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Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham had warm words for the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s dominant Islamist party with a radical and hateful past, during a recent visit to the Middle East. The comments mark a disturbing growth in relations between some senior Republicans and Islamists, Andrew McCarthy writes in the National Review Online.
“I was very apprehensive when I heard the election results,” Sen. Graham, R-S.C., said about the Brotherhood’s victory in recent Egyptian elections. “But after visiting and talking to the Muslim Brotherhood, I am hopeful that they will be able to deliver not only for the Egyptian people, but that we can have a relationship with Egypt, with the Muslim Brotherhood as a strong political voice.”
As McCarthy notes, this new relationship seems out of touch with reality and even Graham’s previous apprehension about the group. The Brotherhood ideology hasn’t changed since the revolution, and its Palestinian branch is the proscribed terrorist organization Hamas. The group even responded harshly to positive overtures by McCain about the arrest of American democratic activists. “Would America allow any foreign agenda or country to interfere in its affairs like this?” asked spokesman, Mahmoud Ghuzlan. “Then why should America expect Egypt to accept this kind of interference without an investigation or a trial?”
McCain, R-Ariz., also called for donations of weapons to Islamist Syrian rebels, whom McCarthy notes have connections to both the local Muslim Brotherhood branch and al-Qaida. “There are ways to get assistance ranging from medical assistance to technical assistance, such as GPS and other things we could provide,” Senator McCain said in support of the Syrian rebels. “There are ways to get weapons into Syria. It is time we gave them the wherewithal to fight back and stop the slaughter.”
McCarthy notes that the moves show McCain and Graham as wishy-washy on Islamism and the Brotherhood, one of the greatest threats to American democracy. “We did not get the McCain presidency, but we have gotten the McCain foreign policy where truckling to Islamists is concerned. When it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood, it turns out that mavericks and community organizers are on the same page.”
Follow the money. It’s not just endowed Chairs at Harvard that are being paid for.
I just don’t get it, how can you even consider the side that is so evil and kills for fun has no respect for life at all. I can’t stand Grahm anyway so knowing that he sides with them is no big surprise. He will side with any president to further himself. Cain however was a surprise and giving weapons to the enemy OMG that is insane. The generals said NO because you have no idea who is who anymore. What else is needed for this decision. I still think Obama is threatening the entire congress and senate, for all the bad actions they have made something indeed is up here.
I have been watching this unfold since Obama cleaned house in Egypt that allowed for his Muslim Brotherhood to take over. We then saw, Libya, Yemen fall to the same, and are trying to provoke Syria as an excuse to help the U.N. & Muslim Brotherhood to take over there as well. Then we seen Obama move into Uganda with the hopes of seizing power in Somalia. I don’t know about you, but it seems that Obama is setting himself up as a
possible Future President /Dictator in Africa and no. I don’t see him as the antichrist, though it has came to me in passing thoughts, I’m gnawing on the idea. The reason I’m thinking President, is that, Obama if he loses his seat, will be heavily investigated because his corruption can’t be hidden with another administration not wanting to take the heat for it, and it will include Libya and Egypt which all are in the same region. Think about it. Why is he concentrating along those bordering countries to Israel? And look at the surrounding neighbors, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and even Iran? We know as Christians that the whole Mideast are going to be joined at the hip, something they have never been able to do, just as our American Indians failed to do in combining their power, man could they have caused allot of problems. If Syria falls, Lebanon and Jordan will be next and then Saudi Arabia. He’s being allowed to get away with this without a peep nor squeal from any of them either, and there’s a reason for it,Why? I am not a conspiracy nut either, it’s the facts as I seen them presented…
http://www.westernjournalism.com/under-the-radar-obama-sends-u-s-troops-to-4-african-countries/#comment-89018
it will take all of us! http://rightonweekly.com/baby-boomers-reflect-the-integrity-of-america-today-its-not-too-pretty/
The day of reckoning is coming!
Newt had quite alot to say on that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F4Bd5mr9uI&feature=youtu.be
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