The Great Middle Eastern Democracy Show Hits a Bump

by Nidra Poller (February 2011)

The romantic myth of power to the people functions as a lethal narrative to enable a major leap forward in global jihad conquest: the cockeyed barricades erected in Tahrir Square are used to dismantle the intellectual barricades that should protect the free world against the Muslim Brotherhood, its jihadi allies and rivals. If the people are mobilized and the world is on their side why does the Egyptian regime have to be immediately beheaded? The despotism of Hosni Mubarak must be raised to the highest power in order to reduce the threat of Islamic despotism to insignificance.

This real or fabricated march to democracy in the Middle East goes apace with an authentic decrease in democracy in the free world. Limits on free expression are imposed by the joint action of our own governments and intimidating pressure groups and upheld by self-censorship. Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria are on trial for blasphemy against Islam. Others have been savagely murdered, and thousands have been marginalized. These voices are silenced or marginalized precisely because they show us the real causes, rooted in Islamic doctrine and history, of the despotism that eternally plagues Arab-Muslim society.

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