by Richard Butrick
The general position of the Obama administration toward the Muslim Brotherhood is that, despite the fears of alarmists regarding the radical pronouncements and mission statement of the Brotherhood, once the organization is faced with the realities of governance and working within the community of nations, they will govern as any pragmatic, problem-solving nation must to provide economic and political security for their people.
Let me quote from an account of how Hindenburg, president of Weimar Germany, was persuaded to co-opt Hitler and his Nazi movement by bringing Hitler into his administration.
In
the later years of his presidency, Hindenburg was heavily influenced by
those who surrounded him -- especially his son. Hindenburg showed more
and more signs of senility and was open to their suggestions. Though he
disliked Hitler because he did not come from the right social class and
had only been a corporal in the war, he was persuaded to appoint him
chancellor in January 1933. The constitution gave him the power to do
this. Hindenburg had been persuaded by his son and Franz von Papen, that
Hitler could be controlled and that if anything went wrong, then Hitler
and the Nazis would get the blame thus damaging their political
standing in Germany. Von Papen hoped that he would set the political
agenda and that Hitler would simply agree to this.
They pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes. Here is the account from the Toronto Sun:
Instead,
what she received was a barrage of tomatoes and shoes thrown at her by
an angry Egyptian crowd who were clearly convinced the Americans had
facilitated the takeover of Egypt by the radical Islamist Muslim
Brotherhood.
As
Clinton met with Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed
Morsi, demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to
protest America's uncritical support for the new Islamist regime in
Cairo. Protesters held signs reading "Message to Hillary: Egypt will
never be Pakistan," and "If you like the Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood],
take them with you!"
But
what we also want to do is to shrink the pool of potential recruits.
And that involves engaging the Islamic world rather than vilifying it,
and making sure that we understand that not only are those in Islam who
would resort to violence a tiny fraction of the Islamic world, but that
also, the Islamic world itself is diverse.
Here is an account of how the tiny-fraction-peaceful-majority delusion played out according to a Holocaust survivor. The source of this account is problematic, but, real or spurious, it hits the mark. The survivor was asked how many German people were true Nazis.
Very
few people were true Nazis but many enjoyed the return of German pride,
and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just
thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back
and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we
had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost
everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed
my factories.
One would think that even a casual knowledge of the history of Islamic plundering and persecution of non-Islamic cultures would disabuse the Obama/Clinton team of their fatal attraction to the it-is-not-Islam meme. Over the last 1,400 years, 270 million non-believers were murdered by Muslim jihadists. Islam destroyed the Christian Middle East and Christian North Africa. It is estimated that upwards of 60 million Christians were slaughtered during this conquest. Also, half the Hindu civilization was annihilated and 80 million Hindus murdered. Islamic jihad also destroyed over 10 million Buddhists. But evidently the 1,400 years of Islamic persecution does not make a dent in the idée fixe.
Reaction to recent events in Benghazi as well as other attacks on American consulates serve only to bear out the Obama/Clinton fatal attraction to the meme that Islam-is-not-the-issue.
Just recently we were assured by Susan Rice, Obama's ambassador to the U.N., that despite what happened in Libya, the majority of peace-loving Muslims in Libya really like and respect Americans. Rice is convinced that it is all just acting out over an offensive film and that when they chant "Death to America," they really don't mean it. In fact, the U.S. is really "extremely popular."
When signs in the Arab street say "Death to America" or "To hell with Freedom" or "Islam will dominate the world", they don't really mean that. Not according to Susan Rice. The ambassador is so far gone into the imaginary world of the religion of peace that when Islamists shout "Death to America," she hears "Hail to America."
The Obama administration has doubled down on Islam-is-not-the-issue meme. Even after the events in Libya and Egypt, Obama can't bring himself to say "Muslim fanatics" or "Islamic terrorists." You can't say "Muslim fanatics" because not all Muslims are fanatics. You can't say "Islamic terrorists" because not all Islamic peoples are terrorists (you can't say Russian astronauts because not all Russians are astronauts?) In fact, most are peace-loving, etc., etc. As long as the Islamic world is engaged with "deference" instead of "vilified," all will be peace and harmony. The Obama administration has overlaid the Islam-is-not-the-issue meme with the peaceful-majority delusion. It is the delusion that lures them into the belief that the Muslim Brotherhood can be co-opted.
Time to crawl out from under the Islam-is-not-the-issue-peaceful-majority-delusion. Time to concentrate on the fanatical sharia-heads who lead the "peaceful majority" by the nose. Time for a war on mullahs. The first step would be to kick out the Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi mullahs spewing anti-Enlightenment venom from mosques across the U.S. The next step would be to declare war on monomanical mullahs across the Middle East, starting with Iran. Forget the peaceful majority. It's the mullahs, stupid. The Muslim Brotherhood is the bowdlerized front for Islamic supremacism -- and it is the Obama/Clinton team that has been co-opted, and not vice-versa.
Richard Butrick
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/its_the_mullahs_stupid.html
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