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Sunday, January 30. 2011

Egypt

It certainly looks like Egypt is heating up. Looks like the Brotherhood has been waiting for this moment.


Stratfor: Red Alert: Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood


Via Other McCain: “I have to pay 150 pounds a day to bribe police officers to let me sell on this pavement. How can I be this educated and not find proper work?” – Ramadan Mohamed, Law graduate selling sunglasses on Cairo street


But their unemployment rate is lower than that in the US


WSJ: Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs - A man who places himself at the helm for three decades inevitably becomes the target of all the realm's discontents.


Iconoclast has update on the near-chaos


Some friends in the know told me last night that I might think I am going to North Africa this summer - but that I'm not. Lucianne's headline: U.S. Embassy tells Americans they should consider leaving Egypt as soon as possible because of unrest, violence and ongoing demonstrations. An estimated 55,000 Americans are currently in Egypt. Flights scheduled for Monday


Related, Tunisia: The End of a 23-Year Regime. We were there in summer 2009. Cool place, exotic. Different rules. Not Kansas.

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Reality Check:

Don't let the leftie media's knee-jerk love for revolutionary imagery (unarmed peasant confronts tanks/policemen) fool you into thinking that this is about democracy.

The likely victor in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is virulently anti-West. Cairo has devolved to militias defending neighborhood enclaves - based on old clan loyalties.

Only a tiny group of intellectuals is talking about democracy.

If you bring the vote to people who are not ready for it - you get one free election, followed by dictatorship. This is what happened in Gaza - free, fair elections swept in Hamas - who promptly did away with free, fair elections.

Muslim Brotherhood is more of the same.
#1 Ben David on 2011-01-30 08:51 (Reply)
Please tell us your travel plans for the next five years so we can be sure to keep clear from rioting. It would appear that your travel desires coincide with rebellious citizens. (Pls., pls. visit DC).
#2 J on 2011-01-30 10:53 (Reply)
In 2009 Obama gave a speech in Cairo. Riots result. Words have consequences:

"America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere."

It's time for Obama to end his failing foreign policy straddle on Mubarak and to live up to his words in Cairo.
#3 Agent Cooper on 2011-01-30 14:18 (Reply)
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The likely victor in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is virulently anti-West. Cairo has devolved to militias defending neighborhood enclaves - based on old clan loyalties.

"

The Muslim Brotherhood in fact is better known in the US and Europe as al Qaeda, which is their main military arm.
#4 J.T. Wenting on 2011-01-31 04:34 (Reply)
The Brotherhood will restore order. You will no longer have to bribe someone to sell sunglasses on the streets. This will be welcomed by the populace and they will consolidate their grip on power. Then the religious-based restrictions on behavior, access to information, etc. will start. Some will welcome that, others will not, but they'll pick the wrong end of Benjamin Franklin's equation until it's too late. Just ask the Iranians.

BTW, that would be - and I'm likely not getting the quote exactly right - "Those who would give up essential liberties for temporary security will soon find they have neither."
#5 RonF on 2011-01-31 09:33 (Reply)
Egyptians are mostly Muhammadans and have no love fro liberty .

Their goal is tryranny but with Muhammad's mullahs not Mubarak.

Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Al Qaida are basically the same beast, and operate by same manifesto, Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq.

None of them seek liberty but enslavement and servitude to Muhammad's devilah.
#6 Leag on 2011-01-31 10:40 (Reply)
Ben David ...I hope now that the Muslim Brotherhood has de-cloaked enough that the Western nations will begin to realize that the MB is the real danger. Its chief affiliate in America is CAIR, but there are others. And they have influence in the strangest quarters. I fear the Muslims in the US more than I fear any other political group, and I fear them because my fellow citizens are so naive that they think all these women going around in Muslim dress are not dangerous.

I believe they are. We have lots of them here in Houston, and they are not pleasant people to us.

Marianne
#7 Marianne Matthews on 2011-01-31 19:23 (Reply)

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