{"id":764,"date":"2012-11-25T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2012-12-29T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:04:15","slug":"what-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/what-arab-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"What Arab Spring ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mohammed-Morsi-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-765\" title=\"Mohammed Morsi 4\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mohammed-Morsi-4.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">What Arab Spring?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">By Scott Rohter,\u00a0November 2012<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I bet that most of the Muslims who have died in\u00a0sectarian fighting in the Middle East since their so-called Democracy Movement began and in their phony Arab Spring (a term that the media like to bandy about) would probably still prefer to\u00a0be alive today under the autocratic rule of Muammar Ghadhafi, Hosni Mubarak, or Haffez Al Assad than to be where they actually are right now, six feet under the ground pushing up daisies. I\u2019m sure this is even more true for the small minority of Christian Arabs who have been slaughtered in the senseless crossfire between the warring factions in the name of fighting their oppressive authorities. <strong><em>But the Arab Spring that never was and probably never will be, was not designed to ever replace tyranny with freedom! Rather it was fabricated to exchange one set of Arab autocrats for another, namely to replace Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Ghadhafi with Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Brotherhood\u2019s particular brand of Sharia Law is not any more tolerant than the iron fisted secular rule of Hosni Mubarak or Muammar Ghadhafi was.\u00a0And this should be even more apparent now that Egyptian President Morsi has unilaterally declared that his word is the supreme law of the land. It is\u00a0way above\u00a0questioning even by Egypt\u2019s highest courts!\u2026 <strong><em>Some Egyptians are likening Morsi\u2019s sweeping power grab as akin to making himself Pharaoh! Morsi proclaimed that his decisions are no longer subject to any judicial oversight. Does that sound like the budding democratic institutions of a representative government to you?<\/em><\/strong> So much for their so-called Democracy Movement and the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221;! (Well I\u00a0really don&#8217;t hate to say it\u00a0but I did tell you so!) And you can blame all of this on Barack Obama because\u00a0he ordered Hosni Mubarak to tell his Egyptian soldiers to stand down and\u00a0allow the Muslim Brotherhood to take control\u00a0of their country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">However life under the new authorities in the Middle East will not be that much different than it was under the old authorities&#8230; In other words if you follow the rules and do what you\u2019re told then you will be allowed to put food on the table and have a roof over your head, and that\u2019s just about the\u00a0same way it\u00a0always has been in the Middle East. That&#8217;s the way it was before the so called Arab Spring came along, except for the token Christians who are allowed to remain there just to do the unsavory work that Muslims will not do. They will have food on the table too, and a roof over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> heads, but it just won\u2019t be as nice as those of their neighbors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">So you tell me whether all of these deaths in the name of \u201cdemocracy\u201d have really been for any higher purpose. I don\u2019t think so! It just looks to me like another re-shuffling of the Middle East cards, but the deck is still rigged, and the outcome is still controlled, and the future doesn\u2019t look any brighter than the past. This is the\u00a0inherent troubling\u00a0tendancy\u00a0of the Middle East.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">It is a region of the globe that is\u00a0certainly governed by strong rulers, but even more than strong rulers, it is governed by an ancient\u00a0way of thinking,\u00a0and a world\u00a0outlook that refuses to change with the times, a world view that is locked somewhere in the past in the 7th and 8th centuries by a book that teaches the triumph of hate over love, violence toward others instead of peace, and the supremacy of a single\u00a0world religion at the expense of all others, rather than peaceful coexistence. 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