The whitewashing of the Brotherhood's bloody history and Islamic supremacist agenda continues. "Egypt: legalize Muslim Brotherhood- US-based group Human Rights Watch," by Bonny Apunyu for Reuters, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair:
(SomaliNet) The Egyptian government was on Thursday urged by the US-based group Human Rights Watch to legalize the Muslim Brotherhood, the influential movement outlawed in the 1950s, and stop arresting people for membership.Meanwhile, Brotherhood sources said government crackdown on the movement continued on Thursday when police made dawn raids in the provinces of Giza and Beni Suef. Seventeen members were detained, including senior figures in the group's provincial hierarchy.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), like the Brotherhood, linked the recent wave of detentions to preparations for elections on June 11 to the upper house of parliament, or Shoura Council.
"The Egyptian government has never convincingly justified its continued ban of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has renounced violence for more than 30 years. Human Rights Watch called on the government to lift the ban and to cease arresting people solely for their alleged membership in the organization," HRW added in a statement:
It said 223 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition movement despite its outlawed status, were currently imprisoned.
"In the week Egypt boasted about its election to the UN Human Rights Council, it was arresting scores of people solely for exercising their right to free association and free speech," HRW Deputy Director Joe Stork said in the statement.
Mubarak is certainly a scoundrel. Of that there is no doubt. But that doesn't make those who oppose him into angels.
Stupid is as stupid does?
The left is blind. I say ship them all out to Iran, Saudi Arabia and watch the fun... God these people are just blathering idiots!!!!!
Stick a fork in their butt and turn them over.
They're done!
Never mind what Saudi Arabia and Iran get up too...
I'm not in the least bit surprised that some Western commentators are calling for kid glove treatment for the MB - the US are actively courting them in the ME , even after 911 FFS
We, the West, are home to 100's nay 1,000's of the MB who left - in rather a haste- from numerous Arab countries .
These countries want them back so they can....erm.....have a chat with them with the aid of a cattle prod and a pair of pliars .
I say let them have them
Let's be honest , the West was more than happy to have the MB do it's dirty work in countless countries : for example we - US UK and Germany -gave them sanctuary after the Syrian army relandscaped the city of Hama :
In Bosnia , Izetbegovic - lionised in the West and by more than a few flaky posters on this site - based his beloved Muslim Youth movement on the MB: and just like the MB founder , Izetbegovic was also a proud Nazi sympathiser too .
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/muja-zoom.jpg
Bosnian islamists marching in martyr gear
Cut to Kosovo : NATO paid about 500 Mujahideen - the MB are essentially Mujahideen - to fight with the KLA and slaughter some Serbs and loyalists - the 100 or so elite were give cell phones and gave the NATO force co ordinates to bomb - We cheered them on for their victims were worthless sub human Serbs adn their allies -
like this
http://www.exileimages.co.uk/AndrijaI/Kosovo/T.AI.EUR.073.jpg
loyalist Albanian convoy hit whilst returning to their village
But then on 911 - the mujahideen cheated - and we all blubbed cos they'd turned their attention to us.
And we all tearfully cried "Why don't they like us?"
Which is actually a fair complaint , for the West had been remarkably fair and hospitable to the MB .
So , yes , Mubarak is indeed a most cheeky scamp .
But then , what does that make the MB or the West's policy?
Hmmmmm?
Good move, HRW. After all, if Hamas should be legal, why not Ikhwan? And follow through with the next logical step of making al Qaeda legal worldwide, followed by its affiliates: Jemiah Islamiah, Lashkar e Toiba, Taliban, Lashkar Jihad, Abu Sayyaf, MNLF, et al.
And as US_infidel notes, any Israeli Jew should grin at this ear to ear.
The personnell of Human Rights Watch can secure extra income by become Human Shields in the Palestinian (terrorist)refugee camps in Lebanon...
....Has the Human Rights Watch group ever read or studied the History of the Muslim Brotherhood?....probably not...
Bring them in for talks, and then arrest and then execute them.
That is what they will do should they gain power.
Strike first against a sworn serpent.
Or let it sleep in your boots.
And choose it own time.
HRW's donor list begins on page 62 of the following:
http://www.hrw.org/annual-report/2006.pdf
Usual leftist suspects aplenty.