Syria, the fifth domino

Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt are in process of falling under the control of Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, Syria is poised to take the fall very soon. Islamists there, including the MB have been waiting to see how the "Arab Spring" plays itself out, and now they see where the smoke blows and are taking the steps to acquire control and power. As the enemies of freedom and liberty coalesce their base we will see more sharia imposed, starting with a new constitution which will enshrine Islam as the only religion and sharia the only legal system. The saddest part of this whole debacle is that the US is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, touting it as a "moderate" Islamic group which has eschewed violence for a peaceful path to conflict resolution.

Attention Obama: fantasy-based policy making has never worked.

An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America, May 19, 1991 says, in part;

"...The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" it's house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions"

They said it.

From Hudson New York November 4 by Khaled Abu Toameh

Syria's Choice: Murderous Secular Regime or Islamic Fundamentalists

As Syrian dictator Bashar Assad continues to slaughter his people, there are growing indications that the Islamists are increasing their efforts to replace his regime.

What started as a secular Facebook revolution against the Assad regime is now beginning to look more like a jihad [holy war] led by Muslim fundamentalists.

The Muslim Brotherhood is clearly seeking to hijack the anti-Assad protests, in both the political and military fields.

In the past few months, there have been many signs of a "return to Islam" in Syrian society. Large banners urging women to wear the hijab have appeared in Damascus and other main cities and many restaurants and hotels have stopped serving alcohol in keeping with Islamic law. This is in addition to the fact that many of the daily anti-Assad demonstrations are being launched from mosques, especially after Friday prayers.

It always starts with just a little sharia, until someone wants just a little more...then a little more...

The Muslim Brotherhood is by no means a "moderate" organization. Its motto leaves no room for questions about its true intentions: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad [holy war] is our way. Dying for the sake of Allah is our highest hope." Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi, has come out in favor of suicide bombings, which he cslled "evidence of God's justice;" the death penalty for homosexuals; the beating of women; a genocidal a hatred of Jews: "O Allah, do not spare a single one of them….kill them down to the very last one," as he put on al-Jazeera on January 9, 2009 [www.MEMRI.org]; and, as he said on April 14, 2004, boycotts of America and Israel: "Our duty is to make them as weak as we can."

The above mission statement of the Muslim Brotherhood is also the motto of Hamas, it is at the very beginning of their charter.

According to reports in the Arab media, Islamic fundamentalist groups have been smuggling weapons into Syria from Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

Most of these weapons have fallen into the hands of Muslim fundamentalists, who are now waging a guerrilla warfare against Assad's security forces, the reports say.

Syria's fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood organization, which was banned by the Syrian dictator's father, Hafez Assad, decades ago, has come back to life thanks to the uprising that was initially launched by secular forces.

"We have a desire to coordinate the position of the opposition," declared Zuhair Salim, a spokesman for Syria's Muslim Brotherhood. "We are supporters and not creators."

As has been the case in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya, Syria's Islamists did not show their faces in public at the beginning of the anti-Assad uprising. Instead, they preferred to wait in the shadows to see where the uprising was headed.

Muslim Brotherhood officials have already found their place in the main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, which was formed in Istanbul last September with support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the US State Department.

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