BIDEN'S TWISTED VIEWS ABOUT PRIORITIZING 'HUMAN RIGHTS' BEFORE ANY OTHER ISSUE IS PLAYING WITH FIRE

Biden administration is reviving the Muslim Brotherhood threat

 

By Eldad Beck

 

Israel Hayom

February 28, 2021

 

The ideological insanity that has seized the Left in western countries can be clearly seen in its approach to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization and its satellites around the world. Because this group is being hounded by most Arab regimes and has been forced to export its activity to Europe and the US, among other places, where it can create the image of a "persecuted political victim," the religious fanatic Muslim Brotherhood organization has managed to join left-wing parties as a legitimate partner in the discourse about "the global" struggle "to promote welfare and democracy."

The Muslim Brotherhood are selling themselves as a "popular" alternative to existing regimes throughout the Middle East, as the true representatives of the people, as a promise for change and freedom. But anyone who really wants to know what happens when the Muslim Brotherhood gain power can learn from the destruction of Turkey's democracy by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; from Hamas' reign of terror in the Gaza Strip, and the insanity from which Egypt was rescued when its military ousted former President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood representative.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a democratic alternative to regimes in the Middle East. They want to use democracy to enforce a dark, dictatorial religious regime. Comparisons can definitely be drawn to processes that unfolded in Germany in the 1930.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was one of the Muslim Brotherhood's chief PR agents in the US. He worked to promote the idea that there can be no political or democratic reform in an Arab country without the participation of "political Islam," (a code name for the Muslim Brotherhood in western political discourse). Still, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Sultan – unlike the western Left – learned a clear lesson from the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya – as well as the Islamic State phenomenon, which saw a revival similar to the Arab Spring, and decided to eradicate all threats to the Saudi royal family from the Muslim Brotherhood.

They way in which Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is nauseating for many in the West, and hard for them to swallow. But the Middle East has its own rule, and they are not designed to appeal to left-wing, western purists. The three most influential axes in the Muslim world are battling it out in the region: the Iran-Shiite axis; the Saudi-Sunni axis; and the Muslim Brotherhood, led by Turkey and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has found itself attacked by the other two axes. Khashoggi was about to play a major role in the war on Saudi Arabia, and he paid the price.

The Biden administration's attempts to question the status of Mohammad Bin Salman, including through intelligence reports about his role in Khashoggi's murder, are playing with fire. In Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula as a whole, Bin Salman has launched a reform movement and made changes that were vital to propelling the region forward after nearly 100 years of paralysis and atrophy. His contribution, direct and indirect, to Arab normalization with Israel cannot be understated. Without his blessing, the Abraham Accords would never have come into being. He showed courage in handling conservative elements that tried to stick spokes in the wheels of his initiatives toward openness. He also had to exert force against his many opponents.

The Muslim Brotherhood are staunchly opposed to Mohammad Bin Salman's ideas, and they don't want normalization with Israel, either. But the Biden administration, with its twisted views about prioritizing "human rights" before any other issue and without taking unique conditions into account, is about to play into the hands of Bin Salman's opponents, who include the Muslim Brotherhood. We saw the destructive result of this foolish Democratic policy in Iran 42 years ago, when then-President Jimmy Carter refused to allow the Shah to use force to stop the Islamic Revolution, which became an Islamist one that lit up the Middle East and continues to do so. Biden is about to make a mistake that is no less destructive.