When I watched a documentary about the coming Mahdi from the islamic eschatology, they said an Egyptian leader would be killed prior to the coming.  With this declaration they showed a picture of Mubarak, and then a picture of a Rook.  And said when the Rook was killed…..   Well, I dismissed that as a falsehood because Mubarak was not killed.  At least not yet.  But the image of the Rook stayed. I can’t find the video that I watched that compared Mubarak with a rook, but here is a link to my article I did on the coming of the Mahdi, if nothing else it’s very interesting to see that their version of the end-times mirrors the book of Revelation. Here is the link . I didn’t really research it , until today when I came across this article about the many faces of evil of the current Egyptian Leader.  And then that came rushing back.  So I looked it up and I was a little shocked to find out what the Rook bird was like. At any rate these are all interesting facts and when you put them all together, you get a picture of what’s happening, and who’s who. Well, I’ll just let you read it.  Then you can read the article from Spiegel to see the many faces of Morsi.  Here is the explanation for the Rook from wikipedia:

Sociability Of The Rook 

“A lady wrote to the correspondence columns of a newspaper to recount an interesting experience. The trees in her garden provided the nesting site for a large colony of rooks. One day she observed a pair of the birds starting to build their nest at some distance from the main colony, but this independence could not be tolerated by the rest of the colony (rooks are strongly social and gregarious) and they demolished this attempt at a break- away. The couple did not give up, but persisted in a second attempt; this suffered a like fate, as did their third attempt at diversity. The day after their third effort had failed, the lady was awoken by unusual sounds from the birds. She got up and went to the window, from where she saw the rooks ranged in a circle on the grass, and in the centre of the circle was an isolated pair. After a period of agitated excitement the mob attacked the errant pair and killed them.” ^[10]

Excerpts from a 2 part article from Spiegel.  To read the whole thing click here.

Is Mohammed Morsi a peacebroker or a virulent anti-Semite? A former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has known Morsi for 13 years, believes that behind the Egyptian president’s veneer of goodwill towards Israel lies a deep-seated hatred.

Mohammed Morsi can be very sympathetic, even toward Jews, as evidenced by an extremely friendly letter the Egyptian president sent to Israel last October. The president had personally written the letter of accreditation, for his new ambassador in Tel Aviv, to his counterpart Shimon Peres, whom he addressed as a “Dear Friend.” In the letter, Morsi clearly invoked the “good relations” that “fortunately exist between our countries,” and pledged to “preserve and strengthen” them.

All a Pretense

To comprehend the Egyptian president and grasp how the Muslim Brotherhood shapes its members, it helps to speak with men who knew Morsi during his time with the Islamist organization — and who also have the courage to speak openly about the group. Abdel-Jalil el-Sharnoubi, 38, talks about how dangerous this can be. Last October, after he had spoken about quitting the Brotherhood to Egyptian newspapers and in TV appearances, masked men opened fire on Sharnoubi’s car with submachine guns.

For Sharnoubi, a lanky man, keeping a constant eye out for suspicious characters has become second nature. He takes a cautious look around as he walks into the Café Riche in downtown Cairo, and when he sits down, he makes sure that he has a good view of the entire establishment. He orders tea, rolls himself a cigarette and then tells the story of his time with the Muslim Brotherhood and the current president, to whom he derisively refers as “doctor.”

When they first met in 2000, both men were already successful. Sharnoubi, the son of an imam in the Nile delta, joined the Brotherhood at 13. He eventually advanced within the regimented organization to become a member of its information committee. Morsi, for his part, had made it into the Egyptian parliament. Because members of the Muslim Brotherhood were not allowed to run for political office under Mubarak, Morsi masqueraded as an “independent.” The two men had had “a lot of contact with each other” to further their goal of spreading the Brotherhood’s message as widely as possible, says Sharnoubi.

For information expert Sharnoubi, Morsi was “a typical man from the country, a fellah with peasant origins who quickly integrated himself into the machine.” At the time, claims Sharnoubi, Morsi was “downright submissive to the Brotherhood’s leadership.” Morsi was apparently completely opposed to the Brotherhood becoming more open, as Sharnoubi had advocated. “He fought against any internal democratization.”

It seemed “inconceivable” to Sharnoubi that Morsi’s group would one day assume power in Egypt. In fact, he says, he would have “found it even less likely” that Morsi, a modest member of parliament, would become president. Even in the highest government position, Morsi cannot have shed the Brotherhood’s mission like an old suit, says Sharnoubi. “A man like Morsi, with such deep convictions, can’t do that. If we hear anything else from him, it’ll be a pretense.” He explains that Morsi owes his survival under autocrat Mubarak to this “talent for assimilation,” and that he is a “master of disguise.”

Sharnoubi assumes that cordial moves like the letter to Peres have only one goal: “To secure and expand the dominance of the Brotherhood.” Only recently, the president issued a decree that gave him absolute powers, and Morsi currently controls all three branches of government. “He has secured more power than his predecessor Mubarak ever had.”

Sharnoubi’s vision of a future Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood is horrifying. “They will infiltrate all areas of our society: government offices and ministries, schools and universities, as well as the police and the military. They will eliminate their enemies.”

Isn’t he exaggerating?

“Not in the least,” says Sharnoubi, noting that the Brotherhood is already infiltrating the security apparatus. “The Brotherhood will never give up its power without a fight.”

When he leaves the café, Sharnoubi looks toward Tahrir Square, where there is no end to the turmoil. Last Friday, once again, there was rioting and there were clashes between Morsi opponents and the police, and some were killed or injured. For Sharnoubi, this is “merely a small foretaste of an imminent popular uprising.”

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