Egypt: Qaradawi, World’s Leading Islamist Tries to Take Charge of the Revolution
I am so hoping that events in Egypt work out the way the student organizers anticipate that it will - but these sorts of stories give me pause.
A key phrase in this piece is the last sentence - “But what might happen after the election?”. We know the student organizers have no real organization in place, with a leadership ready to assume responsibility. Whereas the Muslim Brotherhood does. The revolution is over; some really hard things are coming up.
Let history show that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world’s single most important Islamic cleric to Cairo to begin what he hopes to be the transformation of Egypt inTo a revolutionary anti-American state.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi spoke to a giant cheering crowd in Tahrir Square. He praised the army—to ward off it’s repression and encourage it to support a thoroughgoing transformation of the country. He preached caution and patience, working with the army.
And he also lavished praise on the pro-Islamist chairman of the committee to write the new Constitution, which may not be a good sign at all.
There is one easily missed word in his speech that is the most significant. That word is “hypocrites.” In the Islamist lexicon, hypocrites means Muslims who do not practice “true” Islam according to the radicals. To take Egypt out of the hands of hypocrites is to put it onto the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood—or at least similarly minded people—which, contrary to the best and the brightest policymakers, intelligence analysts, experts, and journalists is not a moderate organization.
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The army will not let this happen for now. But what might happen after elections?