Friday, August 16, 2013

EGYPT NOT THE TIME OR PLACE FOR GANDHI

Left wing media is looking at the Egyptian protest through the wishful eyes of peaceful protesters—the Mahatma Gandhi model.  Using that scenario, the Muslim Brotherhood, who are radical religious driven people, will win. I hear the right wing and left wing media united in speaking in support of the Muslim Brotherhood by standing in opposition to the Egyptian governments, which is attacking the “re-install Morsi” protesters with teeth bared. They are saying that the government should “peacefully” oppose the protesters.  By popular interest, almost by macabre demand, the media saturates TV and the internet with gruesome photos and heart braking video clips of grieving loved ones in the streets of Cairo depicting the suffering of “victims” of the government gone bad.

I would remind my fellow liberals that the victims are from the Muslim Brotherhood, which is an organization formed to overthrow any government not controlled by them, elected by the people or not; something, we call democracy. The election in Egypt failed to elect a religious dictator and in the minds of radical Muslims, they want to correct what they see as a grievous error. They want to establish a caliphate; that is a government with Islamic clerics in charge, who just happen to be the leaders of the Brotherhood. We all know what that means; we have seen Sharia Law in actions and have even the milder from of Biblical Law in Republican controlled legislators in terms of women’s rights, abortion, voter freedoms, etc.

Is what the Egyptian government doing wrong? Of course it is. Would I like to see it done peacefully? Of course, I would. However, with every bloody body of a protestor, I see World support turning against democracy. I see the news media supporting something they normally hate: they are collectively supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical religious terrorist organization. I cannot believe that +Rachel Maddow, +Chris Hayes, even +Joe Scarborough support a system of government that has a “chop, chop square” in every major city, which is what we in the West call the site of public executions; where crowds gather to see people punished. The place where thieves have their hands cut off and where authorities punish infidelity by cutting heads cut off.  We see scattered stoning incidents and we all know about honor killing of young girls who shamed the family by having the audacity to be “raped”.


In the United States, liberals have a deep sense of the correctness of the Gandhi approach to life, especially those of us on the left. We saw peaceful protests work in the civil rights movement but we also saw it fail in the occupy Wall Street movement. We most recently saw it fail in the form of “Moral Mondays” in North Carolina; Gov. +McCrory signed in to law all the Draconian legislation the rogue legislature passed. Peaceful protest in Egypt would surly fail and the consequences for the entire Middle East would be dire. I, for one, am sick and tired of mythical religions driving chaos in the “name of goodness”.  I know in my heart that Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Joe Scarborough do not want to support religious law of any kind, but that is what they are doing. FOX News “clerics” do it out of hate for Obama; perhaps, others do it out of ignorance.

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