To understand the threat posed by Al Jazeera you first must understand the Islamic concept of taqiyya -- Sharia-approved deception directed at infidels. You must understand that those who promote Sharia law do not feel obligated to tell the truth but merely to say what is necessary and useful to them.
Yet most Westerners continue to think that Muslim mores, laws, and ethical constraints are near identical to those of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Naively or arrogantly, today's multiculturalist leaders project their own worldview onto Islamists, thinking a handshake and smiles across a cup of coffee, as well as numerous concessions, are enough to dismantle the power of God's word and centuries of unchanging tradition. The fact remains: Right and wrong in Islam have little to do with universal standards but only with what Islam itself teaches - much of which is antithetical to Western norms.
It must, therefore, be accepted that, contrary to long-held academic assumptions, the doctrine of taqiyya goes far beyond Muslims engaging in religious dissimulation in the interest of self-preservation and encompasses deception of the infidel enemy in general. This phenomenon should provide a context for Shi'i Iran's zeal - taqiyya being especially second nature to Shi'ism - to acquire nuclear power while insisting that its motives are entirely peaceful.
Beware Al-Jazeera Coming to America
The real concern for American viewers is not the quality of the product on the screen, but rather two mostly hidden issues: the government behind the network, and the difference between Al-Jazeera's Arabic and English versions.
To Americans, Al-Jazeera purports to be the equivalent of CNN or Fox or MSNBC – an independent purveyor of news. Yes, Americans know that most media leans left and a little bit of it leans right, but the networks themselves are generally free of government manipulation. Al-Jazeera, however, is a wholly owned arm of the Government of Qatar. The State Department describes Qatar as "an hereditary constitutional monarchy governed by the ruling Al Thani family in consultation with a council of ministers, an appointed advisory council, and an elected municipal council." [In other words, a dictatorship, and the switch from the elder Al Thani last month to his son this month may be no change at all.]
This is not CNN, but Pravda; not Fox, but Izvestia. When Americans watched Soviet propaganda masquerading as news during the Cold War, they were aware of its source and aware of its biases toward communism and against free markets and free systems. The British government openly and proudly owns the BBC, and while the corporation's mandate is "to provide impartial public service broadcasting," viewers know what they're measuring against.
What should viewers know about Qatar that might impact how Al-Jazeera covers news?
Egyptian Al Jazeera Staffers Resign to Protest Pro-Muslim Brotherhood Bias
On Monday, Gulf News reported that 22 staff members at Al Jazeera's Egyptian news operation resigned to protest what anchor Karem Mahmoud described as the network's "biased coverage" that skews their reporting of recent events in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mahmoud, now the former anchor at Egypt's Al Jazeera news operation, said that "the management of [Al Jazeera] in Doha [Qatar] provokes sedition among the Egyptian people and has an agenda against Egypt and other Arab countries." At every broadcast, Mahmoud said "there are instructions to us to telecast certain news" that casts the Muslim Brotherhood in a favorable light.
Mahmoud's allegations were supported by Haggag Salama, a correspondent for Al Jazeera based in Luxor, Egypt. According to Salama, Al Jazeera's Egyptian network is "airing lies and misleading viewers."
Exposed: Al Jazeera Airs Fake Brotherhood Injuries and Deaths
A near hysterical woman is heard lambasting the Egyptian military for supposedly killing peaceful Brotherhood protesters, while the Al Jazeera crew videotapes a man who appears to be either unconscious or dead — a supposed victim of the military. His hand rests on his torso; his shirt under his hand is covered with blood, implying there is a bullet wound in that spot. However, when the unsuspecting doctor treating him tries to lift the man's shirt, this supposedly unconscious or slain man — with his eyes still shut and his facial expression unmoved — subtly lifts his left leg both to push the doctor's hand away and block his unharmed and blood-free torso from being taped by Al Jazeera. Of course, the person videotaping instantly stopped — but not before enough of this shameful episode was recorded, proving Al Jazeera's nonstop pro-Brotherhood propaganda campaign, one naively or intentionally followed by most of the Western media.
Leaders to Obama: 'What is the red line for Christians in Egypt?'
While President Obama has demonstrated an eagerness to offer an opinion on local police matters, he’s been reticent to opine on the destruction and bloodshed inflected on Egyptian Christians by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. If his silence befuddles Americans, it appalls Egyptian Christians.
In the face of the violence, Obama's focus has been on gun control executive orders that will do nothing and Obamacare, which will bankrupt the nation. Father Rafic Greiche, the chief spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, wants to know why the president is ignoring the matter, according to CBN News.
The full article excerpted above includes a link to the following article but I want to highlight it with its own excerpt. Radicals in Western countries such as England and the United States are in the habit of claiming that they are being "persecuted" for being Muslims. This, of course, is self-serving nonsense. If they want to see what actual religious persecution looks like then they need look no farther than places like Egypt. What is being done to Egypt's Christian minority is what actual persecution looks like.
Minya: schools, churches and orphanages burnt to erase all traces of a Christian presence
"The Islamists", one resident said, "burnt and destroyed everything. Their goal was to erase all the traces of a Christian presence; even the orphanages were looted and destroyed."
After storming the Prince Tadros el-Shatbi Church, the armed Islamic extremists turned their attention to two homes for disadvantaged children located near the parish church, residents said.
They stole church offerings, clothes, and children's games before torching the entire building. The fire lasted over 5 hours.
"Fortunately," the source said, "the children were taken to safety before the arrival of the Islamists."
Like other Christians sites, the two homes that housed hundreds of orphans are now a pile of rubble.
Video from Egypt shows Muslim mob attacking Christian church, taking down cross
Newly-surfaced video from Egypt shows a Muslim mob storming a Coptic church, setting cars on fire and then toppling a cross atop the steeple, in a shocking attack that Christians say has been played out dozens of times since the ouster of Mohammad Morsi.
The video, obtained by MidEast Christian News, was shot Aug. 14 from a nearby building overlooking the diocese in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag. In the six-minute video, a crowd, incensed by the eviction of pro-Morsi supporters from camps in Cairo, masses outside the church. Several members of the group scale a wall and attack vehicles in a courtyard, setting several ablaze. The video culminates in the crown exhorting a man high up on the steeple to take down a cross, which he does.
Dozens of Coptic churches were attacked by members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the military's move against Morsi, who critics say was turning Egypt into an Islamist state. Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population of 80 million, but Morsi supporters blamed them for his ouster, according to Coptic leaders.
Bishop Makarious, a Coptic leader from Minya, accused Muslim Brotherhood leaders of planning attacks on Christian churches, homes and businesses in an effort to divide the embattled nation.
The Muslim Brotherhood's War on Coptic Christians
The news coming out of Egypt is staggering. USA Today reports that "forty churches have been looted and torched, while 23 others have been attacked and heavily damaged" in one week. According to the Coptic Orthodox and Catholic churches in Egypt, 160 Christian-owned buildings have also been attacked.
In one town, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like prisoners of war after burning their Franciscan school. The attackers tore a cross off the gate of the school and replaced it with an Islamist flag. The New York Times described hundreds of Islamists in one attack, "lashing out so ferociously that marble altars were left in broken heaps on the floor."
Two security guards working on a tour boat owned by Christians were burned alive. An orphanage was burned down. The Catholic Bishop of Luxor told the Vatican news agency Tuesday that he has been trapped in his home for 20 days by Islamist mobs chanting "Death to the Christians!" "People who reside in the villages of the area that have nothing because food supplies are running out and people are afraid to leave the house," he said.
For the first time in 1600 years, prayers were not held in the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram Monastery, which includes three churches, one of which is an archaeological site. According to the local priest, they were destroyed by supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. On one village street, Islamists painted a red X on Muslim stores and a black X on Christian stores, so attackers knew where to focus their rage. On Tuesday, there were reports that the Brotherhood declared Friday prayers to be held in an evangelical church in the town of Minya that has been converted to a mosque.
A Brotherhood spokesman dismissed the wave of attacks as being perpetrated by "foolish boys" and alleged a conspiracy against his organization. But the Facebook page of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party is rife with false accusations meant to foment hatred against Copts, including the absurd claim that the Church has declared "war against Islam and Muslims" and justified the attacks by saying: "After all this, people ask why they burn the churches." Then came a threat: "For every action there is a reaction."
Please be sure to read the whole article. It is well worth it. And so is the article below, written from the perspective of a Muslim who laments the damage done to his beloved Egypt by the hate-filled Muslim Brotherhood.
Young Muslim: We can only rebuild Egypt together with Christians
Mohamed Elhariry, a young businessman in Cairo, reveals the on-the-ground reality of life in recent months in Egypt. The young man says the Muslim Brotherhood "have lied to everyone, they never wanted a democratic state. The real Egypt is multi-denominational."
All of us Muslims were impressed by the attitude of Catholics, Coptic Orthodox and Protestant victims of the violence of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Christians did not ask for help from other countries of the same religion, instead they believed in themselves and in the Egyptian people. Everything that is happening in Egypt remains in Egypt. In contrast, the Muslim Brotherhood has made the rounds of the various Departments of State and put pressure on the interim government chosen by the various components of the Egyptian society.
We Muslims offered to protect churches and religious buildings, but our Christian brothers and sisters said: "Do not waste your souls, they are so precious to us. We have closed these buildings for now. Together we will rebuild our churches once we have eradicated terrorism." I am convinced that what is sacred to one of my neighbors is also sacred for me. I have respect for him and his free will.
Greg welcomes guests Sherrod Small, Joel Pollak and Patti Ann Browne.
Christians Murdered All Over Egypt, New Puppy at White House
It's Sunny at the White House! But not in Egypt, if you are a Christian or a Franciscan nun. All over the country, Christian churches are being burned, Christians murdered, and nuns paraded in the streets as "prisoners of war."
The "war": this can only mean a war of Islam vs. Christianity, right? What other "war" could they be prisoners of? (Their words, not mine.) The Muslim Brotherhood and their thug adherents are conducting a war of genocide against Christians, trying to erase the Copts - one of the oldest Christian groups in the world - from the land.
Once upon a time in America, the American president would have stood before the world, over and over again, and provided a moral counterweight to this evil. The great figures of the 20th century became great by denouncing evil and condemning genocidal and religious persecution: Reagan, Churchill, Wojtyla.
But Obama is no Wojtyla. He has remained nearly silent on the Muslim Brotherhood's bloody war on Egypt’s Christians. The martyrs pile up; he plays golf.
The thugs rampaging through Egyptian churches, you see, are Obama's thugs. He destabilized Egypt by giving the green light to Hosni Mubarak's fall. After all, Mubarak was an American stooge, a puppet, a toy of imperial America and all that left-wing drool Obama has subscribed to since he was writing articles in college denouncing the deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe. Now his thugs rampage through holy places, destroying.
Greg welcomes guests Dana Perino, Gavin McInnes and Clint Black!
Any news article you read concerning the violence in Egypt that fails to even mention the targeting of Christians and the burning of their churches should be read with a great deal of skepticism. The Establishment Media wants to portray the Islamofascists of the Muslim Brotherhood as peaceful protesters who are only motivated by disappointment that "Democratically-elected" Mohamed Morsi was overthrown. I suspect that if Adolf Hitler had been overthrown in 1934, members of the Nazi Party would have protested it in a similar manner.
It's time for the media lackeys of the West to start reporting the situation in Egypt honestly. Likewise, it's well past time for clueless RINO elitists like John McCain to stop misrepresenting Egypt's reality.
Meeting the Muslim Brotherhood
(Excerpt from The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy by Erick Stakelbeck)
The Egyptian government under Hosni Mubarak also maintained that el-Zayat belonged to the Brotherhood. In 2008, it convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to ten years in prison on charges of funding the MB in Egypt (the Brotherhood was banned under Mubarak). As you might have suspected, el-Zayat's conviction was thrown out after the Mubarak regime was toppled, and he received an official pardon from Morsi in July 2012.
Member or not, el-Zayat plays a unique role in the Muslim Brotherhood's ideological universe. He's forged close connections with top global Brotherhood leaders and clearly shares and promotes the movement's worldview. Still, he, like other MB-connected individuals in the West that I've interviewed - some of whom you’ll meet in this book - disavows any sort of formal relationship with the Brotherhood.
Doing so has helped these "New Western Brothers" - as Italian terrorism expert Lorenzo Vidino calls them - largely avoid the stigma that the Muslim Brotherhood carries. Or used to carry. Indeed, the MB's much-deserved reputation for violence, radicalism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism is rapidly disappearing in the Age of Obama. The concept of engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood is no longer only whispered about at D.C. cocktail parties - it has become the official policy of the United States government.
We're nearing a point where el-Zayat and his Western cohorts may not even have to bother playing a double game anymore. The Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates are coming to power throughout the Middle East and North Africa, with the full support of Western governments - the Obama administration chief among them. In essence, the Brotherhood, which had moved in the shadows for most of its existence, has suddenly gone mainstream.
When an organization's members (and "non-members") become frequent guests at the White House and European Parliament and lead governments that receive billions in Western funding and weaponry, it's safe to say that any stigma that once existed is out the window. As a result, the day is fast approaching in Europe and the United States when allegations of membership in the Muslim Brotherhood will be greeted with a collective shrug of the shoulders by Islamists and Western officials alike.
