The Domino Effect in North Africa

What's that saying? "When it rains, it pours." That would explain what is taking place in Muslim nations with the Obama-inspired Arab Spring. It looks like the Islamists will be making a clean sweep of North Africa as the only nation free from Islamic rule, Algeria, is being targeted.

Anyone who rates Obama high on foreign policy needs to have his head examined. How does he manage to get the support of a whopping 40% of Americans? Are they out of their mind? More like they are under his thumb expecting a continued hand-out from the government.

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Arab Spring Is Now Targeting Algeria

(Reuters) – "Algeria’s Islamists, in the political wilderness since their last attempt to win power dissolved into civil war, are now trying again, galvanized by the success of their brethren elsewhere in north Africa in the wake of the 'Arab Spring'.

Most Islamists in Algeria have been excluded from political life since the conflict, but in the past few months they have shown renewed signs of activity, much of it conducted from exile to dodge the attentions of the Algerian state.

They have set up a satellite television station based in Europe, sent delegations to Arab countries that saw revolutions this year, and made tentative forays into anti-government protests.

Their chances of success are slim: they are divided into rival ideological camps, hemmed in by the powerful Algerian security apparatus, and, most importantly, discredited in the eyes of many people by a conflict in which they took part and which killed an estimated 200,000 people.

But they see an opportunity in the upheavals of the 'Arab Spring,' which have this year unseated entrenched secularist leaders. In neighboring Tunisia, a previously outlawed Islamist movement has come to power, while in Egypt Islamists have taken a strong early lead in multi-stage parliamentary elections.

'Tunisia was an example and launcher of this (Arab Spring) revolution,' said Abdullah Anas, a London-based member of the leadership council of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), which is banned in Algeria.

'It could be a very good example for Algeria.'"


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