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Title: Don't Misread Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
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U.S.News & World Report
URL Source: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs ... read-egypts-muslim-brotherhood
Published: Jun 23, 2011
Author: Stephen Glain
Post Date: 2011-07-10 10:52:56 by lucysmom
Keywords: Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood
Views: 4676
Comments: 13
CAIRO--“There is no monolithism,” Chinese statesman Zhou Enlai once said to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger after their historic visit to Beijing in 1972. He was referring to the uniquely American habit of reducing distinct, if not conflicting parties—in this case the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China—into a seamless confederation hostile to U.S. interests. snip till, Washington blunders on. For the last decade, the White House in general and Congress in particular have insisted on treating the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist movement based in Cairo, as both insoluble and adversarial. (Though it is not on the State Department’s list of terrorists organizations, U.S. officials are discouraged, if not banned outright, from meeting with its members.) It has been characterized as al Qaeda’s intellectual fountainhead, having counted as members Ayman Al-Zawahiri, successor to the recently deleted bin Laden, and Sayyid Qutb, a radical author and theorist whose attacks on secularism inspired both men. Widely overlooked, however, is that Al-Zawahiri and Qutb ultimately rebuked the Muslim Brotherhood as a lapdog to secular despots.
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Of course this can't be true.
You're right. It's not. The Egypt/Israel Pipeline got bombed Wed for the third time. The bedouins are intent on keeping it closed. And the MB had to be dragged, kicking and screaming into the Arab Spring. MOSSAD/AlCiada had to kill off OBL because he was such a Non Starter ANYWHERE in in the Arab Spring. Not a word. Not a Poster. 8D Israel is hated around the World.
The US alliance with Pakistan is now in full collapse as I predicted when the US illegally assassinated bin Laden. The brief celebrations over that dubious death have now died down and no questions are being answered, either. A sullen silence has now fallen over the whole business as the diplomatic and military downside rises higher and higher into prominence. The US now has to ship EVERYTHING over torturous routes to reach Afghanistan and much of this has to pass through Turkey and amazingly and funny as hell, Russia.
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Why aren't we shipping anything thru Israel? LMFAO
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIn fact, in the dozen or so interviews I’ve had with leading Egyptian Islamists in the last week, the matter of Israel barely registered. Even Mohammed Farahat, a Salafi sheik with a considerable Internet following, said he would honor Cairo’s peace treaty with the Jewish state in the event of a two-state solution to the dispute over Palestine.
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Of course this can't be true.
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