Daily Archives: 16 August 2013

Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, Redux

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I wrote earlier about the Muslim Brotherhood and their assault on their fellow Egyptians’ freedom and on their very lives.

Here’s an update.

  • [Muslim Brotherhood] demonstrators torched two government facilities in Giza
  • attacks on Coptic Christians and their churches continued for a second day—as many as 39 incidents of violence against churches, monasteries, Coptic schools, and shops
  • protesters trapped a police Humvee on an overpass near the Nasr City camp and pushed it off…images…showed an injured policeman on the ground below, near a pool of blood and the overturned vehicle

Yet President Barack Obama is threatening a regime that answered the call of the people to get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood dictator Mohammed Morsi.  He’s condemning their role in attempting to restore order and reopen parts of Cairo occupied by the Brotherhood while saying nothing about the Brotherhood’s violence, torchings, and murders beyond the usual Obamatalk blandishments about the need for…restraint.  And he’s cancelled joint exercises with the Egyptian military—cancelled them, rather than postponing them so they’re not a distraction while the Egyptians attempt to restore order.

Progressive Racism, Again

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[Sigh]

Here it is, made appallingly manifest, by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:

It’s been obvious that they’re doing everything they can to make him fail.  And I hope, I hope—and I say this seriously—I hope that’s based on substance and not the fact that he’s African-American.

Because it’s impossible for a white man to criticize a black man.  That would be racist.

Never mind that Reid’s racism is an insult not just to every American, but in particular to those Americans who also happen to be black: Reid is saying that a black man is simply too child-like, too immature, too unintelligent to be able to handle being criticized by a fellow American who happens also to be white.