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"Brotherhood" Invited To Obama Speech By U.S.
A sign that the Obama administration is willing to publicly challenge Egypt's commitment to parliamentary democracy: various Middle Eastern news sources report that the administration insisted that at least 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's chief opposition party, be allowed to ...
President Obama's Cairo speech text
President Obama's Cairo speech text
usatoday.com — I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two... remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's ... (more) President Obama's Cairo speech text
An Inconvenient Truth
blogs.tnr.com — What dismays me most about Barack Obama's Middle East initiative is that the only country in the... area he seems to be pressing is Israel.  He is not pressing Egypt and perhaps that's because there is nothing that Cairo can give., Maybe I'll be ... (more) An Inconvenient Truth
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Inviting The Brotherhood
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The taboos keep falling in Obama's potentially transformational tour of the Middle East. Human rights activist have been invited to the Cairo speech as well. ...

Muslim Brotherhood Invited to Obama's Egypt Speech?
Little Green Footballs — ... No matter how you look at it, this seems like a stunningly bad idea: ‘Brotherhood’ Invited To Obama Speech By U.S. ...

OBAMA APPEASING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN CAIRO
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERSOBAMA HAS INVITED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO HEAR HIS SPEECH. THAT'S ZAWAHIRI'S OLD PALS. THE MB IS ANTI-DEMCORATIC, ANTI-ZIONIST AND THE BIGGGEST THREAT TO MUBARAK. THE INVITE EITHER AN INSANE DEGREE OF HUBIS AND DOVISHNESS, OR OBAMA WANTS TO STRGENGHTEN THE ENEMY. BOTH BAD.ATLAS HAS MORE. ...

U.S. invites Muslim Brotherhood to Obama speech
Jihad Watch — ... America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." -- "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991. "'Brotherhood' Invited To Obama Speech By U.S.," by Marc Ambinder for The Atlantic, June 3 (thanks to Pamela): A sign that ...

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Weekly Standard Blog — New Hampshire legalizes gay marriage. USA Today: "The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $819,848 tax lien against Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, but Kerry on Wednesday blamed an IRS clerical error for the claim and said his campaign owes no tax penalties." Michelle Malkin: Climate of hate, world of double standards. The White House has invited the Muslim Brotherhood to Obama's Cairo speech. Jim Geraghty: "It's official: Obama is more supportive of building nuclear power plants in ...

Obama Insisted on Representation in Egypt for Top Terror Group
Moonbattery — An alarming detail regarding Comrade Obama's Suck Up to Islam tour, from the left-leaning Atlantic: [V]arious Middle Eastern news sources report that the administration insisted that at least 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's chief opposition party, be allowed to attend his speech in Cairo on Thursday. The brotherhood is a Salafist/ Islamist party with branches in many countries, and it does not have a reputation for liberalism and has supported violent campaigns against Israel (and Egypt's own government). It has deep roots ...

This Mission Is Not McChrystal Clear -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy
Articles on National Review Online — ... refuse to participate in U.S. operations in Islamic countries. In 2004, he added that Muslims should attack occupying American troops in Iraq. If we combine the huge international audience of his weekly al-Jezeera television program and his Islam Online cyber-venture, Qaradawi is the most influential Sunni cleric in the world. He is also the chief theoretician of the world’s most influential Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood (the same Muslim Brotherhood President Obama insisted on inviting to his ballyhooed ...

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The New Osama bin Laden TapeThe Corner on National Review Online
Osama bin Laden's latest taped statement came hot on the heels of a video from henchman Ayman al Zawahiri denouncing President Obama's trip to Egypt. But despite the coincidence of timing the Osama tape does not directly address Obama's Middle East goodwill trip, though it may have been released ...
Al Qaeda deputy criticizes Obama's Egypt tripDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]CNN[/b] (CNN) -- On the eve of President Obama's highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world, al Qaeda's second-in-command issued an audio statement saying the president of the United States is not welcome in Egypt. Obama is traveling to the Middle East in an effort to repair ...