Posted on 03/10/2017 3:55:39 AM PST by SJackson
A familiar face from the Obama disaster in Egypt.
Reprinted from PJ Media.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’ pick for undersecretary of defense for policy, Anne Patterson, is problematic.
Politico briefly explains why:
If nominated and confirmed, Patterson would hold the fourth most powerful position at the Pentagon -- and would effectively be the top civilian in the Defense Department, since both Mattis and his deputy, Robert Work, were military officers.
As ambassador to Egypt between 2011 and 2013, Patterson worked closely with former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist government. She came under fire for cultivating too close a relationship with the regime and for discouraging protests against it -- and White House officials are voicing concerns about those decisions now.
This is putting it mildly. Back during the months leading to the June 30, 2013 revolution, Patterson -- the “Brotherhood’s Stooge” as she was called by all, from news analysts to the Egyptian street -- was arguably one of the most hated individuals by the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
Not only did her face regularly appear next to Obama’s in placards; it sometimes appeared alone, indicating just how closely she was seen as supporting the Brotherhood. It should be noted that these were not isolated sightings, as shown by the number of different placards and signs:
Below are just a few anecdotes that I have translated from Arabic language media before, during, and after the June 30, 2013 revolution that highlight Patterson’s unsavory ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the days leading to the revolution, Patterson called on Egyptians not to protest. She even met with the Coptic pope and asked him specifically to urge the nation’s Christian minority not to oppose the Brotherhood -- even though Christians were naturally going to suffer the most under Morsi, especially in the context of accusations of "blasphemy."
Soon after the revolution, she repeatedly tried to reinstate the Brotherhood to power.
Even Muhammad Heikal -- “the Arab world’s most respected political commentator,” and for over 50 years an Egyptian political insider -- said during a live interview that Patterson had assured the Muslim Brotherhood’s Hisham Qandil, who under Morsi was Egypt’s prime minister, that “there are many forms of pressure, and America holds the keys to the Gulf.”
Later, Patterson demanded that Egypt’s recently appointed supreme commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, release all Muslim Brotherhood members currently being held for questioning:
And when Sisi rejected this order, the American ambassador began threatening him that Egypt will turn into another Syria and live through a civil war.
Another report said Patterson was “trying to communicate with General Sisi, demanding dialogue with the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and concessions to them,” to which Sisi reportedly retorted:
Stop meddling in our affairs … the Egyptian people are capable of looking after their own welfare.
In a live interview on Tahrir TV, political insider and former Egyptian Member of Parliament Mustafa Bakari exposed the relationship between Patterson and Khairat al-Shater, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He said she was regularly seen going to and from the Brotherhood leader’s private residence, as opposed to meeting at the party’s headquarters. He said she told al-Shater “we [the U.S.] will stand with you [regarding the June 30 protests],” and that she treated the Brotherhood leader as the “true ruler of the nation.” Bakari concluded by saying:
[I]n fact, in my opinion, she is a member of the sleeper cells of the Brotherhood, likely recruited by Essam al-Erian or Muhammad al-Baltagi.
Because of all this, several of Egypt’s revolutionary forces, including Tamarod, which played a pivotal role in the June 30 Revolution, staged protests in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo “calling for the ejection of ambassador Anne Patterson.”
In connection, Egyptian journalist Abdullah al-Sanawi said this on live TV:
Anne Patterson’s presence in Egypt has become a great burden for America, and Patterson should be admitted into a mental hospital for her deeds are full of bloodshed and the Obama administration is in a very awkward position in front of the whole world, the [U.S.] Congress and the Pentagon.
Soon thereafter, Youm 7, a popular newspaper in Egypt (then the sixth-most visited website in the nation according to Alexa.com), conducted a survey asking its readers:
Do you support the call to kick U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson out because she interfered in Egyptian affairs?
A whopping 87.93% said yes, 10.54% said no, and 1.53% were indifferent. Youm 7’s audience is almost exclusively secular-leaning or Christian. It was the non-Islamists of Egypt that disliked the U.S. ambassador -- not the Muslim Brotherhood, which benefited from her.
In 2013, even Foreign Policy, a publication notorious for always siding with establishment D.C., noted that Patterson was widely seen among Republicans “as the key implementer for a policy that at least offers tacit support to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Such is the person that General Mattis wants to place in a top Pentagon position.
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She'll have no problem getting Democrat confirmation votes
The investigation into the “Arab Spring” should happen but won’t since its perps and promoters are so deeply embedded in our government and political support system.
Whenever I hear people shouting “George Soros” its almost like his is some sort of scapegoat-distraction like “Emmanuel Goldstein” in “1984”.
Bkmk
Wow, that’s not good.
Trump should veto this.
Egad! Rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic continue to bring about the same result.
Need three Senators to vote with the Democrats on this one and defeat the nomination. Of course, some of the Dems might cross over and vote for her since she is a Muslim Brotherhood enabler.
Hopefully this was derailed
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/03/03/white-house-blocks-mattis-from-appointing-obamas-ambassador-to-egypt-as-defense-deputy/
Mattis needs watching
Three Republican Senators.
The leftist media, fake news, and agitators were mum and all okeydokey about Mattis. What does that tell you?
Patterson will work well with National Security Adviser McMaster, who can’t bring himself to say ‘Islamic extremism’.
Yes, her appointment should be derailed.
Yes, Mattis needs watching. He was brought in to defuse Iran. I hope he does this and then can be replaced with someone whose global views are more in line with what I believe President Trump’s own views to be.
This is disturbing.
Is there something we don’t know or understand about Mattis in play here?
You would think President Trump’s cabinet secretaries would understand his position on major issues without having to see everything written out to the most minute detail.
He promised to clean out the swamp in no uncertain terms.
That would include purging the government of globalists, Obama supporters and holdovers, muslim sympathizers, militant muslims, anti-Semites, anyone tied to militant muslim groups or muslim terrorists, etc., etc.
And it most definitely would mean not bringing any of the above into the Trump administration.
Trump needs to send Bannon over here to our forum to recruit his second-string talent. There’s plenty here that understand Trump, conservatism, and loyalty. That’s not just rhetoric, it’s the simple truth. It’s so damn tiresome seeing or hearing about Obama retreads or self-serving RINOS getting on his roster. I hope he’s not acting surprised when these bad actors turn around and knife him in the back, thus forcing their firing and leaving him with a black eye on the 6 o’clock news.
Trump needs to send Bannon over here to our forum to recruit his second-string talent. There’s plenty here that understand Trump, conservatism, and loyalty. That’s not just rhetoric, it’s the simple truth. It’s so damn tiresome seeing or hearing about Obama retreads or self-serving RINOS getting on his roster. I hope he’s not acting surprised when these bad actors turn around and knife him in the back, thus forcing their firing and leaving him with a black eye on the 6 o’clock news.
Marvelous poasting by phone. >:(
Really bad move on all levels. It would be an insult to President Sisi in Egypt and all legitimate friends of the US in the Middle East.
Very bad choice.
Recycled swamp water. This is NOT good
Has the military been so overrun with Obamas meddling that there is none left. How about anyone given a star in the last 8 years being vetted? This guy was supposed to be our military hope. Now we find, he is just another leftist intent on surrendering our country to islam.
It’s always a mistake to believe politicians are messianic. They are motivated by public pressure and by self interest. So long as the public keeps the pressure on, their self interest will tend to coincide with the public’s perception of theirs.
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