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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Muslim Brotherhood moves closer towards control of Egypt

The Muslim Brotherhood, once illegal in Egypt, has asked for, and will probably get official political recognition.  When that happens, the group dedicated to the"...eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable 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 relgions." will become our worst nightmare.  Israel will be inperiled and whatever control we thought we had will vanish in a puff of jihadist smoke.

With the MB now having a say in the "new" Egyptian constitution, watch for the spin and misdirection coming from the left and other Islamic apologists telling us that this new Egypt will be a democracy.  

Wait for it...


From Reuters/Yahoo news Feb 17 by Sherine El Madany and Patrick Werr

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian youth leaders moved to set up a new political party on Thursday as the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood played an increasingly important role in preparing for post-Mubarak elections promised within six months.

Pro-democracy leaders plan to bring one million people out on the streets for a "Victory March" on Friday to celebrate Mubarak's ouster, and perhaps remind the generals now in charge of the power of the street that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule.

Inspired by Egypt, and a Tunisian revolt before that, protesters have taken to the streets across the Middle East and North Africa. Bahrain has cracked down on anti-government protesters and clashes were reported in Libya and Yemen.

Life in Egypt is still far from normal six days after the momentous overthrow of Mubarak, 82, with tanks on Cairo streets, banks closed, worker protests and demonstrations given voice by revolutionary fervor and schools shut down.

"The Higher Military Council will put matters back on track, but help us," army spokesman General Ismail Etmaan said on state television late on Wednesday night, appealing to Egyptians to stop striking and start getting back to work.

"The armed forces do not have future ambitions and want to hand power to the civilian parties when they are strong so that they don't collapse," he said.

The Brotherhood has a member on the committee redrafting the constitution, is on a council set up by activists to protect the revolution and has said it will set up as a political party as soon as laws are changed to let it and others do so.

Go back to the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979 and you will see how this will paly out in Egypt.  At first the Iranian revolution was seen, and believed to be a new era in democracy and freedom, but within a year their mask slipped off and the true plans of Khomeini and the rest were made clear.  We see the result of that today in Iran.  The MB will do exactly the same thing, and the West will fawn until it is too late.

The Brotherhood's spokesman appeared on state television a few days ago, a first for a movement banned in the Mubarak era. Having been timid in the early days of the revolt, it clearly thinks it is safe to come out.

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The Brotherhood is viewed with suspicion by Washington but is seen as the only truly organized bloc in Egypt and reckons it could win up to 30 percent of votes in a free election.

In another sign of the transformation of Egyptian politics, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), which took up arms against Mubarak's administration in the 1990s and was crushed by security forces, held its first public meeting in 15 years.

"Our position is to turn a new page with the new regime," said Assem Abdel-Maged, a group member who spent years in jail for his role in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. "We will perform any positive role we can to help society."

Murderers in power, and no one sees this as a problem.

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