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The ‘Arab Spring’ Is Turning Into The Winter Of Islamic Jihad – Western Hopes For A New Era of Middle Eastern Democracy Exposed As Hopelessly Naïve

11/23/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

No need to worry. The Obama Administration is perfectly ok with the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power.  In fact, they even have members of the Muslim Brotherhood working for them in the White House. Just like the President, I’m sure they’ve all been extensively vetted, right?  I mean, what could possibly go wrong? …

By JOHN BRADLEY – “The Arab Spring is rapidly turning into a winter of chaos and oppression.

As protests grip the Egyptian capital of Cairo, and Islamic fundamentalists gain in confidence there and elsewhere across the region, the hopes of Western leaders for a new era of democracy across the Middle East have been exposed as hopelessly naïve.

For far from paving the way for freedom and pluralism, the uprisings have led only to more intolerance, authoritarianism and division.

The sense of darkening crisis in Egypt this week is a disturbing example of this trend…

At first, participation in the Tahrir Square demonstrations this month was a way for the Brotherhood to flex its muscles. But few Islamists are now occupying the square.

Unlike the progressives and liberals, they are not seeking a showdown with the military. What they really want is an accommodation, a compromise that will smooth their way to power.

Democracy and liberty have no appeal to them. In fact, they regard them as features of Western, secular decadence.

All their attention is focused on becoming the largest political force in the elections next week. And they are almost certain to achieve this goal, since they are by far the best organised, most well-known political movement in Egypt.

The implementation of their hardline religious agenda will follow, including the implementation of Islamist sharia law.

This is bad news for Israel, already isolated in the Middle East, since the Muslim Brotherhood wants to tear up the current peace deal, which was negotiated by President Anwar Sadat in 1979.

It is also bad news for Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, which makes up around ten per cent of the population.

In recent months, they have suffered appallingly from a brutal pincer movement made up of the military on one side and the Islamists on the other.

Massacres, individual beatings, and the desecration of churches are all characteristic of this savagery.” Read more.

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  1. Willard's avatar
    Willard
    11/23/2011 at 12:53 AM
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    It is just amazing that the political leaders that brought this about are now truely amazed at what is happening – Like we say at work and I think it was John Wayne also you said something similar – you cannot fix stupid – We do not have one single leader anywhere in the world that knows what they are doing – everyone of them is simply wringing and flailing their hands in political correctness – appeasment – hopelessness – self centeredness – Like Christ said if he did not cut his time short there would be nothing left to come back too

    Wn

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  2. ICA's avatar
    ICA
    11/23/2011 at 9:50 PM
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    Some of them *still* have it in their heads that this will turn into a free pro-Western Middle East.

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