The media coverage of the riots in Egypt is disturbing. The mainstream media is depicting said events as a natural thing in a natural evolution from a benign, American-backed dictatorship (Mubarek is president-for-life, whatever that means) on the onward march to democracy.
This is simply not true.
It started out as food riot, protesting high prices and scarcity. This is caused by the environmental wackos insisting on renewable fuels, like farmers growing corn for fuel ethanol rather than wheat for a hungry world. Yes, I am looking at you, Albert Gore Jr.
The continuous nature of the riots is being egged on by the Muslim Brotherhood. Besides Mubarek and his son, there are numerous political parties with small percentages of backing from the populace, but the largest by far is the MB, and they stand to gain most from a revolution.
If the MB rings like tin on your ears: they are the ones responsible for the creation of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda. If things go the way they want, Egypt will become another Islamic theocracy like Iran, replete with Sharia law.
I realize that Mubarek is not an angel. However, like the Shah of Iran, he has kept the peace between disparate religious factions (there is a terrible war where Muslims try to kill a substantial population of Coptic Christians to the point where it has become a game amongst followers of Mohammed). He has been our ally, and done his best to keep peace in the Middle East and even kept the peace with Israel. Obama administration attempts to shove him out of office has echoes of the US assassination of the President of South Vietnam in the midst of a war (the worst foreign policy mistake in history, right behind the Carter administration decision to oust the Shah of Iran).
It is difficult to believe that the end result of the current unrest in Egypt will result in more, rather than less, freedom and liberty for Egyptian Christians.
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