Thursday 4 July 2013

FOREIGN CONFIDENTIAL Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005 -- Formerly China Confidential -- What's Happening in the World


Thursday, July 04, 2013

 

Turkey's Erdogan Scared He Could be Next to Fall


Turkey's wannabe sultan lost a key ally.

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Scandal: West Seems to Mourn Morsi's Fall


The pro-Islamist policy has been exposed and shattered by the popular revolution in Egypt.

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RAPES IN EGYPT CHAOS AT HORRIFIC LEVELS


Thugs and, possibly, provocateurs are taking advantage of the demonstrations and chaos to sexually assault women. Nearly 100 women have been sexually assaulted in Cairo's protest sites in just four days.

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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

 

AP AGREES WITH FC: MORSI'S FALL DEFEAT FOR ISLAMISM


AP agrees with Foreign Confidential: the uprising that toppled Egypt's Islamist president is a major blow to the entire Islamist movement.

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ASSAD: ISLAMIST RULE FAILS IN EGYPT


It's come to this on the eve of July 4: the Syrian dictator's statement on the downfall of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president is clearly more truthful than the the disgraceful "deeply concerned" comment of the U.S. President.

Of course, the Syrian despot conveniently fails to mention that he himself is propped up by Islamists, albeit of the Shiite persuasion.

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MORSI REPORTEDLY DETAINED; OBAMA 'DEEPLY CONCERNED'


The Muslim Brotherhood leader has reportedly been arrested and is being held in a military facility. The Obama administration says it is "deeply concerned."


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Scandal! The administration that is indifferent to the plight of secular Muslims and Christians in the Middle East is "deeply concerned" about a clerical fascist despot. 

 

OBAMA TRIED TO SAVE MORSI; EFFORT EMBOLDENED DEFIANCE

EGYPTIAN ARMY REJECTED US ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSED FIGUREHEAD ROLE FOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER


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EARLY WARNING: Administration-fawning U.S. media outlets are likely to downplay the significance of Morsi's downfall--for Islamism and Obama's utterly failed foreign policy of engaging (collaborating with) the clerical fascist creed--and disinform and obfuscate with idiotic commentary on the future of "Islamic democracy." 

 

MORSI DEPOSED; MILLIONS CHEER

ISLAMISM SUFFERS BIGGEST DEFEAT SINCE IRAN REVOLUTION BROUGHT KHOMEINI TO POWER; EGYPTIAN ARMY ACTED; WILL TURKEY BE NEXT?




 

Why Obama and Co. Completely Misread Egypt




As of this writing, there is widespread speculation that the Obama administration has made and could still be making every effort possible to save the Muslim Brotherhood's man, Morsi, from being overthrown by the Egyptian people and army, which has publicly promised to defend the people against Islamist terrorism and thuggery.

Clearly, the administration is dazed and confused by the epic events in Egypt, an eruption of secular opposition to Islamic clerical fascism (Islamism) in the Arab world's most populous and important country.

Notice the term Arab world. It exists. But you wouldn't know this from listening to President Obama since his 2008 election victory. He has insisted on addressing--and bowing to--"the Muslim world," an inherently Islamist conception. The Arab world, united by language and culture, includes observant and secular Muslims, Christians and other minorities. (Jews were once part of the Arab world, before their forced emigration from lands in which they had lived for centuries.)

Obama believes in the Muslim world; or, rather, he believes that it is important for an American President to pay tribute to the idea of the Muslim world because it is central to Islamist ideology--the notion that Muslims constitute a global nation, transcending all political boundaries and national, ethnic, theological and philisophical differences.

And supporting Islamism is central to Obama's foreign policy. Like Republican and Democratic Presidents before him, Obama regards rightwing political Islam and overlapping Islamic fundamentalism as useful tools for furthering American interests--that is to say, for increasing U.S. influence in predominantly Muslim lands and for making Muslim "markets" safe for U.S. corporations.

Like his predecessors, too, the current U.S. President sees Islamism/Islam as both a shield for containing and a sword for cutting up Russia and China. Hence, Washington's idiotic support for Sunni Islamists in restive Russian and Chinese territories, and Russian and Chinese support for Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria. Moscow and Beijing are not afraid of Shiite Islamism; and Syria's Shiite-Alawite-dominated regime is secular.

But Obama has another reason for aligning with Islamism--ideology. His ideology, that is. He and his advisers actually see Islamism as progressive, incredible as this may seem. At a minimum, parliamentary Islamic rule--Islamocracy--is regarded by the administration and fawning pundits as a transitional stage between secular authoritarianism and full-blown democracy, the attainment of which is used to cover a whole host of sins, from needlessly intervening in Libya to stirring up and supporting an insurrection in Syria in order to install Islamist regimes.

But Islamism is fascism--period. Moderate fascism is a dangerous oxymoron. A Muslim Brotherhood regime indeed represents a transition, or bridge--to Al Qaeda. What happened in Libya, what is happening in Syria proves the point.

Millions of Egyptians agree. They have no intention of forcing themselves or their wives and daughters back behind burqas and veils and under ugly headscarves, even though Obama has gone out of his way to "respect" such barbaric and backward customs. Islamic law isn't for them, as much as Obama may believe otherwise.

The anti-Islamist revolution--the movement to roll back Islamic clerical fascism--is well underway. Today, the battle ground is Egypt. Tomorrow, it could be Saudi Arabia, or, looking beyond the Arab world, Turkey, once again, with the army this time freshly inspired to remain true to its traditional role as guardian of the secular system.

Iran, too, could erupt. Contrary to the White House view, millions of Iranians long for the day when the mullahs will be swept from power like so much garbage.

 Revolution, not reform, is the way forward--the complete smashing of Islamist institutions, ideology and oppression everywhere.

 

Morsi Defiant; Military Vows to Defend People Against Terror

High Noon in Cairo; Egypt on Edge


US, Europeans "Confused" by Fall of Muslim Brotherhood

The Egyptian army is doing what the Turkish army should have done--intervene to defend the people against an Islamist regime.

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The Muslim Brotherhood is finished. It will never recover from the current crisis--the greatest blow that Islamism has experienced since it began its seemingly unstoppable ascent in 1979 with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which was shamefully aided by the catastrophic Carter administration.

Similarly, the Obama administration emboldened the MB to take power in Egypt. The administration overtly aligned the United States with the fountainhead of Islamic clerical fascism, the wellspring of terror that spawned Al Qaeda.

The downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood should expose and put an end to the administration's perfidious policy.

Related: The Meaning of Morsi's Looming Ouster


Tuesday, July 02, 2013

 

US-Backed Uighurs Attack Police, Others in W. China

Knife Wielding Separatists Attack; At Least 27 Dead


No wonder China is opposing Washington's Sunni Islamist revolt in Syria.

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Secular Turks Disgusted by Obama-Erdogan Relationship

US Support for Regime Mirrors Alliance With Muslim Brotherhood 


The Obama administration's disgraceful alliance with rightwing political Islam angers secular Turks.


 

The Meaning of Morsi's Looming Ouster

A Turning Point for the Middle East and US Foreign Policy 





If all goes well, the reign of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood will soon be a memory--inshallah.

The fall of the fountainhead of rightwing political Islam and its puppet will constitute Islamism's greatest defeat since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution launched the clerical fascist creed on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory. For the first time in nearly three-and-a-half decades, secular Muslims and Christians will have successfully rebelled and removed an Islamist regime.

True, Egypt's army will most likely have to force Morsi from power. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine his departure absent army boots on the ground--and a swift kick. As of this writing, the embattled president has ignored the military's ultimatum, and the country is on edge. But the military would not have issued its ultimatum in the first place had millions of  Egyptians not taken to the streets to bring down the government.

The ouster of Morsi will serve as a timely warning to Turkey's Islamist regime, whose prime minister dreams of becoming the country's new sultan. Assuming the Turkish military has not been purged and Islamized beyond repair, the men in uniform could decide to follow the Egyptian example. Turkey could still be saved by the traditional guardian of the country's secular system.

Finally, the sweeping away of the Muslim Brotherhood--its firebombed, ransacked headquarters in Cairo should perhaps be preserved as a graphic reminder of the organization's monumental defeat--will be a major blow to the Obama administration. Its entire, utterly failed, pro-Islamist policy was based on two pillars of Islamism--Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish regime.

One pillar has nearly been toppled; the other still stands--for now.

 

Turkish Deputy PM Blames Protests on Jewish Conspiracy

Obama's 'Moderate' Islamist Regime Resorts to Nazi-Like Messaging


You just knew this was coming: Turkey's so-called moderate Islamist regime is blaming an international Jewish-media conspiracy for the country's secular uprising. Supposed Diaspora Jewish-controlled media organizations instigated the protests, alleges the deputy PM, flunky of Turkey's wannabe new sultan Recep Erdogan, whom President Obama hails as both a "friend" and a "partner" and  a model for "the Muslim world."

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"Jewish control" of media is of course a myth--and a hoary Nazi canard. Moreover, liberal U.S media outlets, in thrall to the Obama party line, ignored or downplayed the anti-Erdogan protests. NBC was a prime example; the network that celebrated the "Arab Spring" practically spiked the "Turkish Spring." Fox covered the story; last time this reporter checked, however, its chairman and CEO and controlling person was Rupert Murdoch--not a Jew.

 

All Eyes on the Egyptian Army


Eyes sharp--on Egypt's military.

In an ideal world, workers, peasants and the urban poor would join with middle class students and intellectuals and other members of Egyptian society to sweep the Muslim Brotherhood and its man, Morsi, out of power.

In the real world, it will be up to the men in uniform to get rid of the regime.

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Syria Fast Becoming the New Afghanistan

Al Qaeda Ranks Swell With Foreign Fighters


Thousands of jihadists are flocking to Syria, swelling the ranks of Al Qaeda groups fighting to overthrow the regime and establish a sharia state.


Monday, July 01, 2013

 

More Details Emerge on Syrian Rebel's Beheading of Priest


The most effective Syrian "rebel" group--an Al Qaeda front--publicly beheaded a Catholic priest. 

So why haven't drones been dispatched to eliminate the Al Qaeda murderers? 

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Related: Rebels Threaten Aleppo Shiites With Annihilation

 

Understanding Obama's Islamist Vision for the Middle East




Nearly 12 years after 9/11, President Obama reportedly sees Islamism as a transitional stage between secular authoritarianism and democracy.

Islamists believe he's half-right.

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US-Backed Syrian Rebels Ban 'Immodest Dress' for Women

Clerical Fascist Fatwas 


Nearly a dozen years after 9/11, the Obama administration is Islamism's biggest supporter.

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Will Egypt's Army Save the Nation?


At the end of the day, Egypt is a developing nation; and the men in uniform constitute the political party that matters most.

The army, which has given the Islamist prime minister 48 hours to reach a deal with demonstrators, denies it's planning a coup.

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Hamas Imposing Sharia on Gaza; US Silent


Radical Islam in action in Gazastan.


If not for the Bush administration's idiotic "democracy promotion," Hamas would not have come to power in Gaza. The administration stupidly insisted on so-called elections in the hellhole, knowing full well what the outcome would be--Islamist rule.