"A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general threat has always been independence. In the Arab world, the U.S. and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism." - Noam Chomsky, Truth-out.org, February 3, 2011The course of human history changed today. In less than a month, the Egyptian people peacefully overthrew their dictator who had dreams of his son taking the throne one day. We have all witnessed the proud people of Egypt tread new soil, and sacrifice their bodies for the cause of freedom, which they have rightfully earned. This day wasn't given to them by generous military leaders, or wise foreign rulers. Nobody but the Egyptian people can take the credit. Their bravery and determination unnerved every ass on the seat of power. As a result of their victory over Mubarak they are strong and independent. They're not to going to stand down and watch if their new-found freedom ever comes under threat by malign influence from the outside or by anti-democratic military men inside the country. The legacy of tyranny in Egypt is over.
"For decades the United States has swallowed Mubarak's lie that his anti-democratic policies are necessary, that even the slightest weakening of his oppressive, authoritarian regime would result in the immediate takeover by radical Islamists bent on turning into another Afghanistan under the Taliban. The United Nations has dubbed this specious and absurd argument a "legitimacy of blackmail." Now, the same lie is being peddled to Americans by people like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, two men whose views on the role of religion and politics are almost identical to those of the Muslim Brotherhood." - Reza Aslan, The Washington Post, January 30, 2011
When it is all set and done, the revolution in Egypt could transform the Middle East, and tilt the region towards democracy, peace, justice, and stability, which has been dominated for too long by the U.S.-Israeli-Saudi crime syndicate. The Egyptian people have also send a clear message to the dishonest and disgusting Iranian mullahs and the few Islamic radicals who actually exist: You are not welcome in Egypt, and your ideology has no future.
These developments are significant and good. A democratic and peaceful Egypt, under the leadership and direction of the young, can stand in the way of the warhawks in Iran and the warhawks in Israel and the United States. Both sides want another world war and extend their control over the region. A comment posted by As'ad AbuKhalil on his website reads, "the military balance has radically shifted in two weeks, all past calculations are over. On every single level."
Of course, the Egyptian people alone can't overturn U.S. and Israel's aggressive, 60-year long policies towards Palestine and the greater region, but they can guide Egypt to become a truly neutral party and an instrumental component in a new Middle East peace process in which the rights and human dignity of both the Palestinians and Israelis are recognized and respected. Unlike Iran's Islamic revolution 32 years ago, Egypt's non-violent, democratic revolution can be an example for freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
Such positive change will not be realized soon, but there is a big possibility that they will be realized because the Egyptian people are powerful, resourceful, considerate, and they have great potential to be a force for good and change in the region and the world. They are not motivated by any ill intent towards the people and governments of Israel, America, or Iran. They want to live in a vibrant and peaceful region, and their voices will be heard on the issue of Middle East peace just as their voices have been heard across the world in the last couple of weeks.
The Egyptian people have proven, through their actions, that the fear about radical Islamists taking over the Middle East is unfounded. The war criminals and propagandists who want to sell us the myth that the Middle East is menaced by a vast network of Islamic extremists are liars, and those who spread their lies and fears are irresponsible, ignorant, misguided, and stupid.
The lie that radical Islam threatens to engulf the Middle East and inflict terrorism on the West has died in Egypt, where the people have chosen freedom and democracy over theocracy. War criminals like Donald Rumsfeld, who told Rush Limbaugh a few days ago that; "We are up against a vicious enemy, the radical Islamists are there, they intend to try to create a Caliphate in this world and fundamentally alter the nature of nation states," can't maintain the myth for much longer. Their counter-terrorism operation is bankrupt, and their assault on the Middle East is seen for what it is: a crime against humanity.
What is shocking to many is that the Arab people, who are usually presented as violent, extremely religious, barbaric and irrational, are choosing non-violent methods to overthrow their vicious and corrupt rulers. Egypt's revolution has shown that the real irrational forces in the Middle East are the Arab dictators, and the deceptive rulers of America and Israel who fear democracy in the region because democratic governments will not sponsor their crimes, follow their agenda, and repeat their lies.
The false-flag 9/11 attacks convinced the American people and the people of other Western countries that America and the West are under attack from Muslim barbarians and terrorists, but that lie is dying. In reality, America and the West are under attack from criminal globalists and state terrorists who are in charge of Western governments behind the scenes. Ten years of media propaganda and government suppression of information wasn't enough to crush the truth that the biggest enemies of democracy and freedom are the criminals who hijacked the American government. Millions of people in America know that they were lied to by their government on a grand scale in the hours and days following 9/11. And now, almost ten years later, the Egyptian people have done what they could to silence the morally bankrupt voices in the American and Israeli government, who all along wanted to maintain the corrupt status quo, and arrogantly ignored the calls for freedom and change.
The warhawks and state terrorists in Israel and the U.S., like Mubarak and other crumbling Arab dictators, want to keep the image of the Islamic boogeyman alive in the public mind in order to justify their criminal wars, repression of the Palestinians, massive military spending, crackdown on dissent, and illegal counter-terrorism activities. But, following Mubarak, they will fall, and their plans for the Middle East, America, and the world will fail.
