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*** To The Gradualist Brotherhood —
Will You Do Things a Better Way? ***
Soon, the Muslim Brotherhood will
come to the same realization as others Gradualists (in the revival of Islam)
like the FIS (Algeria) and the Rafah Party (Turkey). One does not simply use
the post-colonial political system in Muslim countries against itself. It is
backed up, and underwritten, by the very foreign powers who created it as a
cage over us.
This is like walking into a Casino,
and using your money to play the gambling games, hoping that you’ll win enough
to buy the casino, and close it down. In reality, you’ve just wasted your money
and made the casino richer, because ‘The House Always Wins’.

The U.S. government realizes that
‘Islamist’ parties are popular – representing the people’s desire for a Islamic
system. However, they realized that though they cannot prevent such parties
coming to power now, the situation is not outside some means of control.
Namely, the U.S. merely has to allow these parties to get into a very limited
role of power, then ‘shut all the doors’ on them to make them appear to fail in
the people’s eyes. Since Morsi wasn’t willing, or able, to really change the
system – he and his party will be publicly hanged by it (as a warning to others).
Now the Muslim Brotherhood cries
foul, and demands that people respect democracy (i.e. that Morsi is an
legitimate elected leader). But they don’t understand why Liberals use
Democracy. Liberalism doesn’t exist to serve Democracy. Democracy exists to serve
Liberalism. This is why the U.S. constitution was created, because the founding
fathers of America didn’t trust the rule of the majority. The Constitution
defines the essential laws and rights, and people only elect leaders to
implement that Liberal constitution, or make laws WITHIN its limits [btw the
American public was not given a choice on the US constitution]. Does Morsi not
see that if Democracy doesn’t produce the result the Liberals want, they have
no problem with becoming violent to protect Liberalism, and ignoring democracy.
This fact should have been apparent from anyone who studied history.
The Brotherhood should have changed
the system, not just played games within it, hoping the system would allow them
to overturn it. Morsi tried to appease the USA and ISRAEL by shutting off Gaza
ever more than Mubarak did. He begged for foreign interest loans – even though
he should of confiscated the ill-gotten property of the Egyptian Military
industrial complex, and re-distributed to the poor. He could have changed the
economy of cotton production (for export to Western countries) into food
production for his own people. He tried to appease the Secularists by making
Egypt fall well short of a Islamic State – content to apply a Islamic
flavoring. But now he’ll find out that the two billion dollars the USA pays to
the mercenary Egyptian Generals, is not without strings. And the Egyptian
Military are the real kingmakers of Egypt – and they were only waiting until
the people turned against the Muslim Brotherhood, to depose them, or at least
render their power negligible in a ‘unity government’ (composed of the
pro-secular but electoral losers).
So instead of pushing towards the
goal of the re-establishment of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood were the
unwitting pawns of a game designed to make Islamic movements look incompetent –
pushing back the work for revival back by decades.
However, now is not the time for
people to say ‘I told you so’ to the Gradualists, but to say ‘now, will you do
things a better way?’
It’s time for us to liberate our
‘kingmakers’ – then we will be free to submit our nations to Al Maalik (SWT).
[By Abdullah Al Andalusi]

Political situation in Egypt is of concern not just for Egypt but whole Middle East and rest of the Muslim countries also. Most of the liberals in Western media argue that it is turning point for Political Islam and exposes the weaknesses and inability of the Political Islam to govern-and was a good thing what happened it Egypt. Others argue that Army intervention further strengthens the Islamists, who will argue that Democracy, Liberals and West cannot be trusted-they accept the results only if liberals win as is evident in Egypt, in Ageria in 1969 and Hamas’s victory in Gaza. Unfortunately Turkey could be next.The West and Liberals do everything in their power to undermine democratically elected Islamists-a self-defeating proposition. Saudi Arabia and UAE just announced total aid of about  six billion dollars to Egypt. They did not offer aid while Morsi was president.These regimes do not like Democracy for their own survival. Miss  Sara Carr, an Egyptian blogger, writes wisely;” The Muslim Brotherhood should have been left to fail as they had not (yet) committed an act justifying Morsi’s removal by the military. The price Egypt has paid and will pay for the consequences of this decision are too high.”    ( F. Sheikh )

Other excerpts from her column;

Before I begin, let me state some facts, so that when people begin the ad hominem attacks they can try to rein them in within the following boundaries:

I voted for Mohamed Morsi in the second round of the presidential elections (to keep Ahmed Shafiq out).

I am one of the administrators of a blog called “MB in English” that features English translations of awful statements of a sectarian, conspiratorial or bonkers nature that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) intends for domestic consumption only.

I am against army intervention in politics.

I state all this because Egyptian politics and society in general are currently split along identity lines in a way that they have never been over the last three years. This problem is so chronic that the merits or flaws of an argument are almost entirely determined by who is making the argument, considered through a haze of fury and suspicion.

For the past week, I have been trundling between the pro- and anti-Morsi protests. It is like traveling between two planets. The pro-camp has significantly more men than woman — although there are women and children there — and it lacks the social diversity of the anti-camp. I have never seen one unveiled woman who is not a journalist there. I have never met a Christian or encountered any other journalist who has met one there (it is important to note that pro-Morsi protesters and pro-Morsi media have often claimed that there are Christians attending their sit-in). At the same time, they also allege that the church was behind the former Mubarak regime-US-Zionist plot to oust Morsi.

The point is that the pro-Morsi crowd is largely homogenous. Their opponents use this homogeneity as evidence that the MB is, at best, an organization that has failed to market itself to non-supporters; and, at worst, a closed group unconcerned with non-members.

While the MB’s opposition might be correct in this assertion, many go one step further. They suggest that Morsi supporters are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and all unthinking androids programmed by the Supreme Guide. The popular derogatory term for them is khirfan (sheep). The aim here is to dehumanize and deny agency, much in the same way the Muslim Brotherhood dismiss their opponents as kuffar (infidels) or feloul (Mubarak regime beneficiaries or loyalists).Click Link to read full article;

http://www.madamasr.com/content/sheep-and-infidels