Joe Cooper
2013-10-10 18:23:05 UTC
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Permalinkmillions in military and other aid to Egypt, and make no mistake: this
was not a government shutdown move. This was the President of the United
States blackmailing a sovereign state to force it to restore the Muslim
Brotherhood government he favors. With the Egyptian economy in crisis and
Egypt strongly dependent on this aid, Obama has just effectively cast his
vote for the Muslim Brotherhoods return to power and his vote
outweighs that of millions of Egyptians.
This comes as the Brotherhood is becoming increasingly violent in Egypt,
belying its moderate reputation. The New York Times reported Tuesday
that three brazen attacks across the country included a drive-by
shooting near the Suez Canal that killed six soldiers, a car bomb that
killed three police officers and wounded dozens near the Red Sea resorts
area, and the first rocket-propelled grenade launched in the struggle,
exploding near an elite enclave of the capital and damaging a satellite
transmitter.
Obama has said nothing about this. Nor has he said anything about the
recent attempt by Muslim Brotherhood supporters to assassinate Bishop
Makarios of Upper Egypts Minya governorate, where Brotherhood men have
burned churches and terrorized Christians, scapegoating them for the
toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime. Indeed, Christians have been
scapegoated and brutalized all over Egypt at the hands of supporters of
the Muslim Brotherhood.
This persecution has had a decidedly Islamic cast: Asia News reported on
September 13 that the Muslim Brotherhood have turned an evangelical
Protestant church in Monshaat Baddini in the province of Samalout (Minya,
Upper Egypt) into a mosque. According to local sources, the Islamists
have removed all sacred furnishings, paintings, icons and recited the
special prayer to consecrate the building to Allah. On the wall of the
church an inscription reads: mosque of martyrs and there is no other God
but Allah.
And AINA reported on the same day that two Coptic Christians government
employees were shot dead yesterday for refusing to pay Jizya, the Muslim
poll tax on Christians. Emad Damian, 50, and his cousin Medhat Damian,
37, from the village of Sahel Selim in Assuit Province, were contacted
two days before their murder by the leader of a Muslim gang, who was
identified by Watany Coptic Newspaper as Ashraf Ahmed Mohammed Khalajah,
a registered criminal from the village.
The jizya is a tax that non-Muslims must pay as a sign of their
subjugation to the Muslims, and it is mandated in the Quran: Fight
those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden
which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the
religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until
they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
(9:29)
Yet while warning the Burmese government to stop persecuting that
nations Muslims, Obama has said little about the escalating persecution
of Christians in Egypt a persecution that is being carried out by
people who want to see the Muslim Brotherhood in power there.
Obamas unstinting and uncritical support for the Muslim Brotherhood is
nothing new. The Obama administrations support for the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt has for years been so glaringly obvious that in July
2012, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Egypt and had
a cordial meeting with now-ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed
Morsi, foes of the Brotherhood regime pelted her motorcade with tomatoes
and shoes for delivering that country up to the rule of the Brotherhood.
Protestors held signs reading Message to Hillary: Egypt will never be
Pakistan; To Hillary: Hamas will never rule Egypt and If you like the
Ikhwan [Brotherhood], take them with you!
And last summer, when the Brotherhood regime was suddenly and
unexpectedly toppled from power, numerous anti-Brotherhood protesters
held signs accusing Obama of supporting terrorists. One foe of the
Brotherhood made a music video including the lyrics: Hey Obama, support
the terrorism/Traitor like the Brotherhood members/Obama say its a
coup/Thats not your business dirty man.
Obamas support for the Muslim Brotherhood goes back to the beginning of
his presidency. Early in 2009, when the group was still outlawed in
Egypt, he met with its leaders. He made sure to invite Brotherhood
leaders to attend his notorious speech to the Islamic world in Cairo in
June 4, 2009.
He even invited Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA), to offer a prayer at the National Cathedral on his
first Inauguration Day despite the fact that ISNA has admitted its ties
to the Brotherhood. The previous summer, federal prosecutors rejected a
request from ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator status.
With Brotherhood operatives so warmly favored in the Obama
Administration, its no surprise that he would want them in power in
Egypt as well. And by cutting off aid, hes strong-arming the Egyptians
until they have no choice but to agree.
Source:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/the-muslim-brotherhood-
president/
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