Psst...Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Bridge?

A rambling article in the New Yorker by Steve Coll entitled, “CAN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BE TRUSTED?” finally gets around to answering its own question.

“The Brotherhood has also long emphasized evolutionary politics, as opposed to seizing power in coups d’etat. Some of the Brotherhood’s thinkers have advocated a strategy of gradually converting souls, even if it takes generations, so that Islamic revolution will arrive in the end like a peaceful tide, never to recede.”

The article continues: “Skeptics of the movement have long argued that the Brotherhood is, at its core, anti-democratic (as well as anti-Semitic, about which there can be little doubt). If the Brotherhood occasionally shares power in a particular national democratic setup, this argument goes, it is only as a short-term tactical maneuver, in preparation for dictatorship. Nor, these skeptics continue, will the Egyptian Brotherhood or Hamas ever accept Israel’s legitimacy or national rights.

That view certainly got a lift last Saturday, when Khaled Meshal, Hamas’s political leader, told a mass rally in Gaza that Israel would be wiped out through military force, and that a Palestinian state should be created “from resistance, not negotiation.” Meshal, who stood before a tall rocket erected to represent Hamas’s military prowess, went on:

"We will never recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation, and therefore there is no legitimacy for Israel, no matter how long it will take. We will free Jerusalem inch by inch, stone by stone.”

“Those who favor engagement with Hamas and the Egyptian Brotherhood dismiss such rhetoric as nothing new; they contend that it should be understood as base-rallying political speech..."

Yes, and this is exactly what Joe Kennedy said about Hitler and the Nazis. Better to make peace with them, he said, rather than risk a world war.  Well Britain’s Chamberlain and the French tried that and it didn’t work then and it won’t work now. 

Like Hitler, who we recognized too late was a madman; the Muslim Brotherhood is intent on implanting their delusion on the rest of us. Delusion is defined as: “A persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of a psychiatric condition.” 

There is no cure for delusion. Drugs are available for psychotics, but nothing is available for delusional people. And even if there were, delusional people would not avail themselves of it because they would think the doctor prescribing the drug was “in on it.” Or if they are religious they would think it was the work of the Devil.

Religion, any religion, is a delusion without a cure and will be the main contributor to the downfall and annihilation of our species.   For those who disagree, I have a nice bridge for sale that connects Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn.

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