The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to America

CNN ^ | April 3, 2012 | Lauren Bohn

[lbryce]

Sondos Asem has butterflies, formulating answers to questions she expects to be asked and practicing her diction with the devotion of a high school debate champion. The gentle 24-year-old graduate student at the American University in Cairo is in a hotel room in downtown New York, figuring out what to wear on national television. ("This blazer would look good, right?" "Should I wear more color?")

Like many young Egyptians, she's been tweeting the fallout after the 2011 uprising that brought down former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The stakes are higher than 140-character dispatches might suggest. Asem has emerged as an unlikely unofficial spokeswoman for the Muslim Brotherhood, helping to run its English-language Twitter feed, @Ikhwanweb, and in turn revamp the group's image in the West.

In no more than three lines, often using abbreviations and hyperlinks, she hashes out the views of the Brotherhood, the 83-year-old fountainhead of political Islam in the region and one of the most powerful organizations in Egypt. The Brotherhood's newly established political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, has won just under half of the seats in the country's new parliament -- more than any other group -- and will have a major hand in rewriting the country's constitution.

This week, Asem and five members of the Brotherhood are in New York as part of the group's first delegation in the United States, the face the Brotherhood thinks perhaps would be well received in the West. Asem is part of a worldly, urban generation. She shops at Egypt's flashy mega-malls. She brushes her eyelids with a modest dash of sparkly eye shadow and wears designer head-scarves. She has an affinity for cosmopolitan cities and uses American teen parlance like "You rock" and "Yeaaah, girl."

[lbryce]

They may be coming to America just for awhile. That's because after which it certainly won't be an America any would know, or recognize, call it America,

Huge images of Obammy at the airports welcoming the very terrorists he nurtured, supported. Women wearing those deep sea diving outfits, whatever they're called. Honor killings part of the regular community rituals,child-brides bought and sold,Bible burnings, beheadings. amputations. Is this what we went to Iraq for? to preserve shyt like this? The Constitution, rule of law, all Jewish, Christian, non-Muslim society all will go down the Sharia Highway to hell. No sir. After awhile they won't be coming to America. Just some 7th century Koranic outpost of ignorance,illiteracy, pedophilia, the rest of the world of Islam.

[brownsfan]

“After awhile they won’t be coming to America. Just some 7th century Koranic outpost of ignorance,illiteracy, pedophilia, the rest of the world of Islam.”

But some of the people here tell me it will be the same under Romney.

[LomanBill]

the Brotherhood thinks perhaps would be well received in the West

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN" - (Especially the Theocratic-Islamofascist kind).

 

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html