Posted on 01/28/2011 4:03:46 PM PST by mojito
...Egypt is shaking, Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-old regime faces its most serious threat ever. The prospect of change in Egypt inevitably raises questions about the oldest and strongest opposition movement in the country, the Muslim Brotherhood , also known as Ikhwan. Can America work with an Egypt where the Ikhwan is part of a transition or even a new government?
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The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.
Egypt’s new opposition leader, former International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei, has formed a loose alliance with the Brotherhood because he knows it is the only opposition group that can mobilize masses of Egyptians, especially the poor. He says he can work with it to change Egypt. Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today.
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Sharia is as sharia does.
The stupid must be contagious today. I just heard some broad on FNC say, “Egypt has been a beacon of Democracy, the last 30-years”.
The good news is that the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda do not like each other. In fact, Al Qaeda has actually tried to kill MB members and leaders.
And Carter thought that allowing Kohmeni to take over Iran was a good idea...
What is with these tools?!?!
Mark
Mobilizing masses of illiterate poor Egyptians does not sound like a really good idea. Unless you are a Democrat.
“The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago”
And there you have it! They said so
I heard that dumb broad, too! If this wasn’t so serious, it would be hilarious.
“Egypt has been a beacon of Democracy, the last 30-years”.
By muslim standards, it has been.
I guess it's all about power, then! :o)
But still likely embrace taqiyyah, so what difference does it make what they say...?
Isn't that what they call, damning with faint praise?
BTTT
Are you blind or just crossing your fingers?
“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
Actually, the Muslim Brotherhood recently issued an edict (December?) saying that violence against the Egyptian government and interestingly, the Palestinian Authority was now justified.
I’ll see if I can find a link to the story.
ML/NJ
Wouldn’t surprise me. Gaza is lousy with MB influence and they were not pleased with the recent leaks concerning PA concessions to Israel.
Liberals all singing kumbaya, and welcoming the vipers into the camp.
That's typical western thinking which does not apply in eastern civilization, especially in the Arab world
These goat humping rag heads don't think that way.
The second Mubarak falls these two groups will align with each other purging the current government of secular government workers (by death) and impose Shari law.
Then they will turn on eachother
The bad news is, they both have a religious obligation to the same false god to destroy western civilization.
The only disagreement between them has been how. Now that the Brotherhood has effectively conquered Egypt, al Qaeda won't be nitpicking about their tactics or calling them "tools of Mubarak" anymore.
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