Utvecklingen i Mellanöstern

Det är många som med oro följer med utvecklingen i Egypten och Mellanöstern. Kommer länderna där man lyckats störta gamla diktaturer att gå mot en mer demokratisk framtid eller kommer situationen att förvärras genom att nya militärdiktaturer eller islamister griper makten?
Mardrömmen skulle vara om män som Mazen Al-Sarsawi, muslimsk präst, skulle få makten.
I videoklippet från MEMRI förklarar han hur otrogna (icke muslimer) skall behandlas. Vi ber dem vänligt att konvertera till islam, om de vägrar kan de betala skatt och leva under vårt beskydd men vägrar de betala är de onda och vi kommer att bekämpa dem.

Egyptian Cleric Mazen Al-Sarsawi: We Ask a Person Nicely to Convert, But If He Refuses and Does Not Pay the Jizya Tax, We Fight Him

Här följer länkar till några artiklar i ämnet:

Egypt’s Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists
(New York Times)
"CAIRO — The headline screamed from a venerable liberal newspaper: Coptic Christians had abducted a young Muslim and tattooed her with a cross. “Copts kidnap Raghada!”
“They tied me up with ropes, beat me with shoes, shaved my hair,” Raghada Salem Abdel Fattah, 19, declared, “and forced me to read Christian psalms!”
Like many similar stories proliferating here since the revolution, Ms. Abdel Fattah’s kidnapping could not be confirmed. But for members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the sensational headline — from a respected publisher, no less — served to validate their fear that the Egyptian revolution had made their country less tolerant and more dangerous for religious minorities. The Arab Spring initially appeared to open a welcoming door to the dwindling number of Christian Arabs who, after years of feeling marginalized, eagerly joined the call for democracy and rule of law. But now many Christians here say they fear that the fall of the police state has allowed long-simmering tensions to explode, potentially threatening the character of Egypt, and the region... "

Egypt’s Islamic fringe takes the plunge into politics (Jerusalem Post)
"...While the Muslim Brotherhood and its political offshoot, the Freedom and Justice Party, has attracted the most attention and fear among Egyptian liberals, the Islamic end of the political spectrum is growing crowded with fringe movements announcing bids to run in the parliamentary elections come September...
...The votes will be the first – and perhaps only – crossroads for Egypt, as it chooses whether to go down the road of Western-style democracy or opt for a state governed by Islamic mores. In a poll published by the New York-based Pew Research Center earlier this month, Egyptians were found to be almost evenly divided between those who “sympathize” with Islamic fundamentalists and those who don’t, with about 30% of respondents siding one way or the other..."


Column One: The real Egyptian revolution (Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post)
"The IDF must expand its draft rolls and increase its force size by at least one division. It must also begin training in desert warfare and develop and purchase appropriate conventional platforms.With the Iranians now apparently moving from developing nuclear capabilities to developing nuclear warheads, and with the Palestinians escalating their political war and planning their next terror war against Israel, it stands to reason that no in the government or the IDF wants to consider the strategic implications of Egypt’s reversion from peace partner to enemy.But Israel doesn’t get to decide what our neighbors do. We can only take the necessary steps to minimize their ability to harm us."

Here In One Sentence is What Obama Doesn’t Understand About the Middle East (Barry Rubin)
"Here’s the sentence:
The changes in the region are producing more extremism, not more moderation.
That applies to attitudes toward America and Israel as well as on internal social issues.
Rachi Ghanouchi, head of Tunisia’s Islamist movement–a man long portrayed as a moderate in the West–just publicly came out and called for Israel’s destruction...

...Yet let’s listen–thanks to MEMRI–at what the VOA and CBS producers counterpart in the Arab world is saying. In an article written for a Qatari and a Jordanian newspaper, entitled “Israel Is Surely Temporary,” Samir al-Hijjawi says
“It’s time for Israel to go… It’s time for the end of the great lie… It’s time [for Israel] to go because the regimes protecting [it]… are toppling one by one.” He added that the recent protests on Israel’s borders prove the Palestinians and Arabs will never relinquish all of Palestine because it is sacred Muslim territory..."