Obama to Resume Formal Contacts with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has decided to resume formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, in a step that reflects the Islamist group’s growing political weight but that is almost certain to upset Israel and its U.S. backers.
“The political landscape in Egypt has changed, and is changing,” said the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency.”
The official sought to portray the shift as a subtle evolution rather than a dramatic change in Washington’s stance toward the Brotherhood, a group founded in 1928 that seeks to promote its conservative vision of Islam in society.
Under the previous policy, U.S. diplomats were allowed to deal with Brotherhood members of parliament who had won seats as independents — a diplomatic fiction that allowed them to keep lines of communication open.
Where U.S. diplomats previously dealt only with group members in their role as parliamentarians, a policy the official said had been in place since 2006, they will now deal directly with low-level Brotherhood party officials.
There is no U.S. legal prohibition against dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, which long ago renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt and which is not regarded by Washington as a foreign terrorist organization.
But other sympathetic groups, such as Hamas, which identifies the Brotherhood as its spiritual guide, have not disavowed violence against the state of Israel.
The result has been a dilemma for the Obama administration.
Former officials and analysts said it has little choice but to engage the Brotherhood directly, given its political prominence after the February 11 downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak.
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I wonder if he’ll ask them about all those Coptic Christians the Muslim Egyptians are determined to kill or convert? I wonder if he’ll ask them about the recent declarations by the Brotherhood of building a coalition of Islamic Countries to converge on Israel and push them into the sea?
Nah. Obama will only be interested in those things that are important to him. Such as, how can I help? Need any more Infidel Tax? Can I get part of it back in campaign contributions? Don’t worry I got your back……
Katherine,
My thoughts exactly. Can they contribute to his reelection campaign? That’s all that really matters to zerO.
I know the outright hostility Obama continues to show toward Israel shouldn’t surprise me. But it does. That, and continued American Jewish support for Obama. Meanwhile, Israel is added to a U.S.-generated “promoter, producer or protector of terrorists” list.
Sigh.
Obama’s regime threw Mubarek under the bus so he could go straight to the Islamic Brotherhood…
The Obama regime is a major problem for America and the world… he must go.
We doesn’t he fall down and break his neck?
So many posts today have left me “speechless’. I get the feeling – is the USA heading into a perfect storm or am I being overly imaginative ?
BTW WM you do the best foto juxtapositions on the political web.
@ reality
I don’t think it’s your imagination. I feel we are in for a big one and everyone but conservatives are ignoring the forecast.
I agree. The big one is coming.
We have a bunch of cowards in Congress that think they are supine to Obama.
Impeach the slimy Muslim and force the Senate to stand and deliver.
This was on the American Thinker.
I believe it’s dead-on and worth a read.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/_is_obama_making_his_next_career_move.html
Of course he will recognize them; they vowed to attack Israel.
And yet, American Jews, AND even Israeli Jews will continue to send him money and vote for him.
Obama=Pander-Bear-In-Chief
What is next? A muslim brotherhood office in every city in the USA?
obama cannot go away soon enough.
Another 1 1/2 years with this A-HOLE is way too long.
Time for Mossad to ELIMINATE this Demon from Hell!!
If not Mossad, then ANY AMERICAN Patriot who can get away with it! It cannot be that hard!
This typical Islamic piece of Vermin must be stamped out as a Cockroach may be stamped out (though I value the life of a Cockroach FAR above Any Democrat)!!
But no reason to be dismayed, the King of Kings is coming back to deal with each and every one of these Satan Worshippers!!
The next step will be a huge monetary package so they can buy more weapons.
I am not sure what it is going to take to make this action stop.
We have a President that IMO is supporting the enemy.
We need to vote this guy out of office, real soon.
Sickofobama –
I went over & read that article. Some faults but certainly brave to put it out there. I would be worried for my safety if I were him.
I had no idea about Obama but by Feb 08 I came to a conclusion . I felt as if I was the only one in the western world .
This time I don’t want to be right.
And I wonder are still any Jews who will vote for Obama now? AND especially since the Obama administration has now officially designated Israel as a terrorist state? So now we finally see your true colours Barack Hussein Obama.
ASM-
careful – you might want to stop just short of saying that. Its like undr the Communists plays & literature were all in code & eagerly sought out. After the wall fell noone ever read Havel or whoever he was.
We are headed for a cataclysmic event unless we have leaders like West, Bolton, Santorum and Cain to stand up and define evil–yes this is really happening before our eyes…just as Europe slept in the 1930′s..the petro revenue was the last missing ingredient to create the caliphate and yes, BUSH had it right
They are in total war with us: financially, militarily, non-stop deceit and deception, infiltration of academia, warfare through “lawfare”, propaganda and MB funding this media machine.
We need to define what Islam is—it is an intolerant totalitarian conquering mechanism disguised as a Religion.
There are too many signs that the left is in total aggreement with these tyrants of evil.
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
Malia and Sasha are being fitted for Burqa’s this weekend !
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“Former officials and analysts said it has little choice but to engage the Brotherhood directly, given its political prominence after the February 11 downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak.”
This is true, and by “engage” of course we mean “with Predator drones and Seal teams.”
Isn’t Obama a member of the Muslim Brotherhood?
@liberty
i wouldn’t count on your ‘unless’ scenario
The Muslim Brotherhood was organized in the 30s.
During world war 2 the adopted the Nazi doctrine.
Yes, there were Muslim Nazis.
That doctrine is in play today as the players are different but the victims remain the same.
They’re a genocidal pack of monsters under many disguises.
“Mein Kampf” is still today one of the bestsellers next to the Koran.
This is why well-financed Croatian and Muslim propaganda has succeeded by applying Adolph Hitler’s doctrine.
http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/1756/berman_5_15_10/
“Rather, Ramadan had the habit of openly revering figures like Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (and Ramadan’s grandfather). Al-Banna was closely associated in the forties with the Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, leader of “the most violent wing of the Arab Revolt.” As Berman would learn, the anti-Semitic and Fascist strain used by these figures, that extremist organizations like al-Qaeda are heir to, was not merely rhetorical.
In fact, the Mufti had been a star in the Nazi propaganda war during World War II. The Mufti’s appeal to the Nazis was partly a result of his adopting the Nazi idea of a demonic worldwide conspiracy of Jews, which, during the war, he broadcast on Nazi shortwave radio programs across the Arab world. But Nazi awe of the Mufti also had plenty to do with the support graced by al-Banna’s Muslim Brotherhood, as it went through its growth spurt. While other war criminals were facing trials after the war, the Mufti, who had called for eradication of the Jews, received a hero’s welcome in Eqypt. This was thanks to al-Banna.”
Be afraid.
Be very afraid
Although the Brotherhood as members of Egypts Parliament had been banned from Egyptian soil for centuries…
….an exception was made for the Brotherhood to sit upfront and center when Dickhead broadcast his worldwide apology speech to the middle east (and the world) in June 2009
The MB, AQ and the Turks
a trio of evil
“When the world rejects the truth, they will be blinded by Satan.”
Obama and The Muslim Brotherhood; perfect together. Both are enemies of this Republic and should be dealt with accordingly.
Vengeance is the Lord’s He will repay.
@ Sickofobama
Thanks for the article reference – definitely makes sense when you think about how O is acting. This would be another good reason to get rid of the UN – immediately!
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and fellow humans.
The treacherous Islamist-in-Chief stabs Israel and America in the back.
“The treacherous treasonous Islamist-in-Chief stabs Israel and America in the back.”
Fixed it for ya.
Yeah, keep saying Obama isnt a muslim…. when people defend him as a Christian it puts my teeth on edge.
@ASM -
Sadly, as much as I would giggle with glee if TOTUS were to meet his demise tomorrow, it wouldnt go well for us.
It would make repubs look even more like right wing wackos, build a ton of sympathy for Obama and the left, and would almost assure another democrat president.
Hed be made into a martyr. Not good.
What Id like to do is hunt down every registered republican who voted for the muslim in chief, and slap the piss out of them. Especially people with a “republicans for Obama” bumpersticker on their car.
Former officials and analysts said it has little choice but to engage the Brotherhood directly, given its political prominence after the February 11 downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak.
–yeah well thats why obama/devil boy was so early and aggressive getting Mubarek out, and why clapper says their ‘secular’ (never mind the name) – THIS is the obama doctrine – the rise of muslim brohood
anybody got an answer why he hasnt acted in syria or iran?? didnt think so..
obama = the western worlds biggest nightmare
fucking msm selling us down the river like other useful idiots while mb smiles and waits for their skinny boy from jakarta to do the work for them
folks this tilts the world not in a good way
bankrupt America/embolden mb – good job barry you fuck
history wont be kind to you
…. But won’t talk to Republicans over Debt Crisis.