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February 09, 2011
Islamic Republic Of Egypt
"What is going on in Egypt" ? friends who know of my background ask me these days. My answer, "I don't know but it has the potential to be a major disaster. The timing of the protest in Cairo after what happened in Tunisia point out that there is tremendous underground current going on in most Islamic countries.
"did you see the crowd and the bloodshed "? a friend asked, and before I could answer another friend shouted from the other side of the locker room. "yeah it reminds me of something similar that happened in 1978 in Iran". Well unfortunately for Egyptian what happened in Iran brought nothing but Mayhem and blood shed and tyranny of Religious fanatics to that country. There has been so much corruption and thievery that one of the richest oil countries in the world is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Since the revolution. Iran has lost over two million of its youth in the war with Iraq. The Iranian money has devalued more than 1000 percent. The salary of most government workers would not even pay their rent, and the young women specially in Tehran have found Prostitution as a mean to support their families. The supreme Leader
and his cronies, including President Ahmadinejad spend more on the Army and their perverted ambitions of becoming a nuclear power than betterment of the economy. It is rather shocking that people in Iran have to stay in long lines to get fuel for their cars at inflated prices.
Of course there is black market for everything, and usually it is the clergies in power that enjoy the fruit of that ,
Rafsanjani's kids were famous to have their own port in south and receive shipments of Wheat, butter, sugar and produce and sell them through their own wholesale channels through out Iran. There is also an inside struggle amongst the clergies and they each have come to have their own minion of thugs armies to hold their positions.
Last year during the GREEN uprising it was not the army that fought the protesters but BASIG group paid by Mr Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. These were groups of thugs transported from Beirut HEZBILLUH to the streets of Tehran to kill and maim the Iranian Youth. It is said that they were paid daily wages of $200 dollars a day.
It is easy to see how Iranian revolution had become the manual for groups like Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood on how to instigate an uprising and how to take over a country by using religions potent spells and the ignorance of the masses. Poverty is a dangerous disease and stimulated by ignorance it becomes a force beyond belief. the peoples problem with Ahmadinejad government and his reelection was due to his incompetence in running the government since during the time That Mousavi had run the government the Iranian economy had tremendous growth but Ahmadinejad has brought nothing bu inflation and misery to its constituents.
There is the problem the west and the united States have to deal with. Does Mubarak leaving would solve the problem or just creates a gap for Muslim Brotherhood to move in and practice the same fanatic policies we have seen in Iran. Is the secular fraction in Egypt strong enough to hold out the Muslim Brotherhood out of the government. Does a Islamic Republic of Egypt would lead to more uprising in Muslim countries. Prince Abdullah would not wager against neither would the king of Saudi Arabia and all the other Oil rich countries of the region.
Europe should also worry for Turkey does have a religious government and enough poverty and ignorance within its masses to join the other Islamic Republics, and at some point Western Europe and United States have to go head to head against their perverted ambitions. I don't think they have the means or the stomach for that
Posted by Idinraha at February 9, 2011 02:05 PM