By Barry Rubin
The problem is that
the list is getting longer. Back in May, when the Muslim Brotherhood government
was expected to be in power forever, for example, an Egyptian imam, Muhammad al-Zughbi, had
the following sets of people he wanted to wipe out. He called on Allah to protect
Egypt from:
--”Manipulators and the corrupt.’’ In
other words from the usual ruling riff-raff who defied social justice.
--”From the criminal
traitors,” anyone who is a non-Islamist ruler.
--“The criminal
rafidites [Shiites]. In fact for these fellow Muslims we hear intended to:
-- Destroy Bashar
[al-Assad, Syria’s ruler] the Shiite Iranians, Hizballah, that infidel, Hassan
Nasrallah [leader of Hizballah]. Inflict cancer and pain upon him [I can tell
you personally that’s no joke], and the Shiites of Iraq. That’s tens of
millions of people.
Oh Allah, their children and infants are
slaughtered with knives in front of their fathers and their mothers. Have mercy
upon the infants and the children. Girls, women, and mothers were raped by the
rafidite Shiites.
Oh Allah, have mercy
upon them! The rafidite Shiites slaughtered them in their homes, in front of
their families. Have mercy upon the children and upon the girls who were raped.
Have mercy upon the Sunnis. Have mercy! We do not plead with presidents,
ministers, kings, or princes.”
--Then, of course,
“destroy the accursed Jews” and “kill them all,” that’s another dozen million.
Note though a conflict: “turn their children into orphans and their wives into
widows.” The problem though is that if all are killed
our .;/. children will not remain as orphans but will
be dead, too. Also if all adults are dead, their wives won’t be around to be
widows.
--“Oh Allah, destroy
the Arab rulers. Bring dark hours upon them, and demonstrate the wonders of Your
might upon them. Oh Allah, abandon them, just as they abandoned Syria. Oh
Allah, destroy them and put them to shame for the whole world to see.”
All of them?
Wasn’t Mursi an “Arab ruler?” No! He and other Sunni Islamists are Islamic rulers. Everyone else
should be overthrown. The Arab rulers as such deserve no loyalty or support.
Now tell me if this
is the set-up for a massacre:
”Oh Allah, support
the Sunnis in Syria. Everybody ganged up against them, and deceivers deceived
them. Oh Allah, the rulers of the Arabs and the Muslims united against them.
They are hypocrites, along with the accursed U.S.A., for the benefit of Israel.
Oh Allah, the rafidite Shiites from Iran, from Hizballah, and from Iraq came to
them, slaughtered their sons, and humiliated their women.”
Note some points.
The Sunni Islamists must believe that the United States against them. America
can never be helping the Brotherhood because America is evil and satanic. If
the United States does help the Brotherhood and Islamists it must only be
seeking to help coopt them, to make them traitors. Thus, the United States is
thus evil and should be punished.
But notice the same
point applies to others. Al-Qaida killed a senior commander of the Free Syrian
Army. Why did they do it, so as to “divide” the rebels? Because they do want to
divide the rebels. They wish to sabotage any chance that the West will aid the
rebels who, despite their common opposition to the Syrian regime, are enemies
over future power.
Why then might help
from the U.S. government for the Brotherhood to rule Egypt or Tunisia or Syria,
be welcomed? The United States must be blamed. Wait until after the Obama
Administration helps the Syrian rebels into power and then have them blame the
Americans for allegedly helping keep in power the Assad regime.
But as for the Brotherhood it has an enemies
list much too long. The West, the Shias, the Jews, the “Arabs,” the Christians,
and Egypt’s army, plus more. A clever revolutionary movement builds alliances;
a foolish one just makes enemies.
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