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Title: Egypt Gets Its Khomeini, Yusuf al-Qaradawi Returns in Triumph
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The Rubin Report
URL Source: http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/20 ... ets-its-khomeini-qaradawi.html
Published: Feb 18, 2011
Author: Barry Rubin
Post Date: 2011-02-18 08:11:56 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama Akbar, Obama Bin Laden, Barak Hussein Osama
Views: 8585
Comments: 16
Friday, February 18 may be a turning point in Egyptian history. On this day Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the best-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the world and one of the most famous Islamist thinkers, will address a mass rally in Cairo. It was 32 years ago almost to the day when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned in triumph to Tehran to take the leadership of that country. Qaradawi has a tougher job but he's up to the challenge if his health holds up. Up until now, the Egyptian revolution generally, and the Brotherhood in particular, has lacked a charismatic thinker, someone who could really mobilize the masses. Qaradawi is that man. Long resident in the Gulf, he is returning to his homeland in triumph. Through internet, radio, his 100 books, and his weekly satellite television program, Qaradawi has been an articulate voice for revolutionary Islamism. He is literally a living legend. Under the old regime, Qaradawi was banned from the country. He is now 84 years old--two years older than the fallen President Husni Mubarak--but he is tremendously energetic and clear-minded. It was Qaradawi who, in critiquing Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida, argued that Islamists should always participate in elections because they would, he claims, invariably win them. Hamas and Hizballah have shown that he was right on that point. Symbollically, he will give the Friday prayer sermon to be held in Tahrir Square, the center of the revolutionary movement. The massing of hundreds of thousands of people in the square to hear Islamic services and a sermon by a radical Islamist is not the kind of thing that's been going on under the 60-year-old military regime that was recently overthrown. The context is also the thanking of Qaradawi for his support of the revolution, an implication that he is somehow its spiritual father. Qaradawi, though some in the West view him as a moderate, supports the straight Islamist line: anti-American, anti-Western, wipe Israel off the map, foment Jihad, stone homosexuals, in short the works. One of Qaradawi's initiatives has been urging Muslims to settle in the West, of which he said, “that powerful West, which has come to rule the world, should not be left to the influence of the Jews alone.” He contends that the three major threats Muslims face are Zionism, internal integration, and globalization. To survive, he argues, Muslims must fight the Zionists, Crusaders, idolators, and Communists. Make no mistake, Qaradawi is not some fossilized Islamic ideologue. He is brilliant and innovative, tactically flexible and strategically sophisticated. He is subtle enough to sell himself as a moderate to those who don't understand the implications of his words or look beneath the surface of his presentation. What is his view of both the Mubarak regime and the young, Facebook-flourishing liberals who made the revolution? As he said in 2004: “Some Arab and Muslim secularists are following the U.S. government by advocating the kind of reform that will disarm the nation from the elements of strength that are holding our people together.” Have no doubt. It is Qaradawi, not bin Ladin, who is the most dangerous revolutinary Islamist in the world and he is about to unleash the full force of his power and persuasion on Egypt. Who are you going to bet on being more influential, a Google executive and an unorganized band of well-intentioned liberal Egyptians or the world champion radical Islamist cleric? Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His books include Islamic Fundamentalists in Egyptian Politics and The Muslim Brotherhood (Palgrave-Macmillan); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East, a study of Arab reform movements (Wiley). GLORIA Center site: www.gloria-center.org His blog, Rubin Reports, www.rubinreports.blogspot.com.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
What a total crock of shit this article is.
When war says it, it must be so. We all know what an expert on radical Islam and the Middle East in general you are. I'll bet you know almost as much on the topic as Dhimmi Carter, Barry Hussein Osama, and the Clap-on/Clap-off Intel Czar combined. /sarc
The US will intervene with troops if Bahrain's king is threatened. "This isn't about removing a despot. It's about class warfare, of which no one will speak in western media. The revolution signals the rise of organized labor, a frontal assault on the Washington Consensus, and the race-to-the-bottom regime that has pushed Egyptian workers to the breaking point. This didn't happen overnight; these forces have been coalescing for a long time and now the tinder has been lit.
Plagarism will no longer be tolerated. I've warned you about this before. Put the source for every quote you make. Why do you liberals steal others words and make them as your own. You cut and paste and try to make us think you wrote those words. Here is the source for the words you made as your own. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27504.htm It was by Mike Whitey, not you.
I give a fuck. And this is bullshit. "You cut and paste and try to make us think you wrote those words." I tell anyone and everyone who asks. It's evident to all. Here is the source for the words you made as your own. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27504.htm It was by Mike Whitey, not you. Exactly. See how easy that was? Take a poll. Or like the King of Saudi Arabia, yours is the only vote that matters. LMFAO 8D USbpEcocide. 8D Consider me the anti christ. Do a Goldi.
So we have to put all your words in a search engine to see if you made them up yourself or if you are stealing someone elses words? No. Put the source. Thank You.
That would be nice, because google would INSTANTLY give credit to both me and YOU for popularizing the Quote. And the author would get credit as well. The new MEME. ;}
Stealing? Is that wrong? So the Federal Reserve and the Top 500 Corporations and the Top 50 000 should be the object of your wrath. Instead you decide to come down hard on the messenger. You Are on my side, aren't you A K? ;}
I just want the sources there. Not going to debate it anymore. I don't dislike you, although I think you are out there sometimes. I think you have legitimate concerns about the things you quote from. Thanks.
me neither. 8D Sydney's hottest ever week. Australia's biggest ever cyclone. This is a land of seriously scary superlatives. 4:25 AM Feb 2nd Some Twitter somewhere. 8D
Ironic - just as the "Washington Consensus" is coming home to roost.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
You need to copy Mammy "Murron" Yokum on that. She plagarizes 10x more than James here does.
Tell it to Murron. James nearly always cuts and pastes some interesting stuff and has done so for years. Why the hard-on for him now?
You know I will test this the next time the usual right wing suspect(s) engages in this. I support this policy not to tolerate this, but I hope this means it will be tolerated if you like the person doing it, but won't if you don't.
And I would point out she started her latest whining at and about me when I pointed out a screed she did mocking war came from the Muppet's Scrooge special. She has always been a word thief ever since she showed up at eLPee as Mom_ Grandmother.
There is no irony. The Domestic MIRRORS the Foreign. And as the US only has a military component for it's foreign, it only has a Police State component for domestic. Same results.
#2. To: war (#1)
What a total crock of shit
#3. To: war (#1)
#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Plagarism will no longer be tolerated.
#6. To: mcgowanjm (#5)
Exactly. See how easy that was?
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)
So we have to put all your words in a search engine
#8. To: A K A Stone (#6)
to see if you made them up yourself or if you are stealing someone elses words?
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Not going to debate it anymore.
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
The revolution signals the rise of organized labor, a frontal assault on the Washington Consensus, and the race-to-the-bottom regime that has pushed Egyptian workers to the breaking point.
#12. To: A K A Stone, Ferret Mike (#4)
#13. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Plagarism will no longer be tolerated.
#14. To: A K A Stone (#4)
"Plagarism will no longer be tolerated."
#15. To: Fred Mertz, Murron, A K A Stone, war (#13)
(Edited)
#16. To: lucysmom (#11)
Ironic - just as the "Washington Consensus" is coming home to roost.
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