EDITORIAL: Peddling Islamic extremism Obama team carries water for the Muslim Brotherhood

[alienken]

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

5:17 p.m., Friday, February 11, 2011

 

When America’s top intelligence officer calls the Muslim Brotherhood a “largely secular” organization, it’s appropriate to wonder what the intelligence community is doing with its generous budget. The spooks might get a clue from the organization’s name, if nothing else. 

The White House is engaged in a full-court press to sell the idea that there is nothing to worry about if Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood takes power. On Thursday, Director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper said in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee that the Muslim Brotherhood “is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” He added that they “have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera.” Nothing to worry about according to the intelligence chief, just a public spirited band of community organizers.

Propaganda aside, the Muslim Brotherhood is anything but secular. Founded in 1928 by Islamist radical Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood has worked to realize their dream of establishing hard-line shariah law in Egypt and export their extremist views globally. The brotherhood’s most influential thinker was Sayyid Qutb, the godfather of contemporary jihadism and a preeminent theorist of Islamic revolution. The brotherhood has been an illegal political party for decades and has had to steer clear of openly advocating violence. This is typical of underground parties that seek to coexist with strong-armed regimes. Those radicals who have preached and openly practiced violence, such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, have been ruthlessly suppressed. Either way, whether extremist Islam is imposed by force or realized by the ballot, it’s a threat to U.S. interests and the cause of human rights.

(here is the link for the rest of the story)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/11/peddling-islamic-ex...

[alienken]

Yes they do this pretty often. They say something outrageous thinking we're too stupid to know any better, then when called on it, they issue a "clarification". This wasn't a misunderstanding of what he was trying to say. He actually said that the Muslim Brotherhood was a secular organization. No this aint clarification, this is back peddling.

[Lawrence Bates]

You are 6 miles off course.  why would we want to keep up with you?

[Lawrence Bates]

I don't give a rip who you're talking to, you're shilling for the islamists again.  The header is true and if by the "conclusions" you mean the obvious fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is not about freedom and democracy, then you have nothing to say but islamist propoganda.

[Lawrence Bates]

The Muslim Brotherhood is built on the ideology of political Islam which adheres to a belief in Islamic Supremacy. To be a secular organization the Brotherhood would have to completely disavow the very beliefs that define the organization.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser   (American Islamic Forum For Democracy)

http://papundits.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/american-muslim-organizat...

 

http://www.aifdemocracy.org/

 

[Lawrence Bates]

When will you stop posturing and lying and refer to what I posted, not what your xenophobic brain conjures up.

 

You posted:

I am referring to the header and conclusions. Try to keep up.

 

The only header and conclusion in this thread, is in alienken's original post.  Why would your fevered brain think I was responding to anything other than your post which I have underlined imediately above?

[Lawrence Bates]

Yawn

[Lawrence Bates]

I don't have a fixed nap schedule, pac.  I mostly just nod off when you're droning on.   But don't worry about me, I've been more rested than ever before, since I've known you.

[Lawrence Bates]

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[Lawrence Bates]

Oh, ouch, that hurts so bad.    Lol...

[Lawrence Bates]

Har, har, har........ gasp, you'll never get it will you?

[Lawrence Bates]

Well, there's your problem, pac, I was created.

[Lawrence Bates]

He doesn't seem to be, Pac, could you be mistaken in some of your assumptions?