From Bin Laden To The Muslim Brotherhood?
In the Christian Science Monitor, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ponders the future of Egypt under The Muslim Brotherhood:
Make no mistake: The Brotherhood are working to realize the vision summarized in their motto: "Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Qur'an is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."...Among the "sub-goals" of the Muslim Brotherhood:
•Building the Muslim individual ... with a strong body, high manners, cultured thought, ability to earn, strong faith, correct worship, conscious of time, of benefit to others, organized, and self-struggling character;
•Building the Muslim family: choosing a good wife or husband, educating children Islamically;
•Building the Muslim society;
•Building the Khilafa (a form of union between all the Islamic states);
•Mastering the world with Islam.True, the Brotherhood's leaders have insisted that they are committed to democracy and the rule of law. But they will give an idiosyncratic twist to these commitments.
I expect them to establish a political order based on the Sunni version of an Islamic state. Based on lessons learned from their Islamist brethren elsewhere, they will seek to establish a political order of shariah, or Islamic Law. This would include a judicial system that does not question but merely applies shariah law, a "virtue and vice" police to enforce the Sharia lifestyle and an education and information system that seeks to indocrinate the youth and build "the Muslim individual."
She calls the prospects of a government dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood "alarming":
Repression at home will cause human rights violations, economic crisis and an exodus of refugees, beginning with those who have money and a reasonable level of education, deepening Egypt's poverty and destabilizing the region and perhaps even Europe. Growing conflict with Israel could lead to war.For all these reasons, Western policymakers should be exceedingly wary about the influence of the gradualist jihadists on the events now unfolding in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East. Bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda may soon follow him to the grave. But the doctrine of jihad lives on.
Am I the only one who remembers when they were telling us that Egypt wasn't going to go to the Muslim Brotherhood. That it was a peoples rebellion in favor of freedom? I realize the people may have wanted that but it doesn't seem to be going the way we were told it would.
JosephineMO7 at May 17, 2011 8:34 AM
I guess the Muslim Brotherhood must regard the USA as a great ally.
After all, we invaded Iraq, destroyed a secular-socialist state (run by a heinous loony),spent $1.5 trillion, and established an Islamic state state with Islamic Constitution and shariah law.
We also have set up a narco-Islamic state in Afghanistan, where they promise to execute men who convert to Christianity. We spent about $1.5 trillion there too, although we are still spending billions every week, so the final bill is not yet in.
So, I am supposed to fear an Islamic state in Egypt? One we don't have to spend $1.5 trillion to create?
BOTU at May 17, 2011 10:58 AM
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Fred: Did you hear the one about a state sponsor of terrorism? It acquired a nuclear weapon and couldn't read the instructions. But, the West thought it had the capability, and wiped out most of that state with tactical nukes.
Mike: That isn't funny.
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Terrorist Nuclear Game Theory
09/19/03 - Belmont Club by Richard Fernendez
[summary]: The US and Russia had a nuclear standoff. Each wanted defense, not the destruction of the other. In contrast, Islamist terrorists have plainly stated that they will use nuclear and biological weapons against the West if they can acquire them. They want destruction.
If the West knows that terrorists have a WMD, this will trigger preemptive attack by the West. Why wait to be attacked first?
If a terrorist state acquires the ability to manufacture multiple weapons, this may trigger massive preemptive attack. Even one terrorist use of WMD will certainly trigger a massive response aimed at destroying the ability of that state to continue manufacture.
The desire of Muslim states to acquire WMD threatens their survivial. Their success would create the conditions which would invite massive attack. Their only hope is that the West will win the war on terrorist groups by eliminating them. Not much hope.
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05/05/11 - ChicagoBoyz by Trent Telenko
chicagoboyz.net/archives/21968.html
Osama bin Laden's residence was 800 yards from Pakistan’s West Point. This is clear and convincing evidence that Pakistan sponsors terrorism against America.
There are no good options, only greater or lesser degrees of bad ones. Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons, so there is little we can safely do to deter Pakistani terrorism. We would have to destroy the Pakistani state and rapidly, forcibly seize its nuclear weapons. They will build more nukes if we allow the Pakistani state to survive.
Andrew_M_Garland at May 17, 2011 3:37 PM
What really scares me is how many just don't get it.
Jim P. at May 17, 2011 9:56 PM
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