Spring Time for Sharia in Araby
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s popular appeal and resultant political ascendancy were evident already at the close of the 1940s. As noted by Richard P. Mitchell, pre-eminent historian of the movement’s late 1920s advent and first quarter century of activities
…by 1948-49, this movement had reached such massive political proportions as to undermine the claim of the rulers to speak for the Egyptian people. The government’s decision to crush the movement in 1949 was presumably taken because of the organization’s potential threat to the existing political order.
Resilient tenacity and broad, ongoing appeal to Egypt’s Muslim masses enabled the Brotherhood to survive subsequent brutal crackdowns under Egyptian autocrats Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Spring Fever chronicles how the Brotherhood’s current savvy, battle-hardened leadership rapidly capitalized on the Arab Spring “democracy” fervor to finally assume governmental power with the imprimatur of parliamentary and then presidential electoral victories.
During a presidential campaign speech broadcast on May 13, 2012, on the Egyptian television station Misr 25, Morsi revealed, unabashedly, his traditionalist Islamic Weltanschauung. Extolling the Sharia supremacist ideology championed by Hasan al-Banna, whom Morsi invoked, he proclaimed,
[in the 1920’s, the Egyptians] said: “The constitution is our Koran.” They wanted to show that the constitution is a great thing. But Imam [Hassan] Al-Banna, Allah’s mercy upon him, said to them: “No, the Koran is our constitution.” The Koran was and will continue to be our constitution. The Koran will continue to be our constitution.
His adoring crowd then segued immediately into a responsive exercise with Morsi, each repeating the individual statements that comprise the Muslim Brotherhood credo:
Crowds: The Koran is our constitution.
Mohamed Morsi: The Prophet Muhammad is our leader.
Crowds: The Prophet Muhammad is our leader.
Mohamed Morsi: Jihad is our path.
Crowds: Jihad is our path.
Mohamed Morsi: And death for the sake of Allah is our most lofty aspiration.
Crowds: And death for the sake of Allah is our most lofty aspiration.
Mohamed Morsi: Above all – Allah is our goal.
Morsi concluded this part of his speech by making clear that he would work aggressively to implement the sharia, as president:
The shari’a, then the shari’a, and finally, the shari’a. This nation will enjoy blessing and revival only through the Islamic shari’a. I take an oath before Allah and before you all that regardless of the actual text [of the constitution]… Allah willing, the text will truly reflect [the shari’a], as will be agreed upon by the Egyptian people, by the Islamic scholars, and by legal and constitutional experts…Rejoice and rest assured that this people will not accept a text that does not reflect the true meaning of the Islamic shari’a as a text to be implemented and as a platform. The people will not agree to anything else.
And as Andrew McCarthy concludes, appositely, in his updated Preface to Spring Fever,
Well, that didn’t take very long. On August 12, 2012, six weeks after being elected president of Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi forced the resignations of the generals atop the ruling military junta. Effectively, his election has converted Egypt from a military dictatorship to a sharia dictatorship. As this book argues, that is the end to which “Islamic democracy” leads.
Leftist critiques of Spring Fever will likely invoke its “partisan” failure to describe Republican flirtations with the Ikhwan that began 60 years ago, conveniently ignoring McCarthy’s rebuke, more importantly, of contemporary bipartisan Muslim Brotherhood outreach, and frank accommodation. Regardless, whatever mistakes were committed during our 1950s era engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood (for example, the Eisenhower administration bringing Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Said Ramadan to a 1953 “Colloquium on Islamic Culture”), the whole policy then really does seem to have been premised on the “Islam as a bulwark against Communism” geo-strategy. Indeed this was suggested to the U.S. by Hasan Al-Banna himself during Al-Banna’s fascinating August, 1947 interview in Cairo by a very informed and appropriately skeptical US diplomat, Philip W. Ireland. Moreover, in my forthcoming book, Sharia Versus Freedom, I allude to the views sharply questioning the validity of this approach and highlighting its dangers, as expressed by the British diplomat Sir John Troutbeck and the great Orientalist Gustave von Grunebaum. By comparison, our reckless engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood at present has intensified unacceptably under President Obama, far transcending any misguided, inchoate overtures initiated during the second G.W. Bush administration.
McCarthy argues cogently in Spring Fever that as avatars of “Messianic” totalitarian democracy (in political theorist Jacob Talmon’s parlance), the Obama administration now sees the Brotherhood as not only legitimate rulers of Egypt (i.e., a mere tacit acceptance of sad reality), but as long-term “diplomatic partners” of the US. Just this past May, 2009, the then-ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, acknowledged that subsequently deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak deplored the religious fanaticism of the Muslim Brotherhood and had, along with his wife, supported advances in human rights which did not adversely affect political stability. Scobey, and her appropriate views regarding Mubarak’s regime, obviously stopped holding any sway within the Obama State Department by 2011, when she was replaced by Anne Patterson.
Andrew McCarthy’s pellucid, invaluable primer, in the end, updates the conundrum — with all its attendant dangers, resulting from current U.S. policies, marinated in denial — articulated two decades ago (in 1991) by respected anthropologist Ernest Gellner:
I think it is fair to say that no secularization has taken place in the world of Islam: that the hold of Islam over its believers is as strong, and in some ways stronger, now than it was 100 years ago. Somehow or other Islam is secularization-resistant, and the striking thing is that this remains true under a whole range of political regimes. It is true under socially radical regimes which try to fuse Islam with socialist terminology and ideas; it is equally true under traditionalist regimes whose elites belong to the world of Ibn Khaldun and come from a ruling tribal network; and it is true of the regimes in between.
We are constantly hoping that an area of the world that has never, ever, come close to a constitutional republic will suddenly do so. For centuries, the Middle East has been run by monarchs, generals, secular dictators, and religious fanatics. There has never been and will never be a chance at any type of true democratic movement in that area of the world. Never happened, never will. Their tribal culture and their religion demands total loyalty from its followers, leaving precious little thought for individual rights that are handed down to them by God. It’s just not part of their DNA and never will be.
Best thing to do is just leave them alone and make very clear that if they harm Americans in any way, they will pay a terrible price for it. If we had true energy independence, we wouldn’t even BE in that part of the world and the Sunnis and Shias would be doing what they have been doing for centuries, and that is slaughtering each other. We will win no victories in transforming the Middle East into a collection of democratic republics. Time to really become energy independent and do the worst thing we could do to that part of the world, and that is to say “goodbye.”
Agreed. And here’s how their tribal “culture” developed:
islam’s “morality:” US AGAINST THEM, MIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT, AND BLAME THOSE VICTIMS:
When islame was originally created, it was modeled on the Jews monotheism (whose twelve tribes are never at war with each other) because the pagan Arab tribes were always at war with each other; their so-called culture always was and still is only based on might-makes-right and us-against-them. Muhammad simply codified that nonsense for all time, said god still wanted them to commit those crimes, “but only” against a common enemy: against anyone and everyone who refused to join Muhammad’s new islamic war and plunder cult. And of course Muhammad really only set this up to enrich himself, so he’d have an excuse to commit every crime known to man, enthusiastically and often. Needless to say, when not united in common hatred of non-moslems, all moslem Arabs (and moslems in general) still gleefully indulge in waging war on each other.
HONOUR KILLINGS EXPLAINED:
According to the books of such embedded cultural anthropologists as Rapheal Patai’s “The Arab Mind” and Carl Salzman’s “Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, Arab “culture” (which is codified in the Qur’an) glorifies the tribe over the individual, so each tribe engages in us-versus-them, might-makes-right wars all the time.
The best way to keep your tribal numbers up is to have each man marry four or more wives, which guarantees he will breed four (hopefully male warrior) children each year, while also depriving his enemy’s tribes of those same women and warrior-breeding ability.
This is also why they marry their own cousins all the time (so the enemy tribes can’t steal their women and potential warrior-children, thus weakening their own tribes) and it’s also why they have “honour” killings (because if they can’t control even their ‘weakest’ members, then they will invite attack from other tribes AND they’ll have lost those women’s warrior kids to their enemies, too!
So if they don’t kill their own women, then those women’ s actions will eventually get them all killed!
Libtards in the West refuse to see this easy truth, and pretend it’s the moslems’ “cultural rights” to out-breed and conquer everyone.
Two of the biggest blunders the US made in the 20th century were:
1. Allowing Aramco to develop the oil industry in Saudi Arabia. Were it not for American engineers, oil would never have been discovered or industrialized in Arabia, and it would have remained an utterly obscure backward nation with no wealth, no resources, no technology, and nothing but pathetic memories of a distant past when they galloped around with scimitars a millennium ago. But now, thanks entirely to our ingenuity, the Saudi are fabulously wealthy beyond anyone’s imagining, and much of our money flows into their coffers, where it is converted into the funding arm of jihad.
2. Siding with Muslims to thwart communists during the Cold War. Yes, I understand that at the time Soviet communism was the greater threat, and that Islamic resistance to communism did contribute to breaking the Soviets’ back, making our job easier, but now it seems in retrospect that we have created a monster with a much longer view. Soviet communism was a brief blip on the historical radar; the global Caliphate is a 1,400-year-long project that shows no signs of slowing down.
Anyway, this review is devastating to the Obama Doctrine, and all by itself should be enough reason to convince most Americans to boot Obama out ASAP. But the emphasis is on should — so many Americans are so misinformed that all the brilliant and irrefutable truths exposed by McCarthy and Bostom do not have nearly the effect they ought to.
Pray to whatever pig god you worship that Obama loses in November.
“Let it be known to you that the real meaning of freedom lies in the perfection of slavery.” Sufi scholar al-Qushayri
“And if liberty is to be attributable of the real man and not of the scarecrow invented by the individualistic Liberalism, then Fascism is for liberty. It is the only kind of liberty that is serious – the liberty of the State [to dominate the individual].” Benito Mussolini.
“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation [or the national religion]; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation [or the national religion] as a whole … that above all the unity of a nation’s spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual… By this we understand only the individual’s capacity to make sacrifices [as a slave] for the [leaders of a] community…” Adolph Hitler
“Let it be known to you that the real meaning of freedom lies in the perfection of slavery.” Sufi scholar al-Qushayri
“War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is slavery.” George Orwell – 1984
The error of the United States was creating the Petro Dollar system and handing control of it to Saudi Arabia in 1971. This single act sealed the fate of US economy.
The USA can never contradict the Kingdom of Saud, or allow it to suffer ill consequence. As a result Sauds are free to peddle Sharia schools even in the U.S., fund Hamas, Muslim brotherhood and Pakastani terror cells with complete impunity or comment.
Even Writers on PJM are afraid to speak truth regarding the House of Saud.
The error of the United States was in letting our currency and banking be controlled by a Privately Owned Closed Corporation called the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. This was the beginning of the downfall of the Nation, all else was merely the natural progression based on circumstances at the time.
We are now at the end of the rope. If we do not Nationalize the Federal Reserve and defund the International Banking Cartel we will be nothing more than a bit of history in a short period of time.
The only tool we have to overcome our problems is Article V of the Constitution and with this Article we can take complete control of our Politics, our Economy and our Future. All we lack is the nerve to use this approach and put a choke rope on the Congress, the President and the Supreme Court. The TPP is the perfect tool to force a Constitutional Convention and it is the only solution available except REVOLUTION…….
Islam ” The Religion of Peace “, Sharia Law for everybody. Freedom Not Included.
I hope everybody is happy Mr. Obama gave all of these countries who are protesting us now Billions of our dollars. Anybody else think it is time to cut off all funding for the countries who hate us. They will still hate us for free.
The Leftist religion in the West has adopted Islam as it militant wing. The goal is a complete leveling of society, where all judgment and choice is out of individual purview just as in Islam.
No writing will make a difference, because no one really want to believe what has been obvious to many from the start.
I find it interesting that Lewis has fallen into this narrative, though not surprised. People of his background believe that things can be managed by superior intellects such as his own, and he can make out like a bandit by doing so.
TO THE TUNE OF “LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL”
Beware of, creeping Shari’a,
We see our liberties fraying away,
Remember, somewhere, an Imam’s speaking,
Shari’a, creeping–throughout our land,
INTO OUR HOUSE*.
Jihades work hard, without complaining,
They think those virgins are coming this way!
So always look for, Shari’a creeping,
They claim we’ll be Islamic U.S.A.
The White House is SUPPOSED to belong to the people–well, for the past four (4) years it has belonged to America’s enemies. Yes, I call them out and dare them prove me wrong. When MO claims “The biggest threat to national security is obesity”, this point becomes inarguable.
Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty. But her story and her life begin in the Middle East, not the Midwest. She was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran. Her parents moved to Shiraz, known for its poets, wine and flowers, as part of a program that sent American doctors and agricultural experts to developing countries to help jump-start their health and farming efforts. Her father was on the staff of the brand new Nemazee Hospital, where Jarrett was born.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
An even better book is, THE COMING: A TRUE STORY OF HORROR @ amazon.com Read it!
Dear Dr.Bostom,
I’ve got most of your books, and enjoyed them all. But everything in your article here only focuses on the symptoms of islam. And Mr. McCarthy also ignores its basics, focusing on sect and on sharia crime (“law”) instead.
Sometimes one loses sight of the forrest by counting all the individual trees.
“Sharia” is only the codified case-law precedents determined by the four Sunni and one Shia maddhab fiqh sect leaders (who were all contemporaries of each other; not a lot of evolution there): Haneefa, Malik, Shafei, Hanbal, and Jafari.
And all they did was try to reconcile the words, actions and life of the bandit-king Muhammad with a “legal” system (impossible, of course). So their resulting compendiums of sharia are mockeries and avoidances of the one real Golden Rule moral principle, in favor of diverse and contradictory circumstances which ‘ethically’ ignore it entirely.
Since sharia is based directly on the Qur’an (God’s perfect immutable words of law) it cannot be changed.
SO ALL GOVERNMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC COUNTRIES AREN’T ALLOWED TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN LAWS!
WHAT’S THE USE OF “ELECTING” A GOVERNMENT WHICH ISN’T ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY LAWS?!
NONE, OF COURSE!
GIVING MOSLEMS ‘DEMOCRACY’ IS USELESS; THEY WILL ONLY VOTE – FOR MORE ISLAM!
SUBMIT!
And so: what exactly is islam, at its most basic? No problem was every solved by ignoring it, and we aren’t doing even any of the moslems any favors by pretending to indulge them in their historic lies (that islam is a “religion” at all, much less one “of peace”)!
These holy mobster Moslems only hate all the infidels in the world, because the Qur’an says “god” orders them to – Period.
Islam is a threat to everyone simply because IT says it is.
So, all moslems are criminals because, by their own rules, they must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an.
Because the Qur’an tells them that they are so “superior” to all non-moslem humans, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-moslems in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being moslems.
So the Qur’an is a written hate-crime book expressing a permanent death-threat.
And all threats are psychological attacks (aka: coercion, duress, extortion, “terrorism”) and all non-defensive attacks are already classified as crimes.
After all, when you attack the Others first, then, by definition, you are the predatory criminal aggressor, and they are your innocent victims – there’s no two ways about it!
(Attacking second, in defense of one’s self and/or of innocent others, is always OK, and is in fact a mandatory requirement for having any sort of deterring justice in the world at all, ever)!
We obey the Golden Rule of Law, which, by simply defining all situational morality as: “Do Not Attack First!” enables trust, progress, and Civilization.
(See all “Western” countries)!
They obey the brazen rule of chaos, which embodies immorality as: “Our god says we always have to attack all ‘The Others’ first!” and so inflicts distrust, stagnation, and Barbarism.
(See all ‘moslem’ countries)!
Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of it’s Founder:
“I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”
-Muhammad-
So obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
So, for the last 1,400 years, islam has openly declared criminal, aggressive war on all of humanity, right in their “holy” Qur’an.
And they’ve acted on it, too – with a historical average of a lot less than 1% of the global population, they’ve still managed to be responsible for over HALF of all murders (and all other crimes). Islam has killed over 270 million people (that’s OVER A QUARTER-BILLION INNOCENT LIVES SACRIFICED TO ALLAH so far)!
Islam has committed more murders (and all other crimes) than EVERY other human creed (both secular and religious)!
So, because of their official, “THOU SHALT KILL!” creed, (and even with having bred themselves up to be one fifth of the world today,) the moslems are still from between four and several hundred times more likely to commit murders (and all other crimes) than EVERYONE ELSE, combined!
BAN ISLAM – because everything moslems pretend to consider “holy” is already a crime!
;-(
Hindsight is so very accurate & rewarding…
Mullah Fubar!
“Springtime” is one word.
if they are all slaves how does one of them rise to the top of the heap to run things? ahh, I get it, it is another one of the great con’s that the rabble doesnt understand. wow, sounds like most americans. even though the answers all over the net, our ability to reason has been stripped from us without our being aware of the surgery that occurred somewhere back in say, the 3rd grade?