Sunday, April 3, 2011

Arab Revolts Improve Al-Qaeda’s Strategic Position

Here is an analysis of the coming influence by alQaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood throughout North African Arab countries.  The current overthrow of Egypt and the ongoing unrest in the rest of the Arab sphere are giving Salafists an open door to become major players in whatever transpiresd in the next few months.

The great irony here is that clueless western governments are aiding and abeting the salafists in the naive belief that they truly want democracy.  It's only going to get worse, and it will be years or perhaps decades before it gets better.

FROM PAJAMASMEDIA.COM:

Arab Revolts Improve Al-Qaeda’s Strategic Position

The terrorists are reaping the benefits from the chaos.

April 1, 2011 - by Brian Fairchild

Some well-known commentators  have recently claimed that al-Qaeda has been diminished and made irrelevant because the popular uprisings in the Middle East are not motivated by radical Islam and are not controlled by al-Qaeda.

This kind of sound bite commentary betrays a serious misunderstanding of al-Qaeda and the Middle East and misleads people to believe that al-Qaeda is fast becoming a past problem. These commentators seem to believe that al-Qaeda is nothing more than a fanatical, one-dimensional religious movement.

While it is true that al-Qaeda’s ideology is rigid and fanatical, in the operational arena, it has proven itself to be the pragmatic and combat-hardened leader of an international insurgency that is more than willing to bend its principles in order to get what it wants.

The commentators also seem to have missed the fact that al-Qaeda acts as the vanguard of the Salafi jihad movement and has never stated or envisioned that it would, by itself, lead the overthrow of Middle Eastern regimes. Instead, it has always stated that its main function is to lead by example and incite and inspire others to do the work for them. That is precisely why al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula named its new jihad magazine Inspire.

Article continues HERE.