The Disaster of Middle East 'Democracy'
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- By Thomas Sowell
- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2013 15:42
The Obama administration treated the creation of "democracy" in the Middle East as a Good Thing. Ironically, those who created the United States of America viewed democracy with fear-- and created a Constitutional republic instead.
Everything depends on how you define democracy. In its most basic sense, democracy means majority rule. But there can be majority rule in a free country or in a country with an authoritarian or even a dictatorial government.
In this age of sloppy uses of words, many people include freedom in their conception of democracy. But whether democracy leads to freedom is an open question, not a foregone conclusion.
US Aid to Egypt Is Counterproductive
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- By Tawfik Hamid
- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2013 15:39
Egypt has been gripped by a deepening economic crisis since the country's revolution began on Jan 25, 2011.
Now that the Obama administration announced $250 million in aid to the country, the question that MUST be raised is whether such aid will be useful — or on the contrary — counterproductive?
An analysis of the current economic situation in Egypt reveals that the country’s problems stem largely from poor decision-making by Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and his supporting Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
It’s a Charity! It’s a Movement! It’s the Muslim Brotherhood!
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- By Issander El Amrani
- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 15:20
The feints and pretenses of Egypt’s post-revolutionary politics have been dizzying, but the situation in which the Muslim Brotherhood finds itself these days may be the most puzzling yet.
Although it is the most powerful political group in Egypt — the country’s president, his immediate entourage and half of the Parliament are all members — a lawsuit has been filed to declare it illegal. In response, the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to pass itself off as an nongovernmental organization.
Read more: It’s a Charity! It’s a Movement! It’s the Muslim Brotherhood!
New Laws Would Cripple Egyptian Democratic Institutions
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- By The Washington Post, Editorial
- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 14:37
The Obama administration and other Western governments are increasingly concerned that Egypt’s shaky Islamic government will exhaust the country’s foreign reserves rather than adopt the painful austerity measures necessary to win fresh funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While the danger of an economic collapse is real, it is not the only threat the West should be focused on. Cairo is also on the verge of adopting laws that would cripple the country’s fragile new democratic order and drastically reduce the West’s ability to influence Egypt’s course.
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Islamist ‘Cleansing’ in Mideast
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- By Ralph Peters
- Published on Monday, 01 April 2013 13:16
Islamist terrorists and fanatics are methodically exterminating the 2,000-year-old Christian civilization of the Middle East through oppression, threats, appropriations and deadly violence.
Our media ignore the intensifying savagery against Christians in Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt. Unconfirmed reports assert that, last month, Muslim Brothers dragged Christian protesters to a mosque and tortured them — but our reporters won’t look into an Islamist Abu Ghraib.
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