Aya Hijazi is an America woman who was in prison in Egypt for the last three years. It's not worth going through the history of her arrest and the court proceedings in Egypt. The key point is that the arrest was questionable at best. Hijazi was released after president Trump made a personal request to the Egyptian president when he visited the White House two weeks ago. Hijazi is now back in the USA.
Here's the main question about all this: why didn't Obama do anything about this woman for three years? Without a doubt, a sincere request from Obama to the Egyptians would have secured her release. All we got from Obama, however, was total silence.
The answer for Obama's failure to act seems to be that he did not want to elevate the president of Egypt by dealing with him. The current president came into office after a military coup overthrew Muhammad Morsi the president installed into office as the candidate of the Moslem Brotherhood. Under Morsi's "leadership", Egypt instituted restrictions and limitations on non-Muslim Egyptians. Churches were burned. Sectarian violence rose. Morsi was moving Egypt away from tolerance and towards Sharia law. But Obama couldn't forgive the Egyptian people for rising up and ousting Morsi. The result of this misguided policy was that a poor American woman had to stay in prison for years because Obama didn't want to deal with the current Egyptian government.
It's good to have someone with common sense back in the White House.
Here's the main question about all this: why didn't Obama do anything about this woman for three years? Without a doubt, a sincere request from Obama to the Egyptians would have secured her release. All we got from Obama, however, was total silence.
The answer for Obama's failure to act seems to be that he did not want to elevate the president of Egypt by dealing with him. The current president came into office after a military coup overthrew Muhammad Morsi the president installed into office as the candidate of the Moslem Brotherhood. Under Morsi's "leadership", Egypt instituted restrictions and limitations on non-Muslim Egyptians. Churches were burned. Sectarian violence rose. Morsi was moving Egypt away from tolerance and towards Sharia law. But Obama couldn't forgive the Egyptian people for rising up and ousting Morsi. The result of this misguided policy was that a poor American woman had to stay in prison for years because Obama didn't want to deal with the current Egyptian government.
It's good to have someone with common sense back in the White House.
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