25 Morsi made no public assertion of condemnation or remorse till 3 days after the incident, and in simple terms after strain from the Obama White residence. 26 at the comparable day that the yank Embassy in Cairo used to be stormed, a mob of al-Qaeda–linked terrorists performed a well-planned, coordinated attack at the U. S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left 4 americans lifeless, together with Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Then, on September thirteen and 14, Islamist mobs stormed the yankee embassies in Yemen and Tunis, with the Tunisians, like their Egyptian opposite numbers, elevating the black flag of al-Qaeda over the development. 27 Egypt. Libya. Yemen. Tunisia. All 4 are so-called “Arab Spring” nations within which the Obama management supported “regime change”—to disastrous ends. ■ On November 22, 2012, only one day after the hot York occasions released an editorial during which Obama management officers praised Morsi effusively for his position in aiding to dealer a ceasefire among Israel and Hamas, the budding pharaoh made a circulation for absolute strength. Morsi issued a decree banning any competition to his legislation and judgements as president. The declaration sparked riots and violence in Egypt that, as I write this in might 2013, are nonetheless flaring up every now and then round the state. studies have additionally surfaced of Brotherhood and Salafi thugs raping girls in Cairo,28 establishing torture chambers to brutalize Morsi’s opponents,29 and imposing sharia legislation. In December 2012, Morsi signed into legislations a brand new structure enshrining sharia ideas. It used to be written through the Islamist parliament and authorized by way of sixty four percentage of Egyptian citizens. Tellingly, the classes in which the structure was once drafted have been boycotted by means of Christians and secularists, who claimed—rightly—that the method have been hijacked by means of the Brotherhood and its Salafist allies. 30 For Christians and secularists, issues promise in simple terms to worsen. yet no concerns. in keeping with the recent York instances, “Mr. Obama advised aides he used to be inspired with the Egyptian leader’s pragmatic self belief. He sensed an engineer’s precision with unusually little ideology. ” Obama, the days suggested, thought of Morsi “a directly shooter. ”31 No American president has so sorely misjudged an Islamic chief due to the fact that Jimmy Carter praised Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini as a “fellow guy of religion. ”32 For the Muslim Brothers, the glorification of holy struggle and martyrdom present in their legit creed is greater than simply phrases. For as regards to a century, the Brotherhood and its affiliates—which contain Hamas—have engaged in terrorism and assassinations. Al-Banna’s fans even collaborated with the Nazis which will exterminate the Jews of the center East in the course of international warfare II. many years later, in 1948, the Brotherhood despatched battalions to struggle along Arab armies of their invasion of Israel. this present day, the Brotherhood refuses to acknowledge Israel’s correct to exist and propagates the type of outlandish, anti-Jewish conspiracy theories that have been ordinary within the notorious Nazi propaganda rag, Der Sturmer.