The European imperialists, who invaded and occupied most Muslim-majority countries during the past two centuries, tried to uproot Islam and impose their own values and forms of governance on the people they conquered. This effort, as Zionist-imperialist ideologue Bernard Lewis admits, was an abject failure.
Today, we are living in an age of Islamic revolution.
During the second half of the 20th century, a worldwide Islamic awakening coincided with imperialism's loss of legitimacy. A wave of Islamic activism swept over Muslim-majority countries, as people reclaimed their heritage, rejected the corrupt materialism associated with secularism, and sought a voice in decisions that affected their lives.
And now it is Egypt's turn.
Egypt, geographically situated somewhere between Iran and Algeria, finds itself torn between the two possibilities: A successful Islamic revolution like Iran's, or a tragically unsuccessful one like Algeria's.
Today's Egypt - like 1979 Iran and 1989 Algeria - features an overwhelming majority who support Islamic governance and oppose Zionism and imperialism. And just like pre-1979 Iran and pre-1989 Algeria, Egypt has traditionally been run by a rich, corrupt, secularist, comprador-bourgeois minority that has absolutely no desire to allow the will of the people to prevail.
In Iran, the Islamic revolutionaries spearheaded the overthrow of the Shah, then did what they had to do to successfully consolidate power. They succeeded in establishing a democratic Islamic Republic that has maintained Iran's Islamic identity, fought off foreign attempts to destroy the revolution, and pursued policies that accurately reflect the will of the Iranian people.
No other Middle Eastern country's leaders dare to voice the near-unanimous position of the people of the Middle East: The Zionist entity occupying Palestine is not a legitimate entity; it must be dismantled and replaced by a government representing the majority of the people of historic Palestine.
In 1989 Algeria, the Islamic activists, unlike their brothers and sisters in 1979 Iran, were fooled by the tyrannical regime that ruled their land. The pharaohs in Algiers pretended that they would accept the results of national elections. So instead of fighting a revolution, Algeria's Islamic activists campaigned and won roughly 90% of the vote. But instead of being ushered into the legislature and the presidential palace, they were ushered into concentration camps, tortured, and murdered.
Algerian Muslims should have fought a revolution, then done what was necessary to establish a successful Islamic Republic of Algeria... later to become an Islamic Republic of the Greater Maghreb, and, eventually, part of a new Islamic Union or Caliphate.
But they were suckered into playing the regime's game. They believed its false promises of “democracy.” And so, like Salvador Allende (and unlike Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh) they were unable to complete their revolution.
After torturing and murdering its key opponents, the Algerian junta launched a wave of false-flag terror. Throughout the 1990s, Algerian government death squads disguised as Islamists slaughtered well over 100,000 innocent people - with the support and assistance of the West. They massacred entire villages, entire neighborhoods. And it was always the villages and neighborhoods where supporters of the Islamic activists lived.
When I lived in the border town of Oujda, Morocco, in 1999 and 2000, everyone there knew that it was Algerian government doing the mass killings that were blamed - in the Western media - on “radical Islamists.”
On September 11, 2001, the Israeli Mossad and its US assets followed the “Algerian strategy” of mass-murdering innocent civilians and blaming the murders on so-called radical Islamists. And once again, the Western Zionist-owned media was complicit in these crimes against humanity.
Mubarak used the same false-flag strategy when he bombed the Coptic churches two years ago. But the Egyptian people were not fooled. Islamic activists rushed to protect the Copts, denounce the bombings, and expose the truth.
In Egypt today, as in 1979 Iran and 1989 Algeria, the vast majority of the population wants to restore Islam to the central place it held prior to the Western imperialist onslaught. And it wants to end the corruption epidemic to people who are living purely for this world, not at all for the next.".
But, as in 1979 Iran and 1989 Algeria, Islamic activists in Egypt face a rich, clever, ruthless, heavily-armed minority dedicated to preserving the corrupt status quo. The tiny secularist minority that refuses to give up power in Egypt is, for all intents and purposes, the local lackey of global imperialism - a treasonous cabal working to do the bidding of the imperial powers, and thwart the aspirations of the Egyptian people.
The Egyptian military is armed to the teeth by its Zionist-owned American benefactors. And the secular “democracy activists” are funded and empowered by the soft-power wing of the Zio-American empire.
Meanwhile, the Gulf sheikhdoms, which are still de facto Zio-American colonies, are throwing their money into the equation, hoping to either stymie the Egyptian revolution, or at least corrupt it.
Those Gulf sheikhdoms, which pretend to promote democracy while sentencing poets to life imprisonment, need revolutions more than any country on earth.
Will the Egyptian people allow foreign-funded stooges of imperialism to stymie their Islamic revolution? Or will they follow in the footsteps of Iran, and take their country back by rising up en masse and demanding nothing less than a complete break with Zionism and imperialism, and the establishment of a genuinely independent Islamic Egypt?
KB/HJL of PRESSTV
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com. More Press TV articles by Dr. Kevin Barrett
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