The beginnings of an Islamic Caliphate?

There is an old saying “better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t know.”

It has been three months since the start of the Arab world protests, which has rippled throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Now, many leaders in the world are apparently more concerned than ever, with the growing possibility of an Islamic Caliphate taking form. This of course means the introduction of Shariah Law.

Many of course will argue that the protests are nothing more than pure Democratic revolutions and that the citizens in these countries, seemingly fed up with dictatorships, want a free and open society. This is true to some extent, by example, the man that fatally set himself on fire in Tunisia, eventually erupted in protests resulting in the ouster of President Zine Ben Ali.

But now, Al-Jazerra reported earlier last week, that political Islam may be on the rise in Tunisia.

The same can be said for Egypt. Despite being a dictator and whatever some may think of now former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under his regime, this country remained the United States most loyal ally in the Middle East region, and the only country that kept the peace with Israel. When the protests began in Egypt, many people in the news media suggested that they had successfully arranged this by promoting a pro-Democratic movement via Facebook and Twitter.

After Mubarak’s departure, the Clerical Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a man who was banned from Egypt, is allowed to re-enter the country and spoke before the crowd protesters in Cairo encouraging the unification of Muslims and promoting the death of Israel.  

The Quran teaches Muslims to not find against fellow Muslims, another reason as to why the Muslim Brotherhood has had very close ties with Hamas and al-Qaeda, which is predominately Sunni and Hezbollah, which is Shiite.

Qaradawi also issued a Fatwa against Moammar Gaddafi and what happened in Libya? More protests that has resulted in an armed conflict with Gaddafi’s forces and military intervention from the United States and NATO, and is becoming nothing more than a disaster.

It also took President Obama 10 full days to finally condemn the actions in Libya, and refused to even mentioning Gaddafi by name. Yet when the protests were continuing in Egypt, Obama went on for days “Mubarak must go!”

If President Obama is really that brain dead on the Middle East, you really have to ask yourself what is the reason NATO intervened in Libya? Well, we know France and Italy want those oil contracts.

Gaddafi also alluded to the fact that al-Qaeda was involved in his country’s uprising, yet Senator John McCain visited Libya over this last weekend and insisted al-Qaeda does not have a presence in Libya at all. Oh really Senator? Did the so called ‘rebels’ really tell you that? You think that they would have admitted the truth to someone representing in the United States?

Now the Middle East has been experiencing major uprisings in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, among other nations.

Syria has reported the deaths of at least 100 people and Yemen’s long time president Ali Abdullah Saleh has stated he will give up power by the end of May. Interesting how the military in Syria is combating its people and yet the United Nations is not declaring a ‘No-Fly Zone’ like what took place in Libya.

Perhaps the most significant of all is Iran. The Hitler-wannabe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated for years that the end of Israel will happen and they have spent so much money in trade with Russia to get a nuclear program going.

Press TV has been reporting on new developing relations between Egypt and Iran for the first time in since 1980. Isn’t it interesting that in 1981 was when Mubarak assumed the Presidency in Egypt, and right after he is thrown out of office, Iran and Egypt want to form a new alliance? Is all of this some bizarre coincidence? Not for a moment.

Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims have two primary goals. Obey Allah and destroy Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to unite Muslims to form the Caliphate that existed during the time of the Prophet Mohammed and introduce Shariah Law.

If Egypt and Iran’s developing relations continue to go unchecked and if the governments of Yemen, Syria and Saudi Arabia are eventually overthrown, then we will see a radical increase of continuing threats and possibly wars against Israel and the United States.

Again, whatever you may think of ruthless dictators like Gaddafi or Mubarak, I think I would rather live in a world where they are still in power, than to live in a world that may very well be conquered by radical Islam, resulting in a Caliphate.

  

Misconceptions of the Middle East

Since the beginning of the upheaval in the Middle East, most of the world following the catastrophe has been manipulated by the news media into believing this is all about human rights and higher pay. Some of this is true. There is no question that dictators like Qaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali, among others, have ruled over their people with an iron fist.

However the situation is much more than that and there has been too many misconceptions about what is really going on in the Middle East. Isn't it interesting that you have a dictator like Qaddafi in Libya that is vowing to start a civil war against protesters, not to mention his country harbors a deep resentment against Israel, as it is with all the other Middle Eastern nations. Yet, the clerical leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called for Qaddafi's assassination. Qaradawi also wants Israel gone. He spoke in front of thousands of protesters calling for the eliminating of Jews and that they will be punished, much like how Hitler carried this act out in Nazi Germany.

So why would two people who hate Israel, want to kill one another?

Do you see what is happening here? You have dictators that run countries and now they face an even larger threat. If you can get rid of all of these governments, and if the Muslim Brotherhood can infiltrate and persuade their followers to establish a 'new Middle East', the world is going to have one huge problem, not to mention, the economic conditions, will be critical.

This appears to be the common misconception. Here in America, all you hear is this talk of "down with the dictators, let the Arab people have peace!" Yet, people don't realize the evil behind the evil.

Now, in addition to Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria and Libya; Yemen, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan have all began to experience major protests. The one country that is apparently surrounded by this fire is Saudi Arabia. If this country begins to feel the pressure, think of what kind of impact this is going to have on gas prices right here in the United States.

We're in for some tough seas.

Tunisia's prime minister dealing with crisis

We've already seen the upheavals in countries like Lebanon, Sudan and Ivory Coast over the course of the last few months, now we can add Tunisia to that list.

The North African nation, suffered from violence and street protests last week, that began when a man set himself on fire after police confiscated his produce. This eventually led to a social and political unrest with Tunisia's people, fed up with unemployment, inflation and shortages, rioting on the streets and forcing military intervention. The rioting came to an end with demands that its President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, cease power and immediately step down. Ben Ali had declared a state of emergency for the country and dissolved its government, promising to establish a new one.

Doesn't look like Ben Ali is going to help with the process at all, since he fled to Saudi Arabia to avoid any forms of revolt against him, not to mention that he and his family took about $66 million worth of gold, out of Tunisia as well.

In the meantime, Tunisia's prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi is forced with a nearly impossible process of maintaining solvency by trying to establish a new unified government. He has stated publicly that Tunisia will release political prisoners of opposition and pick out those involved with any form of corruption.

Tunisia's people however, are not buying into the program, at least not yet. Many of them strongly feel that Prime Minister Ghannouchi brings nothing new to Tunisia's government and will bring absolutely no change compared to the policies of its now ousted president Ben Ali.

At the height of this turmoil, it has risen strong concern for all countries in North Africa. Perhaps Tunisia's largest problem right now, like every other country on this planet, is faced with economic issues. It might sound odd when you consider that Tunisia is one of Africa's most wealthiest nations, yet the possibly of having to be apart of restructuring or defaulting on debt among North African nations has become a huge concern.