Of course the Muslims MUST hate America.it's part of Islam.

 

America is particularly satanic and reprehensible because, in direct
opposition to Allah's will, it has codified the separation of state and
church in its Constitution.

 

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Progress? Now Even Egypt's Religious Establishment Hates America

By Barry Rubin

May 5, 2011

 
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http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2011/05/progress-egypt-establishment

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This is the kind of serious development that everyone better pay close
attention to if they want to understand what's going on in the Middle East
and how the West doesn't get it.

The Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, gave an
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al-Jazira. Al-Azhar is the most important religious center in the Sunni
Muslim world. Up until now, its leadership has been controlled by the
Egyptian government, which meant the government of President Husni Mubarak
until earlier this year.

That regime was a dictatorship. It appointed the head of al-Azhar and the
mufti of Egypt. It controlled mosque sermons and which preachers went on
television. Consequently, it limited their extremism and, knowing their
careers were at stake, the clerics complied. They weren't real moderate but,
for example, wouldn't think of passionately attacking the United States or
calling for the abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel.

Now everything is different. The people are the same as those who radicals
once derided as Mubarak's "parrots," but to survive they must please
different masters. The Muslim Brotherhood has publicly announced that it
would seek to replace those deemed to be too pro-Mubarak among clerics and
especially in al-Azhar. In future, it proposes that the top clerics be
appointed by parliament, where they expect to have a very large number of
seats.

So instead of pleasing Mubarak, people like Tayyeb have to please the Muslim
Brotherhood. In fact, the leadership of al-Azhar just held their first
official meeting ever with the Brotherhood in order to make some kind of
deal.

Therefore, while it is shocking it isn't surprising that Tayyeb now sounds
like a radical jihadist. Responding to Usama bin Laden's death, he made the
following points:

--The killing of bin Laden by the Americans was an act of "piracy."

--His burial at sea (supposedly done to please Muslims) was against Islamic
law and is a "moral crime," the "mutilation of a corpse."

--The main cause of terrorism is Israel's existence and actions.

--The other big cause of terrorism is that Western countries seek to
dominate the Arab world.

Key forces in Egypt no longer consider America as an ally or bin Ladin as an
enemy. Moreover, the highest Egyptian establishment and non-Islamist
political authorities are now authorizing revenge attacks on America for the
"crime" of killing bin Ladin. That's what the change in Egyptian politics
has brought.

Now, consider in contrast a relatively moderate-on such international
issues-countries that are still dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates. A leading Saudi cleric
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killing of bin Ladin on al-Arabiya, the television network controlled by the
United Arab Emirates.

Al-Jazira, praised by American leaders and journalists, hates America.
Al-Arabiya, which is ignored by them, is friendlier. What next? The U.S.
government calls for the overthrow of al-Arabiya and its replacement by
al-Jazira?


*               Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in
International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review
of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The
Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin);
the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A
Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The
Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East
(Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books,
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