This clearly seems to be the direct result of Egypt summoning the U.S. ambassador in Cairo to the “woodshed” over Washington’s continued support for the jihadist group. High-ranking State Department officials met with MB members as recently as January, and the Obama administration has been secretly backing the Brotherhood since at least as early as 2011 and Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11), which defined the group as a “moderate” Islamist political entity. Documents procured under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal even further “close ties” between Washington and the Muslim Brotherhood. In context, the careful wording of State Department spokesman Jeffrey Rathke in the report below is hardly cause for celebration, but rather confirms that fantasy-based policy-making is still the norm in the Obama administration.
“US Officials open to meeting with Muslim Brotherhood leaders, just not this time around,” by Jordan Schachtel, Breitbart News, June 10, 2015:
Although American officials have said they will not meet with a Muslim Brotherhood delegation during their trip to the United States, the White House expressed the possibility that there could be future relations with the jihadist entity.
“We engage with representatives from across the political spectrum, and this is a group we’ve also met with in the recent past,” commented State Department spokesman Jeffrey Rathke. “But you know, we don’t have any further reasoning than we simply aren’t meeting with them this time,” he added.
An unnamed State Department official expanded upon the remarks. “It is the prerogative of the [State] Department to prioritize its engagements and a meeting won’t be helpful at this time,” the AFP reported the unnamed official as saying.
On Monday, the Egyptian government summoned U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Stephen Beecroft, to make their frustrations known about the Obama administration’s openness to the Brotherhood, which has been designated as a terrorist organization in many countries.
In January, high-ranking State Department officials met with members of the global jihadist organization. The group was banned in Egypt in 2013 following the tumultuous reign of former President Mohamed Morsi.
The current Brotherhood delegation reportedly includes former high-ranking advisers to former President Morsi, including Wael Haddara, a prominent foreign affairs adviser; Maha Azzam, the leader of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council; and Amro Derag, secretary-general of the banned Brotherhood party.
The Muslim Brotherhood delegation is being sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Center For The Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), a group that was founded by members of a now-defunct radical Muslim advocacy group. Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has described CSID as a part of “the militant Islamist lobby.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi considers the Muslim Brotherhood to be the most dangerous threat to his country’s sovereignty, according to recent remarks. The Islamist outfit has been accused by an Egyptian court of working with jihadist networks and selling state secrets to foreign countries.
Sam says
“But you know, we don’t have any further reasoning than we simply aren’t meeting with them this time,” he added.”
Why were you meeting with them before ? Traitors….
st. patrick says
Just not this time around?..ISo what happens next time around?..But then again this time is now anyway..
miriamrove says
The Study of Islam and Democracy?!!!! Islam and democracy? Is this a joke? M
Jaladhi says
Islam and democracy are mutually exclusive! Mo/allah is a dictator and can’t stand people making their own decisions.
Jack Holan says
State Dept meets people from all across the political spectrum, except PM Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel when she faces the greatest threat in her 67 year history since independence! Of course, they are only a key Ally BO
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
It’s a sad day when a Moslem dictatorship must take an American to the woodshed with a warning to not be Pollyannish about the Islam. Yeah, the dictators understand Islam, and what stunts Moslems are capable of pulling off in its name. But the ambassador doesn’t understand. None of our ambassadors understand, even including that great pro-Moslem idealist Christopher Stevens, who was treated to a gang rape before he drew his last breath.
It’s one thing to be a dumbass lecturing a class in a college somewhere, hey, that’s what professors are paid to do; it’s another to be one in the Oval Office. But here we are, pursuing an out of focus dreamy golden denouement that when it’s concluded will be drenched in the color crimson,
It was written that All men are created equal, and that’s great. But there should be an addendum to that ideal that But some men are created Moslems.
Jack Holan says
I just read that in 2016 Obama plans to push hard for Slavery Payments. I didn’t second source but at this point I can believe anything with him. I suppose he will exempt all Moslems entering the country in the last 30 yrs. The irony being they are the descendants of slave traders and I read else where one of his brothers is somehow connected to the White Sex Slaves in the ME.
No Fear says
A pox on the Muslim Brotherhood. I banish them to ze pit of eternal stench.
Fooey on them.
pennant8 says
Wait a minute! From the gist of the story I get the impression that these Muslim Brotherhood guys flew in from the Middle East or from the Middle Earth. What about all the homeland based Muslim Brotherhood guys who attend Obama’s iftar dinners, and get to edit the FBI’s training manuals?
Lynn says
Get a copy of Stephen Coughlin’s book Catastrophic Failure, Blindfolding America In the Face of Jihad
Or watch his videos thru Center for Security Policy and of course youtube.
Send them around.
Learn what taqiyya is and what slander means in islam.
Question why Brennan is still at CIA. He is practicing taqiyya from the top CIA office. Think about it….
Brennan fired Coghlin for briefing the truth.
God help us save America from these dastardly SOBs.