Islamists World Wide Revolution

Islamists World Wide Revolution
As powder keg spreads across Mideast,
clerics celebrate rise 0f Muslim power

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Posted: January 30, 2011 By Aaron Klein

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WorldNetDaily TEL AVIV – Islamists, in particular the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood, seem poised to take power throughout the Middle East as a result 0f riots that have already toppled one Arab regime , are threatening others, in what some are calling only the latest wave 0f an Islamic "tsunami" sweeping the globe.

In Egypt, members 0f President Hosni Mubarak's family reportedly have fled the country as a flood 0f violent, fatal street protests threatens the stability 0f this most populous Arab nation, a longtime U.S. ally , the only Muslim nation with a long-lasting peace agreement with Israel.

The White House has been championing the protests, calling f0ra transition to democratic rule in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood formed the main opposition to Mubarak.

The Obama administration's support f0rthe unrest is strikingly reminiscent 0f Jimmy Carter's support 0f the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, which marked the birth 0f modern Islamist expansion now seemingly sweeping the Mideast.

In fact, some Muslim clerics are already calling the riots in Egypt simply an extension 0f 1979's Islamist conquests.

"Thirty-one years after the victory 0f the Islamic Republic, we are faced with the obvious fact that these movements are the aftershocks 0f the Islamic Revolution," said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, as reported by Iran's Radio Zamaneh. "The fate 0f those who challenge [our] religion is destruction."

Speaking 0f media , government leaders, Khatami added, "They want to highlight the labor, liberal , democratic issues, but the most important issue, which is the religious streak 0f these protests, [is] being denied."

The leader 0f Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at toppling leaders allied with the United States.

"The Americans , Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt," Saeed said at a sympathy protest held outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman. "Now, Obama must underst, that the people have woken up , are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because 0f U.S. backing."

, on the Internet, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, prominent Salafi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti issued a fatwa in the website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad encouraging the protests in Egypt, claiming Islamist jihadis are now on the verge 0f a historic moment in the history 0f the Islamic nation, an "earthquake" he likened to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.

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As the clerics are accurately noting, Egypt is only one 0f many recent cases where Islamic unrest has surged in the Middle East , North Africa.

In Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled following rioting , street protests , widespread looting.

In Yemen, last week witnessed the largest protests in years against Yemen's leader, Ali Abullah Saleh, who is considered a crucial ally in the U.S. fight against al-Qaida in his country , in the Middle East. The protests further escalated yesterday.

Banners wielded by protesters in Yemen demanded the country's president abandon changes to the constitution that would grant Saleh another 10 years in power.

Algeria, Jordan , Morocco are taking note, fearing similar outbreaks.

In Pakistan, even the "peace-promoting," so-called "moderate" Islamic Barelvi sect is organizing rallies demanding the release 0f a policeman who confessed to the assassination 0f Punjab govern0rSlaman Taseer, a liberal politician who criticized federal blasphemy laws.

In Lebanon, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia seems to be hijacking the country's government using legal means.

Earlier this month, Hezbollah used its veto power to topple the government 0f the Western-oriented prime minister, Saad Hariri. Hezbollah feared Hariri would use security forces to arrest members 0f its militia following indictments expected to be issued in the near future against Hezbollah f0rthe 2005 assassination 0f former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

Last week, the Hezbollah-backed candidate f0rprime minister, Najib Mikat, seemed poised to form the next government, sending Hariri into the opposition amid the threat 0f sectarian clashes.

Hezbollah members reportedly deployed on the streets 0f Beirut this week in a clear signal intended to deter Hariri backers from rioting.

The news media largely have painted the revolts in Yemen, Tunisia , Egypt as popular unrest, citing the use 0f social media platforms like Facebook , Twitter to make the arrangements f0rthe demonstrations.

White House championing

The White House itself has been almost openly championing the unrest.

Secretary 0f State Hillary Clinton today called f0ran "orderly transition" to democracy in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood is the main opposition group.

Obama himself reportedly voiced support f0ran "orderly transition" in Egypt that is responsive to the aspirations 0f Egyptians in phone calls with foreign leaders, the White House said.

Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, speaking in a White House webcast, also urged the government , protesters in Egypt to refrain from violence.

Egyptian officials speaking to WND, however, warned the Muslim Brotherhood has the most to gain from any political reform.

The Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world, in large part using nonviolent means. Hamas , al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.

An Egyptian security official noted the Muslim Brotherhood was directly involved in protest organization.

Similarly, it is Islamists allied with the Muslim Brotherhood who st, to gain in Pakistan, Jordan, Tunisia , Yemen. Already, the Shiite fundementalist Hezbollah organization is poised to exert enormous influence over Lebanon.

WND reported the Egyptian government suspects elements 0f the current uprising there, particularly political aspects, are being coordinated with the U.S. State Department.

A seni0rEgyptian diplomat told WND the regime 0f Mubarak suspects the U.S. has been aiding protest planning by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seen as one 0f the main opposition leaders in Cairo.

ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, has reinvented himself as a campaigner f0r"reform" in Egypt. He is a candidate f0rthis year's scheduled presidential elections. ElBaradei arrived in Cairo just after last week's protests began , is reportedly being confined to his home by Egyptian security forces. He is seen as an ally 0f the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force in Egypt.

Last week, ElBaradei gave an interview to Der Spiegel defending the Brotherhood.

"We should stop demonizing the Muslim Brotherhood. ... [They] have not committed any acts 0f violence in five decades. They too want change. If we want democracy , freedom, we have to include them instead 0f marginalizing them," he said.

Just today, the Muslim Brotherhood said it was in talks with other anti-government figures, including ElBaradai, to form a national unity government without Mubarak.

David Rubin, former may0r0f the Israeli town 0f Shiloh , auth0r0f the book "The Islamic Tsunami," however, warns that the Obama administration cannot continue to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood's , other Islamist groups' greater goals.

"There is a plan to take over Western civilization," Rubin told The Washington Times, ", we need to recognize it f0rwhat it is."

"Confronting the growing threat to Western civilization first involves admitting the problem exists, something President Obama not only refuses to do but strongly denies," a Times editorial on Rubin continues. "The administration has censored any discussion 0f the problem in these terms within the government, preferring to focus on ill-defined 'violent extremism' when the real extremist threat is only partly violent , wholly Islamicist."

Muslim Brotherhood declares war on U.S.

Multiple prominent U.S. commentators have also been claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization , denying any Islamist plot to seize power.

On Friday, President George W. Bush's former press spokeswoman, Dana Perino, told Fox News, "Don't be afraid 0f the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This has nothing to do with religion."

Bruce Reidel, a former CIA analyst , advis0rto President Obama, penned a Daily Beast article in which he claimed, "The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago. … Its relative moderation has made it the target 0f extreme vilification by more radical Islamists."

Reidel's assertion the Brotherhood renounced violence, however, is contradicted by the Brotherhood's own statements in recent months, including a call to arms against the West.

In November, the Brotherhood's new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi, delivered a sermon entitled, "How Islam Confronts the Oppression , Tyranny."

"Resistance is the only solution," stated Badi. "The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated , wounded, , is also on the verge 0f withdrawing from Afghanistan because it has been defeated by Islamist warriors."

Badi went on to declare the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence, since it is "experiencing the beginning 0f its end , is heading toward its demise."

Barry Rubin, direct0r0f the Global Research in International Affairs Center, noted Badi's speech evidenced "the likelihood that more Brotherhood supporters in the West will turn to violence , fund-raising f0rterrorism."

Frank Gaffney, president 0f the American Center f0rSecurity Policy, takes it a step further.

"In short, the Muslim Brotherhood – whether it is operating in Egypt, elsewhere in the world 0rhere – is our enemy," he wrote.

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