Mohamed Morsi - Egypt's New Pharaoh - WSJ Opinion

Egypt has seen the birth of a new kind of regime. With President Mohammed Morsi's latest decree, there is a new constitutional reality, and near-absolute powers have just been placed at the disposal of the Egyptian president.

Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi's usurpation of the Egyptian judiciary. Plus, President Obama's problems in the Mideast.

Thousands flocked to Cairo's central Tahrir square to protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers.

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Brigitte Gabriel - Egypt Situation Continues to Worsen

More than 500 people have been injured in clashes between anti-Morsi protesters, police and supporters of the president. One Muslim Brotherhood member was killed and 60 people were hurt on Sunday (11/25/2012) in an attack on the main office of the Brotherhood in the Egyptian Nile Delta town of Damanhour, the website of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said.

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Prager University The Middle East Problem

Why is the Middle East Problem so intractable? Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated talk show host and best-selling author, answers that question in this thought-provoking video course.

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Star Parker - Can’t Promote Freedom Abroad as it Disappears at Home

Baseball player Yogi Berra once said “you can see a lot just by looking.”

Simple wisdom, that President Obama is not likely to heed. In order to see you have to want to look at the truth that’s actually out there.

With reality so different from how our president wishes to portray it, he has little interest in seeing things as they really are.

The president delivered a “Kumbaya” appeal this past week to the current session of the United Nations General Assembly. The pitch, about peaceful resolution of disputes, tolerance, and free speech, was clearly aimed at Muslim nations.

The following day, Egypt’s newly elected Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi stood before the General Assembly and gave his reply. No thanks.

Sure, Egypt will respect free speech, as long as it does not offend “one specific religion or culture.”

The message we got from candidate Obama in 2008 was that the rift between the Muslim world and the West was one of misunderstanding, of lack of empathy on our part toward them. Candidate Obama said he was the man, given his personal history, who could bridge that gap.

In 2009, the first year of the Obama presidency, the Pew Research Center reports that the favorability rating in Egypt toward the US was 27 percent. Now in 2012 it is 19 percent, down eight points.

More misunderstanding? I don’t think so. Egyptians are quite clear about who they are and quite clear about their distaste for the moral relativism Barack Obama peddles as freedom. Conflicting attitudes and world views emerge from different beliefs, not misunderstanding.

In the same Pew survey of last June, 11 percent of Egyptians agreed with the statement “It is good that American ideas and customs are spreading here.”

Has Mr. Obama just not had enough time, as with producing an economic recovery at home, to get Muslims to learn the words to Kumbaya?

The real problem, as I see it, is how do you peddle to others what you don’t understand, or won’t be honest about, yourself?

While our president refuses to honestly look at Muslim societies, they do look at us. They see American double standards and mixed messages very clearly.

In his UN speech, President Obama quoted South African leader Nelson Mandela saying “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

This from an American President who is now forcing American employers to buy condoms and abortion pills for their employees, even if it is against that employer’s religious convictions.

Or from a nation where poor children are forced to attend public schools where teaching traditional, religious values that they desperately need are prohibited.

Or where the people of the State of California voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman, only to have this referendum overturned by a federal court.

Can President Obama stand with credibility before any Muslim nation and claim that he represents religious freedom?

How about economic freedom? Economic freedom – which measures a nation’s respect for private property and limits arbitrary government power to interfere with economic transactions – is critical because it correlates perfectly with prosperity. Nations with more economic freedom are uniformly more prosperous.

The latest Economic Freedom of the World report, published annually by over 70 think tanks from around the world, shows that in 2010 the US dropped to number 18 in world ranking. This after years of the US being one of the most economically free nations in the world.

So why should Muslim nations take seriously an increasingly weak America that does not practice what it preaches?

They don’t and won’t.

If we want Muslims to respect us and respect freedom’s cores values – protection of life and property – America should once again represent those values.

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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Steve Green - Obama and Libyan President Clash Over Attack as Middle East Explodes

Libyan President ‪Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf‬ says the attack on our embassy was pre-planned by foreigners possibly belonging to al-Qaeda. But Ambassador Susan Rice says the Middle East is enraged by some no name filmmaker. Who does Obama blame? Find out on this Hair of the Dog as Stephen Green summarizes the Sunday show coverage of the situations in Libya, Egypt, Israel and the Middle East.

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Brigitte Gabriel - This is the home of the Brave, NOT the Land of Cowards!

"Sean, it is pathetically weak. Sean, we found out the Egyptian intelligence knew September 4 that there will be attacks against the United States Embassy. If the Egyptian intelligence knew that, how come our president did not know it? Did he miss the briefing when they informed him about the embassy going to be attacked?

This is not news. This is not new. We knew the embassies are going to be attacked. How come our government is putting our people's lives in danger, overseas in a country where we know they are not protecting our people?

This is why it's the job of the president and the job of the people to hold him accountable to say that we are facing an enemy that is radical Islamist and the flag they raised up is not an Al Qaeda flag. It's an Islamic flag that was invented in the 800s, the most authentic symbol of Islam that only Al Qaeda and the radical Islamist are now bringing back and reviving to attack the western United States."
Brigitte Gabriel

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Doug Giles - Democratic Egypt to Ban Bikinis, Beer and King Tut

Remember when every Ron Burgundy out there was giddy as a schoolgirl telling us that Egyptian “freedom fighters” were getting rid of that old meanie Mubarak and were headed for a “democracy” in the land of Pharaoh? I sure do.

I particularly remember the reporters selling us that smack during the outset of the Arab Spring: “Revolutionaries,” they called the Egyptian dissidents—veritable “mutineers from Mubarak’s mayhem, sick of servitude and longing for liberty, just like Paul Revere!” They flung that noise, or something to that effect, at us with goggle-eyed glee each day for weeks on end.

Personally, I never bought this “freedom fighter” bull shiitake we were all being sold, and I said so from day one of this uprising on my amazing show, ClashRadio.com. Indeed, this “democratic” thang reeked of nutty radicals to me, and I believed it had zilch to do with “Egyptian young folk just wanting to live la Vida Loca.”

That said, however, I must confess that I did question myself as to whether or not I was being too harsh on the newscasters’ spiel and the motivations of the “freedom fighters.” Perhaps I had become too much of a jaded skeptic when it came to the jacked-up scat in Cairo.

That personal inventory regarding the wrongness of my perturbation with the “democratic revolt” lasted about two days. I believe I second-guessed my naughty heart right up until two hundred “democracy seekers” gang raped CBS’s foreign correspondent Lara Logan. I thought that was a strange thing for lovers of democracy to do.

Oh, another thing that made me think that maybe I was dialed into what was truly going down was the Muslim Brotherhood started popping up all over the place, gaining control over the “secular” Egyptian military.

And one more thing that ended my brutal introspection was that after Mubarak got deposed, the “new democracy” reestablished relations with Iran and Hamas and officially told Israel to blank off.

It was at that point in time that I ceased my second-guessing and formally realized that I am a genius. Radicals hijacked Egypt, and the Egyptians who truly long for freedom—at least as defined by sane standards—are now more SOL than they were under Hosni’s boot.

And lastly, this past week the “freedom folks” in Egypt have put forth their liberty legislation that includes bans on bikinis, mixed bathing on beaches, and drinking beer in public—and they’re even yapping about getting rid of the Sphinx, the pyramids, and other ancient Egyptian archaeological wonders.

Call me weird, but that doesn’t sound like liberty to me.

Doug Giles

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.

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