The so-called “Arab Spring” has been growing since 2010 when a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police. But it has little to do with Arabs and far more to do with Muslims. Most of the countries involved are not Arab countries at all.

EGYPT : Although Egyptians speak a form of Arabic they are proud to be Egyptians and are a mixture of Africans and many other races. They certainly do not look upon themselves as Arabs.

TUNISIA : Tunisians were originally Berber tribesmen who were invaded by the Muslim Arabs and others to form a mixed race. But Arabs – they are not.

The countries that really are Arabian have put down minor revolts and made some concessions to avoid the upheaval in neighboring countries. So why call the uprising in six countries the “Arab Spring”?

TURKEY: Although some elements of the Turkish population have embraced the revolution to attempt a totally Islamic society, they certainly are not Arabs.

IRAN: Don’t dare refer to an Iranian as an Arab. They are of the early Persian Empire and feel themselves vastly superior to Arabs. They don’t even speak Arabic.

SYRIA: Again the Syrian race is far from being Arab. They never had anything to do with the Arabian Peninsula where the true Arabs came from.

SO – WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE ABOUT AN “ARAB SPRING?”

So far this revolution has affected about 10 countries. In most cases the governments have been strong enough to suppress the violence and many have made political concessions including in one case, allowing women to drive cars.

Apparently the term “Arab Spring” came from an American Political magazine called FP (or “Foreign Policy”) in which contributor Marc Lynch coins the term to describe the revolutions in which two North African leaders were toppled only to have the extremist Muslims take advantage of the situation. Perhaps if Professor Lynch had done some research he might have called it something else.” Irish Spring” comes to mind.

The world press described the Tunisian revolution as a “model for peaceful transition.” But the chaos and assassinations that followed the transition are far from what we might have hoped for.

CNN and most other American News channels were there in Egypt when the howling mobs ran Hosni Mubarak out of town. Mubarak had kept peace and order in Egypt from 1981 until February 2011. What a surprise those reporters had when the mobs turned on them and attacked several female American correspondents. And for the second stage the Muslim men went after Egyptian women and raped them in full view of all in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Since then Islamic “peace” has dictated the murder of Christian Egyptians just because they were Christians, murders at a soccer match, and total chaos in general. It is now impossible for non-Muslims to travel to Egypt and I, for one, miss that.

The “Muslim Brotherhood” murdered President Anwar El Sadat (the Egyptian Peacemaker) in 1981. Hosni Mubarak came to power to bring order for 30 years. Now alas he is locked in a cage and the Muslim Brotherhood have taken a leadership role in Egypt. All order and civility is gone and the people of Egypt are living in terror. And now the Muslim Brotherhood has turned its attention to Syria. Together with other radical Muslims they are sworn to remove Assad from power and bring organized chaos to yet another country.

Assad is one of the worst dictators in the world. But a fanatically Muslim regime in Syria armed to the teeth with strategic weapons and poison gas is not something we need in the region. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. The only good thing about Assad and his equally nasty father is that they kept the lid on the extremists. Now the west is about to topple him and unleash every kind of terror known to man.

Last week a 14-year-old boy was executed by the rebels for insulting Islam. Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee; he reportedly refused, saying, “Even if Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t.” For that the child was killed according to a Washington Post article.. And the U.S. is now helping to bring such animals to power in Syria.

With a fanatic Syrian regime to the north and a fanatic Egyptian regime to the south, what will happen to Israel and what will she have to do to defend herself? And when you bring the Iranians and possibly the Russians into the mix, what then?

Now American troops are to help bring the “Arab Spring” to Syria with the CIA reportedly helping with weapons. Should we be there?

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” Barack Obama, from his book The Audacity of Hope.