Doug Book, The Western Center For Journalism — Thanks to Barack Hussein Obama’s Arab Spring scheme of turning the Egypt of Hosni Mubarek into a “representative democracy”, the US is now reduced to watching as a former friend and ally morphs into an America-hating, Sharia-based theocracy.
Six months after promising to build a government based on “freedom and social justice”, Egypt’s newly-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, authored a decree granting himself a level of dictatorial authority that even Mubarek did not enjoy. As a result, demonstrations began throughout the nation, culminating last week in Morsi fleeing the presidential palace in Cairo.
Though he has since rescinded most of the contents of that decree, including an article that had elevated his own authority above that of Egypt’s Supreme Judicial Council, Morsi refused to alter the date upon which Egyptian voters will decide the fate of the country’s newly written constitution. Authored almost exclusively by members of Morsi’s own Muslim Brotherhood party, the draft constitution has caused widespread concern among minority groups that literally walked out of the body charged with writing the document, Egypt’s Constituent Assembly. Indeed, so thoroughly one-sided was the document’s creation that the Supreme Constitutional Court declared “void” this Islamist-controlled legislature.
But confidant their “Islamist organizational muscle” will swing the vote in their favor, Morsi and the majority Muslim Brotherhood demand that the referendum take place as scheduled on December 15th.
[...] Barack Obama literally kindled the overthrow of American ally Hosni Mubarek and supported Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi from nomination through election. During the process, the Obama White House maintained that the people of Egypt and the United States would benefit greatly from the representative democracy that Morsi was certain to bring into being.
But it’s apparent that Obama’s principle intent was to manage the demise of an American ally and cheer from the sidelines as the defunct government was eventually replaced by an Islamic theocracy. Perhaps Obama believed that Morsi would act the part of grateful acolyte, bestow favors, and permit Egypt to be guided by what was politically beneficial for the American president! If so, whether a Muslim himself or not, Obama has a great deal to learn about the practitioners of Islam.
So thanks a lot, Barack, for creating yet another Islamist enemy of the United States in the Middle East. Like the man said, “they couldn’t ‘a done it without ya!” » Read More
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