Now, with the election results pointing towards a possible Muslim Brotherhood majority in the parliament, the Obama administration is throwing caution to the winds and wholeheartedly embracing the Muslim Brotherhood – “anti-U.S. strains” and all. It is willing to accept at face value assurances by Muslim Brotherhood officials that its lawmakers will reach out across the Egyptian political spectrum in order to build a modern democracy committed to the individual freedoms of all Egyptians.
The Obama administration evidently swallows the propaganda put out by the Muslim Brotherhood for the benefit of gullible Western governments and opinion leaders or does not care one way or the other whether it is true. For example, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party head, Mohamed Mursi, said that while his Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated party uses “Islam as the basis of our party which means that our general framework is Islamic sharia,” they “don’t issue religious rules in individual cases.” Mursi also said that “All political forces and intellectuals in Egypt, regardless of their political and religious allegiances, will take part in writing the constitution.”
These are comforting words to the Obama administration, reinforced further by the Muslim Brotherhood agreement to an 11-clause declaration of principles known as the “Al-Azhar Document around the future of Egypt.” Al-Azhar is Egypt’s 1,000-year-old seat of Islamic scholarship, which Obama referred to as the “beacon of Islamic learning” during the 2009 speech he delivered there to the Muslim world. Muslim Brotherhood members attended Obama’s speech, by the way, at the invitation of the Obama administration.
The Al-Azhar Document is intended to serve as a guiding framework for the constituent assembly that will be in charge of drafting Egypt’s new constitution. This document, which was read on national television on June 20, 2011 by Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam, Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, purportedly commits Egypt’s intellectual, religious and civil political elite to establishing an open democratic society in Egypt that respects the right of “other divine religions’ followers to appeal to their religions in their personal issues.”
But there is a big catch. The Al-Azhar Document’s first clause stipulates that “the modern and democratic state” it has in mind would operate “in accordance with the true Islamic aspects.” It goes on to say that “Islamic jurisprudence is the main source for the legislation.”
True democracy, which respects the freedom of all its citizens, is inherently inconsistent with “Islamic jurisprudence” that is based on Islamist supremacy and sharia law. While the Al-Azhar Document pays lip service to granting some measure of freedom of expression, it does so only within the strict confines of Islamic principles and morals.
The Al-Azhar Document also envisions an expansive role for Al-Azhar itself. It is to be the institution Egyptians must refer to “in order to define the way in which the state relates to religion (taḥdīd ‘alāqat al-dawla bi’l-dīn) and to clarify the foundations of the correct siyāsa shar‘iyya that it is necessary to pursue.”
This will invest the unelected Al-Azhar Imam Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib with significant power, since his institution will be arbiter of “the true Islamic aspects” governing Egypt going forward. Secularist writer Salah Elissa argues that “if new laws need the consent of al-Azhar, then that immediately means we are in a religious (not civil) state.” The power of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party in the new parliament will help ensure that al-Azhar’s decisions do not stray too far from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda.
Where does al-Azhar Imam Tayyib stand on core democratic freedoms such as freedom of expression? As one indication, he praised Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s landmark fatwa banning insults to early historical Islamic figures, particularly the first two Muslim caliphs and A’isha, child-wife of Prophet Muhammad.
Indeed, Tayyib admires the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah. “I hope relations between Iran and the Arab countries will improve, and the good neighbor policy as well as brotherly ties on the one hand and the fight against the common threat against Muslim nations on the other hand will improve these relations,” al-Tayyib said after meeting with Iranian and Hezbollah officials last July.
The Muslim Brotherhood leadership agrees with Tayyib. Kamal al-Halbavi, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, expressed gratitude to the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei for his support of the Egyptian revolution and said he hoped that Egypt would have a “good government, like the Iranian government, and a good president like Mr. Ahmadinejad, who is very brave.”
The Obama administration is trying to deceive the American people into thinking that Islamism – whether the Taliban or Muslim Brotherhood flavor – is anything other than our ideological enemy. The administration may not be able to stop either the Taliban or the Muslim Brotherhood from eventually taking control of Afghanistan and Egypt, respectively. But actively helping them along, as the administration is doing, recklessly jeopardizes the security of the American people and the cause of freedom everywhere.
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walks like a duck, quakes like a duck, looks like a duck, then it is a duck.
Obama is a Muslim, read the story and you see it there.
Majority of US citizens, its media and its academia wants US to forge close ties with islam. After 9/11, US has admitted to itself that islam is the way forward and we are now witnessing the fruits of this belief.
On other threads I predicted way back when Obama first declared his nomination for the Presidency that he’ll win – and I was ridiculed and put down as someone who did not understand the American psyche. Now who’s laughing!
Don’t get me wrong, I believe that islam is a blot on human civilisation and has no place in civilised society. But I am in a minority. If we are to believe in the cycle of good vs evil then we are going through the darker side of our evolution and islam will take us there and we are helpless to stop it.
Obama/Clinton/Tony Blair/Merkel (you get my point) are “yumdoots” sent by islam.
“Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”.
I appreciate the exercise of freedom on frontpagemag. On Islamic sites, one is not able to leave comments, without the censorship of one advocating both political and economic apartheid (Jizya tax, Koran 9:29) and sexual slavery (Koran 4:3, inter alia).
As much as I disagree with David's Horowitz's notion of religious neutrality, I appreciate this gesture of freedom, where I proudly join the chorus of freedom-minded folks to debit the rating of this fool Harihar.
Correction: it is the majority of US media and academia ( the left) , but not the citizens.
We are watching Obama's Moslem outreach disaster turn into a US foreign policy catastrophe that could overshadow the horrific events of 1979 and 1980 (Iran-Iraq War) under Jimmy Carter.
I never thought I'd live to see the day when we had a worse President than Jimmy Carter. Of course, the American people don't seem to know what's happening over there. We have our work cut out for us.
9/9/2009 was the turning point in the war.
September 2009, Muslim prayer Day, on the Mall in Washington, DC.
(Lead by our current president ) Praying for "THE SOUL" of America.
Now our president says we are leaving the middle east with "honor."
When in fact what has transpired is an act of " submission to islam."
If you attack a muslim country and withdraw your troops "honorably"
you have admitted defeat and give away your territory to them.
That is why we have been infiltrated at the highest levels of our government
and that is why we are going towards socialism.
It is the first step in Islamisizing a country.
How many times do the majority of the well informed have to say that there is no such thing as a benign Muslim!! They ( the Muslims) are hell bent on destroying the infidel world and are well on their way to doing just that. What are we doing to stop them? Nothing to very little.
How does one wake up the world to this danger especially when the current resident in the White House turns a blind (?) eye to this lethal progression of the jihadists. HELP US SOMEBODY!!!!!!!!
Yusuf Al-Quaradawi? That's like FDR engaging Josef Goebbels to negotiate with the Japanese. Do you need anymore proof that Obama was thrust upon the United States,(and elected) to deliver America into the maw of a world-wide Islamic caliphate. Who IS Obama?
Where does he come from? And WHY has there been no move to impeach him?
Welcome to Saudi America.
Negotiating with terrorists will not work. They cannot be trusted. The Taliban is not a country. It is an organization that aspires to take over countries, kill all the Jews, and kill all the Americans. Obama does not need to negotiate with the terrorists because he is a coconspirator. Obama will likely so what he wants to do and we will pay for it in blood and treasure.
Let's drop all Islamic (the existence of Islamists is a false PC multicultural myth) outreach, drop the so-called War on Terror because it couldn't be anymore fantasy based, and instead transition into a new saner strategy of containing the growth, spread, and expansion of Islam.
Thus, step one would be to eradicate the ruling Mullah regime in Iran and destroy their nuclear weapons program. Step two would be via coercion or overwhelming brute force, whatever, confiscate and destroy the Saudi funded nuclear weapons arsenal of Pakistan, while simultaneously destroying their nuclear weapons program. Step three would be outlawing, banning, and reversing mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP. Step four would be seizing the Mideast oilfields and confiscating the enormous unearned oil wealth of the Saudis and the Gulf States, not out of greed, but instead to obliterate their stealth global jihad in self defense. The last and final step would be isolating the Islamic world so that the totalitarian ideology of Islam can over time eventually become discredited.
And now our illustrious Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has signed us on to UN Resolution 16/18 which sets up the framework for making it a criminal offense to criticize Islam. http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/ob…
O = One
B = Big
A = Ass
M = Mistake
A= America
Cute!
Who stabbed Gabriel Cabas, the Christian Orthodox priest who was killed in Jaffa? If the press (and the world) are trying to reach out to Islam, we may never find out. http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id…
Oops. Cadis is the surname. Sorry.
I didn't vote for the Obamahdi, because of his inexperience. After three years, it's just gotten worse.
How can the Muslim Brotherhood and the Taliban get their way. First take over
the White House and the rest is down hill from there………….makes a guy wonder?
William
obama is like chamberlain, except that chamberlain did not hate his own country.
Mr. Klein, this is nothing short of a spectacular article. You are very close to stating the following, "While Obama's most emphatic statement on any subject is that 'the US is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,' coherency fights against this multicultural prejudice. Islam is the clear enemy of civilization. The anti-US sentiment of Islamic groups only endear Barry Soetorro, John Kerry, Hillary and Biden to them. Oh for a US political leader to expose the evil moral cover for Islam being treasonously laid by the left."
However the remark, "The Obama administration is trying to deceive the American people into thinking that Islamism – whether the Taliban or Muslim Brotherhood flavor – is anything other than our ideological enemy" is a self-inflicted wound on your article. The US is at war with Islam, not Islamism. It is the Koran of Islam — and not the multiculturalist Islam-saving scapegoat of this non-existent "Islamism" — that inspires and mandates war against we kafir who are "the worst among beasts" (Koran 8:55).
The fact is that Obama and his Socialist National European NATO cohorts orchestrated the over throw of Mubarak with the Muslim Brotherhood. This can be seen clearly in their activities. Obama met with the Muslim Brotherhood in 2009 long before Mubarak was overthrown in 2011 and made the remark in a Muslim Brotherhood newspaper with the Muslim Brotherhood that "when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in Egypt they would honor the Camp David Peace Accords". He did this with the Muslim Brotherhood to cause the Egyptians to accept the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood by planting the suggestion, which was an is a lie, that nothing would change in Egypt except that they would get rid of a dictator. In June of 2010, six months before the orchestrated over throw of Mubarak began Hillary Clinton had a open fit when Mubarak extended the Emergency Law in Egypt, because she knew that doing so gave him the legal means to use what ever force was necessary to put down the Muslim Brotherhood and or incited protestors that these Socialists in the Democratic Party planned to launch at Mubarak to over throw him and she wanted to protect them as much as possible. Even before the Mubarak was overthrown the Muslim Brotherhood began demanding that Egypt cancel the Camp David Peace Accords. The recent comments by Obama are to cover up that he and his Socialists in the Democratic Party took part in overthrowing Mubarak for the purpose of installing a Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt that would cause Egypt to become more of a threat to Israel than they already were so that the Socialists could use the increased threat to force Israel to capitulate to the demands of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates in Gaza with out actually having to go to war with Israel. Obama and his Socialists in the Democratic Party are guilty of orchestrating the over throw of Gadafi in Libya and President Saleh in Yemen and the ongoing over throw of Assad in Syria and Abdullah in Jordan for the purpose of installing Muslim Brotherhood governments in these countries. His also guilty now of using the US military to aid and abet the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization when he directed Panetta to send the US military to help the Islah Party, which is the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizational political party in Yemen to over throw al-Qaeda strong holds in the Abyan Governate in Yemen and to help the Muslim Brotherhood governments in Libya and Tunisia fight against al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, who earlier welcomed to part in overthrowing these governments, is now moving to establish themselves in these countries. In fact the Muslin Brotherhood humanitarian front which was opened immediately after Gadafi was over thrown in now being used to recruit, fund and supply Muslims to go to Syria and over throw Assad. Obama isn't buying anything he and his Socialist Democrats are by their self indoctrinated hatred towards Christians and Jews taking part in the planning of these activities to help the Muslims force Israel to capitulate to the Muslim Brotherhood's demands,which will lead to the next step to annihilate Israel.
Why does Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have Huma Abedin as an aide, when Huma Abedin is closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?