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Is Egypt Giving the United States Marching Orders?

Oct. 18, 2012 2:44pm

Adam Turner serves as staff counsel to the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). He is a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee where he focused […]

Adam Turner serves as staff counsel to the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). He is a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee where he focused on national security law.

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Turner: Is Egypt Giving the United States Its Marching Orders?

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency taken on, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, waves to the crowd gathered in a stadium upon his arrival for a speech on the 6th of October national holiday marking the 1973 war with Israel in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo: AP)

“The obscenities that I have referred to from a recently released [video] as part of an organized campaign against Islamic sanctities are unacceptable and require a promise of firm stance. We have a responsibility in this international gathering to study how we can protect the world from instability and hatred. Egypt respects freedom of expression – freedom of expression that is not used to incite hatred against anyone – not a freedom of expression that target a specific religion or a specific culture. A freedom of expression that tackle extremism and violence – not a freedom of expression that deepens ignorance and disregards others.” UN Speech by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, 09/27/12

The Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, has given the United States – and the UN – its marching orders regarding the Islamic Prophet, Mohammed. Insults against Mohammed, and against the Islamic faith, will not be tolerated.

Certainly, the Obama Administration will not object. They have already enthusiastically participated in the “Istanbul Process”, which seeks to implement UN Resolution 16/18, the latest iteration of proposed international laws that seek to restrict speech that “denigrates” Islam. Further, President Obama himself has decreed, in his own UN speech, that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Apparently, President Obama has never thought too highly of free speech, so, there may not be any daylight between the U.S. and Egyptian governments when it comes to such troublesome speech.

Of course, President Morsi had other demands as well.

Mr. Morsi said, in another New York appearance, that he wants Omar Abdul Rahman, the Egyptian Muslim cleric in a U.S. jail for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home in Egypt. Rahman, who is referred to as the “Blind Sheikh,” issued fatwas and helped plan acts of Islamist terrorism. In 1993, his followers detonated a truck bomb in a parking garage below the North Tower, with the intention of knocking it into the South Tower, thereby bringing both towers down and killing thousands of Americans. The bomb failed to deliver these results, but it did kill six people and injured more than a thousand. Presumably, the Egyptian President’s call for the Blind Sheikh to be transferred to an Egyptian jail supersedes his earlier demand for Rahman to simply be released. But transfer or release, it seems that the U.S. State Department is seriously considering it.

Also, as expressed in a New York Times interview, President Morsi said it was up to Washington to revitalize its alliance with Egypt. He clearly doesn’t believe that Egypt owes the U.S. anything, regardless of the fact that, between 1948 and 2011, the United States has already provided Egypt with $71.6 billion in foreign aid, including $1.3 billion a year in military aid from 1987 to the present. Presumably, the $1.3 billion plus is now just a base requirement, which should be bolstered, either directly by the U.S. or indirectly through international organizations. And sure enough, the Obama Administration has proposed a plan to provide $450 million in emergency domestic assistance, although Congress is currently blocking this. The Administration also supports a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to Egypt; the U.S. provides about $64 billion a year to the IMF, by the way.

In that same interview Morsi also criticized the U.S. for not living up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule. He said that Americans “have a special responsibility” for the Palestinians because the United States had signed the 1978 Camp David accord, and that “(a)s long as peace and justice are not fulfilled for the Palestinians, then the treaty remains unfulfilled.” The fact that U.S. support for the governing anti-Semitic, anti-American, corrupt, terror supporting, anti-democratic forces in “Palestine” is not actually in our best interest, can safely be ignored. During the past term the Obama Administration has consistently and one-sidedly pushed Israel to give up more and more concessions to the Palestinians for the sake of peace. No doubt, after the election, President Obama will have even more “flexibility” to meet Morsi’s demands.

President Morsi also called for Egypt to be immune from any unnecessary moral evaluations by the U.S. “If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment,” he said. So, for example, President Morsi probably believes that a fully democratic state with American style civil rights for citizens and especially religious minorities is not appropriate for Egypt. The same applies – or, perhaps more accurately, doesn’t apply – for granting equal rights to Egyptian women. Democratic competition and the alternation of power between different political parties – if one of those parties is not Muslim Brotherhood affiliated – may also be a big no-no. And, as mentioned before, free speech rights for the Egyptians are not ok, no matter how much the U.S. values them. For that matter, based on Morsi’s UN speech, free speech isn’t okay for the U.S., in the U.S., when it concerns the religion of Islam. Fortunately for Mr. Morsi, the Obama Administration has made clear it has a strong disinclination to judge other nations and cultures.

For example, President Morsi dismissed tepid criticism from the White House that he did not move fast enough to protect the U.S. Embassy in Cairo from Islamist rioters on September 11, 2012. These rioters eventually climbed over the Embassy wall, burned the American flag, and replaced it with the black flag of radical Islam. Egyptian guards did little to stop them, and President Morsi “remained conspicuously silent as protesters breached the walls of the American Embassy in Cairo — a stark contrast to the help, contrition and condemnation coming from the new government of Libya.” Contrary to the Obama Administration’s continued claims, these Islamist protesters were not objecting some bad California movie, but were actually protesting the continued detention of the Blind Sheikh.

These were Mr. Morsi’s demands. And what will the U.S. get if we give President Morsi what he wants?

Once again, President Morsi told us exactly that in the Times interview. In return for our compliance to the above requirements, Mr. Morsi suggested that Egypt would not be hostile to the West, although he also cautioned that it would not be as compliant to the U.S. as it was under Mr. Mubarak, either. When specifically asked if Egypt would remain an ally of the U.S., President Morsi carefully responded, “(t)hat depends on your definition of ally.”

Once again, based on a statement by President Obama describing the U.S.’s current relationship with Egypt, this type of relationship may well be satisfactory to the Obama Administration.

This column was originally written for EMET.

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Comments (22)

JEANNIEMAC
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:15pm
The man in the White House was born and raised as a Muslim. He joined a Christian church for political reasons. Everything he has done since being in the Oval Office has benefited Islam. Our congress should have removed him from office after the first year.
If he loses the election, be ready for the marching of his brown shirts, the National Civilian Service Corps. 700 billion dollars was taken from Medicare to help fund the oppressive Obamacare. this law is not really abut healthcare, but about control over every aspect of our lives. Funding for his brown shirts is in one of the sections of Obamacare.

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akpapa
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:43pm
The Islamic Caliphate was defeated at the end of WWI, Attaturk tried to modernize the Muslim world, but the hardliner Muslim Brotherhood vowed to restore the Caliphate. That’s what’s goin’ on!

Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia; the objective is to over throw the secular Dictators and Kings and restore Sharia Law to the entire Midde East.

Constitutional America and Sharia are incompatable!

Same thing was happening in 1100 A.D. Islamists were pillaging the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa, and blockading the trade routes and Jerusalem; which led to the Christian Crusades.

What we have here is an existential battle between Judeo-Christian Culture and Islamic Culture.
Islamists are fighting to the death or dominance of the Western way of life. Western culture is still waking up to the threat…………

‘Live Free or Die’ is not just a neat old quote.

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coldnorth
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:43am
Back in the early 90′s I was a mechanic on medivacs that used to fly to Saudi Arabia. We’d land in Cairo to refuel and proceed. One thing I noticed was that the egyptian air traffic controllers would not speak to our female pilots. Never felt safe in either country. I felt like I was in a fish bowl in Kobar towers. To many rag heads hanging around the parimeter fence. That changed after the bombing.
I think many people in the US see a watered down version of Islam in the US, and think there is no theat. How many muslims have to be imported or converted in the US before we see its true face. Constitutional America and Sharia are incompatable. And how many devout muslims would say Islam doesn’t need sharia?
I worry what America will look like in 20yrs.

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coldnorth
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:18am
Is the pres of egypt rolling in a Jeep Commache?

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 8:05pm
Subject: Jon Voight Probably Just Ended His Movie Career

As Clint Eastwood stated, not all actors in Hollywood are Democrats.

This is very powerful.
A must see for all realistic and logical Americans. I’m sending this to you, who I feel is one.
and this is Angelina Jolie’s father…….
looks like the apple may HAVE fallen far, and rolled!
CLICK AND WATCH THE SHORT VIDEO…this took real guts by Voight…
http://www.staged.com/video?v=x4u
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THIS IS A GREAT SHORT VIDEO. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE IT, MAYBE OUR U.S.A WON’T LOOK LIKE EGYPT OR PAKISTAN. PLEASE COPY AND SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU CAN.

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- tonypro
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:05am
  Thanks ARMED for the share.
  
  Very nice video. Thumbs up to you.
  
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Fear The Voices
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:25pm
The muslum brotherhoods can bite me… I don’t care if they are offended when I mock their pedophile prophet; nor will I be silenced for stating that they are worshipers of satan.

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tonypro
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:34pm
Was my comment here not posted because I said egypt could kiss my, or because I stated koo koo ran muslim followers worshiped satan?

Just curious?

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- tonypro
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:37pm
  OOOops, my bad, just took longer to be posted than usual.
  
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tonypro
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:22pm
Egypt can KISS MY @$$, and the sharia laws it goes by with their new muslim brotherhood leaders.

Here’s one for you….

All koo koo ran, sharia following muslims worship satan.

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Chromo200
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 9:23am
No more aid to Egypt, Palestinians, Iraq, Pakistan .. Pull the troops out of Irag, Afghanistan. Close the Embassy in Egypt and bring down to a small consulate or nothing. I know Egypt is a pivotal country in the middle east but there are times one has to walk away and look at a different solution.

Let us be energy independent and see what happens to that region.. I’d rather pay more for products that avoids the Suez Canal then kiss the a$$ of the Egyptians.

Most important vote Obama out and keep the pressure on Romney to keep his promise to keep america strong.

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universalphilos
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:04am
A history of the 1973 Yom Kippur war – how we got here, to this day — http://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/ArabIsraeliWar73
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/yom_kippur_war_of_1973.htm

Although this prophecy may have been for 1985, at least part seems to continue to provide guidance for today. Remember, God did then and will also now answer our prayers.
January 13, 1984:”There are now two sources which advocate war with the Soviet Union and war with the Chinese Republic. Both of these, each believing that when the war ends, that they may step in and make the world a better place to live in, according to themselves, would think nothing of taking the lives of millions. The first is those of the Palestinian, or “Black September” − and these are not of just of one people, but they are made up of the Arabian block; Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, are but some among the pact. You shall find them ten nations in all.”
[See The Revelation, chapter 13 and 17:12-14.]
http://www.angelfire.com/in4/aup_messiah/1984January13.audio.html

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P0t8t0head
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:54am
American Historian Bill Federer, gives a ‘Cliff Notes’ type summary of our founding fathers’ pesky Pirate problem, saying, “ ‘From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli’ – the Marine anthem (hymn) recalls when Muslim Barbary Pirates of North Africa committed terrorist acts on American ships, selling crews into slavery. Tripoli demanded tribute and a treaty was attempted, but it was not honored as the Koran prohibited friendship with infidels. ”
How ever infidels may pay a TAX for the privledge of continued life…..
is it just me or does the money and guns funneled through the brotherhood seem like a tribute?
Could the reason we are doing all these things which are so…..discordant be because we have to pay tribute and Obama is keeping this under wraps?

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Scarab Sport
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 9:34pm
This country needs to get some stones and stand up for what America is all about and what made us the great country that we are: freedim of speech, the US Constitution and our great heritage. We can’t let the libs and politically correct water it down by agreeing to the nonsense proposed by people like the president of egypt that is a mouthpiece for the musilm brotherhood. Wake up people!

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LiveforFreedom
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 6:57pm
If so we better take all the M1A1 tanks and every other high tech equipment we gave them than see if they still want to part ways without our equipment????

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- redsea
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:43pm
  And 3 countries are in line at the door to five them the equipment we take away, plus more; China, Russia, and Iran. Morsi will not last long. He is an idiot and all of the Egyptian people think so except the illiterate, whom the Muslim Brotherhood give money and aide. In America you have the same problem with Obama, all of the illiterate on welfare. There will be another Revolution soon, except it will lead to civil war with Tantawi gone.
  
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tefarah
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 6:07pm
Our symbol is an eagle – not a chicken. It’s time we start acting like an eagle.
1. Stop ALL funds, including humanitarian funds, to ALL Muslim countries. They have more money than they know what to do with. They steal the humanitarian funds for themselves.
2. Nationalize all Muslim owned assents. The assets could be used to pay off the loans we’ve made to them. The UAE has never paid us, even thought they agreed to do so for our saving their behinds from Iran. They can give England a million dollars for a zoo but not one penny to the USA on their loan.
3. Expel any muslims from other countries who do not accept our freedoms and rights while in America. Illegal immigrants, students and others with visas must leave as soon as their visa is up or when they are no longer fulfilling the purpose of their visa. As they are not citizens of our country they have no rights. They should be treated as guests.
4. Give them notice we are no longer going to pay top dollar for oil. Offer them a fair amount and if they refuse use our own reserves until we can become self-sufficient.
5. Aim to be come self-sufficient energy-wise in 10 years or less. We might need to tighten our belt but I would rather tighten it to become self-sufficient than to be jerked around by bullies.
6. Any country that allows our embassies or American bases to be attacked with be consider to be at war with us. We will attack and seek retribution.

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- Irememberamerica
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:55am
  Cut off all funding now.
  Remove every last one of them, and let no more in.
  
  Tolerance, and diversity, with this group, will be the death
  knell of America.
  
  Don’t kid yourself, they are here to kill us.
  
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TheComic
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:14pm
If Romney wins, I wonder if he’ll have to go on an Apology Tour himself, telling these countries.. I’m sorry for the mess the past Adminstration has caused.

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TheComic
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:05pm
And to think, the next debate is on Foreign Policy. LOL

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 4:10pm
Turn off the money spigot. Prohibit the export of US food stuffs to Egypt. Prohibit the import any Egyptian products. Screw them.

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sacwoodpusher
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 3:37pm
I think all US aid to Egypt needs to be cut off, ESPECIALLY military aid.

Furthermore, Egypt is not in a position to demand anything from the US. If they want to force us to change our rights and freedoms that we enjoy…..let’s immediately recognize this regime for what it is, AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY. We need to deal with Islamic Radicals realistically, ie….like rabid dogs incapable of reason, with a desire to push society back to the stone age. Like all rabid dogs, these radicals need to be put down.

Obama or no Obama, how many Americans are willing to fight for freedom of speech? My guess is 100% of the conservatives, and probably 75% of the liberals. Have Romney push this concept at the next debate. See if Obama DARES to back off on protecting free speech, Even Obama wouldn’t dare!

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