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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 30, 2011

Police vehicle is set on fire by anti-government demonstrators in Cairo, Egypt | Photo credit: Xinhua News Agency, China

In the video below, Glenn Beck’s serious take on how the riots in Egypt and its imminent meltdown present very real dangers for the world, as the potential for destabilizing of the Middle East with a radical Muslim takeover of Egypt could occur. The riots and violence should not be treated as a joke — should not be shrugged off, as some Americans are wont to do. Beck also addresses in the video the Islamic suicide bomber book I wrote about last week — a book published in Iran that was recently found in the desert near Casa Grande, Arizona. Border Patrol found the book, which was smuggled across the US-Mexico border by presumed radical Islamist terrorists entering the US illegally.

As of today, I’ve not seen ANY major leftist news source or large liberal blog even mention it. Disturbing silence from MSNBC, ABC, CNN, Media Matters, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, etc. While the discovery of the terrorist book has been covered by conservative bloggers and in local Arizona news, major news sources, except FOX, have alarmingly not reported it. Islamic OTMs have been sneaking into our country via our unsecured, porous southern border for years, and last week, left behind at least one Iranian book that celebrates terrorist suicide bombers who have murdered non-Muslims. The left-wing media has grotesquely ignored reporting it — the lack of reporting such a discovery is a travesty.

Glenn Beck Show: Egypt in Meltdown – 1/28/2011

Local Arizona newscast of the terrorist book:

TERRORIST BOOK “IN MEMORY OF OUR MARTYRS” FOUND IN ARIZONA DESERT

From CNN, Israel worries privately as Egypt descends into chaos:

Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s public line on Egypt is clear — it wants “stability and security in our region,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning, acknowledging that Israel is “anxiously monitoring” what’s happening in the first and most important Arab nation to make peace with the Jewish state.

“We must show maximum responsibility, restraint and sagacity and, to this end, I have instructed my fellow ministers to refrain from commenting on this issue,” he added.

But former officials will say in public what many believe the government is thinking in private.

“Democracy can be created only if you have the right institutions and the right society to absorb (it),” said Eli Avidar, a political analyst and former Israeli envoy to Qatar.

“Otherwise you will have radical extreme groups like the Muslim Brotherhood that will take over in no time over Egypt,” he warned.

The Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest — but officially banned — opposition movement, does not appear to have started or organized the protests sweeping the country, but called on its members to join them starting Friday.

“The American administration does not understand the culture of the Middle East,” Avidar said.

Obama’s statements about the situation “put a lot of pressure on the regimes in the Middle East” and showed “a lot of disrespect” for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, he added.

Mubarak and other Arab leaders will be worrying that they cannot count on American support in the face of public demonstrations, he said.

Egypt : Effects on US Oil Gas Prices

Gas prices across the nation have been swiftly climbing for quite a while now — the liberal media lambasted George W. Bush over it, but has been either nonchalant or mute about it with Barack Obama.

With the anti-government riots escalating in Egypt — protesters have seized the streets of Cairo, attacking police with stones and firebombs, burning down the ruling party headquarters, and defying a night curfew enforced by a military deployment — expect gas prices around the world to go through the ceiling. And when gas prices jump, so does the cost of food and other goods.

From David A. Patten, Newsmax, As Egypt Explodes, Oil Set to Skyrocket:

Violent anti-government riots in Egypt and a grassfire of unrest torching across the sands of the Middle East fueled fears of $200-a-barrel oil and an instability some say could spread to oil-rich Saudi Arabia, and beyond.

Police Friday clashed with tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo and Alexandria. Shortly after 11 a.m. ET, as a government-ordered curfew took effect, CNN carried pictures of dozens of military trucks and armored vehicles loading police and leaving downtown Cairo as Egyptian army regulars moved in.

“We have yet to see if they will take the place of the hated Egyptian police who have cracked down so violently,” CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman reported from Iraq before his communication was disrupted. The government had responded to the “day of rage” by pulling the plug on telephone and Internet links, so protesters could not communicate.

The wave of unrest in the Middle East that began with the Jasmine Revolution is now having repercussions around the globe.

After the recent fall of governments in Tunisia and Lebanon, angry marches in Yemen, and the brutal crackdown in Egypt that has left seven dead and hundreds wounded, analysts worry that the governments of Algeria and Jordan could be next to see disturbances.

Radical extremists see the turmoil as their opportunity to institute the region-wide, anti-Western Muslim caliphate or union that they have dreamt of for centuries.

Some analysts believe Morocco also could be at risk, as well as the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror that boasts the world’s largest oil reserves.

The financial impact of the uprising in Egypt has already begun to ripple around the globe. Middle East currencies are under attack by speculators, the Egyptian equities market and emerging-market stocks have nosedived. But the big question for the West is what will happen to Saudi Arabia, which like Yemen and Egypt has been under pressure from radical, anti-American extremists.

From CNN, Protesters defy curfew, surround opposition figure:

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — The government’s call for protesters to follow curfew and the low-flying fighter jets overhead did nothing to deter thousands of Egyptians from continuing their protest into Sunday night.

Instead, crowds surrounded Mohamed ElBaradei, an opposition figure, as he walked into Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Throngs of people cheered his arrival.

ElBaradei told protesters he came “to participate today in the lives of Egyptians. Today I look into the eyes of each one of you, and everyone is different today. Today you are an Egyptian demanding your rights and freedom, and what we started can never be pushed back. As we said, we have one main demand: the end of the regime and to start a new phase.”

“This is a country that is falling apart,” ElBaradei told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

ElBaradei, a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is one of several opposition figures whose name surfaces when protesters talk about possible future leaders of Egypt. Among other names is Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League.

But Mubarak has given no indications of giving up his 30-year rule. He vowed to listen to the protesters’ message and fired his entire Cabinet on Saturday. On Sunday, Mubarak, 82, visited an armed services operations center, state-run Nile TV reported. Mubarak was following up on the security situation and showing support for the military, the report said.

Jets fly low over Cairo’s protesters

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