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by Nonie Darwish
• November 3, 2016 at 5:30 am
- President Obama
appears to have been told that if all these secular dictators could
be brought down, a magnificent Arab Spring would blossom. This was,
it seems, precisely the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood: to get
America's help to topple the dictatorships -- then mostly military
and secular -- but then to replace them with themselves, Islamists.
- After Egypt
took down the Muslim Brotherhood, the goal of establishing the
Islamic Caliphate in Egypt simply moved to Syria, the only Arab
nation where a secular Muslim leader had survived the Arab Spring.
- Promoting Islam
also seems to have been a major factor in Obama's equation for
America. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed suit, hosting
several closed-door conferences on "Defamation of
Religion," to suppress free speech and internationally
criminalize any criticism of Islam with fines and prison. She would
rather blame terrorism on free speech than on the violent tenets of
Islam.
- This escalating
subversion should be reason enough for all Western democratic
countries permanently to part company with the United Nations. Its
history of corruption is neither new nor surprising, or that it is
run anti-democratic "club of dictators" whose interests
are opposite to ours.
Obama's first major presidential speech, on June 4,
2009, took place in Cairo before a large number of Islamic sheikhs and
members of the Muslim Brotherhood. They were empowered and given
legitimacy by Obama. A scorned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not
attend; thus, with the blessing of the United States, the Muslim
Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt was begun. (Image source: White
House)
The goals of U.S. President Barack Obama in the Middle East ended
the rule of most of the "secular" Arab leaders in the area. His
views may have come, partly at least, from propaganda on why Muslim
people supposedly lacked freedom there. Obama appears to have been told
that if all these secular dictators could be brought down, a magnificent
Arab Spring would blossom.
This was, it seems, precisely the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood: to
get America's help to topple the dictatorships -- then mostly military
and secular -- but then to replace them with themselves, Islamists.
by Raymond Ibrahim
• November 3, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Those Arabs
from nations with large Christian populations or with Christian
names failed the Obama team's "religious tests."
- The Obama
government's bias against Mideast Christians closely resembles the
traditional bias Christian minorities experience at the hands of
Muslim governments.
- When inviting
scores of Muslim representatives, the State Department has been
called out at least twice for denying visas to solitary Christian
representatives.
- When a few
persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they
were thrown in prison for months and then sent back to the countries
persecuting them, possibly to be enslaved, raped, or murdered.
- When the
Nigerian government waged an offensive against Boko Haram -- another
Islamic group that regularly slaughters and rapes Christians and
burn their churches -- and killed some of its terrorists, John Kerry
fumed and called for the "human rights" of the jihadis.
- It is against
Islamic law to side with "infidels" against Muslims.
When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the
border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and
then sent back to the countries persecuting them, possibly to be
enslaved, raped, or murdered. Pictured above: Members of California's
Iraqi Christian community and their supporters protest the months-long
detention of Iraqi Christian asylum-seekers at the Otay Mesa detention
center. (Image source Al Jazeera video screenshot)
Almost a year ago, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama called the
suggestion that the U.S. give preference to Christian refugees over
Muslim refugees "shameful." "That's not American. That's
not who we are. We don't have religious tests to our compassion," he
added loftily.
Now, WikiLeaks has released a 2008 email which discusses who should
fill top staff positions should Obama win the presidency: it clearly
proves that the Obama administration has long used "religious
tests" -- but to discriminate against Christians in favor of Muslims
The email was sent from former New York Solicitor General Preeta D.
Bansal to Michael Froman, a classmate of Obama's at Harvard and a member
of the 12-person advisory board for the Obama campaign's transition team.
The key passage reads:
by Burak Bekdil
• November 3, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "Let us
see how your Islamist friend [Erdogan] behaves after crushing the
secular establishment." — The author to a friend, 2004.
- To insist on
the borders Turkey accepted in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne "is
the greatest injustice to be done to the country and to the
nation." — Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, October
19, 2016.
- Erdogan's
newfound claims seem to refer not only to wish to regain hegemony to
the west (Greece) but also about the south (Syria) and the southeast
(Iraq). Turkey evidently wishes to be part of an Iraqi- and
Kurdish-led offensive against Mosul, controlled since 2014 by the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
In 2013, The Economist published on its cover a
photomontage of Ottoman Sultan Selim III and Turkey's then Prime Minister
(now President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to illustrate Erdogan's growing
autocratic tendencies (left). In 2015, Erdogan himself posed in his
palace with the costumed "16 warriors" that guard him, who are
meant to represent the 16 polities in Turkic history, including the
Mughal empire, Timurid empire and Ottoman empire (right).
Sipping his ouzo at a café in Athens on a warm afternoon in 2004, a
Greek diplomat friend smiled and said:
"You are wrong about Erdogan. He will reform Turkey's
democratic culture, align it with the European Union, strengthen its ties
with NATO and pursue a pro-peace policy in this part of the world.
Meanwhile he will crush the secular army establishment and Turkey will no
longer be a threat to any of its neighbors."
I said: "Let us see how your Islamist friend [Erdogan] behaves
after crushing the secular establishment."
Twelve years later, I still enjoy our peaceful ouzo sessions with
the same Greek friend. But things do not look equally peaceful between
Turkey and its neighbors, including Greece.
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