On Friday, March 14, in a meeting with foreign journalists in Washington D.C., deputy spokesperson of the U.S. State Department Marie Harf confirmed, once again, that the United States is in communication with the Muslim Brotherhood but denied that this means it supports the organization. The exchange follows:
QUESTION: Okay. The second question is: The State Department has recently said that it is in constant contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, as with the other political groups, you see?
MS. HARF: Mm-hmm, yes.
QUESTION: So do you think that these contacts have any effect on the United States relations with Egypt? And are these just mere contacts or support? Because this is very important for the Egyptian public opinion. Thanks.
MS. HARF: Well, they’re contacts, and let’s just – I’ll put it in a little context here. We think it’s important to have contacts with all the parties in Egypt, because all the parties in Egypt ultimately are going to need to be a part of Egypt’s future, and that we want to help them be a part of that future and move Egypt out of the situation it’s in today. So we think this is important to do. Do we always agree, do they always agree with what we’re saying? Of course not. But we believe it’s important to have the dialogue.
We don’t support one party or one group or one person. So when we’re talking about elections, when – I know there’s a lot of conspiracy theories about us supporting the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting the military or – there’s a lot. They can’t all be true, right? Because they’re mutually exclusive. But we don’t support one group. We support the process. We support the people of Egypt who make up these parties – right – as they are trying to determine how to get Egypt back on a better path.
So what do the Egyptian people think about it? One Egyptian news commentator for Ontv, discussing Harf’s remarks, summed up mainstream Egyptian opinion as follows:
Harf yesterday confirmed that her nation is in communication with the Muslim Brotherhood but denied that this means it supports them. They’re just in contact—you know, “checking up” on each other. She said that the United States is in contact with all political parties in Egypt. In reality, they [Brotherhood] are no longer political parties; they are terrorist parties. She stressed that they do not support any particular person or political party, adding “we support the people of Egypt.” Apparently that explains why they stopped their aid and support? They “support the people of Egypt,” even as the Egyptian people cannot stand the Muslim Brotherhood, has rejected them, and is rejoicing because the government finally designated them as a terrorist organization. So this is the sort of “support” Mary Harf offers to the Egyptian people—that the United States is in contact with a terrorist organization… Keep reading
Salah says
“We think it’s important to have contacts with all the parties in Egypt, because all the parties in Egypt ultimately are going to need to be a part of Egypt’s future”
Wrong. Terrorists will never be a part of Egypt’s future. The MB is a terrorist group, and the Obama administration is supporting it.
The MB is DEAD, forever DEAD, at least in Egypt for now, and soon worldwide.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
veggiedog says
they think we are all just plain dumb.
thomas_h says
Not necessarily.
What they think, and are right about it, is that you (I’m not American) have no power to effectively challenge them. What counts is not if one is dumb, or smart, or what one thinks, but what one will do.
Brian C. Hoff says
The MB will come back to Egypt again.
Salah says
WISHFUL THINKING. Are you supporting terrorists?
gravenimage says
*Of course* he’s supporting terrorists, Salah—”Brian C. Hoff” is the old “DefenderofIslam”.
Daphdong says
IT is interesting that where Coptic CHRISTIANS are concerned, the USA Govt has nothing to say, when it is the MB who are kidnapping, killing, extorting and raping Christians right left and centre, including burning their houses and churches. over 10 million in Egypt alone yet the US Govt is not interested in their suffering at all. It makes me wonder if the inhabitants of the White House do a dance everytime atrocities against Christians are carried out.
Salah says
” It makes me wonder if the inhabitants of the White House do a dance everytime atrocities against Christians are carried out.”
Indeed they do, they are Anti Judeo-Christian values, they HATE GOD, the True God.
mortimer says
“WRONG” …thanks for that, Salah. Exactly! Germany doesn’t ‘need’ Hitlerism, Russia does not ‘need’ the Bolshies, Cuba does not ‘need’ Castro’s gang.
The MB was born out of Italian fascism and Hitlerism. No one ‘needs’ the MB but sociopaths.
revg says
“It’s for the children”.
No1 says
Marie Harf looks barely out of college. Not only is the USA run by unqualified Leftists, it’s run by unqualified Leftists with no life experience. No wonder it’s such a mess.
veggiedog says
Who else is going to fall for the lies? Well OK, but you get the point.
mortimer says
Exactly, like Obama…no experience. She’s an empty vessel for carrying the White House’s water.
Huck Folder says
Actually Mortimer, she’s carrying it for the Post-Turtle-in-Chief.
Huck Folder says
She’s a Harf Arsed dipshit, like her boss.
Am I allowed to say that here?
veggiedog says
I don’t blame her so much. Dhe is young, naive and thinks she is making a difference(sic). Lets keep this on track, the Pres has authorized this, this is the point. Are we scared yet? 3 years cannot come too soon. Maybe the GOP can take the srnste, but then how to get the Progressives out of the White House and all of their Muslim friends.
Chabuco says
“…. because all the parties in Egypt ultimately are going to need to be a part of Egypt’s future”
Of course! Just like Nazi parties are needed to be part of the present and future of European countries…. right!?
Oh, the buffoonery! Will it ever end?
Prinz Eugen says
WH lies — they definitely want the moslem brotherhood and their terrorist allies in complete control of Egypt, Syria, Benghazi, wherever! Note when Morsi took over, US sent jets and first class tanks — then when Morsi was booted out, mafish!
The MB was banned as a terror organization for decades until khalifa barry demanded their “resurrection.” He will continue to lie for those terrorist bastards unless he or they are stopped. Alas, we have no opposition in congress here. Sisi will have to do the best he can before the US “invades” Egypt and installs Morsi as permanent dictator. Have to wait a bit, Barry is having some difficult moments when he is confronted by anything more frightening than a RINO like senile bumkkin McLiar!.
Salah says
“Sisi will have to do the best he can before the US “invades” Egypt and installs Morsi as permanent dictator.”
Don’t worry about Sisi, he’s backed by 90 million proud Egyptians.
Brian C. Hoff says
I wouldnot count on the 90 million people who support. His support is between 20 and 30 million people. People are going after the Christian there.
gravenimage says
“Brian C. Hoff” wrote:
People are going after the Christian there.
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And does “DefenderofIslam” have a problem with this genocide? Somehow I doubt it…
nabi sange says
Ms. Harff just kidding us.
Kepha says
Marle Harf is simply saying what her masters higher up want her to say. That’s her job as spokesperson.
However, I’m with everyone else who thinks this is disturbing. The MB and people like them were the sorts who brought us 9/11. I don’t see how any US administration can please those people.
Wellington says
You are, Kepha, quite right about Harf. She is nothing more than a mouthpiece for what ignoramuses above her want her to spout. Still, I wonder how such a person like Harf sleeps at night.
Does she actually think that what she’s instructed to say is good, is enlightened, is correct? If so, she is a deeply ignorant (and harmful) person (but this would, at least, explain good sleep by her).
Does she even somewhat realize she is proffering nonsense (as she has on innumerable previous occasions)? If so, I actually sympathize with her because, well, she has a job and, understandably, she doesn’t want to lose it. But even if this is the case, she should still find another job which wouldn’t compromise her integrity this way. After all, ethics for an ethical person must take precedence to money, difficult though this decision is at times.
Maybe she’s just a dimwit, not even considering what she’s saying is good or bad, but mouthing platitudes aplenty with nothing more than a desire to get back home at a reasonable hour. And I don’t mean here an intellectual dimwit. I’m sure she has all the requisite degrees, enough IQ, training, backgrouund et al. No, I mean a dimwit in a different sense, which this age which we live in seems to abound in, i.e., an ETHICAL dimwit. Just look at a very bright man (intellectually speaking) like Bill Clinton for confirmation of this hypothesis.
Your turn, Kepha. As always, I defer to your extensive State Department and foreign experience. Hopefully all is well with you and family. Take care.
Kepha says
Wellington: Hope all’s well with you and yours, old man. If you’re really interested in the dope on it, go to Diplomad 2.0.
About diplomatic life, the classical story about it concerns Hugo Grotius, one of the fathers of international law. As a scholar and champion of his own nation’s interests against Spain and Portugal, he wrote _On the Freedom of the Seas_. He then impresses the government of the Netherlands, gets appointed as a dipomat, and promptly defends the Vereeenigte Ost-Indische Maatschaapij’s exclusion of British shipping from the waters around the Spice Islands before the Court of St. James.
Another, when I was in Bangkok, and down the pike in Singapore some American teenager got himself sentenced to a stiff caning for spray-painting cars, we generally said in public “We of course support our government’s position”. But, in private, around the water cooler, and among ourselves, we were all saying ,”Sock it to the young punk, Singapore” and saw the work of the political officer who had to remonstrate with the Singaporean government over the fate of the punk’s @r$e as the waste of an up-and-coming colleague’s talents.
I’m actually pretty certain there are some people in the State Department who sleep very well at night knowing that perhaps in four years or so, they’ll once again be able to do the bidding of a more sound administration.
Something tells me, Wellington, that you may be the sort of person who’s had a bit of travel under his belt, no?
Wellington says
Ah yes, Grotius. I made reference to him numerous times when I was teaching my course in Early Modern European history (which course has been dissolved, as have all my courses, where I used to teach as has any history requirement at all——a symptom of our times).
As for that “Singapore incident,” I remember it distinctly. The young American man was fully deserving of what Singapore’s law required. I also remember this very well: polls taken at the time in America about this incident showed that Americans overwhelmingly thought he should be “caned.” Ah, spare the rod, spoil the child and all that. Well, we’ve lost that in the rush to describe all corporal punishment as mere abuse. Speaking personally, I was a very bad boy at times when I was a boy and my father spanked me on such occasions. He was right to do so. I fully deserved it. It made me a better person. I’m grateful to my father to this day for doing so, though in Sweden, were he still alive, he’d probably be charged (this, in microcosm, demonstrates why I call the age we live in the Age of Nonsense).
Good for those at Foggy Bottom who are patiently and quietly awaiting a change in administrations. Well, after all, what can you expect from an American administration where the head honcho thinks Austrian is a language and who refers to Navy corpsmen as “korpsemen?” I’ve long argued that one of the key keys in understanding Obama is not to overlook how enormously ignorant he is.
I have indeed traveled extensively throughout Europe and America, though I regret to say I have never been to any continent but those of North America and Europe. My loss, but then, as a counter here, it is perhaps pertinent to remember what that great Chines thinker, Lao-Tzu, observed, to wit, that one can know the whole world and never leave his home.
Take good care, my friend.
Veracious_one says
“Egyptian people cannot stand the Muslim Brotherhood…”
Obama hardest hit….
Henry says
They do the same sort of ‘support’ for the MB here in this country too.
Jay Boo says
Despicable White House and Senate Infestation (Obama, Kerry, McCain) & others
Short list of some Muslim Brotherhood enablers
Al Jazeera, Qatar, (Obama administration, CAIR and NPR leftists) and even Iran which Obama is now coincidentally toying with.
The Saudis must realize that Obama is trying to sneak the Muslim Brotherhood into their neighborhood & backdoor.
Salah says
“The Saudis must realize that Obama is trying to sneak the Muslim Brotherhood into their neighborhood & backdoor.”
They do, and here’s their response:
Saudi Arabia designates Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-saudi-security-idUSBREA260SM20140307
Jay Boo says
Thanks Salah Great link
mortimer says
What Egyptians REALLY think is:
Salah says
That was a nice clip!!!
Thank you mortimer.
Brian C. Hoff says
It like Ireland durning the unrest in Northern Ireland when the IRA carry out terrorist acts. Ireland government outlaw the IRA in Ireland but they didnot enforce it at all. Afew loudmonth Ireish man was arrest by the government they turn out not to IRA member or old member of the IRA of the 1920’s.
Brian C. Hoff says
The UK was thinking of invadeing Ireland.
Islamisdeath says
If imam obama is not muslim brotherhood why does he bend over backwards to support and enable them? This is part of the overall plan to abolish the. Constitution, set up sharia law and the caliphate.
Our dear leader imam obama has been promised a high position in the caliphate is what I think. The looney left are just tools and they will be lined up and given a number when the head whacking begins.
Bezelel says
Soooo, obaMUD, the fake pres, fake human, fake Christian, with the fake ssn, fake draft card, and fake American is complicit with terrorism? Who would guess?
Jimbo says
“Fake human” is so right. I think he’s a hologram. Not only is there no there there, there’s no guy there.
Mr. Squat says
Marie Harf reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. Not bad looking for a an administration official!
fair_dinkum says
sounds like someone has filled the obama government in and this is the start of a messy turnaround/backflip/withdrawl.
John Stefan Obeda says
I must often pray: “God, the holy Trinity, have mercy on us so that our blind leaders will finally see what Islam teaches and stands for. Bless the citizenry, the people, in spite of the stupid decisions of our leaders. And soon, please, give us leaders with at least common sense if nothing else so that we are protected from satan’s chief servant, Islam.”
gravenimage says
MS. HARF: Well, they’re contacts, and let’s just – I’ll put it in a little context here. We think it’s important to have contacts with all the parties in Egypt, because all the parties in Egypt ultimately are going to need to be a part of Egypt’s future, and that we want to help them be a part of that future and move Egypt out of the situation it’s in today. So we think this is important to do. Do we always agree, do they always agree with what we’re saying? Of course not. But we believe it’s important to have the dialogue.
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Let’s *really* “put this in context”, shall we?:
MS. HARF: “Well, they’re contacts, and let’s just – I’ll put it in a little context here. We think it’s important to have contacts with all the parties in Germany, because all the parties in Germany ultimately are going to need to be a part of Germany’s future, and that we want to help them be a part of that future and move Germany out of the situation it’s in today. So we think this is important to do. Do we always agree, do they always agree with what we’re saying? Of course not. But we believe it’s important to have the dialogue.”
That could, of course, have been written about the Nazi Party…