It seems that all too many reporters are willing to brush aside the statistic that the Muslim Brotherhood only accounts for 20% of the vote in Egypt. These people seem unaware of the fact that it only takes 5% of the a country to be communist for the people to live under the thumb of dictatorship. Anyone who thinks some significant proportion of the population supports the dictator of North Korea or that a majority support the dictatorship in China, or any other communist nation are out of their minds. In most cases it is approximately 5%. So, in this case that means it should be no problem for the Muslim Brotherhood to exert their influence or completely rule in Egypt.
Our media seem to either live in a dream world, they are incapable of interpreting the facts, or they are simply lying to and trying to deceive the American people. I believe it is the latter of the three. The media seems to clearly support any cause that is communist or socialist at every opportunity. This support is easy to see if you look at the way they cover any story where socialists or communists are involved.
The American media is also either far too politically correct or at least not opposed to the goals of Islam. No matter how much evidence there is against the religious goals of Islam they refuse to mention anything negative about them.
It is difficult to look at the emerging story of Egypt without considering the media and its involvement. Almost from the start the media has clearly supported the uprising in Egypt. They have used as many incendiary terms as they dare. They have constantly called him a dictator. They have at no point mentioned the fact that Egypt has been a staunch ally of Israel and the United States. Why is this? Because they are at their root communists and socialists in their world view. They do would be more than happy if the United States was left with not one friendly nation in the world. I suppose they think this would lead to a socialist/communist United States, and they must further feel that because they somehow helped in the destruction of capitalism and freedom in this nation that they will be immune from the purges that invariably follow. Should they not like what begins to happen they will most certainly not be free at that point to write anything negative about it.
What is about to happen in Egypt I fear is not good. Too many people think that any change must by definition be good. Even as people seem to think that each successive generation must be better, smarter, more spiritual and more enlightened than the previous generation. They do not believe this because of any evidence. Indeed in many cases they believe it in spite of the evidence to the contrary.
It is this same ignorance that infects the media. History or evidence to the contrary that socialism or communism has never lead to any good for any nation that has accepted them makes no difference to them. Whether the media are honest about it or not they are ideologues. Of course they are going to spin the news that they are fair and balanced and even come up with some polls or the like to demonstrate this, but I do not believe people are really that gullible.
We need to take a closer look at what is happening in Egypt right now. It is very important that we understand where things are going and that things could well go very wrong there. If we are not willing to accept this could be the case then we are asking for problems.
The media is still not letting the news that things have finally broken in Egypt deter them from continual reporting on this issue to the neglect of domestic issues. The media is not able to walk and chew gum at the same time. It seems all they can do is report 2 or at most 3 stories at a time, over and over throughout the day, to the exclusion of all else. Rather than report 35-40 real stories in a day they report on 4 over and over. They don't simply report what has happened, but they feel they must interpret it for us. I suppose they think that we are too stupid to understand current events unless they explain them too us. Maybe this is true. There are certainly more than enough people graduating from high school who are functionally illiterate, as well as not even knowing where different states are. We are have congressmen in office who do not know what the difference between the constitution and the declaration of independence are. Somehow I don't really have any confidence that the media are any better off.
The other day our faithful media began to report, based apparently on nothing more than some rumor someone started, that Mubarak was going to step down. When the announcement came he declared he would be staying in office till September. Clearly they don't care about facts and would rather report on hearsay. Because of this and many other things I honestly don't trust the media when they start to give us information about how the Muslim Brotherhood has become more temperate. They have not changed what they believe or what they're goals are. They have merely changed their tactics. As Van Jones said, they're giving up the radical pose for the sake of the radical ends. This is the case for the Muslim Brotherhood as well. They are more than willing to appear moderate as long as they are able to accomplish their ends. They have been working at this for a very long time.
The Muslim Brotherhood is very patient about achieving their ends. We take their patience to mean that they have given them but. This again comes from assuming they are like us. We assume their religion is like Christianity. We assume this because we want to. We assume they are interested in peace because we assume they are like Christians. We assume this because we assume that all gods are the same and have the same demands on their followers as the Christian God. We cannot conceive that there are people who believe in gods of war, and who believe their God tells them to wage war on the unbelievers. Again we do this because we project our "modern" beliefs on others. This is not only invalid, but very dangerous because we are not facing things as they are. Our nation is headed for very deep trouble if we do not come to our senses and realize that the Muslim mindset is essentially at its root quite different from every other religion on earth except maybe satanism.
I'm sure they would be most appalled at someone saying this. But consider for just a moment what other religion in the world regularly puts out death sentences on any person that criticizes their religion. The fact that they have the gaul to call themselves tolerant is laughable. The only thing worse than that is that we agree with them and pretend they are tolerant.
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