As Morsi Huddles with Hamas, Blind Sheikh’s Son Threatens Siege of U.S. Embassy
Just another Juma in the Arab Spring.
Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, met in Cairo today with Gaza’s “prime minister,” Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas — the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. As PJM’s David Goldman observes, Morsi is getting ready to have the red carpet rolled out for him by the Obama White House in September. He should definitely have Hamas talking points down by then since he also had a powwow with the terrorist organization’s “political bureau” chief, Khaled el-Meshal, last week.
Morsi will also be ready to press on President Obama his demand for the release of the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman. Right after his election, he assured Egyptians that this was among his top priorities. On that score, too, the Brotherhood is rockin’ its familiar terror-leveraged “moderate two-step.” While Morsi works the diplomatic end, the Egypt Independent reports that Sheikhy’s son, Abdallah, has threatened to attack the American embassy and hold its employees hostage in order to extort pop’s release.
Abdel Rahman is the emir of the Islamic Group (Gama’at al-Islamia), a terrorist organization that is part of the Brotherhood’s parliamentary coalition and whose members are also now welcomed guests at the Obama White House. As Abdallah Abdel Rahman threatened a siege, another Islamic Group official, Aboud al-Zomor, explained that the blind sheikh was “a wronged man whose case has been fabricated, and he should be retried because some of the witnesses retracted their statements, which they made because of pressure from the [Mubarak] regime.” That’s news to me — and one might think I’d have heard that one. I can only say that it’s awfully hard to retract a tape … which is a problem for Abdel Rahman since the most damning evidence against him did not come from witnesses but from his own mouth — his calls for attacks on American military installations and the like were recorded for posterity on tape.
I’m not worried because I know Morsi’s pleas are certain to fall on deaf ears, thanks to stiff opposition from the State Department, which, under Secretary Clinton, is filled with advisors who are unalterably opposed to the Brotherhood — oh, wait a second …
Anyway, Happy Spring.
Well, let me tell you something. Sept. is the wrong time for Obama to being doing such a thing and he must be crazy for doing something that could cost him the Presidency.
Bloggers, sharpen your knives and put on your best arguments because this is like inviting Hitler to the White House in many ways. It’ll show how utterly clueless Obama is as well as highlight his own disdain for old America, which I see as the good America. Abedin will once again come to the fore. There’s an election to be won if you want it.
Your template is the Boston Mayor and his insane double standard for Chik-fil-a and the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque. Liberals like Menino and Rahm are so blinded by identity politics that they have abandoned principle in favor of alliances with Nazis like Farrakhan and MB inspired mental cases.
Please explain to us someday in article length why you think Obama is so open to Brotherhood Islam or even to terrorists? In the most contrastive of terms: Is Obama’s being open to such nefarious groups to be viewed 1. as a “blindspot” in his foreign policy goals (sort of like FDR being advised by Hopkins) or 2. as a policy “coherency” derivative from his preferred goals (i.e., Obama is not being led astray, rather leading the way)? Or, is the matter more complicated thereby making my constrast too one-sided and misleading. An inadequately formulated question will get one poor and inadequate answers.
My concern is no so-called “McCarthy-ite” binge, rather a very serious matter of contemporary concern. I find that America was lucky to have Truman as the president after FDR and not Wallace. Analogously it is beginning to appear to me that we have a reincarnation of Wallace in Obama. Once again, what is the value structure that informs and directs Obama’s politics, particularly re Islam?
“What is the value structure that informs and directs Obama’s politics?”
I wonder why if Obama claims to be a Christian that his life does not appear to produce the kind of fruits that the New Testament expects of followers of Jesus. On the other hand while he seems to be so appreciative of Islam, he does not take this appreciation to its logical conclusions. I wonder if it is not a matter of him using whatever he can to further his own ambitions and if he is not simply using the different groups and ignoring the contradictions that this involves. Many of his actions appear to me to be far more self-serving than actions that are primarily directed at the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.
1) Marx, Lenin and Stalin railed against “the rich” which was code for “Jews”. Any good leftist hates Jews.
2) Israel was originally going to be a commune style country embraced by the Soviet Union. When she turned to capitalism in the name of survival the Soviets became displeased.
3) The early Muslim terrorist organizations were created by the Soviet Union as part of a proxy war against the West and were focused on the betrayer Israel.
4) Louis Farrakhan, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright rail against “the rich”, which is code for “Jooos”.
5) There is great animosity in the Black Community for Jews, largely because of the role the North played in financing the cotton trade, again it’s “the rich” = “Jooos”.
Support for the Muslim terrorists = continuing support of the Soviets proxy war against the West.
Support for the Muslim terrorists = continuing assault on both “Jews” and “Jooos”
And. lastly, the State Department is more pro-Soviet than the Politburo ever was. The Politburo saw communism for what it was, the State Department sees it for what it could be if only the peasants could be harnessed to work for the greater good of the elites. Greedy Peasants! Always wanting food, shelter, clothing, health care, roads, bridges, education and never around when my grass needs cutting, my laundry done, or ballot boxes stuffed.
The top dogs in the communist revolution were Jews. Marx mooched of Engels. The same goes for Obama, the Moocher In Chief.
IMO your position “2.” is right on the mark — with one little twist: As usual, BHO is “leading from behind”, which we have come to expect, but which is the “method behind the madness”. Leading from behind grants him perfect deniability — at all times. That’s essential to con-artists: never let your mark catch you lying; always be able to spin your words to suit your mark’s presumed belief. Make him believe you have the right answer – always – no matter who or what it is.
What he really wants is 1. power and control and 2. the sense of being worshipped, even loved. Self-anointed Messiahs are like that. Whom they sacrifice, or how many, or for what, has never been their concern. Main thing is, they get and get to keep 1. and 2. They are profoundly empty-souled people for whom reality beyond its use in the attainment of 1. and 2. is utterly meaningless!
For a historical perspective on this, consider the rise, and life, and eventual fall of the likes of a Savonarola (16th century Florence, Italy) and Napoleon Buonaparte (19th cent. France); last, not least, Mussolini. All of these are examples of living and rising for the sake of the sense of power, control, grandeur, and adulation; and ultimately failing on account of their insatiability for this “drug-addiction” requiring ever larger dosages. The actual issues of their day, let alone their resolution, was never their real goal. These things were merely props to their connish stage-craft.
This blogger has done just that – go to http://www.adinakutnicki.com
I have laid out, in excruciating detail, why another term of an Obama Presidency will be the eventual death of America, and of the west in general.
I could not be any clearer.
He did say, either shortly before or after his inauguration — that it would take (him?) 10 years to “fundamentally transform” America. I take him very seriously at his word about this, his intention and plan. Don’t know what he had in mind for the final two years required after his 2nd term (let us pray not) —
I think you are completely correct, even though I haven’t read your blog. It’s as clear as anything could be that he will go as far as he is able to push his “agenda” without getting impeached, in his 2nd term.
He’s already demonstrated that he has no regard or respect for any institution, or any law, or the will of the American people — he will steam roller over it all, just short of the point where he might wind up evicted or imprisoned.
I heard a quote from D Sousa that was telling about what Obama actually believes. He said that typical lefty socialists want to re-distribute income in the name of social justice. Obama wants to re-order America’s role in the world.
If you use this ideological template, it does help explain what Obama actually does and why he is behaving like a wrecking ball on American values, culture, traditional foreign policy, and the long standing patriotic notions of our founders. He was raised in the midst of people who had immense hatred of the judeo christian countries who colonized and ruled African for hundreds of years. So now that he is “pres” it is time to restore America to it’s rightful place at the bottom of the global heap, doing another leading from behind exercise.
Make no mistake about it, this guy’s ideology is soo out there that he cannot actually say much about what he really believes because most of who would despise him even more. The willful non-reporting by the MSM to not properly vet this manchurian candidate will go down in history as one of the great con games of all time. In the meantime I say lets go after this guy, all of his enablers, and make him defend the in-defensible Muslim Brotherhood scum that he now embraces–RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION!! Thats some hopey change I can believe in.
Interesting concept held by the Brotherhood that if they can pressure Obama and Clinton they can get what they want. Something has fueled that belief and they are definitely going to get in their strokes before an election and turnover. Two things can modify the behavior…Abdallah having a tragic “accident” or the Romney group suggesting John Bolton will go to State and Allen West to Defense. Since drones can’t reach, the first option is off the table, but the second would be delicious to watch here and there.
Mr. McCarthy, do you ever feel like Winston Churchill in the prewar years, documenting the evils of an approaching armageddon only to be scoffed at and called all manner of names by those who are so willfully blind and so willfully deaf to the madness that is Islam?
Thank you for what you do and the excellence with which you do it. Stay safe.
Excellent analogy
I have a feeling the Morsi invitation to the White House will be postponed until after the election. It’s just too good for the Romney campaign as it is.
Of course, the MSM will continue to keep their audience ignorant about the MB, and it will perhaps give the left a thrill (perhaps bringing a few more who feel he “hasn’t done enough,” out to vote), the meeting will ultimately lose him votes.
I think that if the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, magically gets a presidential pardon after the Mohamed Morsi visit in September, Obama can kiss the election goodbye. Not only that, there will be huge protests in the streets, and not by Muslim radicals. It would stir up this nation like nothing else, letting a known terrorist out of jail to commit who knows how many additional acts of terrorism. And don’t be surprised that if Obama LOSES the election, he will still pardon Rahman just before he leaves office. It would be Obama’s final middle finger to Israel and to the United States for thowing this Mulsim sympathizer out of office. I would put NOTHING beyond this White House, especially when it comes to helping the Palestinians and their enablers.
Not only that, there will be huge protests in the streets, and not by Muslim radicals.
The existence of Moslem radicals is impossible. Yes, there are Moslem activists; but there are no Moslem radicals. This is so because the dogma of Islam is itself radical. It accounts for moderate behavior by observant Moslems only as an interim between periods of battle, with such interims to always be temporary.
This truism is baked into the scriptures of Islam, and has been stated by Moslem clerics umpteen times.
The term Moslem radicals is very harmful because the concept behind it silent ackowledges the existence of Moslem moderates, which is also an impossiblity. I point to history in addition to Moslem history as evidence of this.
Obama does not think he can lose. He thinks everyone who once supported him, will continue to support him, no matter what, and that he only has to get new people to support him. Thus, he /will/ invite this scumbag to the White House.
Yeah but, I’d wager Morsi is a huge Chick-fil-A fan.
Thank you for being a voice for sanity in a world of folly.
As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
A sincere question for any liberals who happen to read this article:
How did this man get the idea he could walk into the White House – OUR house – and request the release of someone like Omar Abdel Rahman? What despicable combination of islamo-pandering, whitewashing, moral equivocation and kowtowing has to occur for such a thought to pop into Morsi’s head?
I really can’t wait for your answer.
There is nothing new under the Sun. Just like classic moon god worship.
Murder the Infidel! Don’t forget the Jews.
Liberty Ship,
Remember what Obama told Russian pres. Medvedev?
I am more disappointed with Marco Rubio than I can adequately express. I never imagined that he would pile-on to the attacks directed against Michelle Bachmann. I had high hopes for you, Marco. But, at least you showed your true colors now instead of after being supported and elected to higher office. No wonder Jeb Bush thinks so highly of you.
This is an extremely sensitive time in American history. So many powerful politicians have decided to get in bed with Muslim terrorists for access to their exorbitant oil wealth, in my opinion, instead of creating our own wealth and power with the proven reserves we have in our own country. I can think of no other reason than oil and money…..anyone else? Why else would they sell us down the river like this?
Thank You Heavenly Father for bringing these Muslims into your fold. I pray that Your Holy Spirit will pour upon all those who search and hunger for truth and that many many more Muslims will come to know the truth of salvation through the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus’ Holy name, amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtsAlW1v1k&feature=player_embedded
If the blind sheikhs son and his thugs attack our embassy, they should be dispersed with chlorine gas
The Blind Sheikh will eventually be released from prison. The United States of America is not going to keep his corpse in prison, so his release is inevitable. The only question is does it happen before or after his death. If you care about America, you should at least look at the last lawsuit filed over his incarceration (11-cv-23492-MGC), and call your local senator and congressman to ask them to investigate the complaint as the FBI is refusing to do so for fear of discovering the biggest mistake that the United States ever made with regards to the middle east. The mistake is simple. Judaism and Islam are nearly identical in form and content. You cannot claim that Islam is a threat simply based upon what is written in their texts, because identical content is written in the Torah and Talmud. This double standard is what hurts our country and reduces our credibility in the world stage, and this impacts our security. Time to dump the double standard and call it like it is. Either we embrace both Judaism and Islam as a threat, or we recongnize that it is people that are threats, and the texts are innocent and bare no responsibility for the mistakes of people.
Wow…..how silly of me. All these years I heard that we should love one another, forgive trespasses, respect different opinions and all that, but it was really a masterful deception in code for murdering all that do not agree with you, torturing and mistreating women and dominating the world. Yep, that Islam is identical to Judaism alright.
WTF? I mean, WTFingF?
The only reason why there is any superficial resemblance between Jewish and Muslim belief and practice is because Islam can best be described as a crude caricature of Judaism, only with the dangerous addition of universalist claims. Show me some of that “identical content.” It is true that Judaism claims a universal G-d, but importantly has NEVER asserted a universal practice or worship – in fact, non-Jews are forbidden by Jewish law to follow certain Jewish practices without full conversion, and salvation is open to all who obey the simple Seven Laws of the descendants of Noah (what most moderns refer to as “Natural Law”).
But you haven’t really made your central point. The experience of the last few decades makes the threat of Islam reasonably clear. Would you mind very much explaining why Judaism is a threat?
This is the strangest does of anti-semitism I’ve heard in a long time.
You mean the same stiff upper lip state department types that were having panic attacks over being forced to leave such safe assignments as Baghdad by the bay (San Francisco), the trolling chicken hawks paradise, to serve in dangerous Baghdad some years ago? I couldn’t believe the whining and sniveling by what purportedly passes for grown-ups heading for a “free fire zone” after failing to volunteer in the required numbers: I swear some of them must have had previous experience in their youth avoiding the draft. Now that would be the chickens coming home to roost with a Cairo replay of the Iranian hostage crisis under Carter. Yup, given Holder’s previous experience with vetting Presidential pardons, I can’t wait to see what happens in the near future:there’s more than one way to close Gitmo.
had enough, really, maybe it’s time for something new…