"Following the announcement, Ikhwanweb, the official Muslim Brotherhood website, posted on its Twitter feed: 'Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood member Tawakkul Karman wins Nobel Peace Prize.'"
An update on this story. "Nobel Peace panel stands behind Muslim Brotherhood winner," by Oren Kessler in the Jerusalem Post, October 12:
The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee has dismissed concerns that one of this year’s three recipients, Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, represents a party directly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.Thorbojern Jagland told reporters in Oslo this weekend that he disagrees with the “perception” widespread in the West that the Brotherhood is a threat to democracy.
“There are many signals that that kind of movement can be an important part of the solution,” he said. “We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context.
“Namely, if one fails to include the women in the revolution and the new democracies, there will be no democracy.”
Karman, 32 and a mother of three, is a leading member of Islah (Reform), Yemen’s main opposition movement. The movement is split into three wings: a tribal confederacy led by the head of the powerful Al- Ahmar tribe; a political movement that operates under the Muslim Brotherhood banner; and a religious branch linked to the worldwide Salafi movement.
The last of these is led by Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, a Sunni religious scholar and former adviser to Osama bin Laden who is considered a terrorist by the US.
In 2003, the last time the country held legislative elections, the Islah party took 23 percent of the vote. Karman’s selection represents the first time a Muslim Brotherhood member has been singled out for the award.
Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee also shared in this year’s prize, the winners of which were announced Friday.
Following the announcement, Ikhwanweb, the official Muslim Brotherhood website, posted on its Twitter feed: “Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood member Tawakkul Karman wins Nobel Peace Prize.”
In 2004, shortly after joining Islah, Karman appeared in public for the first time without a niqab, or face-covering veil, which she said is not dictated by the strictures of Islam....
The Nobel Prize lost all luster when it was awarded to the worst U.S. President ever at the time... Jimmy Carter, after he had long been out of office and circling the globe spewing out anti-semitic and anti-U.S. garbage.
The Nobel committee went on to make themselves into a total laughing stock, and the prize into a worthless bauble when they gave it to the one U.S. President WORSE than Carter (Obama) early in his tenure... Without him doing anything at all to earn it!
Did they give the prize to Obama because he was more incompetent than Carter, ... or because he was more corrupt than Nixon???? I've never figured that one out!
Somehow, just getting himself elected as the first "black president" was enough to garner him this formerly prestigious award. And they could not even get that right, since in fact Obama is half White, one quarter Arab, and at most only one quarter Black.
the nobel panel was encouraged
A big part of the world condition today can be traced to the ever expanding preference to believe and behave in false reality, in other words a large body of generally agreed upon fake facts.
In fact, the prestige sideshow called the Nobel Prizes operated by various Swedish and Norwegian committees started from the program's outset as a progressive outfit meant to shape history by handing out baubles.
The peace prize has consistently taken the cake for a long time now in terms of lacking factual basis for their esteem. But, of late even fake science has become permissible, what with the fraudulent science behind anthropogenic global warming.
Say, wasn't Alfred Nobel a scientist?
The science committees should make a serious study of those working in the boom field of Ko-Ranic Science and throw some prizes their way.
Let's not forget Yasser Arafat's contribution to global terrorism.
A Nobel Peace prize well deserved.
What a sham!
Thorbojern Jagland told reporters in Oslo this weekend that he disagrees with the “perception” widespread in the West that the Brotherhood is a threat to democracy.
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What ever could have led to such a wacky "perception" as that? It's just inexplicable! sarc/off
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“There are many signals that that kind of movement can be an important part of the solution,” he said.
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Well, that's true...if Thorbojern Jagland believes that "the solution" is Muslim supremacy, the oppression of Infidels, and the imposition of barbaric Shari'ah law...
Of what value is the Nobel Prize. Look only a few years back and see whho received it.
Shawmut wrote:
Of what value is the Nobel Prize. Look only a few years back and see whho received it.
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Depends on the category, Shawmut.
The Nobel Prizes for the Sciences are very serious and prestigious. The Prizes for categories such as Economics and Literature are much iffier—and the Prizes for "Peace" are, with rare exceptions, just a sick joke.