Of course, reporter David Kirkpatrick is no Franklin Roosevelt. Kirkpatrick, through slanted reporting on Egypt , is a fear-monger. President Roosevelt is hailed as calming the nation following the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941. David's article of November 11, 2014 headlines "Milestone for Islamic State" as it "widens reach." Insane!! Roosevelt calmed the nerves of the U.S. when he uttered: "The Only Fear Is Fear Itself." Kirkpatrick is providing evidence of his becoming an Egyptophobe. Roosevelt was providing evidence on the new dawn of "The American Century."
Kirpatrick's analysis, if one glorifies it by calling it "analysis," is a see-through to a bunch of non-factual depictions. His point of reference was that: "On Monday, Egypt's most dangerous military group, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, pledged obedience to the organization that calls itself the "Islamic State." So what: a group of marauders declaring fealty to another group of maniacal marauders.
No!! To Egyptophobe Kirkpatrick, that recognition by a bunch of criminals of a bigger bunch of criminals is very "significant." It is a as if the U.N. Security Council recommended to the General Assembly the admission to UN membership of a new State - "The Islamic State." But, El-Ayouty, you do not get it: That recognition of subservience to ISIS is a historic change of regional power balance. How, Mr. Kirkpatrick?!
It is the first significant international affiliate in the bet that the link will provide new money, weapons and recruits to battle the government in Cairo!! Oh my God, Mr. Kirkpatrick: where were you when El-Sisi administration declared in December 2013 the Muslim Brotherhood and all of the branches of that poisonous tree, including Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, to be a monolithic structure?! Under a rock?!
The declaration by Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, the criminal gangs infiltrating Sinai from Gaza and from sleeper cells in Sinai, of their fealty to ISIS is no new development. They and other such anarchic outfits seek one another. With their umbrella, the Muslim Brotherhood, folding, they grope for publicity through Egyptophobe media to project an aura of an imperialist reach. Your expose of that declaration by the Ansar/ISIS axis, whether out of your agenda or out of your ignorance, acts as a fear weapon. It is a blunt weapon, as far as the New Egypt, and its Arab and non-Arab allies are concerned.
So please save your breath and your fanciful projections of an Egyptian rout before the cultish hordes. Did I say "rout"? Yes I did. Here are your words, David, in the New York Times -your unholy pulpit dated, November 11, 2014. They, meaning, Ansar, have "recruited experienced fighters; staged increasingly sophisticated raids from the western desert to the Sinai peninsula; beheaded informants."
Then you go on with your hopeless efforts at psychological warfare. You, sir, have no shred of evidence!! Your Bla Bla Bla is no evidence!! You describe that declaration of affiliation of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis with ISIS in words of gloom and doom affecting Egypt's attempts to rise up economically. Again to your words, Mr. Kirkpatrick: "The pledge alone could undermine the government's efforts to win the trust of western tourists, a vital source of hard currency." Reaching for a crescendo, you emphatically provide a conclusion which only idiots can subscribe to. "The endorsement is a major victory for the Islamic State in its rivalry with Al-Qaeda... and could now help recruit fighters and affiliates far beyond Egypt."
As I gradually absorb the contours of your tortured claims, I cannot avoid wondering to myself: "On whose side is David Kirkpatrick and his newspaper on?" Have the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a brain-washing coup to the point of no return? I don' think so. Why? Because the tradition of "a security State" is so ingrained in Egypt of 5000 years. This is to the point of safely predicting an eventual defeat of jihadism.
This is the nature of things in old civilizations: Could be down for a while, but never out.
Just look at the recently-promulgated Egyptian law on deportation. One day following Kirkpatrick's predictions of an Egyptian collapse in the face of an Ansar declared affiliation with ISIS, which is now reeling from the slow but sure loss of territory, President El-Sisi issued a new law. It allows him, in the present absence of a House of Representatives, to "deport non-Egyptians convicted of crimes to their home countries." Weakening States do not do that.
In the meantime, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghadi, the pretending Calipha, is playing house. His house is a State -the Islamic State, a fictitious cult. His "State of the Union" recent speech, said it all. All bluster, all swagger, all threats. In his 17-minute of November 14, 2014, he belittled not only Obama. He belittled all foreign leaders, especially those of Arab and Muslim States.
These repairs came from none other David Kirkpatrick from Bagdad. This is the capital of Iraq where one third of its landmass raised, not the Iraqi flag, but the ISIS black flag. Al-Baghdadi, the street thug from Al-Anbar, thunders as follows: Calling on "the Mujahedeen among the disciples to erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere."
If that is not enough, Al-Baghdadi of what is expected to be the shortest lived Caliphate ever, adds other layers of bluster. He exhorts all Muslims (the 1.6 billions of them) to: "rise up against the agents of the Jews and crusaders, their slaves, tails and dogs."
Would Egyptophobes, like Kirkpatrick or Human Rights Watch, take positive note of the recent Egyptian law releasing representatives of errant organizations like Al-Jazeera from incarceration? I cannot bet on it. Because their specialty is poisoning the well of facts in a brain-dead support of the propaganda line of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The well has been sufficiently poisoned by the likes of David Kirkpatrick and his mouth-piece, The New York Times. The poison here is in the form of myth-information and misinformation. It has even seeped into the thinking of well-recognized law organizations such as the New York City Bar, the oldest Bar in the U.S.
A recent event was held on November 13 by the Middle East and North Africa Committee. It featured the Consul-General of Egypt, Ambassador Ahmed Farouk. He addressed that forum at a standing-room only affair. That was in the presence of a galaxy of senior diplomats including the Consul-General of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Sharif, the UN Under-Secretary-General for African affairs, Ambassador Maged Abdel-Aziz, and the permanent observer of the League of Arab States, Ambassador Fathallah. His speech was luminous, especially with regard to a controversy maliciously generated by elements of the Muslim Brotherhood. Namely: Is the present government of El-Sisi the outcome of a "revolution" or a "coup."
In his speech, Ambassador Farouk did his best to lay this controversy to rest: A Revolution. Yet during the Question and Answer period, one of the attendees, an attorney, screamed his head off about "total absence of respect for human rights in Egypt." The questioner was obviously unpersuaded by the plain logic set forth by the speaker. And being a veteran diplomat, Ambassador Farouk, referred the questioner to the speech.
Being not beholden to the restrains of diplomacy, I jumped to my feet. Among other points, I asked that opponent: What do you read when you say, with undeserved haughtiness, that the demonstrators at Rabaa and Al-Nahda were peaceful? Moreover why do you hold the Egyptian process leading to democratization at a a standard which you do not apply to the U.S. -such as in regard to Guantanamo torture, the declaration that the Geneva Conventions were obsolete, and the rendition policies of the Bush Jr. administration?
He looked ashen, and ready to jump ship. Good!! But the point is that the likes of Mr. Kirkpatrick are having their way with the facts of the situation on the ground in Egypt. Ambassador Farouk said it best: "Call it what you want: A Coup!! A Revolution!! It is up to you. I provided the facts. You provide your own conclusion.
Here is my own conclusion: The Muslim Brotherhood is active and is heard in America. They have the funds, the penetration, the voice, and the professionalism of lying to their audiences. In this, they are well practiced. For over 86 years!!
America, in sum, is taken for a ride by the mother of all jihadism -the Brotherhood!! The government of the New Egypt should bear in mind that fighting terrorism in its deserts should not be by armed might alone. It should also be by articulated voices which know how to respond to an American environment which is being manipulated by the scum cells of the Brotherhood in the hope of bringing back to Cairo the nightmare of the Islamic one-year rule!!
No comments:
Post a Comment