Salim Mansur writes from Egypt in the Toronto Sun.
He notes the assassination of Sadat by a Muslim Brotherhood guy, he plainly calls Hamas a terrorist org. and does other things that will annoy the Muslim brotherhood apologists.
More interesting, Salim sent Claire Berlinsky a note (and permission to publish it). Below is one short extract,
"... talking heads in the U.S. media such as Chris Matthews or Fareed Zakaria) cannot make the difference between the sham of the Muslim Brotherhood talking about freedom and democracy and the generic thirst in man to be free...They are glibly about to put the Lenins of our time into trains heading for Moscows of our time,..."
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it's bothering me that commentators have been calling the Muslim Brotherhood "moderate" and have been at pains to stress the universality of the protests against Mubarak... Christians and Muslims united, they say.
But really I suspect the Muslim Brotherhood is stirring this up in an attempt to grab power. They were the ones aggrieved after recent elections.
and don't forget around Christmas, Islamists were trying to blow up Egyptian Coptic churches. Internationally too - australia put the AFP around ours.... credible threats.
An ultimately fatal rescue, headlines Handelsblatt, which takes issue with political leaders who cling to pointless and dangerous policies that force them to flood the world with largely valueless money. The decision to allow Lehmann Brothers to collapse was the last good decision in the management of the crisis. Since then, no one has bothered holding those responsible to account, writes the editor in chief of the business daily. Now we have to contend with a new kind of state-sponsored market economy where the those who pollute must pay principle no longer applies. Never has the world of finance been gifted with such enormous quantities of taxpayers money. In Germany alone, a staggering 545 billion an amount equivalent to the sum of all the countrys private savings since the war has been handed over.
Worse still, continues the daily, we are now seeing the emergence of a new breed of political leader who suffers from the hitherto unknown syndrome of rescue mania. This type of politician will stop at nothing to rescue banks, the euro and the Greeks. As it stands, every fresh European summit will likely make us poorer, because, as Handelsblatt points out, our leaders are forcing central banks to bear the brunt of the crisis, while private banks are swimming in money.
Since 2009, the markets have gone crazy: sugar is up 180 %, copper has risen by 225%. And anyone who has the temerity to suggest that all of this fresh money has resulted in an unreal world is labeled a fuddy-duddy. But that said, we cannot argue that nothing has changed since the crisis: before it began, the banks had a corner on stupidity. [ ] Now this monopoly has been taken over by the state, concludes the newspaper.
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A popular uprising for freedom is sweeping across the Mideast. Fundamentalism is being rejected. Iran is in upheaval and Ahmajinedad, the mullah puppet and the mullahs are being swept aside for freedom. Pakistan in being swept up in this freedom movement also.
Stop! Wait a minute. I was just engaging in fantasy and wishful thinking.
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