Is the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood different from the WWII Nazies and forced Nazification of citizens?

Submitted by David MacKAY (Canada), Nov 1, 2013 at 20:49

Egypt had rebelled against the Muslim Brotherhood - though the Brotherhood took power through a democratic election it did so amidst great suspicion of electoral fraud. Immediately they sought retribution against those opposed to them. They sought also to put in place a Sharia backed Constitution which if implimented would have lead to the end of any effective democracy in Egypt. A Any Democratically elected Islamist government which puts in place Sharia law effectively ends any continuation of democracy.

The Egyptian people thankfully did rebel. The army that was very aware of what was coming next - shut down the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

There is a lot of confusion in all of this but what surprises Liberals in America is when Dr.Pipes rightly states the overthrow of Morsi was legal. Yet American MSM is mostly silent on the legalities, or worse calls Sisi a criminal.

How pray tell do a people eliminate a leader who is determined to turn their nation into a Sharia based Theocratic state that will eliminate their hope of democracy?

Just up the road is Turkey - Turkey's constitution specifically charges the MIlitary to prevent any move by any elected Turkish government to turn Turkey from being secular and back into an Islamic state. Erdogan of Turkey effectivley blocked the military from defending the Constitution by imprisoning all of the military leadership and putting in his own Islamist thugs. Egypt knew they were next . The Egyptian military knew their fate under Islamists. But the MSM world wide as well as the United States is Silent on what Erdogan and his anti Democratic party of Islamists are doing.

So Egypt found itself lead by the Muslim Brotherhood islamists and discovered they had no legal protections to remain secular other than to take back the nation.

So how do you break the law to retain your option of someday having true democracy?

MSM Political correctness says the Military government of Egypt is illegal.

Would the same MSM Political correctness have condemned the Military leaders of Germany if they had arrested and imprisoned the Chancellor of Germany before World War Two? Would arresting HItler and arresting his elected Nazi Party members have been declared illegal by the MSM before WWII?

Liberals never wake up until it is too late - and the Egyptians want none of it.

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