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2015-12-24 Terror Networks

ISIL, al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood may converge

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
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#1 They haven't already??

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-12-24 00:09|| 2015-12-24 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The implications of this new axis of radical Islam for the West are alarming due to three major reasons.

Not alarming at all. In fact a very positive development.

Posted by phil_b 2015-12-24 00:45|| 2015-12-24 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 What part of "Osama Bin Laden's Inner Circle" does the FBI-CIA NOT understand - AGAIN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-24 01:18|| 2015-12-24 01:18|| Front Page Top

#4 First, the West is losing the moderate Islamists as they are converging with the forces of Evil in their resentment and anger towards America and Europe.

One cannot 'lose' what one never had in the first place.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-24 03:22|| 2015-12-24 03:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Moderate Islamist? Sounds like "white Hispanic"

Posted by Rex Mundi 2015-12-24 09:44|| 2015-12-24 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Egypt under the military and Nasser was faced with the same 'crisis' in 1956. Then they crushed the Muslim Brotherhood, and it was not allowed to breathe until Sadat, a lapsed brother, came to power. Under Mubarak the Brotherhood was allowed to regain strength as a political qua social movement. Sisi (and the military) will not make that mistake again. And Egypt will get along with a rais as head of state, just as it has for 4,000 years.

Posted by Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-24 09:46|| 2015-12-24 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 When the Muslim Brotherhood was crushed in Egypt in the 50s and 60s Sayyid Qtub sought martyrdom, was imprisoned and wrote the book "Milestones" which is thought to be a foundation of the modern Salafist movement that birthed AQ and ISIS. The MB is the father of its AQ and ISIS children.

Posted by Tennessee 2015-12-24 10:31|| 2015-12-24 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Instead of staging a coup, the Egyptian army should have forced the government to call early elections. This would have been a much better alternative because the people would have ousted the Moslem Brüderbund in a democratic way, and Islamists would have had only themselves to blame.

If the MB would have agreed to elections and if the elections were clean and if the MB would have agreed to abide by the vote and if an Islamic party more extreme than the MB didn't win the vote...

Methinks Mr. Taspinir has also conveniently forgotten Erdogan's remark about democracy being like a bus.

Posted by Pappy 2015-12-24 11:27|| 2015-12-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Ridiculous.

This guy write for one of those NGOs kicked out for Organizing for Egypt? Or an advocate for the Erdogan model?

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-12-24 13:25|| 2015-12-24 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 "In short, the brutal suppression of political Islam in Egypt is quickly radicalizing it"

That is brutal stupidity.

"moderate Islam" is Globalist-Caliphist code for "Moslem Brotherhood," than which nothing is more immoderate.

Posted by TopRev 2015-12-24 18:53|| 2015-12-24 18:53|| Front Page Top

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