Muslims Continue to be Muslims and We Continue to not Think Long Term

As Sharky&Sharky has said before Muslims will be Muslims. Of course that was perhaps tongue and cheek but this time it is all ears. More on that droll bit later.

When young people in the middle eastern countries began their rather unfocused freedom demonstrations, and our looney President and our goofy allies started bombing and invading middle eastern countries, it ostensibly was done to support the Arab spring. A popular term for the gathering in the street by unemployed Arab youth. In some countries the youts had no weapons and in other countries the youts had weapons. The end result was typical Muslim chaos. Lets take a quick review shall we.

Saudi Arabia: Contrary to what was first reported, King Abdullah's son, the crown prince is not recently dead. The king's grand nephew is dead. how could this mistake be made. Well the deceased nephew's name is Khalid bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, the crown prince's name is Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Please stay focused on this because Saudi Arabia is trying to stop America from moving to Solar and Wind and Nuclear by breaking from the OPEC herd and offering lots of cheap oil to the US. Prince Al-Waheed bin Talal speaks with CNN:


Turkey: New Elections just on Sunday, June 12 ; yep in Muslim tradition the new Leader is the old Leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. PM Erdogan has been in power for 8 years. Under his new adminstration he wants to revise the Turkish Constitution; declare himself President. We wants a little more Islam in the government. He wants to stay in power until 2024. (Where do the Muslims get these guys?) Democracy is spelt DICTATORSHIP in Islam.

Tunisia: This is the country where the poor soul of a starving young man, Bouazizi, set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring. All the other young people demonstrated; the then ruler of Tunisia step downed.  There were to be elections to replace the Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled for 24 years.  Where are they now? The July elections will happen in October. Everyone has agreed.  The ballots will alternate equal number women's and men's name. Definitely an international first. However the Tourist trade is down. Unless you count Libyans who are looking for someplace to hide. There are currently 500,000 Libyans in a country of 10 million Tunisians.  Thus the young Tunisians that had jobs have even fewer jobs and are making less pay. How is that hope and change working for you?

Libya: The reference is to The China Daily. However Sharky&Sharky will not share the reference with you since The China Daily website slipped us a virus. NATO has been bombing Libya for almost three months. Really the bombing has been carried out by only the US, France, and UK. Except for oil there are no institutions in Libya. This means that after all the bombing NATO and the US will have to build a democratic Muslim state (read: oxymoron) from the ground up. Maybe this time we will make a better oil deal. The only thing that we can hope is that we will not commit ground troops to Libya.

Egypt: What a freaking basket case. Sharky&Sharky had predicted the Muslim Brotherhood might takeover. This was to be dreaded. But Muslims will be Muslims, little did the Sharks know how bad it could get. There is a relatively unknown group, the Salafi, an ultra conservative strain of Islam.  It appears that Osama bin Laden and the Saudi Wahabi are Salafi.Well the Salafi are not of the mind that Christians should have any position of power over a Muslim (read: Non-Muslims can cook and clean). To bring that point home in Egypt, the Wall Street Journal reports that a Mr. Mitri had his ear removed to keep his Christian toe  inline:

Five weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri's apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists. Mr. Mitri is a member of the Christian Coptic minority that accounts for one-tenth of the country's 83 million people. The Islamists accused him of having rented the apartment—by then unoccupied—to loose Muslim women.

Inside the burnt apartment, they beat him with the charred remains of his furniture. Then, one of them produced a box cutter and performed what he considered an appropriate punishment under Islam: He amputated Mr. Mitri's right ear. "When they were beating me, they kept saying: 'We won't leave any Christians in this country,'" Mr. Mitri recalled in a recent interview, two months after the March attack. Blood dripped through a plastic tube from his unhealed wound to a plastic container. "Here, there is a war against the Copts," he said. 

His attackers, who were never arrested or prosecuted, follow the ultrafundamentalist Salafi strain of Islam that promotes an austere, Saudi-inspired worldview. Before President Hosni Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11, the Salafis mostly confined themselves to preaching. Since then, they've entered the political arena, drawing crowds and swaying government decisions. Salafi militants also have blocked roads, burned churches and killed Copts.

Well it seems that things are not going too well in Egypt. Please note England, France, Libya, and Egypt have been fighting for two centuries. Sharky&Sharky could continue Iraq, Pakistan, Afganistan, Bahrain, and the latest sinkhole Syria. What is consistent in all of these conflicts is that it is Muslim against Muslim. Further most of their institutions and cultures are still in 13th and 14th century except for the weapons we or some other country sells them. Certainly they are pre-Enlightenment.

Defense Secretary Gate is reminding NATO members that they should be spending 2% of their GDP on defense. Sharky&Sharky thinks that this operationalizes as picking a Muslim side in a Muslim country and then fighting the opposing Muslims. While the Muslims on our side turn against us eg President Asif Ali Zardari, who lives 40 minutes away from bin Laden's compound.  It would be more prudent to allow the Christians and Jews and other non-muslims in a Muslim country to have safe haven in the US or Europe and in return we allow all the Muslims in western democracies to go to the Muslim country of their choice. The Muslims could fight one another in their desired land maybe establish a Sultanate or a Caliphate as they have done since the time of Mohammed, while the rest of stop interferring and generating diffraction.