Update Your Scorecard On Egypt -- Before Morsi And The Muslim Brotherhood's Next Power Grab

Barry Rubin writes about What Happened in Egypt, following the dizzying changes that have taken place in the past 12 months and the quantum changes in strategies, alliances and policies that have resulted.

Among just a few of the unpredictable zigzagging developments:

• In February 2011 the Mubarak regime fell. There was going to be a parliament elected in Egypt. The parliament was elected. Its election was invalidated. Today there is no parliament in Egypt.

Three Latest Proofs Of Muslim Brotherhood Extremism Missed By The Media

The following, by Raymond Ibrahim is reposted with permission:

The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood
Evidence Keeps Mounting

by Raymond Ibrahim
Investigative Project on Terrorism
June 25, 2012

http://www.meforum.org/3272/muslim-brotherhood-evils

Egypt's longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood—the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al-Qaeda—has just won the nation's presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the international community, when once such news would have been deemed devastating, is due to the successful efforts of Muslim apologists and subversive agents in the West who portray the Brotherhood as "moderate Islamists"—irrespective that such a formulation is oxymoronic, since to be "Islamist," to be a supporter of draconian Sharia, is by definition to be immoderate.

Obama administration officials naturally took it a step further, portraying the Brotherhood as "largely secular" and "pluralistic."

Back in the real world, evidence that the Brotherhood is just another hostile Islamist group bent on achieving world domination through any means possible is overwhelming. Here are just three examples that recently surfaced, all missed by the Western media, and all exposing the Brotherhood as hostile to "infidels" (non-Muslims) in general, hostile to the Christians in their midst (the Copts) in particular, and on record calling on Muslims to lie and cheat during elections to empower Sharia:

The Four Questions That The Muslim Brotherhood Cannot Answer

Writing about The Muslim Brotherhood and the Four 'No's, Alan Johnson writes of his experiences in Doha last week at the US-Islamic World Forum.

Johnson notes the naivete of many of the participants when it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood, who are assumed to use and think about words such as "freedom," "equality," "democracy," and "rights" in much the same way that we do. The reality, however, is much different. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood do not mean what we in the West mean by those words words--and and they are aware of our failure to realize that:

We think they are liberalizing Islam. They know they are trying to Islamize—to swallow whole—liberalism.

For that reason, Johnson recommends dealing with specifics when speaking with the Muslim Brotherhood:

Video: Muslim Brotherhood: "'United States of the Arabs' with Jerusalem as Its Capital"

On May 1, Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi launched the presidential campaign of Muhammad Mursi, telling a huge, enthusiastic crowd that Mursi will restore "'United States of the Arabs' with Jerusalem as Its Capital"

The video is from MEMRI, and the transcript follows.
The part of interest starts at about 17 seconds into the video: