Posted on 01/30/2011 8:19:20 AM PST by Qbert
The radical Muslim Brotherhood announced moments ago that they will support Mohamed ElBaradei to negotiate with the government.
Egyptian opposition forces have agreed to support opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei to negotiate with the government, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood said on Sunday.
“Political groups support ElBaradei to negotiate with the regime,” Essam el-Eryan told Al Jazeera television.
Al Arabiya television carried the same report on screen but did not attribute it directly to Eryan.
ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came back to Egypt on Thursday night, just in time for the “Day of Anger” protests which have left President Hosni Mubarak clinging to power with the army in the streets. ARAB TV CHANNELS QUOTES EGYPT’S BROTHERHOOD FIGURE ESSAM EL-ERYAN SUPPORTING ELBARADEI TO “NEGOTIATE WITH REGIME”
El-Baradei has a long history with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Daily Beast reported:
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. Skeptics fear ElBaradei will be swept along by more radical forces.
More… El-Baradei says in CNN interview Mubarak must leave “today” to make way for unity government. (Twitter)
Copt? Thats a huge lie.
Baradei is the father of Nuclear Iran. The gift of the bomb technology elevated his status.
I think seeing its western technology, the west should take this moment to go and repossess it.
The difference is that the media learned its lesson with Carter. They will point out “Democracy” in Egypt and hide most of the Islamic garbage.
Bush really shot us in the head with the Iraq democracy / nation building garbage. Now if Republicans want to attack Obama/Clinton over Egypt, they will point to Bush and Iraq.
Sounds like the hopey-changey playbook to me.
“Is it 3am yet?”
Nah. (/sarc) Obama spent the night partying again!:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2665709/posts
El Baradei is a muslim who has been working against US interests for decades. That is why the left loves him. Remember all of his foot dragging with Iraq and the IAEA inspections? He did the same thing with Iran and North Korea until they got the bomb. The man is an agent of the MB,Islamist terrorists and the communists.
Buying credibility until a car bomb “planted by the Israeli’s” takes his life.
“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.
- Sounds like the hopey-changey playbook to me.”
—Textbook definition of a Community Organizer.
He’s the guy that never found any Iranian nuclear weapons program—only energy production. he never found anything in Iraq either. Year after year. Decade after decade.
lol
was just getting ready to post this on the Breaking thread, but someone already had...so I just said:
Was just getting ready to post that, but with addition to headline:
Stunner [To WHO???]. Muslim Brotherhood Announces They Will Support El-Baradei
After the MB consolidate their power, ElBaradei will be first up against the wall.
I agree with you. But I don’t think that the Egyptians know yet that they’ve been setup.
Then we will point to the fact that Obama did nothing when a true democracy movement sprang up in Iran...yet he is backing an Islamist takeover of Egypt. This has nothing to do with Iraq and a long term plan to ‘democratize’ the Middle East. It has everything to do with a communist/muslim facist agenda driven by the left in this country. No one in their right mind would pick this timing(a world wide depression) to facilitate revolt in the Middle East next to the Suez Canal unless they are enemies of the United States and the western capitalist world.
How much more proof do we need that Obama is not on the side of United States interests? What is going to happen to oil prices when it becomes apparent that Iran controls the Hormuz Straight and the Muslim brotherhood controls the Suez canal?
That’s right......$200.00 dollar a barrel gasoline and the end of any economic recovery in the US!
You are confusing him with the other notable Egyptian U.N. figure of recent years, former Sec. Gen. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was indeed a Copt.
Anyway he still gives this sense of “respectability” that the LSM laps up. Good PR move by the MB, the LSM, soccer moms & others who pride themselves in being “able to see both sides” will be impressed.
This group, which forms the largest and best-organized opposition movement to the Mubarak regime, is the progenitor of Hamas and al-Qaida. It seeks Egypt’s transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the forefront of the global jihad. In recent years, the Muslim Brotherhood has been increasingly drawn into the Iranian nexus along with Hamas. Muslim Brotherhood attorneys represented Hizbullah terrorists arrested in Egypt in 2009 for plotting to conduct spectacular attacks aimed at destroying the regime.
Elbaradei has been a strong champion of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just this week he gave an interview to Der Spiegel defending the jihadist movement. As he put it, “We should stop demonizing the Muslim Brotherhood. ...[T]hey have not committed any acts of violence in five decades. They too want change. If we want democracy and freedom, we have to include them instead of marginalizing them.”
The Muslim Brotherhood for its part has backed Elbaradei’s political aspirations. On Thursday, it announced it would demonstrate at ElBaradei’s side the next day.”
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=205559
The country is massively overpopulated and poverty-stricken. Some people live on roofs. There's little clean water and land is pitifully scarce for agriculture.
Tourism is about the most important sector in the Egyptian economy. It employs around 12% of the work force and accounts for nearly $12 billion income per year.
In the event of continuing political upheaval, looting and burning of infrastucture and antiquities repositories, a new revolutionary government which is fascist, sharia, medieval, you-name-it, will find that the travel plans of tourists worldwide will NOT include its country, nor, indeed, any of the mideast tinder boxes.
In the historical and cultural sense, this revolution is really a tragedy for the world....and represents a pox on all houses.
In the political-reality sense of today, the pumped-up rioters in the Egyptian cities will undoubtedly find out later they got exactly what they burned for.
Leni
Agree 100%. They are using El Baradei to gain international support for Mubarak’s ouster and then El Baradei will either insult “our beloved prophet” and jailed or meet a brutal death.
MEB is, and has always been, a Muslim. He is also an apologist for Islam. Read, for example, his Nobel lecture.
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