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Obama's Secret Directive Supporting Global Islamism
2014-07-08
by Raymond Ibrahim

A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Moslem Brüderbund and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in the Mideast region.

Large portions of the report follow with my commentary interspersed for added context:
Herewith a taste for fair use. Click on the headline to read the whole thing.
Dubai: For the past decade, two successive US administrations have maintained close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya, to name just the most prominent cases.

The Obama administration conducted an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 and 2011, beginning even before the events known as the "Arab Spring" erupted in Tunisia and in Egypt. The President personally issued Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood and other "political Islamist" movements, including the ruling AKP in Turkey, ultimately concluding that the United States should shift from its longstanding policy of supporting "stability" in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for "stable regimes" even if they were authoritarian), to a policy of backing "moderate" Islamic political movements (emphasis in bold added throughout).

And we have certainly witnessed this shift. Chaos and the Islamic ascendancy in the Middle East and North Africa never flourished as under the Obama administration—and precisely because the administration shifted from supporting stability under secular-minded autocrats.
Posted by:trailing wife

#18  Appears ZF carries one of those fancy pen knives.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-07-08 19:45  

#17  All I can figure is that Obummer is also the enemy.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-07-08 19:34  

#16  #14 ROFLMAO!! The Archie Bunker's on the Right still can't swallow having a black man as President!!

You can't be serious. I know Chinese Mormons blacker than Manly Momjeans. Anyhoo...

If one-drop were rain, you'd be pouring;
If bullshit had horns, you'd be goring;
If hooting were shooting,
You'd have us all scooting.
If you're so bright, why are we snoring?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-07-08 16:20  

#15  Good thing they aren't around here; on the otherhand it appears you quite tastefully enjoy swallowing the president.

14:00 huh. Mom let you stay up late playing HALO while she finished her date?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-07-08 14:34  

#14  
Posted by: spano bellingbo3665   2014-07-08 13:57  

#13  Especially if you're a psychopath.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-07-08 13:56  

#12  It's easy to say "Ooops" when you meant the shit to happen all along.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-07-08 13:56  

#11  Never invoke malice where simple stupidity (going back to long before the Messiah) will suffice as an explanation.

The problem is, if it were stupidity, some of the mistakes should go the other way. Obama has been consistent and on target when it comes to hurting the American people.

So no, I don't think he's stupid at all.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2014-07-08 13:23  

#10  Countdown until Obama is OUT OF OFFICE!


Zoom

853 days
20495 hours
1229730 minutes
73783821 seconds

until Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 7:00:00 AM (San Bernardino time)


Posted by: Herb Hatrack6046   2014-07-08 11:31  

#9  A brief postcolonial drama
Of big chief and communist mama
Hatched an ominous bird
Whose "uh" every third word
Is the "om" of our dear magpie lama
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-07-08 10:12  

#8  ..... masking malice as mere incompetency.Posted by JFM


As directed by POTUS, the above is the current assigned task of the MSM. See... "Bone headed mistakes."


Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-08 10:07  

#7  Except when the name of tghe President is Barack Hussein Obama, when he writyes a book about praising a Muslim father who in fact was a despicable man, when part of his life jhe was raised as a Muslim and when he has told things like "most beautiful sound in world is call to prayer".

Don't assume every fuck up is due to malice instead of mere incompetency but keep your eyes open for astute bad guys masking malice as mere incompetency.
Posted by: JFM   2014-07-08 09:56  

#6  And old Russian saying AC: stupidity is not a crime, but it is a capital offense.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-07-08 09:13  

#5  Hey, FF, if the one refuses to enforce other USC law, why should any of the rest apply other than selectively and prejudicially? Capricious and arbitrary application undermines the very nature of law. Get a hint.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-08 08:46  

#4  g(r)om says: Never invoke malice where simple stupidity (going back to long before the Messiah) will suffice as an explanation.

Problem with that is that it excuses the malevolent for their malice. Malice exists and can be seen in many forms, especially in off the cuff comments.

Thankfully malice and stupidity/incompetence are NOT mutually exclusive.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-07-08 08:16  

#3  Get The Picture-

Section 2381 Treason
Section 2382 Misprision of treason
Section 2383 Rebellion or insurrection
Section 2384 Seditious conspiracy
Section 2385 Advocating overthrow of Government
Section 2386 Registration of certain organizations
Section 2387 Activities affecting armed forces generally
Section 2388 Activities affecting armed forces during war
Section 2389 Recruiting for service against United States
Section 2390 Enlistment to serve against United States
Section 2391 Repealed.
- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/115#sthash.LgpMmCKy.dpuf
Posted by: Flineck Flusock4496   2014-07-08 05:33  

#2  Never invoke malice where simple stupidity (going back to long before the Messiah) will suffice as an explanation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-07-08 04:53  

#1  In light of all the chaos the Islamists have been responsible for in Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, et al—is it now obvious why Arab autocrats like Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, and currently Bashar Assad have always “banned” and “fiercely pursued” the Brotherhood and its affiliates?

The overthrowing of autocratic regimes generally presents the opportunity for confusion, constructive turmoil, deal brokering, and political re-starts. None of these events fit together or form a logical pattern if you're a firm advocate of coincidences.


Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-08 04:31  

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