Inspired by the protests in Tunisia and Egypt, the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan has been sparking similar protests that has resulted in King Abdullah removing its Prime Minister after demands by its citizens on the streets. This is also becoming a concern of the United States.
Like Egypt, Jordan is one of the very few Middle Eastern allies of the United States and the worrisome scenario that the Muslim Brotherhood could try to works its way into Jordan's government, which is the only Middle Eastern nation to ban a terrorist group like Hamas.
Reuters reports that Sheikh Mansour, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, Islamic Action Front is quoted that Jordan's actions are "not a step in the right direction and does not show any intent toward real political reforms or meeting the popular demands for people yearning for greater political freedoms."
Obviously, the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to get as much influence out of every single Middle Eastern nation as they possibly can. Whether or not the government will give way is undetermined, but it is unlikely in Jordan's case that King Abdullah would side in imposing Sharia Law.
However, if the Muslim Brotherhood continues to gain winning ground as they are, they could become far too powerful and take Jordan with them.
Certainly not the place to be right now folks, and the protests are spreading like wildfires.
Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Protests in Middle East not a good thing?
There is heavy concern right now with relation to the continued protests in North Africa and the Middle East. As everyone is no doubt already aware, there has been political unrest in a growing list of countries including Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Yemen and most recently inspiring riots against Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime in Egypt.
Thus far, the protests from these nations' people are meant to call for an end of the wrath of dictatorship from their leaders, and establish more solvent countries without the crisis of inflation, shortages, poverty and high unemployment.
Many economists did not expect Egypt to revolt against its own government. Well, that obviously was not the case. As of today, the riots in Egypt have become so bad, that members of the country's own police force decided to join the people and for the first time in history, an entire country shut down its internet access to try and isolate its people from the outside. Also today, President Mubarak agreed to fire his entire cabinet, but still refused to step aside.
President Obama has been cheering on the riots, but asking for a more civil and non-violent approach and also called for President Mubarak to engage in this more civil tone with Egypt's people, or the United States will cut off aid to the country.
Now the first argument to this of course is going to be that the United States should just mind its own business. Well, despite the fact that the people in these countries want new government and leadership, there is also something else which might determine that the escalating tension in the Middle East is not a good thing.
As WikiLeaks uncovered the secret cables concerning our beloved Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the knowledge she hid from the American people over Saudi Arabia's involvement in financing terrorism, they have also uncovered documentation of Ms. Clinton's pressure on Middle Eastern nations in particular to push for government reform. One of those nations was Egypt.
So now, the Middle East is in a position of reform, by the riots we've seen from their people. But what kind of reform is it leading to?
Egypt is one of the United States' most trusted allies in the Middle East and they're one of very few countries that has peace with Israel. If Egypt's government entirely collapses, which apparently it is as we speak, this means Sharia Law could be imposed, which is dominated by Muslims. Is it just a surprise that radical Muslims want to whip out Israel?
We should all see the common trend here and it looks rather frightening. Meanwhile, Lebanon's entire government has collapsed and they're trying to shove Hezbollah leaders down that country's throat, who by the way, also want to destroy Israel.
The protests that started in Yemen? They have not been entirely successful on riding al-Qaeda out of their country.
Iran? A clown like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is just waiting in the wings with his nuclear plans. He's already an ally of Hezbollah, and the destabilization in Egypt is the last 'piece of the puzzle' to finally get Israel off the face of the Earth.
Yet, we hear virtually nothing from our leaders in Washington about these common factors, nor the fact that right now we are on the brink of beginning to witness a full scale war in the Middle East.
Like everyone else that HAS seen this trend, I hope I'm wrong.
Thus far, the protests from these nations' people are meant to call for an end of the wrath of dictatorship from their leaders, and establish more solvent countries without the crisis of inflation, shortages, poverty and high unemployment.
Many economists did not expect Egypt to revolt against its own government. Well, that obviously was not the case. As of today, the riots in Egypt have become so bad, that members of the country's own police force decided to join the people and for the first time in history, an entire country shut down its internet access to try and isolate its people from the outside. Also today, President Mubarak agreed to fire his entire cabinet, but still refused to step aside.
President Obama has been cheering on the riots, but asking for a more civil and non-violent approach and also called for President Mubarak to engage in this more civil tone with Egypt's people, or the United States will cut off aid to the country.
Now the first argument to this of course is going to be that the United States should just mind its own business. Well, despite the fact that the people in these countries want new government and leadership, there is also something else which might determine that the escalating tension in the Middle East is not a good thing.
As WikiLeaks uncovered the secret cables concerning our beloved Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the knowledge she hid from the American people over Saudi Arabia's involvement in financing terrorism, they have also uncovered documentation of Ms. Clinton's pressure on Middle Eastern nations in particular to push for government reform. One of those nations was Egypt.
So now, the Middle East is in a position of reform, by the riots we've seen from their people. But what kind of reform is it leading to?
Egypt is one of the United States' most trusted allies in the Middle East and they're one of very few countries that has peace with Israel. If Egypt's government entirely collapses, which apparently it is as we speak, this means Sharia Law could be imposed, which is dominated by Muslims. Is it just a surprise that radical Muslims want to whip out Israel?
We should all see the common trend here and it looks rather frightening. Meanwhile, Lebanon's entire government has collapsed and they're trying to shove Hezbollah leaders down that country's throat, who by the way, also want to destroy Israel.
The protests that started in Yemen? They have not been entirely successful on riding al-Qaeda out of their country.
Iran? A clown like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is just waiting in the wings with his nuclear plans. He's already an ally of Hezbollah, and the destabilization in Egypt is the last 'piece of the puzzle' to finally get Israel off the face of the Earth.
Yet, we hear virtually nothing from our leaders in Washington about these common factors, nor the fact that right now we are on the brink of beginning to witness a full scale war in the Middle East.
Like everyone else that HAS seen this trend, I hope I'm wrong.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Egypt experiencing upheaval
Well, it looks like in this day and age as the world economic crisis continues, countries simply are getting beyond fed up with their government, and they're revolting. In the last three months or so, we've seen this. In the Ivory Coast, United Kingdom, Greece and most recently in Tunisia.
Now Tunisia's neighbors to the east are fed up their leader's authoritarian rule. Egypt experienced major upheaval today in Cairo and the protests were sparked mainly over President Hosni Mubarak's rule and the escalating poverty problems.
Police forces had to come in with tear gas and batons to stop protesters from nearly tearing down government buildings in the area. Still as the hours passed, many Egyptians continued with the protest without fall and as of this time, only two of those protesters and a police officer were killed.
You can see the common trend that is going on here around the world. People are fed up and they are angry, not only due to the struggling economic factors, but the government control has played a major part of the problem. These kinds of protests in many countries controlled by dictators and authoritarian rule, simply do not happen over night, nor to they happen so close to each other as they have been.
All I can say to Egypt is well done. Because I have a feeling in 2011, we're going to start having these same kinds of protests right here in the United States, but probably far more serious than the Tea Party protests we've been having.
Now Tunisia's neighbors to the east are fed up their leader's authoritarian rule. Egypt experienced major upheaval today in Cairo and the protests were sparked mainly over President Hosni Mubarak's rule and the escalating poverty problems.
Police forces had to come in with tear gas and batons to stop protesters from nearly tearing down government buildings in the area. Still as the hours passed, many Egyptians continued with the protest without fall and as of this time, only two of those protesters and a police officer were killed.
You can see the common trend that is going on here around the world. People are fed up and they are angry, not only due to the struggling economic factors, but the government control has played a major part of the problem. These kinds of protests in many countries controlled by dictators and authoritarian rule, simply do not happen over night, nor to they happen so close to each other as they have been.
All I can say to Egypt is well done. Because I have a feeling in 2011, we're going to start having these same kinds of protests right here in the United States, but probably far more serious than the Tea Party protests we've been having.
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