Muslim Brotherhood President
March 23, 2013 by 50 Comments
This is exactly what The Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick argued in her piece “Obama’s Mysterious Visit” after Barack Obama made his first visit to Israel as President of the United States on March 19. Speaking of Obama’s 2009 “Cairo Speech,” her chillingly sentient piece says in part:
In contempt of Mubarak’s explicit wishes, Obama insisted on inviting members of the Muslim Brotherhood to attend his speech. In acting as he did, Obama signaled that under his leadership, the US was abandoning its support for Mubarak and transferring its sympathies to the Muslim Brotherhood.Is Barack Obama really aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood? Is Barack Obama in bed with an organization that has vowed our annihilation, to “destroy…Western civilization from within…”?
…By addressing his remarks to the Muslim nation, Obama was perceived as openly rejecting Egyptian nationalism, and indeed the concept of unique national identities among the various Arab states. In so doing, Obama undercut the legitimacy of the Egyptian regime while legitimizing the pan-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood which rejects nationalism in favor of a call for the establishment of a global caliphate.
As subsequent events showed, the conditions for the Egyptian revolution that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power were prepared during Obama’s speech at al-Azhar.
Shockingly, the answer is yes.
We all remember Doctor Benjamin Carson speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, speaking truth to power about the destructive aspects of ObamaCare, an overreaching and intrusive government, and a government that constantly tramples on the Constitution.
One could almost feel the loathng that Obama experienced as he sat next to Doctor Carson, seeing the look of rage on his face.
Another invitee and speaker, Sayyid Syeed, founder of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim Brotherhood front group, was also not pleased.
This is the same Syeed who has vowed that ISNA’s primary job is to alter the Constitution.
Yes, the same ISNA that has been aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood since 1988, as a recently declassified FBI memo states.
Yes, the same ISNA that was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008/2009 Holy Land Foundation terrorist-funding trial.
Yes, the same ISNA where Valerie Jarrett was a keynote speaker at their annual convention in 2009.
Yes, the same ISNA where George Selim, the White House Director for Community Partnerships, has been an annual speaker at their conventions for years.
And as recently as March 8, Obama himself met with ISNA President Mohamed Magid along with other so-called “religious leaders” to discuss immigration reform.
And the Council on American-Islamic Relations—CAIR, a sister group to ISNA—also named in the Holy Land Foundation trial as an unindicted co-conspirator, has had literally hundreds of meetings with the Obama administration.
And these are just the meetings we know about.
Is Barack Obama aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood (or worse, is he a Muslim Brotherhood plant?)
Shockingly and unbelievably, the answer must be a resounding Yes.
Egyptians Angry with Obama for Backing Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi
Monday, 25 Mar 2013 06:59 AM
In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, blood-red letters on a white banner read: “Obama Supports The Dictator Mursi.” A sign on the speakers’ platform adds: “Down with Mursi, America’s agent.”
Obama’s talk of a “new beginning” between Muslims and the U.S. has been swamped in Egypt by economic dysfunction and political polarization between Islamist and secular leaders. As investors flee and Egyptians suffer, what the president called a “cycle of suspicion and discord” has delayed financial aid and left Egypt drifting toward bankruptcy.
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“People are frustrated here, full of anger, especially youngsters,” said Anwar Sadat, the nephew of the Egyptian president assassinated in 1981 and the leader of a minor opposition party. “The truth is we are in trouble.”
U.S. Doubt
In the U.S., lawmakers who doubt Mursi’s commitment to democracy are concerned that new arms shipments could be turned against Israel. In Egypt, the president welcomed in 2009 with a cry of “Barack Obama, we love you,” is now seen by many as just another leader who puts American interests above Egypt’s needs. A Gallup survey released March 13 showed Egyptians disapprove of U.S. leadership by a 62 percent to 17 percent margin.
Optimism that Mubarak’s overthrow would bring the country’s 83 million people a better life is unraveling. As part of a broad cost-cutting initiative, the government announced March 19 plans to effectively ration supplies of subsidized bread, a dietary staple, and cooking fuel. A similar move sparked deadly riots during an abortive 1977 economic-liberalization campaign.
Mursi’s failure to deliver stability and rising living standards also has buffeted investors. Egypt’s benchmark EGX30 stock index is down more than 20 percent since the January 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak. The premium investors demand for holding Egyptian government debt has roughly doubled. And foreign investment has sagged to $2.1 billion from its $13.2 billion peak five years ago.
U.S. Stake
The U.S. has a big stake in Egypt’s transition. The North African country and Jordan remain the only Arab nations with formal peace treaties with Israel, and the Egyptian military polices the strategic Sinai Peninsula. Egypt grants preferential passage to the U.S. Navy through the Suez Canal, giving American warships in the Mediterranean a shortcut to the Persian Gulf.
Both the prospects for democracy in the Arab world’s most- populous nation and the U.S. goal of defusing regional tensions hinge on Egypt’s economy. Gross domestic product has grown less than 2 percent the last two years, its slowest pace in two decades. Unemployment is 13 percent, and inflation has almost doubled since November to 8.2 percent, according to the central bank.
Though Egypt is the fifth-largest recipient of American foreign assistance, more than 80 percent of the $1.56 billion total U.S. aid goes to the Egyptian military, including F-16 fighters and M1A1 tanks manufactured by General Dynamics Corp.
Economic Support
This year’s help also was delayed. Only this month did the U.S. release $250 million in economic support. Since Mursi’s June 2012 election, Congress has grown increasingly skeptical of Egypt’s embrace of democracy and reliability as a security partner. Lawmakers’ worries mirror those of many Egyptians who say the U.S. isn’t doing enough to curb the Islamist government’s authoritarian leanings.
Mursi’s Nov. 22 claim of temporary immunity from judicial review and his efforts to seize control of the independent labor movement and punish journalists have sparked talk of renewed dictatorship. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, in January labeled Egypt’s president “an enemy.”
In a March 5 interview with NPR, Secretary of State John Kerry described U.S. economic aid as “minuscule,” adding: “We could pay a much higher price down the road if Egypt is in turmoil and chaos and the region feels those implications.”
Declining Reserves
The U.S. outlay is dwarfed by Egypt’s needs. Since the revolution, Egyptian reserves have dwindled to $13.5 billion from $36 billion, leaving in government coffers enough money to cover perhaps three months of imports.
In Cairo earlier this month, Kerry called economic improvement “paramount, essential, urgent.” Yet the $250 million in economic assistance that the U.S. is giving Egypt this year is less than one-third the $815 million it provided in 1998, when the economy was growing at 7.5 percent and reserves were 50 percent larger.
“This is the best we can do at the moment,” said Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I don’t know what’s worse: delivering a paltry sum that’s not going to make much of a difference or delivering nothing at all.”
Michele Dunne, who was on President George W. Bush’s National Security Council staff, said policy toward the Arab nation has been on “auto pilot” since 2011.
“We should be doing more economically for Egypt, but it’s not a question of just throwing cash budget aid at the Egyptian government,” she said. “They’ll just blow through that in a month.”
Industrial Zones
The U.S. is expanding the Qualifying Industrial Zone program, which allows Egyptian companies to export goods to the U.S. on a duty-free basis so long as they use a specified percentage of Israeli components. Dunne said the U.S. could do more to expand trade.
In January, the country imported $136.9 million worth of Egyptian goods, less than half as much as in the same month three years ago.
Magdi Tolba, chairman of clothing exporter Cairo Cotton Center, has felt the decline. Macy’s Inc., the second-largest U.S. department store chain and his biggest customer at about $20 million in annual orders, stopped doing business with Cairo Cotton in January 2011 amid the anti-Mubarak protests.
Encouraging Companies
Tolba, 55, has cut his 3,900-worker payroll to 3,000. He said U.S. officials should have promoted stability in Egypt by encouraging companies to trade.
“The U.S. government could have done more to stop the violence by supporting the economy,” he said.
More important is a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, which the government has been negotiating for months. Public resistance to the tax increases and subsidy cuts that the fund says are needed to put the economy on sound footing has delayed final agreement.
The fund’s seal-of-approval is critical to unlocking $14.5 billion more in aid from other donors and reassuring investors.
“There is significant willingness from the U.S.A. and other countries to help Egypt, but in the end, aid is of limited value unless Egypt’s government sets the right conditions to maximize the aid which it receives,” said Angus Blair, founder of the Signet Institute, a Cairo-based regional research group.
U.S. Outrage
In Cairo’s Garden City neighborhood the American embassy is girded by barbed-wire obstacles and helmeted Egyptian riot police. Tear gas often wafts over the compound’s high walls. On March 9, two protesters died in clashes in nearby Tahrir Square after a court acquitted most of the police officers charged in the February 2012 deaths of demonstrators in Port Said.
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At home, the Obama administration has faced opposition to smoothing Egypt’s post-revolutionary path. A 2011 Obama promise to forgive $1 billion in Egyptian debt is stalled in Congress. Republican lawmakers, such as Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, have opposed additional funds for Mursi, who referred to Jews in 2010 as “the descendants of apes and pigs.” He later said the remarks were in response to Israeli actions toward Palestinians, an explanation which did little to stem U.S. outrage.
U.S. help, already conditioned on Egypt’s continued adherence to its 1979 treaty with Israel, should be tied to democratic milestones, such as preserving an independent judiciary and a free press, some in the Egyptian opposition say.
“What we need is a commitment to democracy,” said Amre Moussa, a leader of the National Salvation Front. “But democracy is not just the ballot box.”
Egypt could soon become a bigger headache for Obama. The government is appealing a court ruling that invalidated Mursi’s call for parliamentary elections next month, leaving the political landscape unsettled.
Amid such tumult, there are limits to U.S. influence.
“There’s a storm going on within Egypt with profoundly high stakes for all concerned,” said former State Department official Jon Alterman. “Our ability to move that storm is very small and our ability to be heard over it comes and goes.”
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