The New (Islamic) World Order

Barack Obama’s stance on Egypt indicates that he would accept the replacement of that country’s secular government with an Islamic one. Such a premise may be disturbing but it is nonetheless trumped by the administration’s actions in the days since, which include reaching out to Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who is also siding with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Engaging Turkey in this matter is a grave move, especially when one looks at the goal of the Brotherhood – or Ikhwan – in conjunction with the rising Islamist government in Turkey. The sole purpose of the Brotherhood is to reestablish the Turkish Ottoman empire. Such an empire would rule over all current Islamic nation states; it’s a New World Order mentality that shares much in common with the left, which is increasingly playing with a fire it does not understand.

Regardless of how the uprising in Egypt plays out – and there are signs that Mubarak isn’t finished – Obama has played his hand. Whether he chose the Muslim Brotherhood based on a shared ideology, admiration for the community organizing skills of the protesters, or political gamesmanship in his quest to pick winners and losers is immaterial. He has demonstrated support for a dangerous future in the Middle East.

This administration’s envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) – a group of 57 Islamic nation states – is a man named Rashad Hussain, who has ties to Muslim Brotherhood groups, including the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the Assoiciation of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), and others. Based on Hussain’s provable familiarity with the Brotherhood, he must necessarily be aware of its larger goal at best, deceptively active in working toward that goal at worst.

As painful as it is to say, similar words must be said about the President of the United States if we are to believe our own eyes. Even the man behind one of the groups that has helped determine White House policy – George Soros – has come out in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama’s actions relative to the Egyptian uprising don’t just hint at a desire for the Muslim Brotherhood to be victorious there; they serve to aid the latter in a much greater victory elsewhere and beyond.

Former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat was once a Muslim Brotherhood activist and PLO member. He has been warning of a Turkish merger with the Ikhwan for years. He also speaks Arabic and has translated the words of one Louay Safi, who once served as Executive Director for a Muslim Brotherhood group known as the International Institute on Islamic Thought (IIIT). Safi was also at Fort Hood, TX both before and after the massacre there to provide Islamic sensitivity training.

Here is Safi in his own words, translated from Arabic into English by Shoebat:

The model for reform and the alternative to the Shiite Iranian model will rise again from outside the Arab region, namely from Turkey. The Turkish model, represented by the ruling Justice and Development Party, has Islamic roots. The AK Party seeks to restore the Republic of Turkey to its cultural context and cultural history, and represents the current phase of the advanced variety of the Islamic movement in Turkey. [Middle East Online, Feb. 1, 2011, Shoebat Arabic translation]

The Obama administration wants Mubarak to step down; it also knows that the Muslim Brotherhood is most poised to fill the vacuum. When given the opportunity to denounce the Brotherhood in an interview with Bill O’Reilly, Barack Obama declined to do so.

We are left to conclude that this administration welcomes both an Egypt governed by the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the inclusion of an increasingly Islamist government in Turkey during any such transition.

If Shoebat is correct, the Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey would seek to unite the 57 member nations of the OIC under one Ottoman umbrella. If such a reality is supported by Obama, it would bolster the claim by some that his slip during a 2008 campaign stop in which he said he had visited 57 states, was freudian and not simply inadvertent.

Let us not forget that Obama also once said “an acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree,” which essentially proved he is indeed capable of freudian slips.

Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas and maintains a website at www.benbarrack.com