Solomonia: The "moderate, liberal and pro-Western members of the Muslim Brotherhood"

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The "moderate, liberal and pro-Western members of the Muslim Brotherhood"

At Dean Esmay's site, Aziz P. says:

Marc Lynch aka The Father of the Aardvark is an expert on Arab media and politics. He has done exhaustive research and journalism on the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, and has argued quite persuasively that the MB is indeed serious about its commitment to democracy. Unfortunately, the United States has largely looked the other way while the Mubarak regime systematically persecutes the MB invoking the rhetoric of state security - rhetoric that is revealed to be a lie when moderate, liberal and pro-Western members of the Brotherhood are imprisoned and or prohibited from leaving the country.

Lynch laments,

"I've grown tired of debating the finer points of the Brotherhood's party platform searching for clues as to their true feelings about democracy at a time when large numbers of their members are once again being arrested for the crime of trying to participate in elections."

Lynch's argument is, basically, if you support democracy, you must support the Muslim Brotherhood's bid for power. I've heard the same argument from a supporter of Hezbollah's bid for power. Let's ignore the fact that giving a fascist group power will destroy the country (in one case, Lebanon, in the other case, Egypt). Let's try to sell fascism by promoting it as democracy. Talk about lipstick on a pig. There's only a small portion of the population will buy that one, and most of them work in academia.

Like Marc Lynch. He's made a great career for himself pimping the Muslim Brotherhood's revolution, while ignoring the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is the financial branch of Islamist terrorism worldwide. It's also fascist organization, founded by Hassan al Banna, an Egyptian acolyte of Hitler. Putting the MB in charge of Egypt would have the same effect as putting Hamas in charge of Gaza. It's hard to imagine that Egypt could become more miserable, but as we saw in Gaza, anything is possible.

Unlike the State Department cynics, who are using the MB for whatever realpolitik game they happen to be playing this week (what is it this week, let's get Iran! or bring back the Cold War!?) Lynch appears to be a true believer. When the state department gets tired of their MB pawns (or when the MB gets tired of their state department pawns), when the "Islamist banking" bubble busts, Lynch and other fascist flunkies will get thrown away like used kleenex. It's happened to bigger, dumber thugs.

For more on the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide's philosophy of non-violence, see the fatwa published by cleric, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi on Islam Online, the Muslim Brotherhood website - "Contemporary Opinions on Killing Civilians"

Posted by Mary Madigan at 5:02 PM on Thursday, Mar 13, 2008
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