WILL OBAMA BETRAY THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE?
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The
democratic revolution in
Without help
from President Obama the people’s revolution has
succeeded. The people have won the beginning of an
extended fight to secure freedom and democracy for
themselves and their children. They have been
promised a change in government, national elections,
and the resignation of their President, Hosni
Mubarak. In short, the original democratic
demonstrators couldn’t have been more successful.
They have tasted freedom and democracy with a
promise of more to come. Violence, chaos, and strife
in
On February
4, 2011, Presiding Anglican Bishop Mouneer Anis of
Jerusalem and the Middle East said, “We in the
church here [In Egypt] would like to see a very
gracious transfer of authority … I think the Western
administrations don’t understand well the situation
on the ground here. They don’t know that if the
president left suddenly there would be a vacuum
(like what happened in
Long ago
history should have taught us that for the most part
negotiations held in public, with media access to
them, fail. If the
All of
Obama’s talk about violence being unacceptable is
for the most part directed against Mubarak’s
government and not toward the Muslim Brotherhood and
the radical Islamic thugs, the original perpetrators
of street violence. Obama’s publicly hinting at
siding with radial Islamic agitators is neither
helpful to
The Muslim
Brotherhood is founded upon the following
principles, “Allah is our objective, the Prophet is
our leader, the Koran is our law, Jihad is our way,
and dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
The Brotherhood is well organized and funded and, if
it is successful in its coup-like attempts, will not
be helpful to the Egyptian people or to the
Currently the
original demonstrators’, political parties, Muslim
terrorists and extremists of various sorts and the
Muslim Brotherhood are all boiling in the same
cauldron. Obama praises the demonstrators for their
“passion and dignity” in restraining themselves. He
does not praise Mubarak’s government for even
greater restraint when they could ruthlessly crush
the protestors with little effort.
Like the
Egyptian people the
The
professional, “Johnny come lately” Islamic
agitators, who are the main perpetrators of today’s
violence in
They have
little interest in helping the people of
The most
important question that must be answered is, “Who
fills the vacuum?” This is always the tricky part in
a revolution, choosing the right leaders to fill the
vacuum caused by the overthrow of the current
government, until a new government can be put in
place through fair and peaceful elections -- or
through terror and deceit.
If a coup
should actually take place, who wins? Who ends up in
control of the government of
During the
Throughout
most of the last half of the last century the
salvation of the people of
Over the
years political stability in the Middle East has
mostly been purchased by military officers who were
willing and able to tread political tight ropes
strung between camps of ruthless Islamic extremists,
unscrupulous politicians and dictators, and various
types of inept provisional governments. No perfect
democracies have emerged, but in some cases a shaky
democratic stability has been achieved.
All of these
variations will be shaky with dozens of other
variations possible. The worst case is that there
will be a bloody, senseless civil war with an
unknowable outcome and everyone a loser.
Which of
these options will float to the surface and be
implemented at this time? I cannot hazard a guess.
But I pray the criminal elements of radical Islamic
extremism will not be successful in grabbing the
Egyptian people’s democratic revolution by the neck
and wringing it. During the period of transition,
President
Obama should openly and forcefully stand beside the
Egyptian people in this their most dangerous hour,
and not end up playing “the fool” to the tune of
radical Muslim extremists.