From the outset of the escalating crisis in Egypt, we’ve seen indications President Barack Obama and his cohorts have been working behind the scenes to destabilize the country, in the hope of transforming the 30-year ally of the U.S. into a radical Islamist regime — and with it, other Middle Eastern allies of America as well.

The “sham democracy movement” being publicly pushed by the president and his fellow leftists in the Middle East is actually “a naked betrayal of our Middle Eastern allies, and by extension, our own country,” writes Jim Simpson at American Thinker.

The fact that the Obama administration favors a role for the extremist Muslim Brotherhood in running the post-Mubarak country is telling. The Muslim Brotherhood, created in 1928, is “behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed,” in Simpson’s words — and as such is likely to seize control of Egypt if given even limited opportunity.

“Obama uniformly sides with our enemies,” Simpson says, “but rarely, if ever, with our friends and allies. His administration is packed with far-left radicals and vicious anti-Semites. And therein lies the rub, because what we are witnessing in reality is this President’s un-American, anti-American, treasonous ideology in full play” over the last two weeks.

Obama and The Brotherhood

By all indications, the president’s agenda appears to include destroying not just America, but Western Civilization as well, as evidenced by his dictatorial handling of the Egyptian uprising and his throwing of support behind the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood.

That organization’s goal is global Islamic domination, imposition of Sharia law on all the world’s population, annihilation of Israel, and the collapse of all Western institutions. Linked to the Nazis during World War II, and fond of disseminating Hitler’s Mein Kampf, the Muslim Brotherhood has sought to “deepen and extend already existing hostile views about Jews and secular Western societies generally,” according to author Jeffrey Herf.
Long outlawed in Egypt, the Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in that country. Touted as “the world’s most influential Islamist movement” by Al Jazeera, the Brotherhood has spawned at least twelve Muslim terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and Hamas.
Its plan for America, discovered by the FBI, states that the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to “destroy the American civilization.”

In warning conservatives about this scheme last week at CPAC, David Horowitz said, “The plan called for building a secret leadership in America and for the creation of a series of Brotherhood front groups that would appear to be participants in America’s democracy until the time came when and where force would be necessary to accomplish the Brotherhood’s goals.”

And our usurping President wants to let the Muslim Brotherhood stick its “camel’s nose” — so to speak — in the door of Egypt’s governing tent and let all hell break loose in the Middle East?
When it was announced that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday, a leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood declared that “the main goal of the revolution has been achieved,” signaling that the camel’s nose was already inside the tent.

Downplaying the threat

Although the Muslim Brotherhood is absolutely dedicated to imposing Shariah law upon the entire world, Obama and the Egyptian youth movement seem content to look the other way, knowing that many Muslims would favor changing current laws in their countries to allow stoning as punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft, and death for those who convert from the Islam religion, according to a poll released by the Pew Research Center. The poll reveals a mind-set that is barbaric, to say the least. Are we to really believe that the people of Egypt generally want freedom? The mainstream media are trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

A former Muslim Brotherhood member, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is a fellow at the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute and lives in the United States. She’s convinced that, notwithstanding some reports to the contrary, the Muslim Brotherhood plans to seize control of Egypt, and says “the politicization of Islam” is the whole reason the Brotherhood exists. View Hirsi’s comments.

Blinders

Most conservative political writers appear to see through the Transparent President’s un-American desire to consolidate Muslim influence in the Middle East — an outcome that would enable the Muslim Brotherhood to threaten the security of both Israel and the United States.

It’s shocking, on the other hand, that some prominent conservative figures refuse to understand that the president is purposely seeking to compromise our country for unsettling and nefarious reasons. They still speak of him as merely a far-left, boilerplate Democrat ideologue, ignoring the more sinister implications of his actions. Some are seemingly very excited about the regime change and applaud Obama’s throwing of Mubarak under the bus. Why? What are they championing? In the real world of politics, America has often been forced to work with leaders of foreign countries because their presence is in the best interest for our country and the lesser of two evils. The United States has never installed dictators in any country.

Obama, meanwhile, has forced his radical political policies upon Americans ever since he began his presidency. With each day that passes, he seems to give little care to what he has done to our country. He is not dimwitted or naive. To be blunt, Obama despises the Declaration of Independence which trumpets life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the Constitution which establishes our representative republic; and a Creator who gives us our inalienable rights.

It appears that Obama rather enjoys nudging Americans to the edge of despair. He is determined to reach his goal of transforming America. Could it be that America will become, as a result of his actions, some sort of a socialistic Muslim Calipate?

The president evidently has way too much sympathy for Islam — as well as a skewed globalistic vision that seeks to undermine Judeo-Christian values and the exceptionalism of the United States.

Ayers in Egypt

WorldNetDaily’s Jack Cashill recently wrote a thought-provoking piece titled “Ayers, Obama and the destabilization of Egypt.” Here are excerpts:
“We know that Bill Ayers, Obama mentor and former terrorist, has been mucking about in Egypt, but we cannot know for sure what that portends.
“What seems clear from the record is that Ayers and his circle — perhaps Obama himself — are less concerned with the future of Egypt than they are with the future of Israel, a country whose ‘story of itself’ Ayers has denounced as ‘elaborate, self-aggrandizing and thoroughly dishonest.’

“From the hard left’s perspective, Israel is the Mini-Me to America’s Dr. Evil. For this crowd, Islam is little more than a tool with which to destroy both.

“In the way of background, Ayers was among the 1,400 or so leftists from around the world who descended on Egypt a little more than a year ago with plans to march on Gaza.” Full Article

Window closing on political solutions

I’ve just about reached the point where I’m extremely concerned there are few political answers remaining to spare America from its approaching fate. Each day, we’re held hostage by an administration whose objective seems to be to continuously overwhelm and smother us under the weight of big government and a Marxist philosophy of redistributing wealth.

Don’t misunderstand me. As I have emphasized before, political action can help, to a large extent, in getting many needed changes accepted and instituted. However, America is falling apart morally, materially, and militarily because of its loss of decent and acceptable standards.

We have allowed the progressives to change us. Conservative, traditionalist Christians are ignoring “thus saith the Lord” on a myriad of social issues. Why is it that some can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that the Ten Commandments still matter to God? Such loss of moorings occurs when man thinks higher of his own opinions than those of God’s. “There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of destruction” (Proverbs 14:12).

My advice to my readers is to find a biblically-sound church and prepare yourselves and family for the days that are fast approaching. I can envision our country being left in shambles from radical Islamic attacks, while simultaneously enduring a total breakdown caused by civil unrest. There are many scenarios one could imagine. God’s Word says it all in the books of Daniel and Revelation.

God reigns

Scripture is filled with verses containing words such as afraid, anxiety, anxious, fret, frightened, and terrified. Many references have to do with what people are anxious and fearful about, while others pertain to the promises of divine reassurance to those who are faithful. The message “Do not be afraid” runs across Scripture with strength and persistence. And why not? After all, fear and anxiety have been part of human existence since sin entered this earth. There will never be peace in a world that is fallen and riddled with sin.

Everything we’re experiencing will have to be turned over to The Almighty. Don’t be as the foolish virgins who were unprepared to meet the Bridegroom. (See Matt. 25:1-13.) Trust in God. Being prepared spiritually brings calm and is the key factor in looking to the future.

Do not neglect your personal relationship with a very loving God. Come 2012, be prepared to vote for conservatives. If it’s God’s will, America can be reset and put back on the correct course. The Lord is gracious and will hold back the four winds of strife. In these two verses, we’re given a glimpse of what the angels will be doing: Mark 13:27 and Matthew 24:31

Renew America has been giving a clarion call. Return to God and He will heal our land.

Related Reading:

Pajamas Media » Democracy or Jew-Hatred? More Evidence of Anti-Semitism at the
American Thinker: Obama Well Knows What Chaos He Has Unleashed
EDITORIAL: Egypt’s blood on Obama’s hands? — Washington Times
Did Washington green light Mideast uprisings?

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“I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin. I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors. All of us against the foreigner.”
– Bedouin proverb

Almost from its beginning, Islam has been a religion divided by warring camps. The tragedy of Islam is that Muslims are far more likely to die at the hands of their co-religionists than by those outside their faith. All religions have their sects and divisions, but Islam’s history is particularly defined by the violence that began shortly after the death of its founder, Mohammed.

If the turmoil in Egypt is about freedom than recent history gives little evidence that Arabs have any talent for it. Iran is a prison-nation. Syria is ruled by the son of its former dictator. Hamas rules Gaza. Monarchies. Et cetera.

I am beginning to think that the world is actually witnessing a repeat of the dispute between the two main branches of Islam, the Shias (also called Shiites) and the majority Sunnis. Meanwhile, in Egypt the killing of Christian Copts continues unabated while Iraqi Christians are being driven from that nation.
When the prophet Mohammed died in 632 AD, what followed was a struggle for control of Islam. Sunni Muslims, the largest of the two branches, believe that Ali, a cousin of Mohammed, was the fourth and last of the “rightly guided caliphs”, successors to Mohammed. Shias believe that Ali should have been the first caliph.

Preceding Ali were Abu Kakr (632-634), Umar (634-644), and Uthman (644-656). Uthman was murdered while at prayer and Ali then became the caliph. He was, however, opposed by Aisha, Mohammed’s widow and the daughter of Abu Bakr. A number of battles ensued. Ultimately, Mu’awiya declared himself caliph.

Here’s where it gets very odd. The line of Mohammed’s direct decedents through Ali ended in 873 CE when the last Shia Imam, Muhammed al-Mahdi disappeared within days of inheriting the title of caliph. He was four years old at the time!

Shias refused to believe he had died, concocting a story that he was merely “hidden” and would return.
This latter version of Shia is the heart of Iranian Islamic theology which includes the belief that, in order to facilitate his return, the world must first sink into complete chaos with massive loss of life, a kind of Islamic Armageddon.

Thus, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran is looked upon by Sunnis and everyone else as truly a matter of life or death on a global scale. It would be the prelude to World War Three.

Sunnis take their lead from Saudi Arabia where the royal family is seen as the protectors of the faith and the two most holy sites of Islam, Mecca and Medina.

Muslims can be found in more than 200 nations these days and represent 23% of the world’s population. One out of every four people on planet Earth is a Muslim. Only 20% live in the Middle East and North Africa, the site of present conflicts.

It has been the fate of Middle Eastern and other Muslims to live with a conflict that began in the seventh century. Islam’s Sharia laws reflect seventh century values. They are at odds with hard won modern values of civilization.

The culture of the Middle East and northern Africa, dominated by Islam, has kept the people of that region in poverty and under the fist of oppression for the last 1,400 years. Mideast Muslims in the modern era have been striking out at the world blaming it, not Islam, for their problems. Al Qaeda is an example of this, along with the Taliban, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The reappearance of a modern state of Israel in 1948 brought everything to a boil. If Islam is the one true faith, the presence in its midst of a Western, democratic, militarily powerful and economically successful Israel severely challenges that belief.

After successive wars on Israel, Arab nations were repeatedly defeated. Further aggravating Muslims is that Israel is holy to both Judaism and Christianity. Jerusalem is not even mentioned by name in the Qur’an.

Sunni-Shia battles commemorate its schism and include Suffin, Karbala, and Zab, the last having been fought in Egypt.

In the last century the Middle East has been treated as the West’s fiefdom, divided among colonial powers, manipulated for control of its oil.

In recent times Middle Eastern nations were invaded, first by the former Soviet Union invading Afghanistan and, after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and 9/11, the U.S. invaded Iraq twice. From 1980 to 1988, Iraq waged a long war against Iran that ended in a stalemate. Syria occupied Lebanon for decades. There have been clashes as well between Muslim Pakistan and largely Hindu India.

President Obama’s insistence that the Muslim Brotherhood play a role in any future government of Egypt ignores the fact that it is sworn to kill Christians and Jews or make them dhimmi, subject to taxes and humiliation.

In its own words the Brotherhood’s guiding principles are, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

The Mubarak regime ruthlessly suppressed the Brotherhood that, among other deeds, assassinated his predecessor, former prime minister, Anwar al-Sadat and just tried to assassinate his vice president, Omar Suleiman. Not exactly democracy in action.

Those who rule Egypt are sorting out their difficulties and will resume power, but while all eyes are on the land of the pharaohs, it is Iran that threatens World War III.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

 

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“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”—Muslim Brotherhood

Mohamed El-Baradei has been acting of late as though he wanted “Barack Obama” to act as a dictator or supreme commander, depose Egypt’s lawful leader, and install El-Baradei as president, yet he sees this as a blueprint for “democratic” reform?

El-Baradei really needs to take his irony supplement.

Fortunately for him, the John Doe calling himself “Barack Hussein Obama” is equally irony deficient! On Tuesday, “Obama,” while spouting democratic rhetoric, ordered Mubarak to abdicate: “An orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.”

“Obama”: That would be the world’s most famous devotee of genocidal, Black Liberation Theology.

The early news reports I read either ignored the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the rioting, or said the group was keeping a low profile, and though some mentioned that it supports imposing shariah, none that I saw mentioned that it was the Muslim Brotherhood that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. In fact, some sites ludicrously reported that the Brotherhood has “renounced violence.” Sure, and Al Qaeda is just a Koran study group.

The Brotherhood has now agreed to support El-Baradei as the “lead spokesman” (elsewhere described as “leader”) of pro-democracy forces, but if Mubarak surrenders power, the Brotherhood will sweep El-Baradei away like so much dust.

Another voice in favor of “democracy” comes from our Marxist friends at The Daily Beast, who tell us,

Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood The secretive Islamic opposition group has long renounced violence and may be the most reasonable option….

The prospect of change in Egypt inevitably raises questions about the oldest and strongest opposition movement in the country, the Muslim Brotherhood , also known as Ikhwan. Can America work with an Egypt where the Ikhwan is part of a transition or even a new government?

The short answer is it is not our decision to make. Egyptians will decide the outcome, not Washington. We should not try to pick Egyptians’ rulers. Every time we have done so, from Vietnam’s generals to Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai, we have had buyer’s remorse. But our interests are very much involved so we have a great stake in the outcome. Understanding the Brotherhood is vital to understanding our options….

After the army seized power in 1952, [the Brotherhood] briefly flirted with supporting Gamal Abdel Nasser’s government but then moved into opposition. Nasser ruthlessly suppressed it.

Nasser and his successors, Anwar Sadat and Mubarak, have alternatively repressed and demonized the Brotherhood or tolerated it as an anti-communist and right-wing opposition….

[“Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” by Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast, January 27, 2011.]

Bruce Riedel’s claim that we have always had buyer’s remorse when we picked rulers is not true. Not in South Vietnam, and not in Iran. The former CIA officer also somehow neglected to mention that Nasser’s brutal suppression of the Brotherhood followed their assassination attempts on him, or that the group assassinated Sadat.

Note the non sequitur:

“Can America work with an Egypt where the Ikhwan is part of a transition or even a new government?

“The short answer is it is not our decision to make.”

The answer to what? Riedel’s answer is to a different question, whether America should have any say in the governing of a country that gets $1.5 billion in annual aid from us, and he admits that “our interests are very much involved so we have a great stake in the outcome.” Beyond that, as he well knows, Egypt is essential to regional stability.

Riedel never answers his question, because the answer is “no,” but he does not want to come clean with his true loyalties.

He also ignores the fact that the democratic Egyptian El-Baradei wants America to intervene, and “to pick Egyptians’ rulers.”

The notion that America should be passive in the face of a possible Islamist takeover in Egypt, and in much of North Africa, is completely inimical to America’s interests. Then again, Riedel’s orientation clearly is anti-American: He supported the Communist takeover of South Vietnam, and supports an Islamist takeover of Egypt and North Africa.

You might as well say, “Don’t Fear Al Qaeda.” Alinskyite Marxist Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also calls, like her black liberationist boss, for “a transition that will meet the needs of the Egyptian people and that will truly establish democracy…”

Eight years ago, Zeev Chafets observed that Arab Moslems don’t march in favor of more democracy, but for less of it. They don’t march for peace, but for war. Mohamed El-Baradei may have fallen in love with his press clippings, but Bruce Riedel and Hillary Clinton know these truths better than I do. Democracy is not an option.

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In an article published August 6, 2009, the Washington Times quotes John Brennan, head of the White House Homeland Security office who spoke at C.S.I.S.

John Brennan identified the enemy as al Qaeda. “We are at war with al Qaeda,”  Who is at war with us?  Al Qaeda is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. What is the Muslim Brotherhood?   Our best window on al-Ikhwan is its “Palestinian” branch: Hamas. Give a careful examination to the first two articles of the Hamas Charter.

1. The Islamic Resistance Movement: The Movement’s programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.
2. The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgement, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.

Hamas is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their program is Islam. Islam inspires and guides everything it does. The Muslim Brotherhood is universal and Islamic.  Article 8 spills the beans.

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

The discerning reader will comprehend the fact that Hamas is Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood is Islam and al Qaeda is Islam. Who is their model? What did he do? What is their constitution? What is their path? What is their aspiration?  Where are the brains of the politicians who assure us that we are at war with a tiny extremist movement, not with Islam?  Those politicians deny the obvious truth.

Islamic scripture contains commands to fight pagans until only Allah is worshiped and scriptural religions until they are subjugated and extorted. Those imperatives are confirmed in hadith, tafsir & Shari’ah.[O9.8]  Our elected leaders can not admit this fact because it implies the necessity of eliminating Islam in order to obtain peace and security. Jihad is defined as “holy fighting in Allah’s cause”; it is mandatory, not optional. Allah’s cause is making Islam dominate the world. Jihad will be practiced continuously until the last day. Muslims will be covered with disgrace if they abandon Jihad. President Obama, having studied the Qur’an in elementary school, knows these facts and ignores them because his agenda is Islamic world conquest, not obtaining peace through victory over Islam.

Observe how the Washington Times describes Mr. Brennan’s statement about “fighting jihadists”.

Mr. Brennan said that to say the U.S. is fighting “jihadists” is wrongheaded because it is using “a legitimate term, ‘jihad,’ meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal” which “risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve.”

Jihad an-Nafs is the greater  Jihad. Jihad in the way of Allah is the lesser Jihad. How does one suffer injury or death in struggling with his sinful ego?

3:169. Think not of those who are killed in the Way of Allâh as dead. Nay, they are alive, with their Lord, and they have provision.

The Qur’an reveals the relationship between Allah and Muslims. This is not describing jihad an-nafs.

9:111. Verily, Allâh has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allâh’s Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed.[...]

The man in charge of the White House Homeland Security office describes Jihad as self purification or struggling for a moral goal. How does the Qur’an define it?

2:116. Jihâd (holy fighting in Allâh’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allâh knows but you do not know.

Perhaps Mr. Brennan knows Islam better than Allah.  Lets check with the translators of the Qur’an.

(V.2:190) Al-Jihâd (holy fighting) in Allâh’s Cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is given the utmost importance in Islâm and is one of its pillar (on which it stands). By Jihâd Islâm is established, Allâh’s Word is made superior, (His Word being Lâ ilaha illallâh which means none has the right to be worshipped but Allâh), and His Religion (Islâm) is propagated. By abandoning Jihâd (may Allâh protect us from that) Islâm is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihâd is an obligatory duty in Islâm on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or does not in his innermost heart wish to fulfill this duty, dies with one of the qualities of a hypocrite.[...]

How does Islamic law define Jihad? Lets check with Reliance of the Traveller.

O9.0: Jihad
Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion[...]

Who is lying to us, the Obama Administration or the Qur’an & Islamic law?  Muhammad was a murderer and a terrorist; how did he obtain “religious legitimacy” as a prophet? Why is “religious legitimacy” falsely imputed to Islam?
Is there anything worse than falsely legitimizing mujahideen? Of course there is!

“Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself,”

Islam, al-Ikhwan & al Qaeda are one and the same and they are at war against us. Why are we not at war against them?  Because our elected leadership conceals the identity of the enemy, denying reality.

Unlike the Bush Administration, Brennan makes one tiny accommodation with the truth: he rejects the “war on terrorism” misnomer. .

“because ‘terrorism’ is but a tactic — a means to an end, which in al Qaedas case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.”

Whose tactic is it; “to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of God“, “Allah made me victorious by awe“, “I have been made victorious with terror“? The tactic belongs to Islam, as does the war in which it is used.

In 2008 we foolishly elected a traitor. We can correct that error in 2012, let us pray that it won’t be too late.

 

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