BREAKING: These Muslim Brotherhood Guys Seem Kind of Immoderate!
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jan 31, 2011 at 9:44am
Hey! I'm shocked! A leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood just called for war on Israel!
Mohamed Ghanem, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, calls Egypt to stop pumping gas to Israel and prepare the Egyptian army for a war with it’s eastern neighbor.
Speaking with Iranian television station Al-Alam, Mohamed Ghanem blamed Israel for supporting Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Ghanem also said that the Egyptian police and army won’t be able to stop the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Whoa, who are these Muslim Brotherhood guys? Weren't they a bunch of moderate fellows with a flair for soup kitchens? How come no one warned us about them?
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And yes, I know--just hours ago I was saying that they might hold back and try to conceal what they're after for a while. Guess I was wrong about that.
Dec '10
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I'm kind of thinking that calls for war with Israel are not big vote-getters with the young unemployed and underemployed Egyptians who would become the cannon-fodder of that war, especially considering that only one side could expect its main arms supplier to come through with replacement weaponry during the conflict.
Sep '10
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No soup for you!
Jul '10
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Late breaking news, while looking for his backside with both hands, Bruce Riedel misplaces hands. Brookings tells Saban, "Too bad, the check already cleared."
May '10
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If I were the betting type, I'd bet another middle-eastern war isn't too far over the horizon.
Seems just as likely an outcome as anything else right now.
Jul '10
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Muslim Brotherhood is in the White House as we speak:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6274387/Obama-adviser-says-Sharia-Law-is-misunderstood.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_Mogahed
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1239888438065&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
May '10
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And where is the oil coming from for that gas? And who discovered and built the infrastructure? Well, I guess Israel will just have to retake the Sinai after the next war that the idiot Islamists start. Still...let's hope it doesn't come to that. Fervently!
Dec '10
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Kervinlee: If I were the betting type, I'd bet another middle-eastern war isn't too far over the horizon.
Seems just as likely an outcome as anything else right now. · Jan 31 at 9:56am
One wonders what might happen if the Arab Muslim nations all fall to Sunni Islamicist governments. Add Sunni fanaticism to the Arab antipathy toward Persian pretentions of regional hegemony and you have a recipe for a real holy war between Shi'ite Iran and the Sunni Arab world -- with the potential of civil wars within those Arab nations with large Shi'ite populations.
The possibilities are horrific.
Dec '10
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It's kind of a bad time to threaten Israel with a cutoff of hydrocarbon fuels, given that Israel has just discovered a massive natural gas field in its Mediterranean territorial waters. Within a few years, Israel could be a net exporter of energy.
Dec '10
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Tim Blair of the (Australia) Daily Telegraph quotes an Australian recently returned from Egypt:
“Some protesters shouted out ‘Allah-u-Akbar’ [God is Great] and they were shouted down by the majority who said ‘Muslims and Christians, we are all Egyptians’,” he said …
He said radical Islam had only taken hold in poorer communities where the Brotherhood delivered basic services to people who have been ignored by the regime.
“Between 20 and 30 per cent of the population would support them, but this is not an Islamic uprising …
“The Islamists will bang on but they fail to read the mood of the people, especially the young who are not driven by the Muslim Brotherhood ... unlike Iran in the late 1970s they will not be swamped by radical Islam.”
One can only hope that this witness's predictions and analysis hold true.
Edited on Jan 31, 2011 at 10:15amAug '10
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Now we're only missing one piece of the propaganda cycle. Any minute now, I expect Egypt's version of Christopher Buckley or Doug Kmiec to pop up and explain why the Muslim Brotherhood isn't really so bad, why they're just making meaningless "noises" to satisfy their base, and why they are supporting the ascendancy. In fact the latter already wrote some copy for them:
Brackets added for purposes of international "mad libs" editing.
Aug '10
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Claire,
This isn't directly on point, but I read yesterday in one of the British papers that Mubarak is currently worth about $25 billion. Isn't this amount in the same order of magnitude as the cumulative amount we've been paid Egypt? If so, the people aren't likely to feel beholden to us.
Pray nonetheless for the army to take over. Thanks.
Dec '10
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It seems the Tienanmen option is off the table for Mubarak:
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Stuart Creque: It seems the Tienanmen option is off the table for Mubarak:
Edited on Jan 31 at 11:33 am
Jan 31 at 11:28am
If Reuters is correct, the game is up for Mubarak. As for what come next, we must wonder whether the generals can stomach the Muslim Brotherhood. I am not at all sanguine about the likely outcome.
Oct '10
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Claire, To be hopefull is rather a noble gesture... Did you actually think the Muslim Brotherhood and their ilk are all that patient ?
These folk make the Mafia look like schoolyard bullies, Oppps..
Dec '10
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Paul A. Rahe
Stuart Creque: It seems the Tienanmen option is off the table for Mubarak:
Edited on Jan 31 at 11:33 am
Jan 31 at 11:28am
If Reuters is correct, the game is up for Mubarak. As for what come next, we must wonder whether the generals can stomach the Muslim Brotherhood. I am not at all sanguine about the likely outcome. · Jan 31 at 11:57am
You may not be sanguine, Paul, but I fear the outcome may well be sanguinary in the extreme.
Jan '11
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ForexCrunch.com is our source for this?
Oct '10
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wow, i'd love for the western media to start interviewing egyptian people on the street and ask them about israel and what should be done with them after mubarak is gone.
Edited on Jan 31, 2011 at 6:39pm