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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD DANGEROUS FOR EGYPT
By Ken Timmerman, Newsmax correspondent, February 3
The fall of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will be "a profound
game-changer" for the United States, former Undersecretary of Defense Richard
Perle told Newsmax. A Muslim Brotherhood takeover, with or without Mohamed
ElBaradei, could mean the end of U.S. military cooperation with Egypt.
Perle said the Obama administration should make the U.S. opposition to a
Muslim Brotherhood takeover clear to the Egyptian army.
If the Egyptian army felt they were facing an arms embargo, it might make
them less willing to allow the Brotherhood to take over," he said.
The Obama administration has embarked on just the opposite course by
empowering ElBaradei, undermining Mubarak, and sending ambiguous messages to
the Egyptian military.
The violent clashes that took place in Cairo and other major Egyptian
cities on Wednesday between supporters and opponents of Mubarak followed on the
heels of a White House effort to convince the Egyptian president to resign his
post immediately.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged that Obama had sent former
U.S. ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner to Cairo to read Mubarak the riot act,
and that Obama also spoke to Mubarak directly by phone.
"I think the message that the president delivered clearly to
President Mubarak was that the time for change had come," Gibbs said on
Wednesday. "We know that that meaningful transition must include opposition
voices and parties being involved in this process as we move toward free and
fair elections. But that process must begin now."
To increase the pressure on Mubarak, the State Department instructed the
current U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, to hold political
consultations with ElBaradei, the former U.N. official who is demanding
that Mubarak resign before the opposition engages in any dialogue with the
government.
Speaking openly with a top opponent to Mubarak -- and announcing it -- was
a gesture loaded with significance in a part of the world where seemingly
harmless gestures fuel the wildest conspiracy theories.
For many Egyptians, it was tantamount to a U.S. "seal of approval" on the
former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who spent much of the
past decade making excuses for Iran's ongoing violations of its
non-proliferation commitments and its relentless work to acquire nuclear
weapons capability.
Whatever the intention of President Obama, his actions appear to have
spooked Mubarak and his supporters and prompted them to make a display of force
that cost the lives of at least three protesters on Wednesday.
The Muslim Brotherhood publicly threw their support behind ElBaradei on
Sunday, authorizing him to negotiate on their behalf with Mubarak's regime to
form a new national unity government.
Speaking with CNN shortly after winning the Muslim Brotherhood support,
ElBaradei upped his demands. "It is loud and clear from everybody in Egypt
that Mubarak has to leave today, and it is non-negotiable for every Egyptian."
ElBaradei downplayed Western fears that his association with the Muslim
Brotherhood was dangerous.
"The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with the Iranian model. It has
nothing to do with extremism as we have seen it in Afghanistan and other
places," he told CNN. "The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative
group . . . They have a lot of credibility."
However, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Ghanem, said to the
Iran's Al-Alam Arabic-language TV network that he believed Egypt should close
the Suez canal to U.S. warships, and "the people should be prepared for war
against Israel."
Former Obama adviser and long-time CIA analyst Bruce Riedel argues that the
United States has nothing to fear from the Muslim Brotherhood, despite their
core political message that Egypt should become an Islamic state, governed by
Shariah.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, who led the U.S. government
case against Sheik Ahmed Abdul Rahman, the blind Egyptian who plotted to blow
up the Lincoln Tunnel in New York in the early 1990s, said, "The Brotherhood
would neither keep the peace nor support our efforts against terrorism. Its
doctrine is a pro-terrorist doctrine."
He added ominously: "If you fall for its claims to be against
'terrorism,' you are falling for a word game -- they do not consider attacks
against Israel or against Western forces in Muslim countries to be terrorism.
They consider that to be 'resistance.'"
According to its charter, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to impose sharia
law, restore the Islamic caliphate, and conquer non-Muslim or "infidel" states.
"Allah is our goal. The Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah is our leader. The
[Koran] is our constitution. Jihad is our way. And death in the way of Allah
is our promised end," the Brotherhood proclaims in its founding documents
.
The Iranian regime has openly welcomed the anti-Mubarak protests in Egypt,
while the government-controlled press in Tehran has been gloating that
Mubarak's impending demise spells trouble for the United States.
Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Gen. Hossein Salami gloated that
events in Egypt were "a manifestation of the [Iranian] Islamic Revolution in
the Middle East region and the world of Islam."
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, called ElBaradei "a stooge
for Iran" because of his track record of covering up Iran's true nuclear
weapons capabilities while he headed the International Atomic
Energy Agency.
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