Resuming the decided affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood that was a hallmark of the Obama administration.
“Biden administration pushes Egypt to free Muslim Brotherhood associates,” by Kyle Shideler, Center for Security Policy, November 5, 2021:
Is the Biden Administration holding Egypt aid hostage in exchange for freeing a bloodthirsty Muslim Brotherhood leader?
The Biden Administration is currently withholding $130 million in security and counterterrorism assistance to the Egyptian government, unless 16 unnamed prisoners, among whom may be included a virulent anti-Semitic jihadist cleric, are released from Egyptian prisons.
That was the reveal in a recent floor speech by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week. Cruz has been locked in a rhetorical battle with the Biden Administration for weeks in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, centered around nominee Barbara Leaf, currently proposed for state department assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs. Cruz has sought to force answers to questions about the conditioning of Egyptian security aid on the release of the unnamed prisoners.
“Not a single name. None of them. Congress doesn’t get to know who those 16 people are,” Cruz said during the speech, which featured a large poster board blow up of Leaf’s 1000-word response to Cruz’s questionnaire, “The answer from Ms. Leaf to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is, not to put too fine a point on, go jump in a lake.”
Cruz called the Biden Administration’s action “extortion” and wondered aloud about the nature of the prisoner list, noting that the list of names is available to Congress in a classified form, but one that remains hidden from the public.
One possible clue as to the identity of these prisoners may be language buried within a recent Senate appropriation report, which calls on the secretary of state to consider conditioning aid on the treatment of Egyptian prisoners Ola al-Qaradawi, Hosam Khalaf, Salah Soltan, Abdelrahman Tarek, and Mohamed El-Baqer. Cruz noted that it is currently unknown who was responsible for the insertion of those names into the appropriations report.
Soltan’s is by far the most interesting name, as he is a well-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric and Hamas supporter. Soltan played a key role in leading U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations during his time in United States and has a long record of issuing blood-curdling anti-Semitic calls for violence. He is also known for praising Osama bin Laden, and even being an associate of the late Al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki.
Soltan is currently in an Egyptian prison convicted of incitement to murder. He was formerly a U.S. resident, but his application for naturalization was denied after Soltan appeared at a Hamas rally in Turkey.
Soltan’s son, Mohamed Soltan, also a known Muslim Brotherhood affiliate, was released from Egyptian prison where he faced charges of leading violence during the Rabia Square protests following the country’s ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood government. The Muslim Brotherhood regularly recruits among families.
The younger Soltan currently runs the Freedom Initiative, which advocates for the release of those they identify as political prisoners, mostly Islamists, from Egyptian prison, and his cause has been championed by prominent Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, for whom the younger Soltan served as a campaign surrogate….
Walter Sieruk says
This is very revealing of how thoroughly the stealth jihadist have had infiltrated and therefore have terrible influence on the Biden administration.
This is awful and tragic for both America and the American people.
Nevertheless, what else can be expected after that despicable unAmerican , subversive ,traitorous vote stealing villain impostor “president ” ,Joe Biden sitting and resting in the White House.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Another example of how our paid servants don’t lead so much as rule over their employers, the Citizens of the Republic.
Talk about your insurrections.
Keith O says
BVC, The simple fact is, our political masters have forgotten the simple concept that they are in office to carry out the will of the people and that they have a duty of care to protect those that they are supposed to represent, however, it seems that the opposite is now the norm. and they do as they want at the expense of the people and America’s allies.
mortimer says
The Red-Green Axis of Evil believes in the Muslim Brotherhood in the same way that the Bolsheviks believed in the usul-I jaded (Jaddists) (translated as “new method”) – which championed a return to pure Islam with a strong stress on the centrality of education.
However, in 1927-1928, Stalin reversed all the measures that gave power to indigenous Muslims throughout the Soviet Union, thus betraying the former Muslim allies who with relish helped destroy churches and arrest Christian clergy. Now it was the turn of the Muslim Greens to be persecuted by the communist Reds. .
This is the Leftist plan with Muslims today as well, but they need their help a bit longer before the Reds spring their trap. The Obama-Biden-Sanders-AOC Leftards will betray the Muslims as the day follows the night.
Don McKellar says
Problem #1: Why is there $130 million for aid to Egypt in the first place? Who pockets this money in a corrupt moslem country like Egypt? Why isn’t that money earmarked for aid to regions in the United States hit by the China virus?
Once we get past that we can discuss the how and why of Obama’s shadow presidency.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Exactly!
somehistory says
I was thinking the same….why should any country that allows persecution of people, in this case as in many, Christians…why should they be getting money when so many in this country are having difficulty buying food?
I read a report a few days ago about people, families, going without a meal or two a day because food costs so much…that was planned by this so-called “government administration”…these families could use a few extra dollars in their accounts…be they bank accounts or if they get food assistance but it isn’t enough.
This whole affair is so very disgusting.
They just passed the “infrastructure” bill for a couple of trillion; guess that money will be used to force Americans to do their ‘will’ too.
The entire world seems to depend on money from the American taxpayer, who is being treated worse than dirt by the slime in the wh and congress.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Brandon cannot go to hell soon enough for My taste!! #ButHeWillWhenTheReaperTakesHim!
somehistory says
He might be entitled to two reapers…”Grim and Grime,” on account of graft.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Congress cannot declassify the list of names. Doesn¿ congress represent the peoplle¡¡
Kudos to Ted Cruz KEN
Walter Sieruk says
There is an insidious infiltrating Islamic movement in the United States federal government as the different State governments in America.
This is what is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, , subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever.
Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
mjazzguitar says
Islam and Communist Infiltration.