MARC GINSBERG UNDERSTANDS EGYPT

The lack understanding of what is happening in Egypt is really bothering me. However, this morning, +Steve Kornacki’s show UP on MSNBC cheered me up. A fellow named +Marc Ginsberg got it right. As ex-U.S. ambassador to Morocco, he clearly understands the religious implications of the riots in Egypt.  In contrast, +Steve Clemons, a reporter and guest on the show, like so may others has no understanding of the issues. Clemons is the editor-at large of the Atlantic; he should know better. He typifies the kind of journalist who I despise for their incompetence.

The Egyptian people are fighting for their democracy against religious radials: the Muslim Brotherhood. The U.S. reporters like Clemons have the American people believing exactly what the terrorist want the world to believe; that they are poor, put upon victims, of a dastardly military; that they are the victims. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Are reporters are blind to the significance of the rioters burning Christian churches and using mosques as armed camps?  Do they not understand that Morsi was elected by fraud; he is a radical religious nut. The Muslim Brotherhood minority stole the election and the Egyptian people don’t like it—as Ginsberg pointed out, by far the great majority of the Egyptian people do not like it, which is a fact you would never read in the press.  

The Muslim Brotherhood is becoming more and more delineated; thus, that group is becoming a smaller and smaller group of identifiable radicals. They are being isolated from the majority of peace loving Muslims in that country; the people we identify with the Arab Spring movement. They can only gain power by being radical, by burning and looting, by provoking the military into attacking them and killing some of them. The more cameras and reporters they attract the more effective their acts of terror becomes, the more notoriety, the more effective their acts of terror are. In other words, they use the grizzly scenes to gain notoriety to gain sympathy they do not deserve.

I like to think that “the approach” the Muslim Brotherhood is exactly the approach being used by the Tea Party in this country. Of course, we have not resorted to violence although such statements as “lock and load and second amendment solutions” have hinted at violence.  We are stable enough not to have to rely on the military to establish order. A vague minority of the broad coalition of conservatives coalesced into the small tightly knit Tea party; a radical group quite willing to resort to radical measure to gain power; shut down the government, the sequester, and over turn civil rights, for example of acts of terror. The catchy name “Young Guns” was how they identified themselves and attracted young energetic news reporters to their efforts in an otherwise dull world of law making—young ambitious reporters who are will to trash the nation of notoriety.

The Young Guns followed the radical “taker and maker” philosophy of Ayn Rand, which in the political environment of the Untied States is radical as the caliphate verse democracy is in the Arab world. They have worked their way into positions of power just as Morsi did; by telling the people one thing and doing another. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, they “made news” and are still making news because certain reporters are willing to give them headlines and take pictures of them disrupting everything from the U.S. Senate down to town hall meetings. Thankfully, this is America; there was no blood and guts spilled in the small town USA—maybe because the only place in America where you cannot have a gun, is where the politicians are; on the floors of congress. 

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