Posted on 01/09/2015 6:58:50 AM PST by Randall_S
The biggest story not yet covered appropriately in mainstream media plays out now in Egypt, where President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attacks the root causes of continuing conflict between certain adherents of Islam and freedom-loving secularists, in defiance of President Obama and of fierce critics.
Living in a nation of 87 million persons, where an estimated 90 percent are Muslim, President el-Sisi is certain that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization, or a force for good and so his government holds hundreds of members of that organization in prison, where many face death sentences, including former President Mohammed Morsi.
To see what President el-Sisi confronts now, peruse the still-operating English language website of the brotherhood.
President el-Sisi plays for his life against determined internal and external opposition while President Obama merely preens before friendly partisan crowds.
Recently this year, the fully engaged leader of Egypt began a drive to reform Islam from within.
His address to religious authorities at Al-Azhar University in Cairo on Jan. 1 is a stunning “must-read” and “must-share” development that only now is getting attention it so richly deserves.
Wednesday, President el-Sisi put in a public appearance at a Christmas mass in Cairo-an historic first in Egypt’s modern history.
Working with allies including Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, el-Sisi is channeling foreign capital into a raft of development programs that may finally spark economic progress inside Egypt, while cutting off external funding from states such as Qatar who until recently had been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide.
Meanwhile, our president and his addled foreign policy team cannot bring themselves to understand that radical Islamic jihadism is a practice that must be wholly discredited and then expunged from the modern lexicon, should we actually wish to remain an interconnected set of global markets.
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It’s no wonder Obama and al-Sisi don’t get along.
Obama will now redouble his efforts to destabilize the Egyptian government and put the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists back in charge.
No, because al-Sisi will likely suffer Sadat’s fate.
Here's how to start.
But I thought Hillary told us the Brotherhood were moderates.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.......
Our POTUS HATES this guy, and all who follow him.
It’s ISIS or nothing as far as WE are concerned.
Will Egypt show America how to win the war on radical Islamic jihadism?
One can hope but I doubt it. There are too many extreme jihadists. It’s a numbers game.
The MSM will never say it - but Obama is Sisi’s enemy. Obama deposed Mubarek, Obama supported the hated Muslim Brotherhood. Obama turned next-door neighbor Libya into a failed state and Jihadi playground in an attempt to install the Brotherhood.
Obama gambled, and FAILED in Egypt, miserably. He is mistrusted and hated by their government - and no one talks about it.
You know, the Clintons and the Morsis are GOOD FRIENDS!
Hillary & Obama put Morsi in power. It fell apart because Egypt is not completely nuts, and didn’t like it when the Brotherhood starting ethnically cleansing Egypt of Christians - Egypt having one of the longest Christian histories of any country.
I like this guy a lot. IF we are at the end, though, then Turkey will take this guy out and give the MB their authority back and they’ll keep a presence there to make sure it happens.
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