U.S. Embassy calls out Muslim Brotherhood for conflicting tweets

Yahoo News ^ | 13 Sep 2012 | Ron Recinto

[mandaladon]

The U.S. called out the Muslim Brotherhood for apparently tweeting a different set of messages—a kind one in English, and one in Arabic with a different tone—as demonstrators and security forces were battling outside the embassy in Cairo.

The Muslim Brotherhood's English-language Twitter account (@Ikhwanweb) retweeted a message from deputy head Khairat el-Shater saying he was "relieved none of @USEmbassyCairo staff was harmed" and hoped U.S.-Egypt relations "will sustain [the] turbulence of Tuesday's events."

However, according to ahramonline.com, the Brotherhood's Arabic-language Twitter account and its website were praising the protests staged against a U.S.-made film that some Muslims deem insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. The Brotherhood's messages also called for a million-man march on Friday.

That prompted an interesting response from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo: "Thanks. By the way, have you checked out your own Arabic feeds? I hope you know we read those too."

Later the Brotherhood responded, "we understand you're under a lot of stress, but it will be more helpful if you point out exactly the Arabic feed of concern." The exchange in cyberspace underscores the relationship between Egypt and the U.S.

President Barack Obama said in an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo, "I don't think that we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy."

Egypt is a "new government that is trying to find its way," Obama said. The president warned, however, that if the Egyptian government takes actions showing they're not taking responsibility, then it would "be a real big problem."

[a fool in paradise]

Prosecute Obama and Clinton for the war crime torture, abuse, and murder of a POW named Momar Gaddafi. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton chortled “WE got him!”.

[Uncle Miltie]

Conflicting Tweets?

The Muslim Brotherhood wants to kill each one of us totally D-E-A-D DEAD!

And the U.S. Embassy is worried about the tone of friggin’ TWEETS!?

[dalebert]

very true..

[Rebelbase]

Rouge Tweeting will be the catalyst that starts WWIII.

(stunned the US Government communicates with potential enemies in that fashion)

[Uncle Miltie]

Hey Cairo Embassy! Can you shift your lazy arses over to this one:

"A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo on Friday at the Sunni world’s most prestigious center of learning turned into a call for genocide, with protesters pledging to “one day kill all Jews.”"

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=247078

Worried about the friggin' tone of Twitters. Idiots. THEY WANT TO KILL US ALL!!!

[Uncle Miltie]

John, you got me again!

For a minute, I thought this was for realz!

[lonevoice]

[mykroar]

So apparently we should arm the Marines with smart phones?

[TigersEye]

President Barack Obama said in an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo, “I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy. They’re, uh, uh, just present.”

[Dan Zachary]

And now to register my contempt, I’d like to do this interpretive dance

I got this one for you...

[yorkiemom]

It is scary that US Foreign Policy is being run by 13 year old girls over social media.

I wonder about the intellectual and emotional state of most people who expose their lives on these 'social media' sites.

To find the government actually gives it any credibility - absurd!

My thinking that I awoke in the Twilight Zone some time back keeps being reinforced.

[yorkiemom]

And now to register my contempt, I’d like to do this interpretive dance.

Not the fish slapping dance?