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The Muslim Brotherhood's parliament bloc Web site said the meetings were not part of an effort to engage the United States.
First I heard of it too. That one went under the radar.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC, February 2007. Democratic lawmakers will push for a deadline for withdrawing US troops from Iraq in a vote that links funds for the war to a pullout by mid-2008.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)
Muslim Brothers
Muslim Brotherhood
al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin
Jama’at al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun
Hizb Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoon
al-Ikhwan (”The Brothers”)
“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna, a 22-year-old elementary school teacher, as an Islamic revivalist movement following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent ban of the caliphate system of government that had united the Muslims for hundreds of years. Al-Banna based his ideas that Islam was not only a religious observance, but a comprehensive way of life, on the tenets of Wahhabism, better known today as “Islamism”, and he supplemented the traditional Islamic education for the Society’s male students with jihadia training........snipped
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/mb.htm
The democrats were there asking for DNC donations. Any enemy of America is a friend of theirs.