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June 20, 2007
Bush Weighs Reaching Out To Moslem Brotherhood
The muslim brotherhood motto:
“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.
Bush Weighs Reaching Out To ‘Brothers'
New York Sun
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Still in its early stages and below the radar, the current American deliberations and diplomacy with the organization, known in Arabic as Ikhwan, take on new significance in light of Hamas's successful coup in Gaza last week. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is widely reported to have helped create Hamas in 1982.
Today the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research will host a meeting with other representatives of the intelligence community to discuss opening more formal channels to the brothers. Earlier this year, the National Intelligence Council received a paper it had commissioned on the history of the Muslim Brotherhood by a scholar at the Nixon Center, Robert Leiken, who is invited to the State Department meeting today to present the case for engagement.
On April 7, congressional leaders such as Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, attended a reception where some representatives of the brothers were present. The reception was hosted at the residence in Cairo of the American ambassador to Egypt, Francis Ricciardone, a decision that indicates a change in policy.
Should Mr. Bush ask his diplomats to forge new channels to the Muslim Brotherhood it would also be a recognition of the gains their parties have made in elections in the last three years.
Nonetheless, administration officials this week also stressed that no decisions have been made as to a new initiative. One leading European Islamist, Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is being denied a visa to assume a professorship he has been offered at Notre Dame University. The policy debate inside the administration is also contentious, with law enforcement agencies such as the FBI skeptical that the Muslim Brotherhood is not clandestinely more involved in supporting violent jihad than the organization's emissaries let on.
Arguing against a new policy on the brothers today will be a Hudson Institute expert on Islam, Hillel Fradkin. Mr. Fradkin declined to comment on his presentation ahead of the meeting. A colleague of his at the institute who has also taken a skeptical view of the brothers, Zeyno Baran, did say she was worried about a new direction by the Bush administration.
"The thinking is that to deal with terrorism, we need to deal with Muslims who will take care of their communities so there will not be people here and there doing terrorism," she said.
"So we treat the brotherhood like an umbrella organization, like the Council on American Islamic Relations or the Islamic Society of North America. You make them partners. They might Islamize the Muslims, but it's okay because they can think or do what they want as long as they are not violent. That is the misunderstanding and mistake."
Wild Thing's comment...........
So, he’s reaching out to Ted Kennedy, illegal aliens, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Wonder when he will “reach out” to his base?
The Al Qaeda is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. You cannot reach out to these people, for one thing if you do reach out to them you will only appear to be weak. That might be one true thing we can agree on with the Muslim Brotherhood, I can agree with that. Reaching out to them IS weak and simply aid's them in their agenda.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been active in the US since the 1960s. Its goals have included propagating Islam and creating havens for Muslims in the US, and integrating Muslims The Muslim Brotherhood is reportedly behind all the sharia nonsense in Minnesota lately with the cab drivers etc.
The architect of the Sept. 11 strikes, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, told U.S. interrogators that he was drawn to violent jihad after joining the Brotherhood in Kuwait at age 16 and attending its desert youth camps.
Muslim activists who know current and former Brotherhood sympathizers in this country say bitter opposition to Israel is a key part of Brotherhood beliefs. Law enforcement sources say hundreds of current and former members and supporters nationwide are under federal investigation for alleged financial support of Hamas and other Palestinian groups deemed terrorists by the U.S. government.
According to a transcript provided by the Investigative Project, a Washington terrorism research group. "Conquest through dawah, that is what we hope for," said Qaradawi, an influential Qatari imam who pens some of the religious edicts justifying Hamas suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. "We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not through the sword but through dawah," said the imam.
He named the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and has opened a headquarters complex built on former farmland in suburban Indianapolis. With 150 chapters, the MSA is one of the nation's largest college groups.
Of course this is just a tiny part of the information on the Muslim Brotherhood. But to reach out to them knowing what we all know about them, how they are already in our country, their ultimate agenda to take over this country and the world............. I just don't understand why we can't have a clean line drawn against our enemy and the enemy of the world.
Posted by Wild Thing at June 20, 2007 11:45 AM
Comments
The Bush Administration appears to be a rudderless ship. It is doing more damage to America by conceding our sovereignty to whatever anti-Western, anti-American, group wants it.
I thought "anyone that was not with us was against us". That seems to have changed to a Carteresque love fest. I do not understand this globalist, socialist New world Order program. It seems only to be anti-American.
Has Bush gone over the edge and "lost it" mentally? Will he next ask Cindy Sheehan to be a part of his administration? What is going on? I already have plenty of ammo, or I would feel the need to get more now. Can we survive until '08 or will the Bush Administration sell out America, and Israel, totally before then.
This feels more like the Age of Orwell now, then it did under Clinton.
Posted by: TomR at June 20, 2007 02:04 PM
We, his base, are no longer necessary. With all the money he will ever need, Secret Service protection for the rest of his life, and the notoriety of being a former President of the United States, he'll never need us again. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is in for a rude awakening.
I just got a letter today from the RNC asking for money to support President Bush's agenda. Yea, right, that's like providing the knife to slit my own throat.
Posted by: BobF at June 20, 2007 03:05 PM
That is for sure Bob, a very rude awakening. I will not vote for anyone who supports that stupid Amnesty bill.
Is Bush nuts or what now he is cowtowing to the enemy ? Is this the compassionate side coming out or the really inate stupid side ?
Posted by: Mark at June 20, 2007 04:12 PM
The RNC has the morals of a professional panhandler too bad they're too dense to understand how insulting it is to lobby the base for amnesty money. I got my first solicitation from Rudy Guiliani, now I rank him with Michael Bloomberg who is another Jim Jeffords, not loyal to anything but money and power.
Good point Mark, maybe that is Jorge's new base.
Posted by: Jack at June 20, 2007 06:09 PM
At this point, I don't think any of us is surprised. By the end of next week he'll probably be swappin' spit with AlmondDinnerJacket.
Posted by: raz0r at June 20, 2007 11:06 PM
Good Gravy! What the hell will he do next?
It's like a bad sitcom that's going down the tubes and has had one too many "jump the shark" episodes.
No wonder the country's divided.
I still believe in the GOP, but we have to get someone with their head screwed on properly.
Cousin Freddy--are you listening?
Run!!!!!!!
We NEED you--badly!!!!
Posted by: Lynn at June 20, 2007 11:14 PM
Tom I wonder that too, what happened to you are either for us or against us and the axis of evil too. I just keep shaking my head in wonder and shock.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 20, 2007 11:53 PM
Bob I agree, the RNC and GOP if not already seeing a pullback enough to notice sure will as time goes along. They did let go of a lot of people that called for donations because too few people were donating.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 20, 2007 11:56 PM
Mark, waaaa I don't want to be compassionate to the enemy and your right it seems like Bush is using up his compassionate side augh to reach out or think about reaching out to the enemy. YIKES
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 20, 2007 11:57 PM
Jack it is crazy, I never liked Bloomberg so I wasn't surprised but still.....I don't like it all the same.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 21, 2007 12:00 AM
razOr....OMG....LMAO YIKES big time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 21, 2007 12:02 AM
Lynn......"It's like a bad sitcom that's going down the tubes and has had one too many "jump the shark" episodes."....it is.
Lynn, I had to move your comment to this post because I messed up and did TWO of the same posts about this. lol I have no idea how I did that unless maybe I clicked the button twice by accident. I just wanted you to know why your comment was moved from the duplicte post to this one with a different time on it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 21, 2007 12:05 AM
Oh Chrissie.... This is not what peanut farmer Jimmy Carter says about the non-infidel religion of peace? Perhaps treasonous Carter would communicate better if he would wear a ski mask and hold an AK-47 in the air, eh? - Death Star II crew loves pork 2007!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at June 21, 2007 12:52 AM
Darth, your right, that would suit Jimmy Carter much better then his hammer and building houses. I am not impressed at all with his little make me feel important project anyway especially when he goes around the world bashing America and kissing up to the bad guys.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 21, 2007 01:06 AM
