On Egyptian Crisis: America Must Stand with Her Ally Egypt

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http://mccotter.house.gov/news/press-releases/2011/01/mccotter-statement-on-egyptian-crisis-america-must-stand-with-her-ally-egypt.shtml

Washington, D.C. – In response to escalating disorder in Egypt, U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter (MI-11) today issued the following statement:

“The Egyptian demonstrations are not the equivalent of Iran's 2009 Green Revolution. The Egyptian demonstrations are the reprise of Iran's 1979 radical revolution.

“Thus, America must stand with her ally Egypt to preserve an imperfect government capable of reform; and prevent a tyrannical government capable of harm.

“For if Egypt is radicalized, all of the reforms sought by the Egyptian people and supported by the United States with them - including consensual and constitutional government; free elections; open and unbridled media; and Egyptian control of their natural resources - will be lost. Nascent democratic movements in the region will be co-opted and radicalized. The world's free and open access to the Suez Canal's vital commercial shipping lanes will be choked. And the Sinai Accord between Egypt and Israel - which must be protected as the foundation and principal example for Mideast peace - will be shredded.

“Though many will be tempted to superficially interpret the Egyptian demonstrations as an uprising for populist democracy, they must recall how such similar initial views of the 1979 Iranian Revolution were belied by the mullahs' radical jackbooted murderers, who remain bent upon grasping regional hegemony and nuclear weaponry.

“In this crisis, the American people deserve candor and action from President Obama, and President Hosni Mubarak and General Tantwai.

“This is not a nostalgic "anti-colonial uprising" from within, of all places, the land of Nassar. Right now, freedom's radicalized enemies are subverting Egypt and other our allies.

“Inexcusably, this crisis has been hastened and exacerbated by the U.S. Administration's refusal to whole-heartedly embrace Iran's truly democratic 2009 Green Revolution. Make no mistake: strategically and cynically, freedom's radicalized enemy is exploiting a real religion to undermine liberty and true reform just as Soviet communism posed as a secular creed to obtain the same illegitimate ends.

“If we fail to meet today's enemy on the same determined, principled terms, we will too late awake in a nightmare world. But, if today's enemy is steadfastly met and bested, liberty and the rule of law will be unleashed for millions throughout the world.

“This is the crisis; such are the stakes; and I stand ready to assist President Obama in the pursuit of a policy that defends our invaluable ally; and advances Egyptians' inalienable, peaceful aspirations.”

Question......

When the muslem brotherhood sweeps up the young protesters that were used as cannon

fodder what will egypt be like in this new political landscape?

The Assassination of Egypt's Anwar Sadat

http://middleeast.about.com/od/egypt/a/me081006a.htm

The attackers included four enlisted men, an army major and a lieutenant. The major and two enlisted men were killed in the swarm around the reviewing stand, once other members of the military realized what was taking place. The rest were arrested. The attackers would eventually come to be identified as Islamist nationalists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood under the name of Islamic Jihad.

The group was subsequently found to have hatched the assassination plot with Al Gamaa al-Islamiyya, a Brotherhood offshoot that would , in the mid-1990s, develop ties with al-Qaeda and be chiefly responsible for the 1997 terrorist attack in Luxor on Nov. 17, 1997, when six men dressed in black attacked tourists visiting the famous site in Upper Egypt. Sixty-two men, women and children were killed.

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Why doesn't Hosni Mubarak announce a timetable for deomcratic elections? Is his power so important to him that he is willing to risk a violent overthrow by Islamic extremists? That is what the people want, and his refusal to allow if is the fuel for the flames being stoked by the extremists.

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Why doesn't Hosni Mubarak announce a timetable for deomcratic elections? Is his power so important to him that he is willing to risk a violent overthrow by Islamic extremists? That is what the people want, and his refusal to allow if is the fuel for the flames being stoked by the extremists.

these people protesting are not extremists. I can assure you, the people do NOT want Mubarak to do anything aside from leave Egypt.

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these people protesting are not extremists.

How can you be so sure none of them are? The Iranians are already looking at this as Islamic Revolution Part II.

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I was responding to the ignorant portrayal that AI422 put forth. Of course there are fundamentalists involved, but to call them extremists (as if it's a majority) is wrong.

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Movements like this have a way of being 'hijacked' by those with the ability to do so. How this particular movement ends up remains to be seen. That it gets hijacked by the MB at some point is by no means an improbability.

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That said, this is pretty interesting:

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

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I can agree with that. It's also hijacked apparently by ignorant fear mongerers.

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That said, this is pretty interesting:

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

I know Haroon Moghul personally. He is a very dynamic and evolved thinker among American Muslim intellectuals. Thanks for posting that article, aj.