What is going on in Egypt? To find the answer we need
to take a look back in the history to Anwar Sadat. Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt to end years of wars; enraged
Islamists, particularly the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad which is one of the
fathers to the Muslim Brotherhood. On 6 October 1981, Sadat was assassinated by
assassination squad was led by Lieutenant Khalid
Islambouli after a fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar
Abdel-Rahman "The Blind Sheikh".
The same Blind Sheikh who was preaching
at three mosques in the New York City area and
was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
After the assassination, then Vice President Hosni
Mubarak became president. In 1994, Steven
Emerson's television documentary “Terrorists
Among Us: Jihad in America”
contains a video of Abdel-Rahman in Detroit
calling for jihad against the
"infidel". Abdel-Rahman called for the
murder of infidels, and the ousting of Hosni Mubarak. He did this because President
Mubarak up held the peace treaty with Israel
and banded all radical terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who had
been responsible for thousands of murders in Egypt.
Now let’s fast forward; Hosni Mubarak bought Egypt out of the dark ages and was a strong ally
of the US second only to Israel. When
riots started and President Mubarak didn’t receive any help from his 30 year
ally the US,
instead of a crackdown on the people, he stepped down after 18 days of
demonstrations during what is now know as the 2011 Egyptian revolution. On 11
February 2011, Vice President Omar
Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as president and transferred
authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
That same day we watched the TV as President Obama talked about the removal of Egyptian
President Mubarak; President Obama commented “We are watching history taking
place”, “The people of Egypt has spoken, their voices has been heard and Egypt will
never be the same”, Egyptian people can find the answers peacefully and in the
spirit of unity”, and “Egyptians have made it clear; nothing less then genuine
democracy will carry the day”; unfortunately the Muslim Brotherhood gained
power and with a known terrorist group in charge in Egypt, all that had been
accomplished over the past 41 years seemed to be lost.
In
August, the president moved against the military leadership, sending into
retirement Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, as chairman of the Supreme
Council of the Armed Forces, had acted the country's de facto ruler in the wake
of Mubarak's ouster and prior to Morsy's election. He
removed all women who were in any position of power. A few months later, he
issued an edict basically making himself a dictator. The opposition poured into
Tahrir Square
in central Cairo
back into the center of public discontent as during Mubarak. In response, Morsy
dropped his decree, but the situation remained tense. His supporters beating
and detaining opposition protesters during deadly clashes and many protestors
were shot in the streets. After a referendum approved the new constitution,
Morsy signed it into law but critics argued it was passed too quickly, with
liberals Islamist, Christians and other minority opposition groups felt
excluded and that their right had been taken away with the Constituent Assembly
which gave it a stanch Islamic bias. Human Rights Watch said the constitution
"protects some rights but undermines others," and that it "fails
to end military trials of civilians or to protect freedom of expression and
religion." Read this column
written by an Egyptian on why Morsi had to go.
To the shock
of Egypt’s backers in the West, the army showed no sign of compromise after
its decisive move to depose President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
terror group. Fighter jets swooped in Red Arrows-style formation over the
capital. At one stage they playfully drew hearts in the sky with their
tail-fumes in response to the popular chants of “The army and people are one
hand” with which crowds in Tahrir
Square welcomed Mr. Morsi’s dismissal from the
president’s office; this was not what they had been promised.
The Muslim Brotherhood immediately started
murdering Christian and anti-Morsi protested. Our news covered it as the Egyptian
military murder by standers but look closer; the Muslim Brotherhood were being
protected by human shields while sniping the Egyptian troops. How do you know
these people were protecting the snipers, while the snipers shot, sometimes
through their legs, they never moved. The Muslim Brotherhood caught and executed
25 Egyptian policemen in the Sinai. Morsi has also been accused of plotting with Hamas
another terror group who has been responsible for thousands of innocent people’s
deaths.
Why does President
Obama (skip to around 0:50) want Morsi back into office when he is a
terrorist? If “We are watching history taking place”, “The people of Egypt has
spoken, their voices has been heard and Egypt will never be the same”, Egyptian
people can find the answers peacefully and in the spirit of unity”, and “Egyptians
have made it clear; nothing less then genuine democracy will carry the day”;
then wouldn’t this be so this time as well? If the Egyptian people have figured
out that they had elected a tyrant and him and his party was going to remove their
freedoms, shouldn’t they be allowed to remove them from office; should we be
allowed to remove them from office if the same happens in the US? Why do we
turn our back on an ally and support a terrorist?
In my opinion we need to stay out of it; if we are going to support the people the first time we need to support them this time but from a distance. I do not know why they elected a terrorist for president, probably because he said they had changed; as I say about all politicians, actions speak louder then words and his actions says "I'm still a terrorist".
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