We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East

[Casino67]

AmericanThinker.com:

If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination of leftist and Islamist forces provoked the protests, and we are likely looking at a ring of radical Islamic states rising up to surround Israel. Once their power is solidified, perhaps in a year or two, they will combine forces to attack Israel. If Israel falls, the United States will stand alone in a sea of virulent enemies and impotent allies.

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama administration favors a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new Egyptian government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed. And while they may have publicly renounced violence as the LA Times article claims, internal documents tell a completely different story.

And if that weren't bad enough, Obama's latest comment to Egypt's leader is that "an orderly transition ... must begin now."

Must begin. Now.

Simply stunning.

[Casino67]

Just heard Ed Schultz say this kind of talk is just fanning the flames. Spreading fear. Brainiacs over there at Msnbc.

[pollyannaish]

It is scary. And we don't know what's going to happen.

 

But I think that both the rosy predictions and the armageddon predictions are just plain old fashioned guesses. And we'll know when we know.

 

What we know right now is that the ME of the last half century is gone.

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Hopefully, the CIA will work some magic. If they are allowed to.

[ErnstBlofeld]

Its going to be an Islamic Democracy.There are two main definitions of what constitutes an Islamic democracy:

 

1.A democratic state where the majority of the population is Muslim.

2.A democratic state which endeavours to institute Sharia (traditional Islamic law).

 

With the Muslim Brotherhood in power it will be number two.

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Its going to be an Islamic Democracy.There are two main definitions of what constitutes an Islamic democracy:

 

1.A democratic state where the majority of the population is Muslim.

2.A democratic state which endeavours to institute Sharia (traditional Islamic law).

 

With the Muslim Brotherhood in power it will be number two.

 

Can Sharia law exist within a democracy?

[ErnstBlofeld]

Its going to be an Islamic Democracy.There are two main definitions of what constitutes an Islamic democracy:

 

1.A democratic state where the majority of the population is Muslim.

2.A democratic state which endeavours to institute Sharia (traditional Islamic law).

 

With the Muslim Brotherhood in power it will be number two.

 

Can Sharia law exist within a democracy?

 

The concepts of liberalism and democratic participation were already present in the medieval Islamic world.The idea and concept of Islamic democracy has been accepted by many Iranian clerics, scholars and intellectuals. The most notable of those who have accepted the theory of Islamic Democracy is probably Iran's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Others maintain that not only is the Islamic Republic of Iran undemocratic but that Khomeini himself opposed the principle of democracy in his book Hokumat-e Islami: Wilayat al-Faqih, where he denied the need for any legislative body saying, "no one has the right to legislate ... except ... the Divine Legislator", and during the Islamic Revolution, when he told Iranians, "Do not use this term, 'democratic.' That is the Western style."

 

Also they maintain that Iran's sharia courts, the Islamic Revolutionary Court, blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Mutaween (religious police) violate the principles of democratic governance.

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rebeccafeldman

 

Rioters gathering in the streets of Cairo throwing rocks & molotov cocktails in tandem. No 1der Obama's inspired--it's community organizing! less than a minute ago via web

[ErnstBlofeld]

Others maintain that not only is the Islamic Republic of Iran undemocratic but that Khomeini himself opposed the principle of democracy in his book Hokumat-e Islami: Wilayat al-Faqih, where he denied the need for any legislative body saying, "no one has the right to legislate ... except ... the Divine Legislator", and during the Islamic Revolution, when he told Iranians, "Do not use this term, 'democratic.' That is the Western style."

 

Also they maintain that Iran's sharia courts, the Islamic Revolutionary Court, blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Mutaween (religious police) violate the principles of democratic governance.

And that is the problem.But that is their definition of "democracy"

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