Tag: Christiane Amanpour

Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →

Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →

Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →