Willful Blindness: Obama to Praise Arab Spring – Ignores Advance of Muslim Brotherhood in Mideast
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 5:55 AM
Obama will praise the Middle East for resisting radicalism in a coming speech.
Islamists parade with a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest in Cairo, May 6, 2011. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Amr Moussa, the leading candidate in Egypt’s presidential race, recently. Moussa highlighted the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s coming elections, via Power Line,
“It is inevitable, he said, that parliamentary elections in September will usher in a legislature led by a bloc of Islamists, with the Brotherhood at the forefront.”
Despite the fact that the Islamists are widely expected to win a majority in the Egyptian elections, Barack Obama is preparing a speech praising the Arab Spring. Obama intends to make the point that shooting Bin Laden in the eye and the uprisings and overthrow of several pro-American regimes will usher in a new era of political change in the Middle East.
Seems a bit foolish, doesn’t it?
The Wall Street Journal reported:
President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S.
Mr. Obama is preparing to deliver that message in a wide-ranging speech, perhaps as early as next week, these officials say. The president intends to argue that bin Laden’s death, paired with popular uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, signal that the time has come to an end when al Qaeda could claim to speak for Muslim aspirations.
“It’s an interesting coincidence of timing—that he is killed at the same time that you have a model emerging in the region of change that is completely the opposite of bin Laden’s model,” Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser at the White House, said in an interview.
Since January, popular uprisings have overthrown the longtime dictators of Tunisia and Egypt. They have shaken rulers in Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Jordan, marking the greatest wave of political change the world has seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But the push for democracy appears to have stalled in some countries. The street protests against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have morphed into a civil war, with North Atlantic Treaty Organization backing the rebels. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Bahrain’s ruling Khalifa family have both met demonstrations with violence.
We’ll have to look back on this speech in the coming months as the Islamists take control of Egypt in the parliament elections.
Good luck, Israel.
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save us commented:
anti Israel Islamists and obama — perfect together
jainphx commented:
He’s not ignoring it he’s in agreement with it. What an awful, awful decision 52% of us made.
olm commented:
Well put #2.
I think what BO is signaling is that the world is ready for the one world government envisioned by the far left and the islamonuts.
Interesting that the 2 groups will have to fight to figure out who rules.
elhrac commented:
This is just a continuation of the policy he started with his Cairo Speech, where he invited the Muslim Brotherhood to sit in the audience.
rbosque commented:
Obama, the gift that just keeps on giving…
James in LA commented:
@jainphx, it’s likely to be more than 52% who re-elect Obama in 2012. A LOT more. My conservative friends have no ideas and no candidates who can win nationally. After spending decades and millions of dollars demonizing the very people you need now to win, the fault is yours for choosing the path of crossed-arm defiance based on manufactured demons. How has that worked out for you? Are you ready to spend the next six years with lips tight and so ticked off at the world you cannot see?
Powder looks mighty wet from here, damp from frustrated tears.
olm commented:
James, BAHAHAHAHA. Despite the bill of goods that you’ve been sold, pot smoking is harmful to brain function.
Chisum commented:
James in LA,
Good News! A totally awesomely favorable poll for BO!
http://www.businessinsider.com/president-obamas-approval-rating-skyrockets-2011-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
The bad news?
Look at the breakdown of voters they used in order to achieve this ‘good news’.
The Dem/Rep/Ind breakdown in this poll is 46/29/4
Bwahahahahahaha!
But you keep on plucking that chicken.
James in LA commented:
@Olm, if Obama wins Florida, it’s over. He can then lose OH, WI, and CO and still win. All my conservative friends have to do is produce the plan to take back the states they need to win. Which ones, exactly? How are you going to do it, since the GOP is a shrinking, local brand, driven by greed and detachment from our shared reality? What woman is going to vote to have her womb inspected by the IRS? What person under 40 will be motivated by social issues with the GOP’s 19th century “solutions?”
Be clear, now. This is a numbers game at this point, and my conservative friends don’t have the votes. They like to lean on 2010 results when less than 50% of 50% of voters who could vote chose conservative candidates, a mandate not even for a trip to the loo. These are not the same people who will be coming out in 2012. Add Ryan’s budget, and seniors will be giving the GOP the backs of their hands.
Which states? And how? And how will “dry powder” help with this? Second Amendment remedy when the GOP loses again?
JR commented:
obamao’s the guy that borrows your car then drives it into a tree. He calls to tell you how he did you a favor because you could use a new car.
James in LA commented:
@Chisum, it’s not about polls. It’s about where the GOP is going to get the actual votes they need to win. And they are not there in the needed numbers.
tarpon commented:
Obama just wants to show off his Muslim side.
wtd commented:
A minor quibble with the word “ignores” in your title here, Jim. Where you wrote:
olm commented:
James, it is a numbers game, that why BO is pandering to his bases. If he does not maintain the black vote and increase the hispanic vote it won’t matter how many billions they raise, they will have to cheat to win.
Good luck pal, you’re living in a dream world and I would tend to doubt you have conservative friends. I also don’t see how he wins FL but fire up another doobie.
This topic is about the Middle East and paving the way for the Bro’s. BO could win if he can figure out how to get the MB worldwide to vote. Maybe that’s what the billion is for.
LibertyAtStake commented:
Obama praises the Petri dish of radicalism for “resisting” radicalism? Huh? Perhaps I am misinformed and “Jihadi” is Arabic for “vaccine”?
d(^_^)b
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Redwine commented:
What “Willful Blindness”? The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood is fully Sheikh Barry Hussein’s intention. He deliberately pushed Mubarak to allow the Muslim Brotherhood attend his Cairo “sermon” and then had Mubarak thrown out, paving the way to bring the MB to power. After snidely defending the opening the southern border, through which Hezballah-supported Mexican drug gangs and terrorists are pouring into the US, this evil man will soon be making a Mid-East “policy” statement. Read between the lines. The regime is not blind, it’s damn dangerous.
reliapundit commented:
for the left, the rise of the mb isn’t a bug; it’s a feature.
and obama is a leftist.
GOP KICKS ASS commented:
As the jerk Marxist-in-Chief is giving Egypt aka The Muslim Brotherhood $1 billion. I predict the OCt 2012 surprise is Egypt attacks Israel and (George Soros funded J street) Obama does nothing saying he doesn’t want to ‘interfere’ in the Middle East – now.
Stuart commented:
James in LA, you seem to be gloating. Assume you are correct for a second; something I suspect you will find quite easy. How are you going to benefit from another four years of Comrade Zero?
Will your money be worth anything? We are inflating the currency like crazy.
Will Gas prices be lower? Were not allowed to drill.
Will electricity be cheaper? We can’t build any power plants.
Will you still have a job? Because Obama is not creating any.
Will we still be at war? Democrats keep talking about bringing back the draft.
Will the border be secure? Because when the drug gangs finally overrun it LA is mighty close, I’m just saying. And speaking of LA, It makes a fine target for a terrorist nuke like say from Iran, you know the country that Obama hopes to impress by being obsequious to it.
I’d say you have potentially a lot to lose if Obama wins. Or are you like the guy who beats his thumb with a hammer so he can brag that he nailed it dead center.
#1AMERICAN commented:
Odumbo…moo slum through and through…killing america from the inside out…just like he planned
Valerie commented:
*sigh*
If he could just bring himself to say the word “hirabist” he could make such a big difference.
Valerie commented:
Maybe he could give a shout-out to these brave women:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-10/saudi-women-to-get-behind-the-wheel-in-defiance-of-driving-ban.html
These women are risking their lives, because the Saudi religious police, the real, true male chauvanist pigs, are murderous.
Brian M commented:
James, What have the democrats accomplished since the last election, when they had their rear ends kicked, that will make people vote for them?
wow commented:
I see James has done his/her stint for the day and is probably off to try to disrupt things elsewhere.
As for comrade Zero, will he ever stop talking? I guess he still thinks that what he has to say is “momentous” and that we are all hanging on his words. I just change channels.
Robert commented:
“you have a model emerging in the region of change that is
completely the opposite of bin Laden’s model”
Not quite opposite enough, in my opinion. In fact,
not so opposite at all, when you get right down to it.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#19 Stuart
Excellent comment.
Molon Lobe commented:
Why would any sane individual believe that our community organizer in chief isn’t aware of the advances of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and that he doesn’t share their values?
K~Bob commented:
Jim, it’s “Dark Ages Spring.”
Not “Arab Spring,”
Dark.Ages.Spring
Why call it what the lefty media calls it?