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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 5, 2011

Violence and death in the streets of Cairo, Egypt have brutalized the city for more than a week

So much has been happening in violence-torn Egypt these past weeks, it’s difficult for many Americans to keep up with it all and to sort it all, make sense of it — comprehend what deadly changes are imminent and when. Obama is courting the radical Muslim Brotherhood and betraying our allies, which will prove to be disastrous.

A nightmare of unknown international scope, horrors, and conceivable bloodshed is taking wraith-like shape.

Part of the thought-provoking, disturbing essay written by Victor Sharpe at American Thinker… Obama Well Knows What Chaos He Has Unleashed:

Not content with creating havoc in the U.S. economy, setting Americans against each other, and forcing through a health reform act which has nothing to do with health but everything to do with the redistribution of wealth and an immense increase in governmental interference, our president has now opened a Pandora’s Box in the Middle East. It may well usher in a catastrophe not seen since World War 2.

From his notorious Cairo speech to the present, President Obama speaks, and disaster follows. Some commentators believe that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are so utterly naïve as to make themselves unable to understand what will happen in Egypt as a result of their undermining of the Mubarak regime.

The question is justifiably asked: Do they truly believe that the next regime that comes to power will have the interests of the U.S. and the West at heart?

My fear is that Obama is not naïve at all, but he instead knows only too well what he is doing, for he is eagerly promoting Islamic power in the world while diminishing the West and Israel, however much innocent blood will flow as a result.

Inevitably, sooner or later, the Muslim Brotherhood will take power, usher in a barbaric Islamist power in Egypt that will control the Suez Canal, and show no mercy to its own people or its perceived foes.

So now we see what the present incumbent in the White House has wrought, and so can our few remaining allies. They must now wonder what confidence they can ever have in any future alliance with the United States.

We should be aware of what endemic Islamic violence has wrought in the past. For example, assassinations of Arab leaders are not an infrequent occurrence. After the 1948 Arab-Israel War, the King of Jordan, Abdullah, was murdered by followers of the Muslim fanatic, the Mufti of Jerusalem.

The Egyptian prime minister, Nokrashi Pasha, was also struck down. The forces behind the killings were elements of both Arab socialist movements and the Muslim Brotherhood. Today, in the streets of Cairo, we have an unholy alliance of the current radical left with the same Muslim Brotherhood.

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Another astute piece, in its entirety, on the Muslim Brotherhood, from The PJ Tattler:

An Academic Scholar Alerts His Colleagues to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Danger

Academics are finally learning why, at the present moment, the Muslim Brotherhood is in a good position to win a major political victory once the Mubarak regime collapses. In the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Daniel Byman, a professor in the Security Studies program at Georgetown University, writes: “In the short term at least, and perhaps for much longer, Egypt’s politics are tilted against the more liberal and democratic elements of Egyptian society and in favor of the country’s Islamists.”

The fruit of Mubarak’s government locking up genuine liberal opponents of the regime — so it could posit an either/or alternative of the MB or Mubarak — has resulted in leaving the Brotherhood as the only viable and organized political entity in Egypt. Moreover, he points out, capitalism “became associated with cronyism, not a true free market.” The result is that in 2005, the MB won two-fifths of the seats in parliament, a figure that Byman thinks would have been much higher had a truly free election taken place.

Byman calls for groups like The National Endowment for Democracy and The Republican Institute to now play a more important role in funding civil society opposition groups that could hopefully gain strength and organizational skills during a transition period. This, of course, sounds a great deal like Bush democracy building that Democrats scorned. But in the short run, that won’t help much. “If elections were held tomorrow,” Byman says, “only the Brotherhood would have a strong political organization.”

He puts great hope in the knowledge that at the State Department, Tamara Cofman Wittes is in charge of democratization projects, and she knows that such programs can advance freedom’s cause. He writes: “If she can put her ideas into practice, democratic forces in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East should get a boost.”

Don’t count on it. As The Washington Post reports, the MB is “in sight of their long held dream” of a recognized and open role in Egypt’s politics. Their “professed ultimate role,” the paper’s article points out, “is to turn Egypt into an Islamic state.”

With the Obama administration evidently having decided to work with the MB, the chances for a liberal opposition gaining strength diminish every day. A new policy here, evidently, will depend upon a regime change in Washington.

Obama: Mubarak urged to act quickly

From World Net Daily, Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood romance:

In the summer of 2009, when the world witnessed brave Iranians taking to the streets in an effort to overthrow the Islamofascist regime that was terrorizing them, the president of the United States merely shrugged his shoulders and shuffled his feet. Encouraging words somehow failed him. But today, as the world watches the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 occur right before its eyes, Obama suddenly sees it fit to stretch out a hand of solidarity to the Muslim Brotherhood – giving the Islamist group a green light to share power in a post-Mubarak Egyptian government. In other words, instead of taking a concrete stand against a jihadist entity, a U.S. president has given it his own personal blessing and stamp of approval. It’s the Jimmy Carter-1979 shah betrayal all over again – and with horrific deadly consequences once again on the horizon.

None of this, of course, should come as any surprise; rather, it should be completely expected. Barack Obama is, after all, a man of the left, and the left is always charmed by adversarial terrorist forces that seek to do harm to free democratic societies. Thus, helping to pave the road for the Muslim Brotherhood to take power in Egypt is only to be expected from America’s radical in chief. The Muslim Brotherhood is, after all, an influential Islamist organization and the ideological forebear of Hamas and al-Qaida. Its top objectives are to implement Shariah law and to annihilate Israel. Once it comes to power in Egypt, it will bring Khomeini-style killing fields to purify all non-Muslim infections.

The historical record is simply there for anyone who has an honest interest in the psychological makeup of the left. Leftists have prostrated themselves before despots throughout history – during the whole Cold War and now vis-à-vis jihadists in the terror war. When a despot like Osama bin Laden, Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, Mao Zedong or Fidel Castro wields totalitarian power and metes out sadistic punishment, it is an act with which a leftist yearns to identify.

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Thus, as we observe the Obama administration reaching its hand of solidarity out to the Muslim Botherhood in Egypt today, we can only nod with understanding, as this gruesome behavior for progressives is just another extension of the left’s long-practiced ritual of fellow traveling and the expression of sympathy for and adulation of an adversarial monstrosity. This is just the next putrid chapter of the left’s horrid and morbid journey into the heart of darkness and death.

From FOX Nation, In Over His Head, Obama Pushing Mideast to War:

The Obama administration is pressing a reset button to return the Middle East to the bad old days of open Arab-Israeli warfare. The White House is requiring participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in any prospective new Egyptian government, while the brothers themselves are telling their countrymen to “prepare for war.” The current crisis in Egypt and the Obama administration’s maladroit response are forcing strategists to consider conflict scenarios that had been mothballed since the 1970s.

From Ron Futrell, Big Government, When Will The World Love Us?:

The media told us during the 2008 election that the world would love us if we elected Barack Hussein Obama to the White House. Certainly the Muslim world would adore us after we got rid of Evil Bush.

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Democrats and the Obama administration often like to say the media set unrealistic expectations on the young World Emperor, certainly the media continues its slobbering love for Dear Leader, but Obama also made this promise of global unity. He did it during his first speech in Cairo as President and during the campaign in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate. Obama declared himself a “citizen of the world” (whatever that means) and promised he would “remake the world.” Politico called it a “manifesto for the planet” and that he would “unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in a safer, more united world.”

Whoops.

Imagine my shock when I heard that the groups leading the charge for change in Egypt were “chanting anti-American slogans and also tried to beat up American activist old media figure Anderson Cooper. I’m sorry to see that happen to AC and his crew, but I do wonder if he still thinks the world loves America with King Obama in charge.

Perhaps those rioting in Egypt didn’t get the memo that Evil Bush is gone and the man who once said we are “one of the largest Muslim countries in the word” is now in charge of The Great Satan. Obama has blamed the American dislike of his unconstitutional takeover of healthcare on his inability to communicate the message properly, so how can we think people around the world could understand his brilliance? Yep, they didn’t get the memo.

From Atlas Shrugs, Islamic Supremacists Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali To Hold Muslim Brotherhood linked Fundraiser:

Emboldened and brazen, Islamic supremacists raise money for jihad, aka “Islamic charity.” Much thanks to Obama: Acting on Obama’s Vow: Jihad Funding and Islamic Charity — Atlas Shrugs…

….in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That’s why I’m committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat [Islamic charity].

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