Obama's new BFF, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The other day was a turning point in American history.
There were no banner headlines to mark the occasion. Editorial pages hardly took notice. But a Rubicon has been passed. That moment occurred when President Obama welcomed the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood into the White House. By rolling out the red carpet Obama legitimized terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood are a Jew-hating, genocidal-yearning Islamic movement whose platform calls for the imposition of a caliphate ruled by sharia across the globe.
And if you really care about a war on women, look no further than the barbarians of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama believes that he can tame the Brotherhood. He is gravely mistaken. The Brotherhood is in the process of taming Obama—not a difficult task—and the West.
This is all so familiar. We have seen it before when the Roman empire succumbed to the barbarian hordes.
How did the barbarians overcome and eventually annihilate the Roman empire? We can predict the future if we examine the past.
Rome was ravaged by intercine wars, runaway inflation, and crushing taxes which decimated the middle class. The depopulation of the empire by dwindling numbers of Roman citizens due to a low birth rate was a major cause of downfall. Romans wanted to have a good time rather than do the hard work of raising children. And finally, the greatest body blow to Rome was, according to historian Eileen Power, the peaceful infiltration of barbarians into Roman society, a gradual process that altered and doomed that empire.
Like the Islamization of Europe, and now America—for Obama the Brotherhood are Jeremiah Wright redux—the slow annihilation of civilized society is misunderstood and misinterpreted.
In Medieval People, Ms. Power summarizes how a civilization commits suicide:
All of them were making the same mistake. People thought that Rome could swallow barbarism and absorb it into her life without diluting her own civilization; the people who ran about busily saying that the barbarians were not such bad fellows after all, finding good points in their regime with which to castigate the Romans and crying that except ye become as little barbarians ye shall not attain salvation; the people who did not observe in 476 that one half of the Republica Roamnorum had ceased to exist and nourished themselves on the fiction that the barbarian kings were exercising a power delegated from the Emperor. All these people were deluded by the same error, the belief that Rome (the civilization of their age) was not a mere historical fact with a beginning and an end, but a condition of nature like the air they breathed and the earth they tread Ave Roma immortalis, most magnificent most disastrous of creeds!
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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A few months ago, I did some reading on the decline of the Western Roman Empire and was startled by the parallels, as you’ve listed above, Robert.
To which I might add, a concentration of political and bureaucratic power and nepotism. It doesn’t bode well for the USA in the 21st century, does it?
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Mr. Avrech,
Got some time on my hands. Apropos of nothing, I just witnessed a remarkable scene on CSpan. Just a few moments ago, the opening speaker at Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton’s (that’s how he was introduced) National Action thing was none other than the attorney general of the United States of America, Eric Holder. Let that one sink in for a moment….pretty disgusting, no (and I’m a liberal)? Very telling, in an upsetting kind of way.
Ciarrai
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Ciarrai:
Holder, like his boss Obama, is a national disgrace.
With all due respect, I think your days of identifying as a liberal are over:-)
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So, I guess it has come to the point that our fearless leaders call a group that officially declared war on the United States is their friend.
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D_mnFinn:
The Obama doctrine: Betray your allies, suck up to America’s enemies.
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Jimmy Carter probably thought he could control the Ayatollah. How’d that work out?
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Johnny:
I predicted that Obama would be Jimmy Carter II. I was wrong. Obama’s worse.
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Years ago when I was in Cairo I saw the grandstand where Anwar Sadat – the man who brought peace to Egypt and Israel – was gunned down – by Egyptian military members in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sadat’s tomb is right across the wide boulevard from the grandstands.
The Muslim Brogtherhood help spawn al Queda, (it was Ayman al-Zawahiri, the radical Egyptian physician who united with bin Laden forming al Queda) and I fear Egypt (and the Middle east) are in for a new dark age –
So much for the “Arab Spring”.
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Bill:
As you know, 75% of the Egyptian parliament is now held by the MB, Salafsists and assorted IslamoNazis. But not one of these parties will address the economic shambles that grips the Egyptian economy of which a stunning 30% goes to food subsidies. The price of bread is way too high. Poverty, disease and illiteracy are rampant. But the Islamists will blame it all on israel. And Obama will nod his head in agreement.
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Robert – hopefully Obama will not be here much longer (in office anyway – I don’ wish him physical harm.
Hopefully he’ll have a lot more time to go back to his “church” –
I heard today that Bibi is good friends with Romney – let’s keep our fingers crossed he wins!
On Egypt – I think that if the MB tightens their grip it will drive out foreign investment – maybe the Egyptians will come to their senses.
Always remember that morning at the Radison Hotel in Giza – coming in for a breakfast buffet – and seeing some Israeli tourists come in – thought I was witnessing the dawn of a new age full of hope for the future.
The Egyptians will have only themselves to blame but of course blaming anyone but themselves is always easier.
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Just because they are Jew-hating, yearning for genocide, desirous of implementing sharia law around the world barbarians doesn’t mean they’re not nice people (ONLY KIDDING). This one could be a stretch for Obama. Maybe the adage “keep your friend close and your enemies closer” could apply. I don’t know.
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Ciarrai:
Obama has a history of paying the Brotherhood respect. When he delivered his Cairo speech—which now reads like the delusions of an idiot—he gave the MB front row seats.
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Hmmm.. didn’t like my post for some reason. I pasted a photo and I’m guessing that threw a monkey wrench into the works!
I was saying how impressive Eileen Power’s accomplishments were — Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics in 1931 and at Cambridge in 1938 was no small task for a woman (Heck, it is still impressive!)
I also note that she was correct about the barbarians at the gate… to paraphrase an old quote — “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”!
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Alias Joe:
I first read Power’s book “Medieval People” when I was in college. I loved medieval history and her book really stayed with me. I’m reading it again right now and it has remarkable insights into how a civilization can implode.
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