Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas collaborating, seeking to increase their roles in Egypt + Marxism interjected into Egyptian Uprising? Islam + Marxism = Islamic Socialism?

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January 30, 2011

No surprise here. After all, Hamas identifies itself in its charter as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. “Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas seek to increase role in Egypt : Stratfor,” from International Business Times, January 29 (thanks to Mackie):

The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are collaborating and seeking to increase their roles in Egypt….The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic opposition party in Egypt, is picking up the pieces left by President Hosni Mubarak’s police force by forming committees to protect public property. …

The Muslim Brotherhood is also supplying protesters with food and first aid.

Moreover, there are unconfirmed reports that as Egypt’s border with Palestine becomes unpatrolled, “Hamas armed men are entering into Egypt” and seeking collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hamas is a Palestinian/Islamic political/terrorist organization that was founded as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“There is a great deal of concern building in Israel and the United States… [over] whether a political opening will be made for the Islamist organization in Egypt,” said Stratfor.

LINK

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NOW ADD THIS VIDEO.  LISTEN CAREFULLY ABOUT ANTI-AMERICANISM and ANTI-ISRAEL from 0:10 to 0:24.

Why they hate Mubarak: “He is supporting Israel. Israel is our enemy…If people are free in Egypt…they gonna destroy Israel”

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WHY WERE U.S. SOCIALISTS RALLYING IN SUPPORT OF EGYPT THIS WEEKEND?

January 30, 2011

By Jonathon M. Seidl

U.S. leftist and socialist groups staged rallies across the country in support of Egyptian protesters. It’s a curious phenomenon, so we decided to dig deeper. Here’s what we found. Some of it will surprise you, and unfortunately some of it will not.

Connecting the dots

Your e-mails hit my inbox Saturday evening with a vengeance. Something wasn’t right with the pictures featured in our story of U.S. protests across the country meant to show solidarity with the Egyptian people. Those pictures must have been photoshopped, one person said, because they showed something almost too strange to be true. That “something” included signs instructing anyone who saw them to visit leftist websites — one called ChicagoANSWER.net and the other PSLweb.org. An examination of more photos revealed ads for two other sites: IACcenter.org and AnswerCoalition.org.


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Indeed, a recently posted article on the national ANSWER site boasts about the group’s involvement in the protests. For example, it explains how the Chicago event included a local ANSWER leader who preached an anti-U.S. message to the frenzied crowd. “The same war machine that sends tear gas to Mubarak and bulldozers to murder the Palestinians denies us jobs, healthcare, housing and equality here in the United States,” Heather Benno said.

LINK

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ElBaradei: Muslim Brotherhood threat is a myth pushed by dictatorial regime

Listen carefully from 1:00 to 1:40.  “Muslim Brotherhood are part of the Egyptian society as much as the Marxist party here.”

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**Comment made by viewer of the above video***

ElBaradei seems to me to be fooling himself about the Muslim Brotherhood from what I can tell about them. Qutb who basically wrote the text books for Al Qaeda was one of the Brotherhood’s leading intellectuals. Has the Brotherhood repudiated Qutb? Al Qaeda #2 was a Brotherhood member. The Brotherhood’s “spiritual” leader is Qaradawi whose made so many extremist comments on gays, jihad, terrorism, beating, apostasy, etc. there’s no room here and Qaradawi is banned in the US ’cause of terrorism.

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From the New York Times:

Egyptian Youths Drive the Revolt Against Mubarak

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MICHAEL SLACKMAN

Published: January 26, 2011

**Excerpt**

Dr. ElBaradei, for his part, has struggled for nearly a year to unite the opposition under his umbrella group, the National Association for Change. [Emphasis added] But some have mocked him as a globe-trotting dilettante who spends much of his time abroad instead of on the barricades.

He has said in interviews that he never presented himself as a political savior, and that Egyptians would have to make their own revolution. Now, he said, the youth movement “will give them the self-confidence they needed, to know that the change will happen through you and not through one person — you are the driving force.”

And Dr. ElBaradei argued that by upsetting the old relationship between Mr. Mubarak and the Brotherhood, the youth movement posed a new challenge to United States policy makers as well.

“For years,” he said, “the West has bought Mr. Mubarak’s demonization of the Muslim Brotherhood lock, stock and barrel, the idea that the only alternative here are these demons called the Muslim Brotherhood who are the equivalent of Al Qaeda.”

He added: “I am pretty sure that any freely and fairly elected government in Egypt will be a moderate one, but America is really pushing Egypt and pushing the whole Arab world into radicalization with this inept policy of supporting repression.”

The roots of the uprising that filled Egypt’s streets this week arguably stretch back to before the Tunisian revolt, which many protesters cited as the catalyst. Almost three years ago, on April 6, 2008, the Egyptian government crushed a strike by a group of textile workers in the industrial city of Mahalla, and in response a group of young activists who connected through Facebook and other social networking Web sites formed the April 6th Youth Movement in solidarity with the strikers.

Their early efforts to call a general strike were a bust. But over time their leaderless online network and others that sprang up around it — like the networks that helped propel the Tunisian revolution — were uniquely difficult for the Egyptian security police to pinpoint or wipe out. It was an online rallying cry for a show of opposition to tyranny, corruption and torture that brought so many to the streets on Tuesday and Wednesday, unexpectedly vaulting the online youth movement to the forefront as the most effective independent political force in Egypt.

“It would be criminal for any political party to claim credit for the mini-Intifada we had yesterday,” said Hossam el-Hamalawy, a blogger and activist.

Mr. Mubarak’s government, though, is so far sticking to a familiar script. Against all evidence, his interior minister immediately laid blame for Wednesday’s unrest at the foot of the government’s age-old foe, the Muslim Brotherhood.

This time, though, the Brotherhood disclaimed responsibility, saying it was only one part of Dr. ElBaradei’s umbrella group. “People took part in the protests in a spontaneous way, and there is no way to tell who belonged to what,” said Gamal Nassar, a media adviser for the Brotherhood, noting the near-total absence of any group’s signs or slogans, including the Brotherhood’s.

“Everyone is suffering from social problems, unemployment, inflation, corruption and oppression,” he said. “So what everyone is calling for is real change.”

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ABOUT the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for CHANGE

National Association for Change (Arabic: الجمعية الوطنية للتغيير‎) is a loose grouping of the various Egyptian of all political affiliations and religion, men and women, including representatives of civil society and young people aims to change Egypt. There was general agreement on the need to unite all the voices calling for change within a National Assembly.  Mohamed ElBaradei is in-charge of the National Association for Change. The movement aims for general reforms in the political scene and achieving some of those procedures and guarantees necessitates the amendment of articles 76, 77, and 88 of the constitution as soon as possible. Worth mentioning is that the banned political group the Muslim Brotherhood were represented by one of their key figures who attended the meeting however their stand in accepting a non-member of their group as a candidate is yet unclear. It is also unknown whether Amr Moussa the head of the Arab League who met with Elbaradei a day earlier will be part of the new movement[1].

The goal of the group is to bring about political reform based on democracy and social justice[1].

Link

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ADD THIS:

Workers of the World Unite: The American Left’s Role in Leading Mid-East Regime Change

 

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Islamic socialism


History

Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, a Companion of Prophet Muḥammad, is credited by many as the founder of Islamic socialism.[1][2][3][4][5] He protested against the accumulation of wealth by the ruling class during ‘Uthmān‘s caliphate and urged the equitable redistribution of wealth. Some Orientalists believe that there exist a number of parallels between Islamic economics and communism, including the Islamic ideas of zakat and riba[6][7].

Islamic welfare state

Main article: Bayt al-mal

The concepts of welfare and pension were introduced in early Islamic law as forms of Zakat (charity), one of the Five Pillars of Islam, under the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century. This practiced continued well into the Abbasid era of the Caliphate. The taxes (including Zakat and Jizya) collected in the treasury of an Islamicgovernment were used to provide income for the needy, including the poorelderlyorphanswidows, and the disabled. According to the Islamic jurist Al-Ghazali(Algazel, 1058–1111), the government was also expected to stockpile food supplies in every region in case a disaster or famine occurred. The Caliphate can thus be considered the world’s first major welfare state.[8][9]

Modern Islamic socialism

The first experimental Islamic commune was established during the Russian Revolution of 1917 as part of the Wäisi movement, an early supporter of the Soviet government. The Muslim Socialist Committee of Kazan was also active at this time.

Muammar al-Gaddafi, who seized power in Libya with a military coup in 1969, called his ruling ideology “Islamic socialism”.

Other notable Muslim socialists include:

Islamic Marxism

Islamic Marxism is a term that has been used to describe Ali Shariati (in Shariati and Marx: A Critique of an “Islamic” Critique of Marxism by Assef Bayat). It is also sometimes used in discussions of the 1979 Iranian revolution, including parties such as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization.[10]

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So WHAT is actually happening in Egypt?

ElBaradei has been working on presidency since 2010.

ElBaradei is pro Socialism.  His view of the Muslim Brotherhood is one that they are “Egyptian people as much as the Marxist people here”.

IF Mubarak (quasi-dictator) is thrown out of office, WHAT form of government will take its place?  One of true freedom for the Egyptian people; or one in the style of Libya’s Mummar al-Gaddafi?

Should America still send relief/support $$ to Egypt?

IF a Middle East War erupts of Arab countries vs. Israel; WHOSE side will Obama choose to be on?

YOU DECIDE.




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  1. I have just seen numerous reports of a leading Iman there warning Israel to prepare for war.
    And one would be shocked by this? I repeat! This appears to be the lion going after the wounded prey!
    Could all the turmoil we are seeing in Muslim countries be an offshoot of perceived weakness on the part of the United States and her allies! I for one have always felt this President is firmly on the side of the Muslim world as a whole. Certainly he is the most antagonistic President as in his stance on Israel I have ever seen. This new Iranian poster boy feels the President WILL NOT do anything other than to warn Israel to stand back and let the events take their course.
    As we now are at the point in which we have elected officials telling the Muslim world this country is full of racist hate and an administration that in almost every stance is extremely ” Anti-American ideals” why should one be surprised that these radical Muslim Fundamentalists are taking their shots now? After all, this is the administration that just the other day as an example declared the Egyptian government was stable. No surprise from the blind mice running the show in D.C. now is it?
    It is my understanding Iran is ecstatic about the coming regime change in Egypt. If so, what does this do to the region? It in fact puts another knife at Israel’s throat along with another one aimed squarely at the U.S. which we know for sure will threaten oil supplies and therefore raise oil prices thus causing more economic problems.
    And for one to be “surprised that the Anti-Israel rhetoric has started to emanate from the Egyptian protesters only shows how far up their rears this administration and the apologists for the Radical Muslims have their heads stuck! Combine that with El Baradei, another poster boy from Iran and one has to expect the worst case scenario.
    One can agree that this has been something that has been festering in Egypt for quite sometime. However, as we have learned with the failed feel good Socialist policies being shoved down out throats here, there is always the law of unintended consequences. One feels in this case, the consequences can and will be disastrous.


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