US Promoting Extremist Muslims Takeover in north Africa, Middle East & Beyond

FROM MY FRIEND AMBASSADOR GAJENDRA SINGH

US Promoting Extremist Muslims Takeover in north Africa, Middle East & Beyond

India Remains a Collateral Victim of US/Riyadh Afghan Jihad

 

It is more than a year since the oppressed Arabs from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond revolted against their dictatorial and feudal oppressive regimes and kingdoms, most of them US puppets or fully supported by the West.

 

Wrote C Gharekhan a few weeks ago,"It is still early to come to any conclusion about the -- the churning in West Asia. Things are far from settled. The euphoria generated by the Jasmine and Tahrir revolutions has all but dissipated during the past year. The unrealistic expectations, the hype built up mainly by the western governments and the media have given way to doubt disappointment and even despair over the fate of 'Arab Spring.' The concern of most observers in the international community is now focused on the direction in which "people's movements" in various countries will proceed, and on the loss of lives that occurred in Libya, Yemen and, to a less extent, Egypt, and that is continuing in Syria and can be expected to happen in some other countries in the region in the coming months. It is a sad commentary on the rest of the international community that it unhesitatingly adopts the terminology coined by the West to describe the historic events in West Asia. 'Arab Spring' or 'Arab Awakening' is a condescending description; it suggests that the people of West Asia have been sleeping all these decades, not caring for freedoms enjoyed by people elsewhere. The fact is that non-regional governments have been supporting the authoritarian regimes through massive supply of deadly weapons and technology, which were used to suppress the people."

 

Full article http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2799237.ece?homepage=true

 

It soon became clear that suspecting such movements of revolts ,Washington and poodle UK and France infiltrated and organized groups of disaffected Arabs and with financing from Saudi Arabia ( remember the Afghan Jihad of 1980s against USSR) and upstart Qatar ( what shining examples of freedom and democracy they are !) taking over these events something like the franchised street revolutions West organized in East Europe and central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union , with some successes and some reversal /failures too. 

John R. Bradley, a British expert on the Middle East recently told Russian TV. (Watch it as an antidote to western lies and propaganda and Indian media ignorance). 

The turbulence that saw several governments overthrown in 2011 came from sectarian divide among Muslims, which the West played on, to support its own allies. (Divide and rule is old imperialist policy. How very effective it has proved in partitioned Hindustan -editor) 

Bradley says; 

"What we're seeing is a Sunni-Shiite divide reemerge in the Middle East with Washington clearly backing the Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, a close American ally. And Saudi Arabia in turn along with Qatar has taken control of the revolutions elsewhere.

 "For example it's funding the Ennahda, the main Islamist party in Tunisia. The Muslim Brotherhood and more extremist Salafi groups in Egypt on the record were saying they received substantial funds from Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni government has openly criticized Qatar for interfering in its internal affairs and funding radical Islamists. And of course in Syria the main civilian opposition is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the so-called Free Syrian Army is dominated by not only radical jihadists from within Syria, but also by jihadists from throughout the region," said Bradley

(Turkey's Islamist AK Party of Erdogan has received $ billions in investment in AKP areas of influence and as outright gifts- But Ankara's pro-Riyadh policies are unraveling- Editor)

Bradley added little doubt that citizens of the countries hit by the Arab Spring had reason to criticize their authorities, but contrary to western audiences' beliefs [ propaganda Editor] , the lack of political rights was far from being the most important factor.[i.e. revolt of 99% against 1%, except in India]

"The motivation for these revolutions was economic. In Tunisia for example it started with the impoverished and neglected Deep South. In Syria it started in Daraa, a city near Jordan, which has been experiencing drought for three years. And in Egypt an extensive opinion poll carried out among those who went to Tahrir just after Mubarak fell showed that only 19 per cent of them put free and fair election and free expression and so on, on top of their agenda. The main priority for 65 percent was the economy," he added.

 People [ like Salafis and Muslims Brothers] more concerned with a power grab than improving lives were quick to seize the opportunity, Bradley explains. 

"Now the people who provoked these revolutions foolishly declared their revolutions leaderless and they didn't have an agenda. Anyone who knows anything about revolutionary uprisings in the past… knows that what happens in the post-revolutionary chaos is that the groups that are most disciplined and most ruthless politically then fill the vacuum. When you couple that with the funding that we were talking about from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, able to manipulate the electoral process, they were perfectly poised to step into the gap and fill the vacuum and that's what they've done," he concludes

 

Whether USA which spends over $700 billion on defense or rather on attacking or browbeating the rest of the world, since last few years on borrowed money from China, Japan etc, collapses sooner or later in its actions and activities against international law as in Iraq and even Libya, one fact is likely to emerge clearly .That the extremist Muslim Organisations will fill the space vacated by pro-West secular dictatorships.

 

Like the collapse of the two empires Roman/Byzantine and Persian, before the advent of Islam in seventh century from the arid Arabian desert and its spread from Morocco to the border of China, Muslim Brotherhoods, Salafis and Wahabis, Taliban and their kind might take over Muslim lands in north Africa, Middle east and try to even penetrate in central Asia and South Asia fully.

 

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism and nationalism has been condemned and neo-liberalism and war and energy and financial interests have taken over the West .If such a catastrophe strikes and Wahabism and its other strands take over in Arab lands as in Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, courtesy (money from Saudi Arabia and other GCC members)

Then remember what Taliban (created by Islamabad, Saudi Arabia with Washington approval) did to human rights, women rights .Read below what a Muslim Sister / woman member of Muslim Brotherhood has to say about MB. It is all known to all. 

(Note ; 81 million Egypt contains a quarter of the Arab world's people. Nearly half of Egyptians are functionally illiterate. Nine-tenths of adult women have suffered genital mutilation. Almost a third of Egyptians marry first or second cousins, the fail-safe indicator of a clan-based society. Half of Egyptians live on less than $2 a day, and must spend half of that on food)

 

AL MASRY AL YOUM.

 

EGYPT INDEPENDENT

Mon, 16/01/2012 - 13:35 

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/603661

In memoir, ex-Muslim Sister paints an unflattering picture

Author: Noha El-Hennawy

As the Muslim Brotherhood strives to project the image of a moderate and democratic political organization, a book featuring the angry account of a former member has hit the market.

"The Memoirs of a Former Sister: My Story with the Muslim Brotherhood" is the testimony of Intissar Abdel Moneim, an Alexandria-based novelist and author. With a compelling style and sharp language, the book takes the reader on a journey exploring the internal politics of the 83-year-old organization, placing special emphasis on discrimination against female members.

Throughout her work, Abdel Moneim decries the sisters' internalization of oppression as women are socialized in a way that compels them to accept male dominance within the organization — and the household.

Early in the book, Abdel Moneim condemns what could be interpreted as the Brotherhood's exploitation of the permissibility of polygamy in Islam.

"One of the areas where the Brothers have exploited the idea of blind obedience and submission is polygamy," she writes, adding that a brother would take second and third wives for no valid reason. "When the [first] wife complains, a session is held for her where other sisters would remind her of the importance of obedience, patience and submission to God's will and to [the husband]'s will," she writes.

To understand the roots of the subjugation of women, Abdel Moneim unpacks the writings of Hassan al-Banna, the group's late founder. Here, the author summons her courage and puts forth a vehement critique of the group's canonized leader, who is rarely questioned, even by the most vocal ex-brothers.

Banna's teachings sought to limit women to "catering to their husbands' desires and to reproduction," Abdel Moneim writes.  

The book dismisses Banna's dictum that there is no need to invest heavily in girls' education and that women should be trained only to serve as housewives and mothers. Abdel Moneim feels that this sentiment is contradictory to true Islam.

"It is true that Islam says that a woman's primary role is to raise children, but it does not say that this is her only role and that she should not do anything beyond it. Neither the Koran nor the Sunna [Prophet Mohamed's sayings and deeds] nor the sayings of the prophet's companions and successors barred her from learning any sciences. The matter has been left for her to decide, according to her needs and circumstances," writes Abdel Moneim.

She goes on to criticize Banna's insistence that men and women should be separated. With a scathingly sarcastic tone, the author argues that Banna's view portrays humans as if they are mere animals who have little control over their impulses.

"You cannot by any logic perceive all people as mere female and male sex organs that roam the streets looking for the moment of intercourse like cats," the book reads. Abdel Moneim attributes Banna's rigid outlook to his rural background.

This outlook still shapes the group's perception of women's roles within the organization and in the society at large. It justifies why the Muslim Sisters' division cannot operate independently from the Brothers, why no woman is admitted into the group's highest bodies, namely the Shura Council and the Guidance Bureau, and why the group will not acknowledge a woman's right to rule, according to the book.

This does not mean that the group never deviated from this ideology. In the lead-up to the 2005 parliamentary elections, it relied heavily on the sisters to campaign for male candidates, says Abdel Moneim.

"Nobody was saying then that women should be staying at home, raising children and beautifying themselves for their husbands. ... All of a sudden women providing logistical support became crucial," she writes sarcastically. To her, this deviation stemmed from the group's lust for political power, which required mobilizing all its resources to win seats in the elections.

The book came out in the midst of Egypt's first post-Hosni Mubarak parliamentary poll. The Muslim Brotherhood has proven itself the most popular political faction and the key civilian player in the new order. The group has already risen as the largest bloc in the People's Assembly by garnering nearly 40 percent of the seats. The Brotherhood is expected to achieve similar gains in the Shura Council vote scheduled to begin later this month.

Since Mubarak's ouster, the group has strived to assuage concerns about its political and social outlook by claiming that it holds a genuine belief in democracy and equality between all citizens regardless of their faith and gender. To prove that they had relinquished their gender and religious bias, the Brotherhood fielded Copts and women on their electoral lists. Yet, these attempts were unable to completely alleviate the fears of liberals and secularists that the group still flirts with a rigid Islamic outlook.

By the same critical token, the author bashes the Brotherhood's internal dynamics, arguing that it is based on nepotism rather than merit. To substantiate her claim, she refers to her personal experience recounting that she was not easily admitted into the group because she was not the daughter, the sister or the wife of one of the Muslim Brotherhood's heroic or wealthy figures. For both men and women, such family ties are required to facilitate one's upward mobility within the organization, according to Abdel Moneim. 

Meanwhile, the author coins the phrase "the Muslim Brotherhood's classism" to describe the full submission of rank-and-file members to their leaders. She borrows the analogy put forward by a former Muslim Brotherhood leader who drew parallels between the organization and an electricity-providing company that needs lots of workers (rank-and-file members) and few engineers.

"It is illogical for a worker to bypass his master or demand that his position be improved even if he proves himself," Abdel Moneim writes. "Otherwise, he will be violating the group's charter and instilling divisions. This is probably the Muslim Brotherhood's interpretation of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm.'"

Although the book is presented as a memoir, it provides very little biographical information about the author. The reader finishes the book not knowing Abdel Moneim's age, when and how she joined the Brotherhood and what year she left the group. Toward the middle of the book, the author implies that she became a sister after marrying a brother. Nothing is mentioned about this brother, who seemed to have joined the group with ease.

Yet the book has not failed to cause a stir. Earlier this month, the Muslim Brotherhood rushed to sue the privately owned Al-Fagr newspaper for running a sensational review of the book that accused the organization of abusing women sexually and politically.

Surprisingly enough, the group has declined to sue the book's author. In an interview with a local website, Mahmoud Ghazlan, the Brotherhood's spokesperson, downplayed the book's impact.

"The Muslim Brotherhood is much bigger than a woman or a man. We will not preoccupy ourselves with whoever leaves us, insults us or publishes a book," Ghazlan said.

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