‘Dangerous’: Egyptian TV Panel Debates Cleric’s Claim that Jerusalem Will Be Capital of the Caliphate
- Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:15pm by
Erica Ritz
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Following the tentative results of Egypt’s presidential election, where the Muslim Brotherhood declared its candidate Muhammad Mursi to be the victor, the Egyptian media is taking a closer look at who exactly surrounds their potential future president.
Playing a clip featured on The Blaze in early May, a panel of two (very) assertive women and five men offer contrasting viewpoints on cleric Safwat Higazi’s declaration that Muhammad Mursi will usher in a world where Jerusalem is the capital of the “United Arab States,” or caliphate.
Farid Zahran of the Egyptian Democratic Party condemned the cleric, saying the world he was describing is “not Egypt.”
“We are Muslims and Christians, Bedouin and Nubians,” he said, “[and] that man does not care about that. He’s talking about a completely different plan.” At the end of the day, Zahran continued, “this man only wants war with Israel…that is the bleak scenario that I am anticipating.”
Next, TV host Hala Sarhan asks: “When Dr. Safwat Higazi says these things in the presence of Dr. Mursi, does this mean that Dr. Mursi agrees with these statements, and that this is his election platform and his plan for the future of Egypt?” She continues, raising her hand in protest: “These are dangerous statements.”
Then comes the high point of the clip, where journalist Farida Al-Shubashi gets into a shouting match with lawyer Essam Al-Hafnawi. At this point, she primarily says that the cleric Higazi‘s statements are destructive because Egypt couldn’t “liberate” Jerusalem even if it wanted to. Her later comments, however, are even more enlightening.
Watch the clip below, via MEMRI (skip the first minute if you’ve already seen the clip):
TV host Hala Sarhan proceeded to say: “Higazi said ‘millions of martyrs’ and ‘let’s march on Jerusalem.’”
When an Egyptian MP counters that “these are merely emotional chants,” the women wag their fingers, tsk, and say “no, no, no…the conscience of the masses is very important.”
“He was expressing his own desire to commit martyrdom,” the MP assures of the cleric.
“Let him go martyr himself,” they retort, in what is likely a similar context to what one might hear in the United States of a similar phrase, “but he shouldn’t say this to the Egyptian people. My son might hear him and follow his lead.”
One of the men tries to remind his compatriots: “Jerusalem is the promised land, people,”
“You go to the promised land,” journalist Farida Al-Shubashi animatedly responds. “I want my own country…I [reject] those statements from the hair on my head to the toes on my feet…We don‘t even produce this pen I’m holding. How do we expect to liberate Jerusalem? Those are empty words. We should work hard and make progress, so that we can be competitive in science rather than talk nonsense.”
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:29pmThink those women made to the Muslim Brotherhood “to be stoned” list?
Hopefully, Egyptians will listen to moderation. (but probably not)
Report Post »themongoose
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:00amSeems that the moderate ones are the women who realize that these troglodyte misogynistic pedophiles are going to drag them all back to the 6th century.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:52amCairo is located at… Ancient Memphis (the White Walled) Capital of the First Pharaoh of Egypt. So, why look elsewhere?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:36amGood luck with that “Cup of Trembling”. Those that concern themselves with it’s occupation will be torn to pieces. I didn’t say that. God did.
Report Post »IZJ
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:14amOther than the language, these guys sound just like all Obama friends from Farrakhan/nation of Islam, Black Panthers, Rev. Wright and some of his radical Tzars and assistants.
Actually, their intention to have their capital in Jerusalem and have a union of Arab states is exactly the vision of Sorros who’d love it as an intermediate step before uniting the rest of the world.
Report Post »marinedad3
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:48pmone of our founding fathers was asked what type of government they were designing. His reply? “A democracy, ………..If you can keep it!” Democracy’s are easy to proclaim, hard to keep, they require constant vigilance and involvement.. Good luck to the Egyptians and to us!
Report Post »mapgirl10
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:08pmRepublic if you can keep it!
Report Post »m509
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:52pmThe reported quote from Ben Franklin was :a Republic… if you can keep it” Democracy was not part of the quote as it was not part of their plan. The Founding Fathers knew that democracy is nothing more than mob rule and did not consider it a viable structure for a government that represented the people.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:09pmhas NOT egypt and other arab nations learned ANYTHING form history n thier TABLETS.. that YOU come against isreal you will be exterminated BY THE TRUE GOPD HIM SELF RAKA FOOLS all arabs are in this matter NO MURDERING MUSLUM will EVER have jerusalem or ANY part of isreal.. PERIOD.. to try to come aganisnt isreal is to be exterminated by the REAL god not the false stone idol ALLAH in a man made cult called islam
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:03pmthis is just to program the masses, inordinate,once ohbuma is out of office and we have a strong leader then we shall be once again be by Israels side as we always have and must remain GOD gave Israel to the Jews till the end of days seems like they are trying to usher in these times
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:09pmLets just pray and hope that in the meantime Obama does not ignite another war in the area and strike out against Israel.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:19pmSeems to me… the only way that Israel goes down… is with an WMD… and then there will be no Jerusalem and uncontaminated ground!
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:46pmLukerw.
According to the Bible when God spoke of everything that is happening today, the word of God said that when the dust settles – Israel will still be standing and that Jesus would rule from Jerusalem for 1000 years.
Mohammed flipped the Bible and then he found a bunch of cave men to believe it. Who do you follow? A pedophile or the King of Kings, Lord of Lord.
Report Post »GeeWhiz
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:19pmIt really bugs me that people here are surprised by this. I’ve been watching clips from MEMRI and looking at this stuff since 2003 with the Iraq War. Did people really see this for the first time with Glenn Beck?
Go to the MEMRI site and watch the sermon clips from the Imans. It’s been going on for years………..
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:06pmThe Jews have kicked serious ass in the past.
Report Post »Go ahead and try to take Jersalem………………………….. all you’ll get is tons of dead muslims!
Findalis
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:57pmSome sanity in a land ruled by the Asylum inmates. The Egyptians are going to liberate Jerusalem with what? The weapons the US has given them? With an army that can’t fight a battle without hiding behind a child? Go up against well trained, well disciplined fighting men? They will liberate Jerusalem when pigs fly. And I don’t see bacon soaring the skies.
Report Post »plastinoid
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:51pmStop all foreign aid to these ungrateful hateful countries! let them kill each other for all I care. I am sick and tired of sending billions of dollars over there in oil revenues and foreign aid. drill here, drill now, and let them eat sand!
Report Post »justangry
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:44pmHoly cow, Egypt has warmongers and peace loving people in their country too? Who would have thunk it?
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:12pmI’m shocked the Blaze actually ran an article about Muslim and Arab moderates.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:41pmIf only these delusional perverts would stop stickin’ their fingers (or thumbs – try it folks – it really works) in their closed eyelids to see patterns (didja ever look at the patterns in their architecture?), or ‘hallucinate’ to see God, they’d be alright. (I’ve got bad news for them; God doesn’t see them.)
Report Post »Here_It_Comes
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:40pmIt’s kind of refreshing to find that there are a few sane people over there.
Report Post »tricia
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:13pmThe irony is that they are WOMAN, what good is that in a society that thinks and treats them as inferior to war-monger religious zealots.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:39pmwow- it is the most amazing thing when prophecy is being fulfilled right before your eyes.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:35pmwho cares Raleigh is much nicer city.
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