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May 27, 2007
US: Democrats Meet With Muslim Brotherhood Members
The Democrat party has been behind some questionable actions this year. Nancy Pelosi's trip in April to Syria was condemned by President George W. Bush, who stated: "Photo opportunities and/or meetings with President Assad lead the Assad government to believe they're part of the mainstream of the international community when, in fact, they're a state sponsor of terror."
Former President Jimmy Carter had approved her trip. Accompanying Pelosi on her trip to Syria were four Democrat Representatives - Keith Ellison, Minn., Nick Rahall, West Virginia, Tom Lantos, Calif., Henry Waxman, Calif., and one Republican - David Hobson, Ohio.
Despite criticism from the President, Pelosi's deputy press secretary Drew Hamill had justified the trip thus: "The Iraq Study Group recommended a diplomatic effort that should include 'every country that has an interest in avoiding a chaotic Iraq'."
Syria, as a supporter and sponsor of Hezbollah, is hardly a country to be "courted" by politicians, and any "diplomatic" moves by the Democrats to "legitimize" terror-sponsors do nothing to benefit either the US, the Iraqi people, nor the Middle East at large.
Since Pelosi's visit, other Democrats have been making overtures to Muslims of dubious standing. Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria on Wednesday April 4 and claimed he was "ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel" (even though Hezbollah had killed and also kidnapped Israeli soldiers in 2006, leading to the Israel/Lebanon conflict).
The day after Pelosi's meeting with the Syrian President, a leading US Democrat in Congress met a senior leader of the Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood twice in one day in Egypt. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, the leader of the Brotherhood's 55 members within the Egyptian parliament. The Brotherhood had been officially banned from participating in the elections of 2005, but its MPs had posed as "independent" candidates to get elected, making up a fifth of the 454 seats.
According to Hamdi Hassan, the Brotherhood's spokesman, Hoyer met with el-Katani once at the parliament building and later at the home of the US ambassador to Egypt.
Once again, Mohammed Saad el-Katatni has been in meetings with Americans, this time a Congressional delegation led by a Democrat, David Price from North Carolina. The meeting took place early this morning, state the International Herald Tribune, Jerusalem Post and DPA via Earth Times.
The delegation met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier in the morning, followed by another meeting with parliamentarians, including el-Katatni.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is not a group to be trusted, particularly for a nation with strong links to Israel. Last year, the Egyptian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mehdi Akef, announced during the Israel/Lebanon conflict that he had 10,000 fighters, ready to be sent to Lebanon to fight alongside Hezbollah against Israel. Akef also attacked Arab leaders in an Egyptian newspaper interview, where he said: "If they weren't Muslims, we would have killed them, because they are a bigger threat to the nation than Israel itself."
The terrorist group Hamas in Israel was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood Palestinian leader Sheikh Yassin, and the "spiritual leader" of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has made a fatwa condoning suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. The Muslim Brotherhood maintains that it is against violence. If the Democrats cannot see that this is a lie, then their own credibility is at question.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 27, 2007 8:53 PM
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The Democrats are fools to think that there will be any reasonable and effective dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood must be laughing up their sleeves at the Dems' gullibility.
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at May 27, 2007 10:30 PM
As I recall, the Japanese were talking to democrats in Washington as bombs were falling on Pearl Harbor?
Posted by: Catawhumpus at May 28, 2007 8:25 AM
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