Posted on 06/03/2009 1:58:44 PM PDT by markedmannerf
A sign that the Obama administration is willing to publicly challenge Egypt's commitment to parliamentary democracy: various Middle Eastern news sources report that the administration insisted that at least 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's chief opposition party, be allowed to attend his speech in Cairo on Thursday. The brotherhood is a Salafist/ Islamist party with branches in many countries, and it does not have a reputation for liberalism and has supported violent campaigns against Israel (and Egypt's own government). It has deep roots in the region and traces its intellectual lineage to Sayyid Qutb, a top American-educated Islamic intellectual who was executed -- or martyred -- by the Egyptian government in 1966. The Brotherhood has direct links with Sunni groups like Hamas in the Palestinian territories. Its standing in Egypt has suffered as of late because of a crackdown by the Egyptian government and a growing frustration that it is too conservative (anti-women's rights, the whole gamut) for a modern Middle East. Still, it's the largest Sunni opposition party in the world, and it's clear that the Obama administration wants to engage the Sunnis -- even the less moderate Sunnis -- in his "Mutual Respect" tour. Hoping to tamp down criticism that by speaking in Egypt, Obama is giving legitimacy to Hosni Mubarak's quasi-dictatorship, the administration also invited leading human rights activists to the speech.
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This must be some of the CHANGE we were promised by the beloved leader.
The White House has declared the War on Terror over.
The President is betraying his oath of office to defend this nation.
No it’s good that Osama and Zawahiri’s buds get close to Obama.
Give them front row seats. And private meetings later.
See how it goes.
Isn’t the Brotherhood the same group that assassinated Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt?
And all’s the MSM can report is how glorious it is that people all over the world can sign up to get text messaged Obama’s speech.
Yup.
I believe so. Even Egypt finds them extreme. This is surreal.
Yes, and Al Qaeda evolved from this group too. Nice bunch.
Well, isn’t that just special... IIRC isn’t the Muslim Brotherhood the “mothership” for ALL the radical Islamic Militant Jihadist Groups???
They’d better have translators for the American audience. Part of me is expecting the entire speech to be in Arabic...
obama is 100% muslim and he is destroying this country!
IIRC, Zawahiri began in the Muslim Brotherhood. Nice company Hussein keeps.
Mubarak has been cracking down on the Brotherhood to stop their homegrown terrorism. Great move, Obastard, your trip is really healing that rift.
Talk about sending the wrong signal. This gives legitimacy to Islamic extremists throughout the world. I thought 0bama was going to do something stupid to open Pandora’s box in Turkey, but may be he’ll do it in Cairo.
Is thefalsemessiah insane? He just flipped off Israel and American Jewish voters yet again...
No, that was Takfir wa al-Hijra. They had close links to AQ, and Zawahiri was a member.
I think it’s obvious where Hussein’s heart lies.
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