Obamas Muslim Brotherhood Ties
by Robert Spencer
02/08/2011
Barack Obama has declared that all opposition groups should have representation in the next Egyptian government, which essentially ensures that the Muslim Brotherhood will be part of that government. The Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in Egypt, so it will probably end up in the drivers seat in any new regime, and steer Egypt toward becoming an Islamic state inveterately hostile to the United States.
So why isnt Obama working to limit the Brotherhoods scope and influence? Maybe because he doesnt really have a problem with the Brotherhood, despite its hostility to America. He made sure to invite Brotherhood leaders to attend his notorious speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, Egypt, in June 4, 2009. Starting in the earliest days of his administration, he showed an intense desire to establish friendly ties with Brotherhood-linked organizationsdespite the Brotherhoods stated goal of eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.
Obama first reached out to the Brotherhood when he chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies. Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obamas Inauguration Daydespite the fact that the ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood. The previous summer, federal prosecutors rejected a request from the ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator status.
Obama didnt ask Mattson to explain the ISNAs links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: He sent his senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, to be the keynote speaker at the ISNAs national convention in 2009.
Even worse, in April 2009, Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as assistant secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security. Just two weeks before he received this appointment, Alikhan (who once called the jihad terror group Hezbollah a liberation movement) participated in a fund-raiser for the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Like the ISNA, MPAC has links to the Muslim Brotherhood. In a book titled In Fraternity: A Message to Muslims in America, co-author Hassan Hathout, a former MPAC president, is identified as a close disciple of the late Hassan al-Banna of Egypt. "The MPAC-linked magazine The Minaret spoke of Hathouts closeness to al-Banna in a 1997 article: My father would tell me that Hassan Hathout was a companion of Hassan al-Banna. ... Hassan Hathout would speak of al-Banna with such love and adoration; he would speak of a relationship not guided by politics or law but by a basic sense of human decency.
The late al-Banna, of course, was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a pro-Sharia group. Obamas chief adviser on Islamic affairs, Dalia Mogahed, is a pro-Sharia Muslim.
With Brotherhood operatives in the American government and working closely with it, thanks to Barack Obama, its no surprise that he would have no problem with their being part of the Egyptian government too.
Obamas Muslim Brotherhood Ties - HUMAN EVENTS
