This thing going on in Egypt has me concerned mainly because
the United States media gets it so wrong. All I can do is shake my head in
wonderment when I hear such politically diverse people as +Joe Scarborough and +Chris
Hayes saying the same thing about Egypt; both of them are wrong.
The good people in
Egypt fought hard to change from a caliphate to a democracy. For those who
do not know caliphates are governments run by Islamic church, which means self
appointed clerics set in a back room somewhere and decide what is right and what
is wrong including starting wars to protect their turf. The people of Egypt
elected Mohamed Morsi as the fifth President but the first democratically
elected President of Egypt. Morsi campaigned on a platform of running Egypt as
a democracy, which everyone in the world, including the America Press, understood
means the “majority of the people” not “God” rules. However, Morsi was a known
member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group controlled by radical religious
clerics—at the time, the world community labeled them as a terrorist group. Still the innate goodness of man, I can
think of no other reason, caused people to believe Morsi when he said that he
would lead not as a caliphate but by secular laws; laws made by man and not “Allah”
of “God”, which refers back to the group of clerics in some back room as
mentioned earlier. He did not honor his campaign promise and turned Egypt back
to a caliphate. As a result, the people took to the streets in protest. In
response, the military removed Morsi from the presidency and were in the
process of reestablishing a democracy.
Our President and
Secretary of State, unlike the media, understand what is happening but so does
the Muslim Brotherhood; our government wants democracy for Egypt and they want
a religious dictatorship. This religion group, like the religious radicals they
are, took to the streets demanding that the military reestablished Morsi as
President. What they really want is to reclaim
the government as a radical Muslim government. They claimed the military stole
their votes thus is ruining democracy. The stupid American media sided with the
Muslim Brotherhood, but they did so for different reasons. Chris Hayes and all his liberal compatriots
are upset because the military is killing
people trying to restore democracy and rightwing Joe Scarborough is upset because
he sees the Egyptian military as
destroyers of democracy. The GOP hates Obama and will do and say anything to make him look bad, therefore, they claim
Egypt is his fault, what ever that means in this context. The irony is that all
three positions; which are the positions strongly reflected in the America
media, which puts themselves on the side of the radical Muslim Brotherhood that
wants to restore caliphate; above all else, they wants to destroy the bud of
democracy as it exists in Egypt. Isn’t it about time the American people
understand what the “Arab Spring” is all about—put in k-12 English, it is about
getting rid of caliphates and replacing them with democracies (I will not apologize
for lecturing the press).
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