Palestinian Authority makes it illegal to smell like deposed Egyptian President Morsi

Taking measures against foul odors,  Palestinian Authority Intelligence Service police arrested a man in Tulkarem, in the West Bank, for selling a cologne called  ``President Morsi for Men`` and confiscated all the bottles for sale.

via al Quds News

Are Obama's counterproductive Egyptian statements really part of a clever conspiracy?

It's possible that Barack Obama's seemingly counterproductive, idiotic statements about the current crisis in Egypt may not just be lazy blathering from the most ineffectual US President since Jimmy Carter.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a murderous gang of Ismaist fanatics. Despite winning the election in Egypt, they have no respect for democracy and like fascists before them, used the democratic process to impose their own form of dictatorial tyranny. The beliefs and principles guiding the Muslim Brotherhood are thoroughly antithetical to western values, democracy and the United States. Many in the Brotherhood have gone so far as to promise the genocide of Egypt's Christian community if they regain power, and during the current crisis, they have burned down dozens of Coptic churches.

So in response to the Brotherhood riots in Egypt following the deposition of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Obama condemned the Egyptian Generals who are more friendly to the US. The American President's statements seemingly lent support to the depraved killers of the Muslim Brotherhood, whom Obama ridiculously characterized as "peaceful protesters". Barely paying lip service to the Brotherhood's attempts to slaughter Christians, Obama has gone so far as to threaten to hinder desperately-needed US aid to Egypt's government if the violent Islamists continue to be repressed.

On the surface, Obama's words make him look more like a Muslim Brotherhood plant in the White House than a President acting in the interests of the United States.

But all may not be as it seems.

One thing that many in the west forget is that Muslims in the Middle East despise the US, its government, and in particular, its President. Obama's "apology tour" at the beginning of his term did nothing to mollify that hate.  Nor did his efforts at appeasement make the Arabs hate him less, they only made them lose respect for US strength and determination.

But perhaps Obama understands the contempt he engenders in the Muslim Middle East.

After all, Obama's approbation would be reviled in the Middle East much the same way that we in the West would feel disgust towards those getting adulation from the depraved Grand Ayatollah of Iran.

Could it be Obama understands that in that tumultuous region, praise from him is more damning than the most effective curse?

According to a report in the leftist, ant-American British newspaper The Guardian, the Egyptian government's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, while incurring the censure of Obama, is garnering widespread domestic support in Egypt. Their government has portrayed The Muslim Brotherhood as "western-backed terrorists" and the apparent aid and succor from Obama must reinforce that message.

Could it be that Obama is really a genius who is willing to sacrifice his image and credibility in order to bolster a friendly government? 

I doubt it. I doubt it very much. 

But you never know....

Egyptian judge orders deposed leader Mohamed Morsi jailed for collaborating with terror group Hamas

(CNN) -- Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has been ordered jailed for 15 days over accusations of collaborating with Hamas to release himself and other Muslim Brotherhood members from prison in 2011 and attacking police stations, Egyptian media reported Friday.

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What if the German Army had overthrown Hitler in 1934?

The removal of duly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has placed western leaders in a moral and practical quandary.

There are other components to democracy than free elections, but that is the foundation from which all other democratic freedoms spring. Morsi, an Islamist who was the candidate of the despicable Muslim Brotherhood was elected in an election that was deemed to be fair.

But there are other elements for a democracy to be democratic and Morsi has routinely stifled them. Free speech and religious freedoms for non-Muslims, aspects of freedom for which the Muslim Brotherhood has no regard, were trounced upon by Morsi's government.

Though bolstered by support from the foolish and ineffectual administration of US President Obama,  Morsi's slip into acting like a democratically elected dictator made him more popular in The White House than it did in Cairo. Massive nightly demonstrations that exceeded those at the end of the reign of Hosni Mubarak were proof of the popular discontent in Egypt.

So what is the appropriate reaction from the US and other western leaders?

Anti-Morsi demonstrators hold a sign in Cairo

Something to remember when considering that is that elections don't always lead to democracy. The other duly elected Muslim Brotherhood government, that of Hamas in Gaza, proves that once in power, Islamists, like fascists before them, will suspend democracy to retain their power for as long as they can hold on to it by force.

Though the so called "Arab Spring" in Egypt happened in the 21st Century, that country was less prepared for democracy than the American Colonies were more than two centuries earlier.

Institutions that are essential to democracy, like an educated population, a healthy system of rival political parties, a constitution that safeguards rights and an independent judiciary are all democratic facets America had in 1776.  The only political organization that was organized for Egypt's "Arab Spring" was the Muslim Brotherhood, which used mosques and madrassas to force-feed subservience to the faithful in a country that is more than 95% Muslim.  Rural Egyptians welcomed Morsi's tyranny of devout Islamism. That same Islamism was a bludgeon to the cosmopolitan citizens of Cairo who have spent the last weeks protesting en masse.

The embarrassing fall-out of the Egyptian coup is that after decades of the west acting superior and lecturing the Muslim world about democracy, the reality is that both they and we are better off if, in Egypt, it takes a time-out.

Morsi is a maniac who adheres to the murderous Muslim Brotherhood creed. Though we seem hypocrites to welcome his removal, what if the same had happened in Germany in 1934?

Adolf Hitler came to power the year before that in a fair election. The last fair election Germany was to have until after the Second World War and the millions of deaths the results of that election eventually caused.

Certainly there would have been an outcry from some quarters in the west if the German Army, seeing Hitler's insanity, had chosen to remove him the year after he was elected. But millions of innocent lives and untold devastation would have been averted if the Wehrmacht had taken such a bold step.

The difference is that we have the benefit of hindsight that the Germans in the 1930's did not.

There are those in the west who are sympathetic to Islamism and are decrying the Egyptian coup because they make the disingenuous claim it is undoing democracy. The fact is that while Egypt may have had an election, they did not have democracy.

The Egypt's military has shown itself in the past to be a mostly responsible steward of power. Hopefully they will use their time with it now to build those institutions needed for a true Egyptian democracy to emerge in the future.

Senator Ted Cruz: Obama's Friend in Cairo

...In what has to be one of the most stunning diplomatic failures in recent memory, the United States is -- in both perception and reality -- entrenched as the partner of a repressive, Islamist regime and the enemy of the secular, pro-democracy opposition.

It did not have to be this way.

When Morsy was elected a little more than a year ago, President Barack Obama could have expressed strong reservations about a member of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control of the country. He should have also been more aggressive about using American aid to extract concessions from the Egyptian government on human rights, as well as economic and political reform. Instead, Obama made a personal call to congratulate Morsy, characterized his election as a "milestone" in Egypt's progress toward democracy, and pledged $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded aid. In the ensuing months, Morsy received a steady stream of assistance from the United States in the form of arms sales, unconditional financial aid, and visits from high-level officials such as Secretary of State John Kerry -- all of which enhanced the strength and legitimacy of his regime.

Read the article at Foreign Policy

So how's that Egyptian "Arab Spring" going?

Palestinian "human rights" group chairman calls Holocaust a "fairy tale"

In an article that sounds more like a parody of a supervillain from an Austin Powers movie than a serious representative of the Palestinian people a call for "the Zionist entity" to pay $500 billion dollars to Egypt for  "crimes against Egyptian people and state" was punctuated with a description of the Holocaust as a "fairy tale."

Mustafa Ahmed Abul Khail, the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Palestinian Association for Human Rights, provided yet another example of the idiocy and backwardness that characterizes the Palestinian leadership and has made the Middle East peace process such a seemingly impossible task.  

Compounding these difficulties is Egypt's recently-elected Muslim Brotherhood President, who has, in the tradition of Islamic anti-Semitism,  called Jews "the descendants of pigs and apes" and by means of explanation, told a US Senate delegation that the problem was due to the fact that Jews control the media.

The fanaticism, ignorance and hatred that is so pervasive Arab and Islamic countries will present a tremendous ongoing obstacle to their ability to be taken seriously by the west. As western hypocritical so-called progressives will accuse criticism of Islamic countries as "racis,t" they continue to patronizingly absolve those countries of the most vile racist practices. The reality for those familiar with the regressive left is that their racism exceeds no bounds and is only surpassed by their dim-witted sanctimony.

h/t Blazing Cat Fur and Elder of Ziyon

Middle Eastern Islam is incompatible with western civilization

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi spent the weekend devoutly praying as his Imam preached,  "Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters."

Imagine the outcry if any western leader had attended a religious service and was seen praying in accession while a cleric asked God to destroy the Muslims.

There would be a maelstrom of calls for his resignation, for apologies and for him to renounce the service and the cleric. But in Egypt, like the rest of the Muslim Middle East, it's just another day at the office.

Professor Salim Mansur argued recently before a Parliamentary Commission in Ottawa that Canada should halt Muslim immigration as the values brought in by Muslim immigrants threaten western liberal democratic values.

I have opposed immigration curbs on the basis of religion, but instances like these are indications that we should be extremely judicious on allowing in immigrants from countries like Egypt and Pakistan where such bigotry and barbarity are the norm.