Muslim Billy Graham?

Interesting quote in yesterday’s Signs of the Times from a book by Said Aburish called A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite:

"According to CIA agent Miles Copeland, the Americans began looking for a Muslim Billy Graham around 1955... When finding or creating a Muslim Billy Graham proved elusive, the CIA began to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim mass organization founded in Egypt but with followers throughout the Arab Middle East... "

Now let’s ask ourselves: Why on earth would the CIA want a “Muslim Billy Graham?” What does that say about the real policy in the Middle East? (What, for that matter, does it say about Billy Graham?)

It says that the United States has for decades PROMOTED Islamic fundamentalism. It says that the main enemy for the U.S. and Israel has been secular pan-Arabism (Egypt’s Nasser and the Baath regimes in Iraq and Syria). It says that they want the Arab Middle East to be weakened by sectarian violence and instability.

Now some might say at this point, What about Afghanistan? Didn’t the United States fight the fundamentalist Taliban there? Yes, but only after several attempts at pipeline deals fell through. Remember that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s National Security Advisor began the funding (which continued through the eighties and nineties) of Islamic jihadist networks to fight the secular Afghan regime supported by the Soviet Union. A prominent member of those networks was Bush’s old friend, Osama bin Laden.

These are all things that should be kept in mind when you see mosques blown up and hotels in Arab countries blown up by “terrorists masterminds” who have been dead for years. Who benefits.