Achtung! The Spirit of Hitler and His Final Solution for the 'Jewish Problem' Live On In 'Arab Spring-y' Egypt
From IPT News:
Egyptian leftist news portal Al-Badeel reports that a group of Egyptian activists will form a Nazi party for upcoming elections. The Egyptian Nazi group claims it will bring together prominent figures and ex-military officers, to promote fascist single-party rule.
Founding member Emad Abdel Sattar summed up the group's belief in single-party rule. The party "believes in vesting all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully," and within the party "preparations are under way to choose the most competent person to represent the party." The appeal of authoritarianism comes from recent chaos in the streets, burning Coptic churches by Salafi Muslims, and random violence against civilians, according to the report.
Members are "increasing at an unexpected rate, and several people came to ask about the nature of the party and its plans," it says. The group has an ambitious plan to rapidly advance development in Egypt, in a single year, and rejects the "marginalized liberal parties, which are like dead bodies."
Nazis aren't the only group in the country that rejects long term democracy. Salafi Muslim groups support the reestablishment of the Caliphate, starting in Egypt, while the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party has sent mixed messages.
Not so mixed, really, since the Ikwan's mission statement, crafted by founder Hassan Al Banna back in the 1920s and still in effect today, couldn't be plainer:
Allah is our purpose, the Prophet our leader, the Quran our constitution, jihad our way and dying for the sake of Allah our supreme objective.
Any questions?
I always thought that Israel made a gigantic mistake by trading land--the Sinai, a substantial buffer against invasion--for peace--a promise on paper, signed by people whose religious tenets allow them to practice _taquiyya_ vis-à-vis nonbelievers.
ReplyDeleteActually, I think that Sadat was not being duplicitous when he signed the peace treaty with Israel. He was a secularist nationalist on the model of Nasser, and though I have no doubt he did not very much like Jews--after all, the Nasserites gave refuge to thousands of Nazis after WWII--he saw that a lasting peace with Israel would be in Egypt's national interest (and he probably could not begin to imagine a creature like Obama ever occupying the U. S. presidency; Nixon, after all, had stripped U. S. army armories in Germany to re-supply Israel during the Yom Kippur War). The problem is that, when a country signs a treaty with another sovereign entity, the long-term reliability of the contract is determined not by the intent of the ruler who signs, but by the character of his society. The real guarantee that Canadians have that the U. S. won't invade them is not the accords agreeing on the present border, but the Anglo-Saxon respect for the law and rights of sovereignty . . . of course, with the progressive dissolution of the Puritan, Anglo-Saxon character of American society, maybe Canadians shouldn't be _too_ sanguine about the security of their southern border.
Anger and protests against our own government for committment to fund Egypt and Tunisa. Somebody better sit down with Harper and educate the man on this issue.
ReplyDeleteoh wait! scratch previous post... Harper will not be aiding huge funds to Egypt and Tunisia.
ReplyDeleteCP--Actually, Sadat was a devout Muslim to the bitter end. That said, I'm torn about Israel giving back the Sinai. On the one hand, it let to 30 years of "peace" (a cold peace, granted, but a peace nonetheless.) On the other hand, it put the notion in peoples' heads that "land for peace" was the way to way, and that presuming Israel could be carved up in just the right way to satisfy the Palestinians, peace was attainable. We're still living with the results of that false line of thinking (false because Israel's size was never the issue; Israel's existence was--and is)--Obama and and other do-badders determined to make "peace" no matter what.
ReplyDeleteMs. D.49--Now, if only we can get him to stop funding Palestine House and Gaza Boat-floating "Alternatives"...
ReplyDeleteMeant to type way to go, not "way to way." My head thinketh one thing but my digits typeth another.
ReplyDeleteDamn! Only good people disappear at sea never to be heard from again!
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