جولدنبيرغ يكتب عن عشاء الملك - أوباما

 

وقال جولدنبيرغ  ان :"  الملك  عبد الله عبر للرئيس الاميركي عن قلقله من ان الادارة الاميركية  لديها نظرة مفرطة في السذاجة حيال الإخوان والقيادات الاسلامية الاخرى، وكان هذا الموضوع الرئيس الذي تناوله الملك على حفل العشاء الذي اقيم على شرف الرئيس  اوباما ".

 

 

وتابع الصحفي الاميركي في مقاله انتقد الملك عبدالله الثاني تهافت الاخوان المسلمين والحركات الاسلامية على السلطة وقال ان :"قيادات الاخوان المسلمين تتسم بعدم النضج التكتيكي ".

 

 

وكرر جولدنبيرغ ما نشره من تصريحات على لسان الملك في مجلة ذي اتلانتيك الاسبوع الماضي بقوله :" إن الملك عبدالله قالها بوضوح "انه بالطبع لا يحب لا اردوغان ولا مرسي، لكنه لا يثق اكثر بالاتراك"، ويعتقد الملك عبدالله أن الرجلين يبحثان عن السلطة المطلقة، لكن اردوغان مر ببطء واخذ نهجا موزونا ومتمهلا اكثر من مرسي .

 

 

ونشير اخيرا الى ان عنوان المقال جاء بعنوان : الملك لاوباما : احذر الاخ مرسي

 

 

 

النص الاصلي باللغة الانجليزية :

 

 

King Abdullah II of Jordan, a member of the dwindling band of Arab leaders who have somehow stayed in power despite the rise of what he calls a “Muslim Brotherhood crescent” across the Middle East, made an acute observation to me recently about the tactical immaturity of the Brotherhood’s leadership.

 

We were talking about the rise of political Islam in the region when the king made an unflattering comparison between Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist prime minister of Turkey, and Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brother who is president of Egypt. The Brotherhood is an international movement, but it was

founded in Egypt, and its leader, the supreme guide, sits there today.

 

Abdullah made it clear that he doesn’t particularly like either Erdogan or Mursi but that he distrusts the Turk more because he is cannier. Both men seek absolute power, Abdullah believes, but Erdogan is taking a slower, more deliberate approach than Mursi. “Instead of the Turkish model, taking six or seven years -- being an Erdogan -- Mursi wanted to do it overnight,” he said.

 

The king, among other Arab leaders, is worried that the Obama administration has an overly naive view of the Brotherhood and of other Islamist leaders. This is one of the main subjects he will address when he has dinner tonight with U.S. President Barack Obama, who is visiting him in Amman, the Jordanian capital. (Another main issue, of course, is the disintegration of Syria, to Jordan’s north.) The king was careful not to criticize Obama to me, but he did lament that U.S. officials discount warnings about the Brothers as the empty complaints of Arab liberals or those vested in the status quo. Some Westerners, he said, argue that “the only way you can have democracy is through the Muslim Brotherhood.”

 

He made these comments to me a couple of months ago. But the truth of his argument about the Brotherhood’s extremism -- and impatience -- was borne out anew a week ago, when the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt issued an extraordinary, and extraordinarily disturbing, rejoinder to the draft of a declaration calling for an end to violence against women that was eventually passed at the annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

 

In an official statement responding to the draft, the Brotherhood argued that, if approved, it would “lead to complete disintegration of society, and would certainly be the final step in the intellectual and cultural invasion of Muslim countries, eliminating the moral specificity that helps preserve cohesion of Islamic societies.”

The Brotherhood’s objections to this anodyne document were many. Some of the criticisms could be understood within a broader Egyptian cultural framework: The UN document calls for equality in inheritance laws, and no political party in Egypt has argued that daughters should have parity of inheritance with sons.

 

Other criticisms seem more retrograde. Still others are flat-out brutal. The Muslim Brothers object to the idea of “granting girls full sexual freedom” and to raising the legal marriage age, which in some countries is as low as 15. They believe that providing contraceptives to adolescent girls is dangerous, and that granting “equal rights to adulterous wives and illegitimate sons resulting from adulterous relationships” is reprehensible.

 

They believe, of course, that granting “equal rights to homosexuals” and “providing protection and respect for prostitutes” are terrible ideas. They are shocked by the argument that wives should have the right to file legal complaints against husbands for rape. They raised objections to the idea that men should share in housework and child-care responsibilities, and that men should no longer be allowed to decide whether their wives travel, work or use contraception.

 

In sum, the Brotherhood’s rebuttal is a remarkable document and evidence that the movement simply cannot wait to wage war on women. Human-rights groups in Egypt have so far stopped Brotherhood activists from decriminalizing female genital mutilation, but women are losing on multiple fronts.

 

Mursi hasn’t fulfilled his pledge to appoint a woman as one of his vice presidents. When I last interviewed him, before he took office, I asked him if the Brotherhood could support a woman, or a Christian, for president.

 

“Which Christian?” he asked. I explained that I was asking a theoretical question. Could any Christian become president? “There are no Christians running for president,” he said. “This is a nonsense question.” So I asked him if he could support a woman for president. “Which woman?”

This tragicomic dialogue went on for some time, before I gave up.

 

Leaders like Jordan’s Abdullah have been warning the Obama administration for some time not to trust the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded movements. They are, he said, “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” I suppose the saving grace of the Egyptian Brotherhood is that its leaders don’t even bother to dress like sheep.

 

(Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the author of this article: Jeffrey Goldberg at goldberg.atlantic@gmail.com.

 

To contact the editor responsible for this article: Lisa Beyer at lbeyer3@bloomberg.net.