I learned that on MSNBC and CNN and they don't report fake news.
Posted on 09/15/2017 7:26:00 AM PDT by wtd
After speaking at Georgetown, Muslim Brotherhood leader seeks to lobby U.S. Congress
Amr Darrag, a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, will be speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, and he is trying to extend his speaking gig into a lobbying tour, as other Brotherhood-aligned delegations have done in the past.
U.S. officials and members of Congress would be wise to decline Darrag’s requests for meetings: The Muslim Brotherhood is an international hate group that seeks to overthrow the region’s existing governments, and Washington should have no interest in allowing the Brotherhood to score a propaganda victory by giving Darrag an audience during his visit.
The list of the Muslim Brotherhood’s hatreds is extensive. Darrag’s organization notoriously incites against Egypt’s Christian community, with Muslim Brothers frequently offering justifications for terrorist attacks on churches and other Christian targets. The Muslim Brotherhood also promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, mourned arch-terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdelrahman, and developed sharia interpretations to justify terrorist attacks on a wide array of targets.
These bigotries reflect the Brotherhood’s long-term political agenda: It seeks to achieve power in countries across the Middle East, after which it will unify those countries under its control and declare a “global Islamic state,” or neo-caliphate. In reality, this is a very far-fetched vision. The Brotherhood was unable to control Egypt for more than a year, and has little shot of dominating the region.
But this isn’t how Muslim Brothers see it – they are indoctrinated to believe that their organization will achieve regional control, which they equate with the victory of Islam. And the Brotherhood, therefore, regards anyone who isn’t on board — Christians, Jews, the West, Muslims who oppose it — as enemies who must either submit or be defeated.
To be sure, Darrag strikes a different image from many Islamist figures. Far from being a long-bearded firebrand, he is a soft-spoken engineer who earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University, and he briefly served as Minister of International Cooperation under Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, who was elected Egypt’s president in June 2012. But Darrag’s tame demeanor belies his central role in one of the Brotherhood’s most power-hungry — and ultimately costly — decisions during Morsi’s yearlong presidency.
Darrag served as secretary-general of Egypt’s Islamist-dominated Constituent Assembly, which rammed its constitution through to ratification in December 2012. The exclusivist manner in which Darrag oversaw the drafting of the constitution, and the constitution’s restrictive language pertaining to the interpretation of sharia, reinforced widespread fears that the Brotherhood would impose theocracy in Egypt and contributed to the mass mobilization against Morsi that preceded his toppling in July 2013.
After Morsi’s ouster, Darrag fled to Qatar, and later to Turkey, where he established the Egyptian Institute for Political and Strategic Studies (EIPSS). The institute presents itself as a scholarly think tank, but it often promotes violent interpretations of Islamic texts. In one EIPSS article, for example, a Salafist writer argues that jihad is “obligatory to end the sedition of the existence of polytheism and disbelief in the land,” and writes that non-Muslims can either convert to Islam or live under Islamic rule and pay a special tax known as “jizya.”
In another EIPSS article, an Islamist youth compiles excerpts from writings of cleric Muhammad al-Ghazali, in which al-Ghazali argues for “the sacred duty of the struggling Islamic nation to wage jihad to reform every regime whose foundation is not in accordance with the teachings of Islam,” and warns against the supposed threat of secularists.
In a third piece, a Muslim Brother interprets jihad as a broadly inclusive but violent struggle against tyranny — implying a struggle against the current Egyptian government. (“Revolts against murderers and thugs can only be militant,” he writes.)
U.S. officials and members of Congress should keep this extremism in mind when Darrag requests meetings with them during his visit to Washington. While Darrag has a clear interest in lobbying against an Egyptian government that is brutally repressing the Brotherhood, American officials should have no interest in giving Darrag a propaganda victory by welcoming him into their offices. And that is precisely what Darrag will be seeking.
In recent years, Brotherhood delegations have publicized meetings with administration officials that were meant to be off-the-record and exaggerated their outreach to Congress, including the posting of photos and videos of their meetings with Hill staffers.
Indeed, the Brotherhood wants to appear accepted in Washington’s corridors of power, even as it otherwise promotes a hostile political vision. Washington should respond by demonstrating its awareness of Darrag’s violent advocacy and sending him back to Istanbul with a blank schedule.
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Didn’t we elect a president who promised tougher vetting of those we allow into the U.S.? Why are Muslim Brotherhood members still being given visas?
PS: The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood affiliate CAIR Has Formed an Outpost at Saudi-funded Georgetown University.
Within one year of that announcement we read:
If this keeps up, we’ll have sharia law across the land by next Tuesday and the libs will be ecstatic.
I learned that on MSNBC and CNN and they don't report fake news.
Lobby hell! One of their operatives was the right-hand woman for a First Lady-turned-US Senator-turned-Secretary of State and another one of their operatives is a Congressman from Minnesota and a ranking member of the Democrat party.
The mB should be outlawed as a terrorist group!!!!!
And if Harvard’s new curriculum does not include Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox Christian cultures (e.g., Russian, Serbian, Romanian, Greek, and Orthodoxy in America), it is woefully deficient!!!! It might even be a Trojan horse for islam and sharia!!!!
Did he speak at Gaston Hall as Obama did?
Did Georgetown cover-up the crosses so as not to offend him?
MEET THE MUSLIM CONGRESSMAN W/ A STRANGLEHOLD ON AMERICA'S SAFETY AND SECURITY----how did Andre Carson get on several major Congressional intel committees?
Rep Andre Carson (Dem-Indiana) is a member of (A) the House Intelligence and (B) House Homeland Security Committees. Carson is also ranking member of the (C) House intelligence subcommittee on Emerging Threats, which oversees the (D) Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The subcommittee oversight extends to the (E) National Counterterrorism Center and (F) information-sharing programs. (The first elected Muslim---Cong Keith Ellison---is co-chair of the DNC.) PELOSI AND CARSON DRESSED AS MUSLIM
Rep Andre Carson, an Indiana Democrat----is the second Muslim elected to Congress-----and the first Muslim on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Carson sits on several high level security committees: (A) the House Intelligence, and, (B) House Homeland Security Committees. Carson is also (C) ranking member \of the House intelligence subcommittee on Emerging Threats, which oversees (D) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The subcommittee oversight extends to (E) the National Counterterrorism Center and information-sharing programs.
Carson employed Imran and is buddy-buddy w/ the Pakis. Eye-witnesses report Carson and Imran---a tax-paid US govt employee---passed the time away playing video games in Carson's Congressional office.
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(hat tip niccolo) To get these important committee appointments, Andre Carson has to be bringing in serious money for Democrats-----monies required by the DNC.
These high-level committee appointments are positions for sale. Every appointment has a dollar amount attached to it that Members desiring the positions are required to raise.
Taxpayers demand to know if Carson is channeling Islamicist cash directly into the DNC.
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Carson attends the unveiling of the commemorative bust
of his grandmother--she once held the seat he occupies.
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Did we put Muslims on slave ships and bring them to America against their will.
Did we make them indentured servants?
So,why do we owe them anything.
B.S.!!! What in the heck are these idiots doing in Our Country to begin with??? They are not here because they will Make America Great Again, they are here to DISTROY OUR COUNTRY!!!
Get them OUT as the same as DREAMERS and other ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!
Either our Congress sits up and takes notice, WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE LEGALLY HERE DO NOT WANT SHAIRA LAW AND OTHER ILLEGAL ALIENS, OR YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE!!!
You came from a hellhole and you WILL NOT turn AMERICA into one...LEAVE...WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE!!!
Deport ALL moslems, illegals, and dreamers.
Are there no arrests being made nowadays? !
He is a terrorist. Arrest and or kill him.
Imagine the nazi’s sending a rep to Georgetown and lobbying congress!
Georgetown’s founders would never let Muslims speak. It was a Catholic school, now it is Catholic in name only...
If we had someone that cares and that has balls in DoJ, they would have already been declared a terrorist organization.
Slavers then. Slavers now.
I also urge all Freepers to watch Amazon Prime's free The Enemies Within.
It too is a serious work by Trevor Loudon that particularly addresses, among other threats, the pro-Islamic, pro-sharia law (i.e. anti-American) actions by Congressman Andre Carson.
It is guaranteed to catch an America-loving American's attention. And, it offers three simple steps to be taken to resist the rapid growth of one of the several threats we face.
Why should we even allow these people to be in this country,let alone speak at any function is beyond me. They absolutely do not belong here.
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