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"Brotherhood" Invited To Obama Speech By U.S.
The Alantic ^ | 06/03/09 | Marc Ambinder

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; democrats; egypt; hamas; hategroup; husseinobama; impeachobama; iran; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; jihadists; mb; muslim; muslimbrotherhood; obama; proterrorist; qutb; waronterror
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To: Califreak
Gaddafi: Obama is a Muslim

Gaddafi isn't even a muslim- he just plays one, very badly. He and Obama are purely political beasts of the left. As such they are chameleons and assume whatever characteristics are neccessary to maintain a power base. They concern themselves not with the afterlife but with the here and now. The only thing they come close to worshipping is Power.

141 posted on 06/04/2009 5:29:19 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the man who organized 9/11, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at age 16. Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian who headed the Hamburg Cell, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian who leads Bin Laden around by the nose, is Muslim Brotherhood. 9/11 was a Muslim Brotherhood plot through and through.

“The men behind the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, Ramzi Yousef and the Blind Sheikh, are Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian who wrote the Islamic extremist’s terrorist manual, Ali Mohammed, is a member also. Mohammed was behind the bombings of the United States’ embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Practically every terrorist incident in the last thirty years has been an act by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. That includes the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the Luxor Massacre which killed 58 tourists, the attack on the USS Cole, and the Millenium Plot.”

http://rakemucker.com/war%20on%20terror/muslim%20brotherhood%20and%20al-qaeda.htm

SCARY


142 posted on 06/04/2009 7:07:54 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (We are so screwed...)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Was Muslim Brotherhood invited?

Journalists asked White House official Denis McDonough about media reports that members of the banned Egyptian opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood were invited. The official did not say either way, but noted that the White House wanted to make sure the president had an opportunity to speak to the “full range of political representation in Egypt” and the Muslim world.


143 posted on 06/04/2009 7:25:21 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (We are so screwed...)
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To: nothinglefttolose

Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood Web site, confirmed to FOXNews.com that 10 members of the Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend the speech.

The list includes Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, head of the parliamentary bloc.


144 posted on 06/04/2009 7:26:08 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (We are so screwed...)
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To: bustinchops

It’ll be Democrat Rule in name only. It’ll be outright Socialist. National Socialist. Green Socialist. Workers World Socialist. Workers Party Socialist. Communist Socialist. That matters not. But it’ll be strictly antiConstitutional rule.

America is the last best hope for the world. So goes America, so goes civilization around the globe.


145 posted on 06/04/2009 7:31:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (June 4, 2009 - the day Barack Obama threw all of America under the bus.)
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To: 353FMG

I don’t recall the members of Congress standing up also declaring an end to the war on terror. Barry O did that this week.


146 posted on 06/04/2009 7:32:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (June 4, 2009 - the day Barack Obama threw all of America under the bus.)
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To: doug from upland

That’s just a continuation of Bill Ayers’ war on hold outs for our Constitution.


147 posted on 06/04/2009 7:33:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (June 4, 2009 - the day Barack Obama threw all of America under the bus.)
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To: a fool in paradise

What percent of the people could rebel successfully? 15%? 20%? Less? More?

I don’t know what the number is, but I know that we can either sit here and watch it happen or we can organize and fight back, no matter what it takes.


148 posted on 06/04/2009 7:51:10 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: piasa

OK thanks. Wasn’t sure.


149 posted on 06/04/2009 11:07:04 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat (I'm learning Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, and Russian so someday you won't have to)
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To: markedmannerf

has this been reported a lot by our state run media?

nah I bet not, they’ll brush over it and not inform their viewers, sorry brainless sheep about who this group is and who invited them.

course I expect our state run media not to ask why did they invite or even want to talk to these fanatics


150 posted on 06/04/2009 11:52:27 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

>Someone who was Muslim and then converted to Christianity.<

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He never converted to Christianity and the Arabs know that he is just an opportunist. Do you recall Obama’s interview with Stephanopoulos, before the election, where Obama called himself a Muslim and where Steffie corrected him that he was a Christian.

Ever heard of a Christian who made the mistake of calling himself a Muslim? Hussein is a muslim but the American people still don’t understand, or don’t want to understand, that he is not a Christian but still a muslim.


151 posted on 06/04/2009 12:31:20 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Califreak

“I wonder how many of those DC dirtbags will convert to Islam...”

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I wouldn’t put it past them that many already have their prayer rug hidden in their office, just in case Obama pays them a visit.


152 posted on 06/04/2009 12:46:59 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Ben Mugged

We need “regime change”..


153 posted on 06/04/2009 1:07:47 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

He IS a Muslim ass, and the buttboy of the Fraudis..


154 posted on 06/04/2009 1:09:12 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SueRae

“Some people say why; I say “Why not?”


155 posted on 06/04/2009 1:10:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: piasa

Your correction noted. I should have known better, since I have read about this Egyptian way back when. I forget now who Obama was sitting with at the luncheon I believe took place at either Harvard or Columbia U.. In retrospect I believe the lunch was over speeches regarding Qutb’s works etc..


156 posted on 06/04/2009 4:09:47 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Obama should have taken up an acting career. Made more money doing what he does best.)
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To: 353FMG

I can picture Pelosi doing that.


157 posted on 06/04/2009 8:08:21 PM PDT by Califreak (Stammer Lee, TOTUS and Beltway Bob have turned 1600 into a circus)
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To: piytar; cdchik123

Ping to here and the replies.

Thanks.

The stage is being set, dressed, and the opening act is about to begin. Not quite the role we ever imagined for America during the end of days.

And I shall pray we:

...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
- Isaiah 40:31


158 posted on 06/06/2009 5:50:29 AM PDT by EBH (I am not your comrade, nor sheeple, nor surf or slave; but a Freeman.)
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To: markedmannerf

“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”

And why not???

You can be certain the insistence had nothing to do with BHOs feigned love for Democracy. If that were not a feigned love, BHO would have insisted that the main individual opponosing candidate to Egpt’s leader, who was imprisoned on trump up charges, be invited to the speech. That did not happen.

And, regardless of Egypts efforts against the MB for some decades now, if one were able to obtain the full facts of the secret history of BHO, particularly his $ backers for his college education, I am convinced that within the cirlce of those who arranged that financing in the U.S., the MB is likely to have been present. A “controlling” interest? Doubtful, but a sympathetic interest no doubt, and one that remains present in the background today. The MB presence at the leading university in Egypt is equal to, in its weight, the presence of Marxists in acdemia in American. Notice also that wherever BHO goes, academic venues are is dominant choice for his speeches.


159 posted on 06/06/2009 12:23:38 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: markedmannerf
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Andrew G. Bostom's Site

He mentions the Muslim Brotherhood early on.

Make sure your read the entire Preface and Forward. The book is absolutely critical in understanding the true aims of Islam, its historicl precedent, and what a danger regimes like the one in Iran, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere represent to us all, our way of life, our liberty, and our very life.

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160 posted on 06/06/2009 12:25:20 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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