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Farahat:
If someone like Glenn Beck , whom I respect and admire, agrees with
Nageh Ibrahim from Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya that the protests against
Mubarak are wrong and not in their best interest, then I think this a
sign that one needs to revise their premises. When Al-Gama’a
al-Islamiyya and freedom loving people agree on what’s in their best
interest, I take this as a sign of dangerous misconception that no one
can afford.
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President Obama supported protests in Egypt and why I do, might be for
entirely different reasons. The Obama administration is resuming formal
contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, which certainly is not in the
best interest of freedom loving people in Egypt.
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FP: But just a second, where Glenn Beck was right, and
where those who
are concerned about these demonstrations are right, is that the devil
we know might be better than the devil we don’t know. No one is denying
what you are saying about the true nature of the phony “secular”
leaders, but the Muslim Brotherhood could very well come to power on
the backs of these demonstrators and then we have an even worse
situation. Surely, to take Egypt as an example, it is better for us to
have a Mubarak in power than a Khomeini-like regime.
Farahat: I believe that’s a dangerous notion, because the “devil you
know” is breeding and indoctrinating millions of devils you don’t know.
It’s an unsustainable strategy that only creates a short-term delusion
of stability while it only allows your enemy to conveniently plot. [
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The complex political
dynamics at work here keep my head spinning, and this FrontPage
interview with Cynthia Farahat, a political activist and dissident in
Egypt did little to firm things up for me. When that
happens I go the the Oracle of of the Jumping Gonad, which
in this case asked, simply, "What
side did you say
Code Pink was on?"
Om. Ommmmmmmm" Om.
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