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Krauthammer Tells Inconvenient Truth About Egypt And Muslim Brotherhood



Feb 13, 2011 5 Comments ›› Grizz

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Everything said about Egypt – the educated population, the proud history, the long civilization – all of it applies to Iran in 1979 as well, and it ended up hijacked by the Islamists. That’s the threat in Egypt today. The Brotherhood wants the institution of Sharia law. On its website it says that no Christian or woman can be the president of Egypt.

This is not the Salvation Army as described by our director of National Intelligence who ought to be canned for the testimony he gave the other day about how benign and secular an organization it is. It wants the institution of Sharia law. Our job is to strengthen the democrats, of which there are many in Egypt but who need help, organization and assistance so they can challenge the Brotherhood and create a democracy that is actually going to live and not be one man, one vote, one time.

Rather than share this real threat with their readers, listeners, and viewers, America’s Obama-loving media have castigated those that have as being right-wing extremists and fear mongers.

But the job of a journalist should be to explore all possibilities of a developing situation rather than just those they either hope will happen for the good of the society or wish for in order to assist a president they support.

For the most part, the coverage of this crisis since the moment it began a little over two weeks ago has been deplorable. From blaming it on former President George W. Bush to tying the unrest to global warming, what we’ve witnessed from our press has been laughable.

But on the deadly serious side was their almost universal misrepresentation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the real risk of Egypt becoming a radical Islamic theocracy.

However small that risk might be – and there are many that believe it to be extremely possible – the media’s responsibility was to constantly explore it.

Instead, with elections less than 21 months away, and a man in the White House the press love, so-called journalists chose to white wash who the Brotherhood are and present to the public nothing but excitement over the thought of Mubarak being thrown out of office.

If the few concerned media members like Krauthammer God forbid end up justified in their worries, this will become another episode when the press completely abdicated their journalistic responsibilities leaving them once again not only on the wrong side of history but also actually having cheerled an outcome with dire consequences for the Middle East and international security.

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    When CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Speakes i listen!!

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  • derised1

    Charles Krauthammer has been wrong on a number of issues lately (including repealing of ObamaCare and fawning on Obama). He is on target with this. There is hope for CK yet! :smile:

  • Pull

    Sourkraut is a beltway rino hell bent on his own ideals. Even if he guessed right on this one.

  • RexRedbone

    What Did Wade Rathke Know About Egypt that the CIA Didn’t and What Will Obama Do Now?
    Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:03

    Michael Gaynor at Emerging Corruption has done some digging into the situation in Egypt – about how much Wade Rathke knew about it beforehand, and what influence Obama may wish to have on the situation now.

    Fortuitously, there was a Senate committee hearing on the nomination for the position of Deputy Director of the Office of Director of National Intelligence of Stephanie O’Sullivan, a career CIA employee and former Director of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, and questions were asked about the CIA’s alleged failure to provide US policy planners with accurate warning of the Egyptian popular uprising on February 3, 2011. O’Sullivan testified that the CIA and other US intelligence services had warned Obama Administration officials last November and December about extreme political volatility in North Africa.

    “We warned on instability,” said O’Sullivan, though “not in [...] detail,” because “we didn’t know what the triggering mechanism would be.”

    Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Diane Feinstein of California commented after the hearing that the intelligence reports she had seen were inadequate.

    Perhaps the CIA should have been following The Organizers’ Forum. Last October this intriguing message was posted on the organization’s website:

    An International Dialogue in Egypt
    September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011

    “Our fall 2011 International Dialogue will be located in Egypt where we will meet with labor and community organizers and other activists in Cairo. There are exciting changes and developments that are currently taking place in Egypt with elections coming soon to determine leadership transitions in what has been an autocratic regime, now challenged by the Muslim Brotherhood and succession and democracy issues. The trip is still in the planning stages, and we will post updates as soon as we have them.

    “We plan to travel with approximately 15-20 participants, and we will strive to have a mix of both community and labor organizers/leaders from a variety of community organizations and unions. We look for participants to meet in Cairo, pay their own travel and visa costs in addition to a program fee. The Organizers Forum will pay for food, lodging, and ground transportation. And, yes, though we are only planning to spend time in one city on this dialogue, we will see the Pyramids!

    “If you are interested in applying to attend this dialogue, we invite you to apply by sending an email of interest to Wade Rathke chair@organizersforum.org Organizers’ Forum. Please respond as early as possible and certainly no later than July 1 because there are a limited number of spaces.”

    That’s the Wade Rathke who founded ACORN in 1970, served as its Chief Organizer until 2008, still heads ACORN International and still publishes Social Policy (with Francis Fox Piven of Cloward-Piven strategy notoriety still on the editorial advisory board).

    In addition to Rathke, the Board of Directors of the Organizers’ Forum includes Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation and an SEIU representative. Originally, the SEIU representative was former SEIU head and most frequent Obama White House visitor Andy Stern.

    What were what Rathke described last October as “exciting changes and developments that are currently taking place in Egypt” and what (if anything) did the CIA know about them?

    Why did Rathke state without qualification that the “elections coming soon” would “determine leadership transitions”? Why was he sure that Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for three decades, would not be re-elected?

    Why did Rathke list the challenges to the Mubarak “regime” in this order: Muslim Brotherhood, succession, democracy?

    Why was it decided to hold the Organizers’ Forum’s twentieth “Dialogue” in Egypt? Was it really to “see the Pyramids”?

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