A Revolutionary Speech Ignored by the MSM

Raymond Ibrahim / American Thinker

On New Year’s Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi — the hero of Egypt’s 2013 anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution — made some remarkable comments concerning the need for a “religious revolution.” 

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Sisi made his remarks during a speech celebrating the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad — which was ironically held on January 1, 2015 (a day not acknowledged or celebrated in the Muslim world as it is based on a Christian calendar) — and he was addressing the nation’s top Islamic authorities from among the Awqaf Ministry (religious endowments) and Al Azhar University.

Although Sisi’s words were directed to Islam’s guardians and articulators, they indirectly lead to several important lessons for Western observers.

First, in just a few words, Sisi delivered a dose of truth and hard-hitting reality concerning the Islamic world’s relationship to the rest of the world — a dose of reality very few Western leaders dare think let alone proclaim. 

 “It’s inconceivable,” he said, “that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.  Impossible!” 

What a refreshingly honest statement to come from not only a political leader but a Muslim political leader who has much to lose, not least his life.  Contrast his very true words with the habitual reassurances of the Western establishment that Islamic world violence is a product of anything and everything but Islam.

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