While Egypt Burns

If you don't know it by now...Egypt is a mess.

Morsi was elected in free, democratic elections and has only been in office one year.  Of course he is part of the Muslim Brotherhood party which is a terrorist organization...but hey, the people spoke and Morsi was their man!

But now the military has come in and arrested Morsi.  Those who want more freedom and secular government are elated.  Those who voted for Morsi and want to be ruled by the Koran and sharia law are really upset.

It has all the makings of another civil war taking place in the Middle East.

What happened in Egypt yesterday (July 3, 2013) was not a military coup. It was the army listening to the voice of millions and millions of Egyptians on the street. Many people seem to confuse one election with a democracy. One election does not a democracy make.We have to remember that Hitler and Hamas control of Gaza, let alone Ahmadinejad and Chavez also came into power though a process of elections.

On this cherished date, in particular, we have got to stop and reflect upon what a democracy truly means. It means freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assemblage, a free and independent judiciary, the right to petition the government, a separation of powers, and the rights of minorities. The radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood regime, dominated by Shariah law, had none of those checks and balances or religious freedoms.

At this time, while the real enemy that threatens to destroy Western civilization, as we know it, in our day, is radical Islam. This constitutes no less a threat than Nazism or Communism constituted in our parents’ generation.  We must never confuse a radical Islamist government with a democracy, no matter how it came into power.””Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned”Egypt is in flames. This vast nation of nearly 90 million people is convulsing.  The people are highly polarized, angry and malnourished. This is a nation in which America has invested over $50 billion of our national treasure, since 1979.  Egypt is a nation that is being strangled by economic mismanagement. The price of basic food items like fava beans and any other form of protein has risen astronomically, while most of the population lives on less than two dollars a day.

Yet, most of the American foreign aid money is spent on the military.This is a nation whose Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi sentenced 43 NGO’s, including 16 Americans, to jail terms for crimes against the state this past April. This is a nation in which one American, Robert Becker, of the National Democratic Institute, was sentenced to 2 years in prison, and forced to flee Egypt, because of the crime of trying to help build the institutions of a democracy. This is a nation which raided the offices of Freedom House and the International Republican Institute, forcing their workers to flee for their very lives.This is a nation whose Coptic Christian minority of 8 million, along with the other religious minority groups have faced unprecedented abuse, killings, torture, discrimination and fear, since Mohamed Morsi’s assumed office in June of 2012.What many people might not be aware of is that there have been many efforts by members of Congress to end, alter or condition the aid to Egypt in an effort to promote democracy building, human rights and respect for the rule of law.

Here;  http://balfourpost.com/while-egypt-burns/

Dang it!!  Didn't Obama give a big speech to cheering thousands in Egypt before he became Prince of the World?....I mean President?  And now the majority of Egyptians don't like America?  I suggest Obama try pushing his mythical reset button a little harder!

Of course when you have a nation like Egypt where a huge percentage are living off $2 per day....it is pretty hard to keep them content.

Continue to pray for Egypt.  They ARE a player in the Last Days drama.

Isaiah tells us that one day a highway will run between Egypt and Syria and they will all worship the Lord.