May 26th 2009
The Axis Of Evil – It’s Back
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mong the unbounded wealth of things President Bush caught a lot of flak for was his insistence that there is an axis of evil up to nefarious stuff in our world. We haven’t heard the expression much lately, but now it’s back, in a new incarnation … and not out of the mouth of Republicans.
Memri provides this translation of an article by Khaled Imam, the editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Masaa, in which the “axis” word is invoked again. Imam wrote the piece after Egyptian security forces announced the arrest of seven members of a terror cell that allegedly had carried out a February 22, 2009 terror attack in Egypt.
The capture of the terrorist cell associated with the explosions in a square near the Al-Hussein mosque [in Cairo] last February brought to light two new matters of utmost importance. The first is that this cell was discovered through the Internet; the second is that Al-Qaeda had for the first time carried out an operation inside Egypt. …
The fact that Al-Qaeda has entered the fray indisputably confirms the strong connections between this terrorist organization and Iran, Hizbullah, and extremists within the Palestinian resistance. This is a quadruple axis of evil, whose four components were melded together in a single crucible. It’s impossible now to tell which of them is hoisting the banner of international terrorism, which is bandying the slogans of Islam and instigating hate towards Israel, and which is extolling resistance in Lebanon or Gaza. The four have become one.
The target, too, has become one – namely Egypt, its land, its people, its history, its civilization, its economy, [and] its past, present, and future. Egypt – this gate of steadfastness, this bulwark against Iranian ambitions – is unfortunately the main, if not the only, target, and not Israel, as they claim.
This filthy, stinking, motley crew harbors evil intentions against Egypt, which is protected by the Lord, as well as by our outstanding armed and police forces… whose members are willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Egypt’s security. We have the right to be proud of them and of our Egyptian identity, and to defend our national security in every way, both traditional and modern.
Two points. First, I’m very glad, after reading that prose, that we don’t have state-owned media in America. And leaving the more important for last, Imam’s piece shows again that there is indeed a global war on terror that must be fought, whether the current administration realizes it or not.
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