a pole and it bounces back and goes off. (Hey Warner Bros there’s a cartoon in this for you guys, screw the coyote, this is classic stuff!) Now the guy is “partially confessing” to knowing the other suspects.
“Hey Ali, is this you in the picture with the backpack full of grenades? See the guy walking out of the blown up home with you, do you know him?”
“Maybe…can you not pinch my morphine drip line, pleeessee?”
Hey I watched “24″ I know how it goes.
Seriously, the Iranians, of course, no nothing in the classic way only a good bad guy can.
And we not only want to deal with them, we want to fund them. It’s going to be an interesting war.
