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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House

Feb 5, 2014 6:57 pm By Robert Spencer

Altikriti

What’s the big deal? A couple of allies, a couple of people of like mind meet — it happens all the time. “Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, February 5 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood was recently hosted at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, prompting an outcry from critics of the global Islamist organization.

Anas Altikriti, a top British lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood whose father heads Iraq’s Muslim Brotherhood party, recently met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden as part of a delegation discussing problems in Iraq.

Altikriti, whose work has also been tied to Hamas, can be seen smiling in photos published by the White House as he stands next to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujaifi, who is pictured shaking hands with President Obama in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. The meeting was first highlighted by the blog Harry’s Place.

The Obama administration has been criticized its outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist organization whose members’ brief reign in Egypt was supported by the White House.

Nujaifi, Altikriti, and other members of the Iraqi delegation were in town late January to discuss al Qaeda’s growing presence in Iraq. Nujaifi himself was reported to have met twice with President Obama, though it remains unclear if Altikriti accompanied him on both occasions.

“President Barack Obama greets Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, Iraqi Council of Representatives, after he drops by Vice President Joe Biden’s meeting with the Speaker in the Roosevelt Room of the White House,” read the White House’s photo caption, which clearly shows Altikriti standing to al-Nujaifi’s right side.

A White House spokesman confirmed that Altikriti was brought to the meeting to serve as a translator for al-Nujaifi.

Others present in the meeting included “Puneet Talwar, senior director for Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf at the [National Security Council], Philip Gordon, special assistant to the president and White House director for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran, and Andrew Kim, director for Iraq,” according to the White House pool report filed on that day.

The meeting focused on ways the United States can help local Iraqi leaders combat al Qaeda.

“This afternoon, President Obama joined Vice President Joe Biden’s meeting with Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi and a delegation of Iraqi parliamentarians,” read a Jan. 22 statement issued by the White House about the meeting. “Both sides reaffirmed the importance of the strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq.”

Altikriti’s presence in the White House was surprising to many who said the U.K. organization he heads, the Cordoba Foundation, has been singled out by British Prime Minister David Cameron as the “political front for the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Paul Stott, an U.K. academic and expert in British jihadism at the University of East Anglia, said Altikriti’s presence in the meetings represents “part of the long term U.S.-U.K. engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood, a strategy which hit choppy waters when it became clear people in Egypt were far from ready to let the [Muslim Brotherhood] run the country the way they wanted.”

“The coup could have put paid to this glad handing, but it is clearly continuing,” Stott said.

Altikriti has been called the “key political lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain.”

His Cordoba Foundation has been criticized for working “closely with other British extremist groups which seek the creation of an Islamic dictatorship, or caliphate, in Europe,” according to the British Telegraph newspaper.

Altikriti formerly served as a spokesman for the British Muslim Initiative (BMI), a group that has been singled out for close links to Hamas. BMI’s founder and president Mohammed Sawalha has served as a senior military operative for Hamas.

Altikriti himself has stirred controversy for publicly backing Hamas and advocating that Iraqis use “any means and methods” to free themselves from occupation.

Altikriti also defended the Muslim Council of Britain’s 2007 decision to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day. He referred to the group’s position as a “principled stand.”

The Cordoba Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Adolf Hitler meets President Obama at the White House for talks. President says he is impressed with how ‘moderate’ the Fuehrer and his advisors are now that they have expanded German ‘Lebensraum’ into the Sudetenland.

    Fidel Castro meets President Obama at the White House for talks. President says he is impressed with how ‘moderate’ Castro is and how hopeful he is of implementing ‘socialist democracy’ in Cuba.

    • Shane says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 10:06 am

      Obama was just hanging out with his Muslim brothers, yo!

    • connie says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 12:56 pm

      SPOT ON

  2. Bradamante says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 7:11 pm

    I can’t believe how naive I was about this guy when I voted for him. I knew nothing about these issues. Most Democrats know nothing about these issues. Now I just sit here shaking my head and feeling outraged. Well, I’m doing what I can to get the word out about Hillary. Still waiting to see if either party will run a candidate who isn’t in a hurry to sell us down the river.

  3. Champ says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    obama + mobro = double trouble!

  4. Tommy Peters says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Crocodiles meet their Butcher. The Brotherhood is still oblivious that an elite puppeteer micro-managed the cable-dump that set aside Mubarak and that their transition from beast to business was configured to drain their century-old pond, expose and tag the mess underneath; and while at it, sanitize and substitute their bombs for Zegnas and place them in glass edifices where they can be supervised. The plan was perfect but then, Morsi made the same mistake Saddam and Qaddafi made. ‘He thought he was President’ and went about defying the very elite that enabled his ‘Presidency’. The African-American in Washington is the current butcher of the elite, but that’s another story.

    • Bradamante says

      Feb 5, 2014 at 9:00 pm

      Very interesting analysis. So which side do you think Obama is on?

      • peter traine says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 4:50 am

        Obama is a traitor and MUSLIM brotherhood member. He should be hung for treason and his family jailed.

        • Champ says

          Feb 6, 2014 at 5:54 pm

          thumbs up!

  5. Wellington says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    What a weak and foolish man Obama is. He disgusts me.

  6. Salah says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    “The Obama administration has been criticized its outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist organization whose members’ brief reign in Egypt was supported by the White House.”

    …and defeated by the proud Egyptian people!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  7. wileyvet says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 12:26 am

    Do you notice this guys last name. Although he spells it Altikriti, if you spell it like this al-Tikriti, it is the same as Chemical Ali and all the other Saddam henchmen from his hometown of Tikrit.

    • William Doohan says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 3:24 am

      They spelled it like that hoping no one would notice. / And even though it won’t happen, one of the reporters at the next White House Briefing should ask why he is meeting with an organization that burned down 80 churches and murders, assaults and rapes Christians.

  8. Salah says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 2:22 am

    Great news from Egypt. Great news for Egypt.
    Finally, it’s official.
    Egypt’s next president: Abdul Fattah al-Sisi

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26062199

    • JimJFox says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 2:41 pm

      You’re not the guy who went into the chemist’s shop and asked

      “Do you have anything for premature eja…. Oh, never mind”

      Egypt army denies Sisi presidential candidacy report

      • daniel says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 7:50 pm

        Go me there,hehehe…

  9. joed says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 4:24 am

    Notice in the pic how it is Barry who leans into the handshake, playing the subservient role. Classic body language. File along with “bowing like a dog before his Saudi King”

  10. duh_swami says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 6:08 am

    Birds (vultures in this case) of a feather really do stick together…Some people think Rasool O is a traitor…I can’t imagine why…

  11. Dan says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 am

    We know the Muslim Brotherhood is a Terrorist organization, we know the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to destroy America from within, we’re aware that the Muslim Brotherhood with the support of President Obama strong armed their way into the Egyptian elections and then when the Obama supported Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist thugs were thrown out of office, they attacked their easiest target the Coptic Christians, burning down approx. eighty (80) Coptic Christian churches, beating, raping and murdering unarmed, innocent Coptic Christians. We know President Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists in Syria along with Al-Qaeda who are have regularly been beating, raping and murdering unarmed, innocent Christian men, women and children. We know President Obama, Hillary and the rest of his administration, along with the main stream media have ignored these beatings, rapes and murders of innocent citizens. We know the Muslim Brotherhood’s evil goes all the way back to when these Terrorists supported Adolf Hitler in WWII. We know Yusuf Qaradawi the Muslim Brotherhoods spiritual leader called for the killing of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq, and that according to the article titled “America Joins the Jihad” by Clare M. Lopez, “It took the U.S. less than one week after Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa to announce authorization of stepped-up military aid to Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood dominated Syrians.” – The articles delves deeper showing how on several occasions that the U.S. under the direction of President Obama responded to Qaradawi’s requests. You can read the article mentioned by going to http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org. – President Obama is allowing fifty thousand muslim’s a year into the U.S. for the next five years. My question would be will these Muslim’s come from the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda Terrorist groups that he has shown he is always at the ready to support, or will these be some of the good Muslims? President Obama and his administration don’t seem to have any qualms in supporting Muslim Terrorists who have murdered thousands of American’s, and are regularly burning down Christian churches along with beating, raping and murdering middle eastern Christians along with others who don’t bow down to Islam, what makes anyone think for a minute they care about Christians here? The Obama administration makes enemies of our allies and friends with Islam. I agree with Vladimir Putin, America should align ourselves with him, along with other nations who want to stop the genocide of innocent Christians and others at the hands of the Islamic Terrorists. – God Bless America, Israel, the NRA and all Real Freedom Fighting Patriots.

  12. bikeboy says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 8:01 am

    Newsweek grew some, other media need to.

  13. GFWSR says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 9:31 am

    Yes, we know all these things and yet islam just keeps marching on and entrenching itself. Our leaders are stupid, blind, or involved in complicity, or all of the above!

  14. OccidentalResurgence says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 11:02 am

    I applaud President Obama for his candid approach. Muslims are only an enemy insofar as we choose to fight them and impose our values on them; if they want to live under Sharia law in their own countries, why should we care? Close the borders and stop paying needless attention to them spoiled Muslim brats and their semitic brothers in Israel. The real enemies are the people Robert Spencer supports: neoconservative globalists, funded by You-Know-Whos, who rail on about imposing tolerance and human rights on unwilling others (which actually isn’t very tolerant at all).

    • boakai ngombu says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 11:54 am

      you and Soros and Hillary and Grover should really take a hike and take POTUS and his brother Malik, along with

    • kikorikid says

      Feb 6, 2014 at 1:18 pm

      You are one Taqiyya spewing, lying ass. Following
      Quranic proscriptions re: Deception. You are also a real
      dumsky to think Americans will believe your “Defensive Jihad” speal.
      Your arrogance is greatly misplaced and will earn you
      a bullet or a rope, along with Morsi and his bunch.

      • JimJFox says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 2:46 pm

        Can’t disagree- but, do you get the feeling that the tide is turning in the USA?

        SO many people previously deceived by Barry’s rhetoric and his leftist media dhimmis are now outraged; pity the Big O will get away scot free.

  15. Richado says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    But the Obama won’t meet with American Christian Coptic leaders or even Christians from the Middle East who are being persecuted and killed. The year 2013 was a banner year for Muslims persecuting Christians- the highest. Instead, the Obama meets with their persecutors and murderers. Obama the enabler of Christian persecution.

  16. ThomasJefferson says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 11:14 am

    obummer and his monkey face wife should be tied to a post and flogged for being traitors. odumass and all his followers and all who voted the bastard in should be held accountable for treason, tried for the crimes they have committed, found guilty and shot on site.

  17. Bezelel says

    Feb 7, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    obaMUD isn’t even hiding it. Documented evidence of High Treason and it’s not even challenged. WTF?

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