Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Egyptians Love Us For Our Freedom

link - Tyler Durden/Zerohedge

Obama’s New World Order: Power to Our Enemies, Death to Our Friends, and a Fish in the President’s Face - by Michael Ledeen/PJMedia

The anti-Morsi, anti-Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore anti-Obama demonstrations in Egypt are the biggest in human history. It’s quite something, an historic event. Whatever the outcome, we should pay attention. What does it signify? Are we now in a new world? Has there been a paradigm shift? Does it portend similar huge protests elsewhere, even here in the USA? Does it require rethinking basic policy options? Or is it just an Egyptian thing, or maybe an “Arab street” thing?

If you’ve been following ◼ Spengler, as you should, you know that Egypt is a failed state, where there is a real danger of starvation, and it is tempting to describe the demonstrations as a reaction to misery, as an act of desperation....

Egypt under the fist of the Muslim Brotherhood was looking more and more like Khomeini’s vision of Islamic government, and millions of Egyptians don’t want to go there, let alone do that.

The Muslim Brotherhood organized its takeover of Egypt by following the same strategy as Hezbollah in Lebanon: offering social services the state was unable to provide, organizing the faithful and telling them that their government was failing because it was godless, and assuring them that Allah would bless a regime that followed his dictates. The Egyptians got the Brothers’ version of sharia, hence less freedom, alongside the hunger pains. The biggest demonstration in human history thus pits Sunni Muslim against Sunni Muslim, not Sunni against Shia, or Muslim against infidel.

Massive Wave Of Anti-Obama Sentiment In Egypt Ignored By Mainstream Media - IJ Review

In what amounts to blatant censorship, the “mainstream” media has virtually ignored the wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt during the uprising. Here are few images you won’t see on CBSCNNABCNBCMSNBC.

AWW: President Obama ‘deeply concerned’ over Morsi’s ouster, tells military not to arrest Morsi - The Right Scoop

President Obama: U.S. 'Deeply Concerned' Over Morsi's Ouster - NPR