stanley
06-03-2005, 07:13 PM
Mubarak’s Self Sacrificing Subservience
- Egypt 5/3/05
Mohammed ibn Gamal Ghandour
Mubarak’s announcement that Article 76 of the constitution will be amended (thus allowing other presidential candidates), has been received with euphoria by many from the Islamic Ummah in Egypt. What the Muslims must perceive though, is that this is the result of a thoroughly planned strategy by the U.S. aimed at destroying the Islamic Ideology.
It was during an August 2002 RAND co-operation presentation to the Pentagon Defence Policy Board at the behest of Richard Perle that RAND representative, Laurent Murawiec stated openly that Iraq is “the tactical pivot”, Saudi Arabia as “the strategic pivot” and Egypt as “the prize”. The Egyptian “prize” has since been a major focus of U.S. interests.
Firstly during 2003, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, David Welch had been vociferous in his attack of the Egyptian media’s lack of freedom as well as Mubarak’s treatment of the opposition groups. This was followed by Welch’s meetings with the opposition groups such as the chairman of the Tagammu Party, Rifaat al Said and leader of the Ghad party, Ayman Nour. These meetings were aimed at preparing, funding and nurturing these groups to take part in their U.S. designated role in the future ‘pluralistic’ Egypt. In fact it was Nour who was recently visited by Madeline Albright in a lowly publicized excursion to Egypt during February 2005. As well as meeting with other opposition groups and giving seminars on ‘the way to reform and democracy’, it was the former Secretary of State’s meeting with Nour that caused the most controversy. After her departure, Nour was immediately arrested and imprisoned showcasing to the Egyptian public a ‘genuine’ struggle between the Ghad party and the Mubarak regime while at the same time providing more credibility and publicity to this new opposition. Even the resulting low key demonstrations calling for Nour’s release were given undue notoriety in both the Egyptian and American press. The fact that Nour and his like are backed and being groomed by the U.S. is also apparent from Bush’s inaugural speech in which he commented, “ Democratic reformers facing repression, prison or exile can know: America sees you for who you are - the future leaders of your free country”
Indeed the pressure has mounted upon Mubarak, with Condoleeza Rice’s recent cancellation of her planned visit to Egypt, as well as the threat that IAEA head Baradei may expose the nuclear technology transfers to Egypt from Pakistan’s A.Q.Khan. Therefore Mubarak’s actions have yet again proved not to be in the interests of his own people but rather that of his master’s, the United States. While the U.S. will provide their kufr of democracy and pluralism to the Muslims in Egypt in order to further dilute and corrupt the Muslims’ appreciation of the necessity and obligation of ruling by what Allah (SWT) has revealed, it is Mubarak who is aiding this process even at the expense of his own career…
- Egypt 5/3/05
Mohammed ibn Gamal Ghandour
Mubarak’s announcement that Article 76 of the constitution will be amended (thus allowing other presidential candidates), has been received with euphoria by many from the Islamic Ummah in Egypt. What the Muslims must perceive though, is that this is the result of a thoroughly planned strategy by the U.S. aimed at destroying the Islamic Ideology.
It was during an August 2002 RAND co-operation presentation to the Pentagon Defence Policy Board at the behest of Richard Perle that RAND representative, Laurent Murawiec stated openly that Iraq is “the tactical pivot”, Saudi Arabia as “the strategic pivot” and Egypt as “the prize”. The Egyptian “prize” has since been a major focus of U.S. interests.
Firstly during 2003, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, David Welch had been vociferous in his attack of the Egyptian media’s lack of freedom as well as Mubarak’s treatment of the opposition groups. This was followed by Welch’s meetings with the opposition groups such as the chairman of the Tagammu Party, Rifaat al Said and leader of the Ghad party, Ayman Nour. These meetings were aimed at preparing, funding and nurturing these groups to take part in their U.S. designated role in the future ‘pluralistic’ Egypt. In fact it was Nour who was recently visited by Madeline Albright in a lowly publicized excursion to Egypt during February 2005. As well as meeting with other opposition groups and giving seminars on ‘the way to reform and democracy’, it was the former Secretary of State’s meeting with Nour that caused the most controversy. After her departure, Nour was immediately arrested and imprisoned showcasing to the Egyptian public a ‘genuine’ struggle between the Ghad party and the Mubarak regime while at the same time providing more credibility and publicity to this new opposition. Even the resulting low key demonstrations calling for Nour’s release were given undue notoriety in both the Egyptian and American press. The fact that Nour and his like are backed and being groomed by the U.S. is also apparent from Bush’s inaugural speech in which he commented, “ Democratic reformers facing repression, prison or exile can know: America sees you for who you are - the future leaders of your free country”
Indeed the pressure has mounted upon Mubarak, with Condoleeza Rice’s recent cancellation of her planned visit to Egypt, as well as the threat that IAEA head Baradei may expose the nuclear technology transfers to Egypt from Pakistan’s A.Q.Khan. Therefore Mubarak’s actions have yet again proved not to be in the interests of his own people but rather that of his master’s, the United States. While the U.S. will provide their kufr of democracy and pluralism to the Muslims in Egypt in order to further dilute and corrupt the Muslims’ appreciation of the necessity and obligation of ruling by what Allah (SWT) has revealed, it is Mubarak who is aiding this process even at the expense of his own career…