Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron does an effective job  describing the danger of “extremism“, not just “violent extremism“, all extremism.  (Cameron Speech Here)
However, anyone interested in actually following, researching and analyzing international action, against radical Islamist extremism, must also note that Egypt’s President Fatah El-Sisi is about two years ahead in confronting the extremist ideology.

Almost everything both Obama and Cameron have stated in the past month can be viewed curiously against their unwillingness to hold such public views while El-Sisi was pushing back against extremism, and doing something about it.
Readers and visitors to the Treehouse community know full well we have watched Egypt intently.  We continue to share that no international leader has done more to confront ALL the tentacles of radicalism than El-Sisi.
Yet he has also been the recipient of marginalization – at best, and admonishment – at worst, as he has carries out a challenging mission to provide secular stability not only to Egypt, but also to the entire region.
When David Cameron says “all extremism” must be confronted, he need to look no further than Egypt to see it confronted not only on the streets but also in politics, in the media, and within the places of worship where hatred is the tenet that fuels the congregation.
Both Cameron and Obama correctly identify and define extremism yet fail to acknowledge the root.   Extremism stems from a culture of hatred, that culture exists because the West will not confront it.   El-Sisi confronts the culture of hatred head-on.
El-Sisi is by no means perfect, nor is Egypt as a whole; however, the intellectual and cultural center of the Middle-East is once again rising like a Phoenix thanks -in no small part- to the grit and policy of one principled man. A man thoroughly committed to the stability of his nation, and to the broader, predominantly Muslim, nations surrounding it.


Sisi has defended Coptic Christians from persecution, supported Israel’s right to exist, pushed back strongly against Hamas and their terror networks, deconstructed The Muslim Brotherhood, fought against Qatari financial influence in support of terror, and is the tip-of-the-spear in confronting the latest regional threat, “Libyan Dawn”.
Yeah, as Cameron would define – El-Sisi’s confronted “extremism” in all it’s inherent forms.
So it is against that backdrop where we ask you to REALLY consider the commitment of Obama and Cameron against their isolationist finger-pointing toward the only international leader who has actually put action behind his words.
Really think about this one.
Think about what it says about the credibility that would be assigned to words of President Obama or Prime Minister Cameron, “words”.
“Words”?
Both Cameron and Obama stand in the sunlight visibly praising Turkey’s Sunni President Recep Erdogan, who has done what to stem, curtail, impede or confront violent Sunni extremism?
What has NATO member Turkey done which would confront extremism?  What has Erdogan actually done to portend him such friendship?
It does not fly unnoticed -at least to us- that Erdogan has factually acted to aid Sunni extremism and while doing so has benefitted from Western engagement.
Meanwhile, El-Sisi has factually acted to curtail Sunni violent extremism, without such benefit from allies in the fight against extremism.
Again, Obama and Cameron speak.  Mere words.

…”The louder he spoke of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons”

Do you think President Obama will invite El-Sisi to the White House following Sisi’s U.N Speech?  Do you think there will be a state dinner to celebrate the only Mid-East leader actually committed to the principles of freedom?
Do you think President Obama or David Cameron will openly begin praising the fact that El-Sisi, not them, has actually confronted and eliminated “extremism”?
…. and if not, what does that say about Obama’s actual commitment to fight ISIS?

On Wednesday in New York City, all 15 members of the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution that requires all 193 UN countries to prosecute anyone who travels abroad to help ISIS. The same rule will apply to people who finance global terror networks.
Countries will also be expected to close their borders to their own citizens if they return home after fighting alongside the ISIS menace.
President Barack Obama, who chaired the council meeting, said it would be ‘legally binding.’ But in reality the UN has no means of enforcing its resolutions, and relies largely on peer pressure and threats of country-to-country sanctions to keep nations in line.