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Egypt, It Is Yesterday Once More.

by Flyovercountry ( 137 Comments › )
Filed under History, Islam, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives, Uncategorized at February 9th, 2011 - 2:08 pm

America Loses Egypt : Dry Bones cartoon.

As a young boy, I saw a movie about the Alamo. In the end of that movie, the actor, whose name I don’t remember died in the most heroic manner possible. It was larger than life. Years later, I saw John Wayne in a different movie depicting events at the Alamo. While it was a different movie, with different actors, Davy Crockett still perished. Santa Anna still won the battle and lost the war. A few years ago, Billy Bob Thornton played Davy Crockett in yet another version of the movie. The story held no thrill for me, as I had actually experienced the movie twice before in my life, and the ending was known to me. (Billy Bob Thornton’s acting chops were certainly worth the price of the ticket however.) Different actors, a different director, a different producer, and different writers could not save poor Davy Crockett from his fate. Santa Anna, for a third time, won the battle and lost the war.

Today, we are all seeing a movie which originally aired in 1978. The events have me transfixed to my television, hungry for news, but just like the three versions of the Alamo, the suspense of how the story ends is not there. I have seen this movie before, I know how it ends. This one is a horror film for the U.S., the Western World, and most of all, Israel. Just like in 1978, I am listening to hippies tell me how wonderful it is that the youth movement is rising up against oppression. That we are seeing a brutal U.S. supported thug being swept aside by a population of people who are refusing to tolerate the shackles of servitude and bondage. In 1978, the movie ended with an even more oppressive and thuggish Islamic regime taking power and executing all of the young socialists who helped foment the fall of the Shaw. Despite all of the idiotic cries and pleadings from the left that this time is different. That this time the Internet has made the flow of learning and information so much more efficient, therefore providing the lessons which would prevent such a catastrophe from happening again. I realize that I heard a similar line in 1978 and I know how this movie ends. In the 1978 version of this movie, the role of the reportedly brilliant but weak U.S. President was played by Jimmy Carter who basically threw our ally under the bus by refusing to back him in his hour of need. That President came to office professing a foreign policy direction based on the difficult to objectively explain Human Rights, which meant ridicule for our Democratic Allies and a perverse and vocalized love for some of the most oppressive thugocracies on the planet. If that role sounds familiar, it is because we have the continuation of the Carter Presidency being played out today. Now, just as then, room for our allies is becoming scarce under the Obama Bus, thugocracies the world over are being praised as shining lights to culture and enlightenment, and an ally was abandoned in his hour of need. In 1978, once the Shaw left Iran, the void of power enabled the stronger and more ruthless elements of the Mullahs and Ayatollahs to take control of the revolution from the somewhat less experienced and naive students. Those same young democrats, socialists, and otherwise wide eyed innocent children became the immediate first victims of the new direction of the revolution. When thugs take over, the first victims are always those who helped usher them into power. The thugs realize that those who helped them at the beginning will be the most disillusioned and first to turn on them should they prove to be even more brutal than what they replaced. As a result, they will be accused and convicted of some crime against the revolution in short order. Nothing on the streets of Cairo today looks or sounds any different than Tehran from 1978. The Mullahs aren’t there, but the Muslim Brotherhood is. The Muslim Brotherhood is no social club, or philanthropic organization, despite their attempts to change their public image as of late. Al Quaeda, Hamas, CAIR, ISNA, MSA are all amongst its branches. They have been actively engaged in efforts to wage war against the U.S., Israel, and the west, since their inception. For the fools who say, the Brotherhood is too small to take over, all I can say, is that they are the only organization in Egypt with an already built infrastructure, they already operate in 80 countries around the world, and it was one of their branches which brought down the WTC, flew a plane into the Pentagon, and crashed a plane in Pennsylvania.

Knowing that this movie will end the same way, one wonders where our President was while this was happening. Well, here is how his new tone in foreign policy treats our staunchest allies. The insults leveled against the British by the Obama Administration run deep. I am certain that our special relationship with our cousins from across the pond will survive this Presidency, but that relationship will forever be altered for the worse. Here is how President Obama treats the world’s thugs. Put the last bit of irony in that link into perspective this way. The 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize held a State Dinner to honor the man who holds the 2010 winner of that prize in a political prison. During the last three weeks, the world needed leadership from the President of the world’s only superpower. That leadership was woefully missing. Instead, we gave them a remake of a terrible movie produced in 1978. 32 years later, that 1978 film still haunts the planet. The repercussions of that horror film are still felt today. Now, the remake will be playing in another theater on the other side of town.

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Egypt: “Populist Revolt” or Muslim Brotherhood?

by 1389AD ( 163 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Egypt, Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media at January 29th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

It is perhaps too soon to identify for certain exactly who or what is behind the January 2011 rioting in Egypt, but it is not too soon to begin asking questions. The rioting has been described as a populist revolt against the 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak. Mainstream media news stories claim that the rioting was triggered by unemployment, poverty, and lack of economic opportunity in Egypt.

But considering the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood originated in Egypt, and that Hosni Mubarak has been standing in the way of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control of Egypt, it is time to take another look at what the Muslim Brotherhood is all about.

Hat tip to vagabond trader:

Sorry to go OT but this is some scary stuff. Reminds me of the commie goals which have been quite successful.

Indeed.

The Muslim Brotherhood “Project”

By: Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 11, 2006

One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of “cultural invasion” and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages and above the fold of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Le Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica.

If that’s what you might think, you would be wrong.

In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11. Since that time information about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as “The Project”, and discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities…

Included in the documents seized during the raid of [Youssef] Nada’s Swiss villa was a 14-page plan written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982, which outlines a 12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth” – identified as The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss authorities by Nada, the unsigned document was prepared by “Islamic researchers” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

What makes The Project so different from the standard “Death of America! Death to Israel!” and “Establish the global caliphate!” Islamist rhetoric is that it represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the “cultural invasion” of the West. Calling for the utilization of various tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and terrorism, The Project has served for more than two decades as the Muslim Brotherhood “master plan”. As can be seen in a number of examples throughout Europe – including the political recognition of parallel Islamist government organizations in Sweden, the recent “cartoon” jihad in Denmark, the Parisian car-burning intifada last November, and the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London – the plan outlined in The Project has been overwhelmingly successful.

Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West. The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:

•Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;
•Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
•Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
•Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
•Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
•Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
•Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
•Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
•Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
•Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
•Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
•Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
•Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
•Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
•Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
•Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
•Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
•Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
•Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
•Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
•Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
•Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
•Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
•Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
•Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
•Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world;

In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects, The Project is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or outright terror groups, over the past two decades.

Read the rest.

Click HERE to read the full text of The Project.

Where does that leave us?

Barack Hussein Obama always sides with the Islamists. No surprise there. Unlike his historical predecessor, Vidkun Quisling, our current POTUS has been thoroughly proactive in helping the most dangerous totalitarian enemy of our time to launch its invasion.

As vagabond trader points out:

From this past August. Yup, bho is OK with the MB.

Coming August 31 [2010]: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood

Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.

On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.

The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):

This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.

…Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.

According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.

The Problem: Your Money, redistributed to the Muslim Brotherhood

This workshop constitutes an abdication of their professional responsibility by all government participants – and a taxpayer-funded government stimulus program for the attending Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Shariah law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is “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.”

Why do we think some of these groups attending, possibly all, may be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?

Because the sponsoring organization – the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), co-sponsoring with the Department of Agriculture – has a long history of associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. They also signed a 2009 American Muslim Task Force statement threatening to “suspend” relations with the FBI, because the FBI was investigating possible links to homegrown terrorism in mosques and other Muslim organizations.

Not so evident on the current website, of course. This happens all the time with groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood – the current CCMO website has a LOT less information than the older ones preserved at archive.org (aka “The Wayback Machine”). Here are the previous websites for the CCMO from 2004-2008. The pre-whitewashed CCMO websites are highly revealing. They expose the degree to which this Administration intends to direct taxpayer money (and “reduced red tape”) to Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations in the U.S.

Read the rest.