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

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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.

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[Lawrence Bates]

Whomever you were created for, should be screaming for a refund.

 

You think you know what "He" should be doing? 

But of course you do.

[Lawrence Bates]

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[Lawrence Bates]

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Have you been imbibing in those pain pills that you loaned Wu, again?

[Lawrence Bates]

I'll just make the assumtion your doing that in a falsetto.

[Lawrence Bates]

I discussed that with a few people passing my table at Dorchester.   My feeling and the consensus of the few I was able to talk about it with, was that we'd prefer Cornilles again but would certainly support Starr if it goes that way.

 

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[Lawrence Bates]

So testy.   In reality, I enjoyed some top down time on the way home.

[Lawrence Bates]

Ya, ya  we all know you and Ron Schiller use the same technique.   You're not influencing anyone.  Save your breath, your brain cells need the oxygen.