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By Chris Rowan

American Thinker is my favorite place to go for thoughtful conservative commentary. Sometimes, the comments that follow a piece are just as interesting as the article itself. The comment below followed an article by George Picard titled “Obama’s Racial Spoil System.” It is an excellent article, but what really caught my attention was this comment:

Stanley Kurtz coined a term to describe Barack Obama’s modus operandi as a state senator. He gave him the moniker Senator Stealth. One way of understanding Barack Obama’s stealthiness and capacity for hiding and befogging is that he is psychologically Islamic. Christianity calls for a boldness and directness of expression — the yea that is yea. However, Islamic doctrine is less straightforward. For example, the Islamic doctrine of taqiya means concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of imminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury. It is impossible to imagine Barack Obama bravely leading soldiers in battle, but he has demonstrated an affinity for drone weapons. Does this affinity reflect his psychological incorporation of taqiya?

This theme of “otherness” in Obama is nothing new. But when you consider taqiya against the backdrop of Obama’s presidency so far, there are some interesting parallels. Twenty years of Jeremiah Wright had to have some effect.

So, Mubarak has fled Egypt and a military council has been left in charge. Mubarak was a general, or so I’ve heard. The military has been in charge of the country all along. With Mubarak gone, it’s a little like rearranging deck chairs, isn’t it?

It’s very interesting how Obama got in front of the protesters and demanded Mubarak cede power “yesterday” (according to Obama’s mouthpiece, Gibbs), yet did nothing to help the protesters in Iran some months ago. Obama is very selective about the protests he supports.

One thing is certain – Obama does not care for the TEA Party. Not one bit. But something about the protests in Egypt compelled Obama to do something. What was it?

It certainly wasn’t a love of liberty. Egypt has no history of Jeffersonian democracy, Constitutional republicanism, or any form of government TEA Partiers would identify with.

Egypt has always been a repressive regime. It wasn’t a socialist utopia before Mubarak. The fact that Mubarak had his boot on the throats of the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters should have been a clue to the media that perhaps Mubarak was simply trying to keep a lid on what could become an explosive situation.

Get this:

In July of last year, the University of Maryland commissioned Zogby to poll the people of Egypt. Here are a few of their findings:

85% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable attitude toward the U.S.

87% of Egyptians have no confidence in the U.S.

92% of Egyptians believe the U.S. is one of two nations that is the greatest threat to them (the other nation the Egyptian people hate is Israel)

52% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable opinion of American people

65% of Egyptians believe that Islamic clergy must play a greater role in the Egyptian political system

79% percent of Egyptians believe that it would be positive if Iran is able to acquire nuclear weapons

The Zogby poll results back up a similar project conducted by Pew in April and May of last year.  Among Egyptian Muslims polled, 85% felt that Islam’s role in politics was a positive one.  In a struggle between modernizers and Islamist fundamentalists, 59% of Egyptians who foresaw such a conflict stated they would side with the Islamists, while only 27% stated that they would side with the modernizers.

Another Pew poll last June revealed that only 17% of Egyptians hold a favorable view of the United States, while 20% hold a favorable view of suicide bombing.  Yes dear readers, Egyptians like suicide bombing more than they like you.

Pew also revealed that 82% of Egyptian Muslims support stoning human beings to death for having sex outside of marriage and that  77% of Egyptian Muslims support public whippings and cutting people’s hands off for theft.  In addition, a terrifying 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for anyone who has the good sense to leave the religion of Islam.

As much as we may not like Hosni Mubarak, there are many worse people who could be in power in Egypt — and they are very likely to be in power before the end of the year.   We would all like to believe that the protesters in the streets of Egypt are all fighting for freedom — but that is not what they say about themselves.  By their own admission, they prefer Islamic fundamentalism to modern civilization by more than 2 to 1.  They don’t want a modern democracy; they do want to murder people for having sex outside of marriage.  They don’t want freedom of religion — in fact 84% of them want to establish the death penalty for it.

What does this sound like?  It sounds a whole lot like Iran in 1979.  Westerners with common sense should be leaving Egypt as quickly as possible, with no plans to ever return. We would like to hope for the best, but we must plan for the worst.

(Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672357/posts)

So I ask myself, Why does Obama hate TEA Party protesters and love Egyptian protesters? He knows everything that needs to be known about TEA Partiers, yet knows next to nothing about the Egyptian protesters other than their desire for “change.” Obama is either a fool, or a radical.

Perhaps he is a foolish radical. Or a radical fool.

“If their street revolutions are successful, these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies.  Israel will be the first target, and with Obama’s radically anti-Israel orientation, the Israelis will stand alone.  We will be next.  One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.”

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Investor’s Business Daily

• Editorial: ObamaCare Is No Longer A Law - The Law: Already bruised and unpopular, ObamaCare has now been issued a death sentence. Yet the White House says it will “proceed apace” with its implementation. Has anyone there heard of checks and balances?
• Would We Drill For $200 Oil? - Energy Security: As unrest spreads in the Middle East, threatening oil transport and oil-rich kingdoms, our laughable energy policy may come home to roost. Better get those wind turbines spinning in a hurry.
• Stalling On Fan, Fred - Home Finance: Fannie and Freddie are still bleeding losses, costing taxpayers billions more each month. Yet the White House continues to delay reforms, in defiance of a congressional order.
• Egypt Means Real Trouble For Israel - Middle East: No matter what ends up replacing President Mubarak and his harsh government, history may rewind to the 1970s for Israel — with the Camp David Accords possibly erased in the process.
• Only In Gov’t Do All Benefits Justify Costs - Despite the old saying, “Don’t cry over spilled milk,” the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
• The Revolution In Middle East Is Growing Up - Nobody said it better than Hosni Mubarak: “Our eventual goal is to create an equal society, not a society of privileges and class distinctions. Social justice is the first rule for peace and stability in society.” But that was in November 1981, a few weeks after he had become president of Egypt.
• IBD/TIPP Poll: A Country That Knows What It Wants - Public Opinion: The latest IBD/TIPP poll finds that Americans want decisive action taken to solve some of our biggest problems. But they also recognize the difference between real problems and the fake ones that politicians dwell on.

 Laura Ingraham

• Sen. Orrin Hatch on immigration and the tea party – February 01, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

02/01 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• The Story of the Egyptian Revolution - A day-by-day account from Cairo, written by a sophisticated Egyptian analyst.
• The Left and Their ‘Good Victims’ - The left divides the world into good and bad victims.
• Egypt, the United States, and the Ghost of Khomeini - There is still hope that Egyptians won’t display the naïveté of the leaders of the Iranian democratic forces.
• There’s No Abe Lincoln in the Muslim Hood - There are only bad choices.
• Radical Islam or Mainstream Islam? - If the majority of Muslims adhere to Sharia law (at least in their hearts), then we must confront the possibility that “Radical Islam” is actually mainstream Islam.
• The British Left’s Betrayal of America - The latest revelations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government advised Libya on how to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber may have destroyed the Anglo-American relationship.
• Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists - Perhaps almost as pleasing as the affirmation of individual freedom and the dismissal of a government-run society is the smack-down Judge Vinson’s ruling gave to the concept of “crony capitalism.”

FrontPageMag

• Red Carpet for Islamists - Mubarak out, Brotherhood in.
• Obama’s Brotherhood Moment - The president endorses the Muslim Brotherhood and helps pave the way for the Islamic Republic of Egypt.
• Hezbollah’s Lessons - What Egypt’s Islamists learned about grabbing power from their brethren in Lebanon.
• You Say You Want a Revolution? - The dire warning 1979 Iran gives 2011 Egypt.
• Obama’s Secret - Stanley Kurtz joins Jamie Glazov’s new video series to expose the President’s disguised radical agenda.
• The Egyptian Crisis’ Green Roots - How the Left’s biofuel-induced starvation exacerbates instability in the Third World.
• Brushfire in the Middle East - Regional uprisings continue to spread — who will be the next to fall?
• Holocaust Hypocrisy - When will leftists who use Holocaust imagery to attack Israel be held accountable?
• CAIRing for Anwar al-Awlaki and Other Targets of Interest - A radical Muslim group works hard to hinder the FBI’s efforts and to support terror.

Investor’s Business Daily

•  Editorial: Terror In Waiting  - Mideast: As the radical Muslim Brotherhood schemes to oust a pro-American despot in Egypt, U.S. pundits have cheered the move as a boon for freedom. This is dangerous pablum.
•  Egypt’s Kerensky - Succession: As talk of deposing Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak grows, one name keeps popping up: Mohamed ElBaradei. If he takes over, it’ll be a disaster not just for Egypt, but also for the U.S. and the West.
•  The Newest Nation - Africa: Far from the rage in the streets of Cairo, there’s joy in the air in the tiny cities of South Sudan. A referendum’s results there should lead to creation of a new nation. It holds some lessons.
•  Egyptian Plagues, American Policies - Diplomatic Ineptitude: Western diplomats were long ago planting poisonous seeds in Egyptian soil. All it took to make them grow was for the U.S. to send some well-intentioned but misguided signals at the wrong time.
•  ObamaCare Can’t Be Reconciled - Health Care Reform: Another federal judge has declared the Democrats’ overhaul to be unconstitutional. A law that should have never been passed is that much closer to being dismantled.
•  Kill The Internet ‘Kill Switch’ - Censorship: Virtually the first thing an authoritative Egyptian government did to quell dissent was to shut down its Internet. So why are we debating a bill to give our government the same power?
•  America’s Next Financial Crisis Is Already Here - In spite of talking about freezing government spending, President Obama reminded everyone during the State of the Union just how out of touch he is about the defining issue of our time — the fiscal dysfunction that threatens to rob future generations of today’s living standards and jeopardizes the global financial system.
•  Middle East Is On The Verge Of Convulsing - Things are about to go from bad to worse in the Middle East.  An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is nowhere in sight. Lebanon just became a Hezbollah state, which is to say that Iran has become an even more important regional power, and Egypt, once stable if tenuously so, has been pitched into chaos.

Laura Ingraham

• Gov. Mitch Daniels on China’s rise and a social issues ‘truce’ – January 31, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

01/31 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Obama’s Ongoing War on Inspectors General - One after another, inspectors general have been reporting that Obama’s stewardship of taxpayer money has failed.
• Overachievers with Low Self-Esteem - America is up to its eyeballs in people concerned with saving us from their demons.
• Obama’s Rathole Moment - President Obama got matters exactly backward when he addressed education last week before a joint session of Congress.
• Obama’s Standing Army of Regulators among Us - The victims of today’s excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation’s Founders: unconstrained centralized power.
• Stop the Fraud — Freeze the Debt Ceiling - The debt ceiling is a key to stopping the political insanity.
• What Reagan Meant to America - Seven years ago, when Reagan died, millions of Americans waited for hours to share a brief moment with this greatest of contemporary Americans.
• China’s Insight into Human Nature - And why President Obama misunderstands China’s rise.
• America and the Middle East Food Riots - Obama policies have driven up food prices, triggering riots.

Frontpage Mag

• Middle Eastern Moment of Truth - Israel soberly prepares to stand alone in a sea of hate.
• 1979, 1989 or 2009? - Gauging the nature of Egypt’s Revolution — and the urgency for America’s response.
• Why Coptic Christians Fear a Revolution - If the Muslim Brotherhood takes power in Egypt…
• Inside Egypt - The growing cancer I witnessed during my recent visit…
• To Destroy Israel - A member of the Army of Islam escapes from an Egyptian jail amidst the chaos — and shares his top priority…
• ObamaCare Inches Closer to the Fall - Florida judge rules that the president’s signature legislation is unconstitutional — what’s next?
• Free Speech Victory: Lars Hedegaard Acquitted - The battle for freedom is far from lost…
• The Middle East’s Intifada - The Muslim Brotherhood shrewdly maneuvers its way to power in Egypt.
• The American Left and the Crisis in Egypt - The Unholy Alliance rears its head once again.
• Dictatorships and Revolutions - As an Egyptian Muslim raised during the generation of the 1952 Egyptian revolution, I see history repeating itself.
• Egypt’s False Prophet - Mohamed ElBaradei’s disturbing affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Islamic Republic.
• Why They Hate Mubarak - “He is supporting Israel. Israel is our enemy…”
• The Criminal Truth in Denmark - In defense of Lars Hedegaard. . . .and our civilization

ACT! for America

This sums it up:

A landmark court decision was handed down Wednesday in the case against Ahmed Ghailani, a Guantanmo Bay detainee accused of taking part in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Ghailani, a Tanzanian national, was acquitted of all but one of the 286 charges levied against him, most of which were for the murder of the 224 people killed in the embassy bombings. After a disturbed juror asked to be removed from the deliberation process last week, many feared that the Ghailani trial, the first U.S. detainee trial to be conducted in a civilian court, would yield a hung jury. Few, however, predicted such a propitious verdict for the al-Qeada collaborator, an outcome which carries heavy implication for the Obama administration and its controversial quest to try Guantanamo detainees in the criminal justice system.

 The terrorists won.  Read the entire article here.

Good read. My favorite excerpt:

You cannot have “Islamophobia” in the real world, because a “phobia” is an irrational fear. You can’t have an irrational fear of somebody pointing a gun at you. That is a rational fear. “Islamophobia” is an imaginary word from people who never check an English dictionary.

For Libs Who Just Got Scared

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On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and several followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The actions of Brown’s men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery. Brown became a martyr to the abolitionists, a hero murdered for his belief that slavery should be abolished.

Many people (mostly southerners) considered Brown to be a nutcase, what we’d call a homegrown terrorist. President Lincoln said he was a “misguided fanatic” and Brown has been called “the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans.” Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War.

Is Terry Jones a latter-day John Brown? Probably not.

But there are some similarities at play here. The nation is divided, now as then. But now the division is much more existential. We’re not divided over Islam per se; we’re divided over what it means to be an American. There are those of us who consider America to be a force for Good in the world and embrace traditional American virtues of liberty, self-reliance, self-determination, Constitutional republicanism, and free market capitalism – “Traditionalists,” for want of a better term – and then there are those, like President Obama and his followers, who have a completely different view of America and what it means to be an American. I don’t think Obama likes this country very much. I know he hates me and people who believe as I do.

When Obama reflexively sides with our enemies abroad and chastises us for being, well, American, it brings to the surface latent feelings of “otherness,” the sense that we’re being governed by someone who is not one of us, an outsider. Terry Jones may be a kook, but I think I understand his frustration. In retrospect, some similar action was inevitable. Someone, somewhere, was going to challenge the politically unassailable heights of Islam, one way or another. Terry Jones may be the first, but certainly not the last. Look at all the attention he got! Obama is so embarrassingly clueless that I almost feel sorry for the guy. All he managed to do was throw gasoline on a smouldering flame that has now erupted into a firestorm of controversy, lighting the way for other kooks to gain noteriety.

God only knows where this will lead.

-Chris Rowan

By John Barham

The second in a series of articles on Saudi Arabia and its place in the Middle East.

As a newly arrived expatriate in Saudi Arabia in 1978, I could not escape a feeling of newness. Owing to the construction that one encountered almost everywhere in Riyadh, the skyline of the city was distinguished by enormous cranes that were utilized in the raising of a modern city in the middle of an oasis surrounded by desert terrain.

Along with the erection of multi-storied office buildings and outsized shopping malls that would rival the dimensions of any in the United States, it seemed that practically overnight an infrastructure was being put into place, with super-highways and high-speed rail transportation taking form. Oil revenues were having a decided impact in a few years time, while previous centuries had tended to bypass the tribal people who inhabited the vast expanse of the Arabian Peninsula that was thought by most Europeans and Americans to be an arid wasteland.

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Apparently, being here illegally is no longer justifiable cause for deportation. ICE will no longer deport illegals simply because they are here illegally. They must also be violent criminals. Click here to read more about this at Investor’s Business Daily.

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By John Barham

The first of a series of articles on Saudi Arabia and its position in the Middle East.

It was the late summer of 1978, and, after six weeks of traveling through Turkey and Iran, I had just returned to the university town in the South where I taught as a tenured associate professor of history. I had almost forgotten that I had passed through New York on the way home and had glanced at the higher education employment section in the New York Times and had, purely on a lark, forwarded my resume to an address in Houston that was soliciting faculty and administrative staff for King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.

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From The Weekly Standard
By John McCormack

In a radio interview posted on YouTube, former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential primary contender Howard Dean says that the Ground Zero mosque is “a real affront to people who lost their lives, including Muslims” on 9/11. Dean says, “I think another site would be a better idea.”

“Islam is really back in the 12th century in some of these countries like Iran and Afghanistan where they’re stoning people to death,” Dean says, adding that the problem of radicals can be fixed by promoting moderate Islam in the U.S. Dean cites the group pushing for the Ground Zero mosque as one such moderate Islamic group.

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