Frontpage Mag
by Daniel Greenfield
August 2, 2013

1. Don’t Believe Anything You Hear

Egyptian liberals allied with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow Mubarak and challenge the military. In those heady Tahrir Square days, they ridiculed the idea that Mubarak’s overthrow would benefit the Muslim Brotherhood.

Now those same liberals have teamed up with the military to take down a Muslim Brotherhood government that they told us would never come to power. But don’t be surprised if a year from now, after the military develops too crushing a grip on power, they don’t run back to the Muslim Brotherhood and Tahrir Square repeats itself a third time with the banners and fireworks and chants about the will of the people.

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2. It’s Not Democracy, It’s Permanent Chaos
The voting booth depends on a sense of law and order. It carries very little weight in

3. Everyone Will Always Hate America
Obama did help overthrow the Mubarak government, but both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian liberals wanted him to do it. They were happy to have him tamper with their politics to remove Mubarak. Now the Egyptian liberals blame him for aiding Morsi, but they were the ones who opened the door.


4. Fanatics and Democracy Don’t Mix
One of the fondest myths of democracy promotion is that bringing terrorists into the political process moderates them. It doesn’t.

Fanatics don’t compromise because their goals require purity. They feint compromise only long enough to get to power. And then they turn on their former allies


5. The Muslim World Has No New Ideas
The Muslim Brotherhood has a lot of modern polish, but underneath is the same old message that Mohammed came roaring out of the desert to deliver.

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"The three options are still military rule, strongman or theocracy. The Arab Spring tilted the rule of strongmen and soldiers toward theocracy. That outcome was as modern as the Caliphate. Now the military has once again stepped in. Eventually there will be a strongman. Or a theocracy. Or a junta. And they will go on overthrowing each other."

If we are able to stand back and watch. If we want to interject ourselves into their lives, the they will unite in their hate for us.

Example? Iran. The Iranian gov't has done nothing for its people. It needs the USA as a scapegoat to unite its disparate entities.

"The Muslim world cannot use processes from more advanced societies until it accepts the social and moral premises behind them."

And that ain't gonna happen......