They modeled it after Amway. There's a sucker born every minute.8O...........The whole thing is a pyramid scheme.
What would they have been called then?
The Muslim Brotherhood is backing the presidential aspirations of former International Atomic Energy Agency head Muhammad ElBaradei, a harsh critic the US under successive administrations. Unsurprisingly, ElBaradei sanitizes the Brotherhood as an egalitarian movement that eschews violence.
In fact, the Brotherhood, created in 1928 by Hassan El-Banna, allied itself with Hitler and incubated Islamism in the Middle East. Its leaders and thinkers, like Sayyid Qutb, were the precursors of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
Last year, its new leader, Muhammad Badi’, spoke of the virtues of jihad and a state based on Islamic law, while euphorically declaring that the U.S. is heading towards its demise. He has called for Palestinians to end negotiations with Israel and for Egypt to shred its peace treaty with Jerusalem – something his second-in-command, Rashad Al-Bayoumi, emphasized again in recent days as being a priority for the Brotherhood in joining a future government.
What was the reasoning again for the existance of the Brotherhood?
I don't know....1928?
Must been them damn Joos refusing to stay in Europe to be murdered in an orderly fashion.
I'm sure Daniel Mandel knows this subject well.Should the Brotherhood come to power, many thousands of Egyptians will die in repression and war.
That would be history repeating itself, successfully. Manipulation can also come in the form of a helping hand approach. It would be nice to see the country retain the $40-$70B that is said to have been 'gotten' in those 3 decades. All his deals would have to come up for 'review' and any Politician who was attached to it is now unemployable as far as politics is concerned. It is true the military does have the final authority but I would hope they would naturally support a Gov that tries to stay out of wars but also protects it's citizens from attack from hidden quarters. (like a dictator for 30 years over what Iran had going before the US intervened by installing their own dictator). The little bit support thye US is giving democracy would evaporate if natural gas exports (to Israel) suddenly included a 60% tax with the revenue going to the poorest of the poor run by ... wait for it.... the poor. Personally I think they should hire/elect the lawyer that refused to defend a man accused of being a Mossad spy because he was a traitor. With him (and others like him obviously) being on the watchdog organization that has blanket ability to view all government produced documents the next Gov will be leary of getting caught for a crime that affects their life in that treason is never a slap on the wrist.What's the odds on Mubarak just hangin in, till the crowd goes home, arrests the leaders, tortures them to death, reports to Obama that all is well, and US aid resumes/continues.
Never used to be so cynical................years of Mulroo, Cretin, Hapless, will do that to ya.
Guess Mubarak has problems with us to bad, we wanted him out yesterday.
Reuters - The government of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hit back on Wednesday at what it called U.S. attempts to "impose" American will on a loyal Middle East ally, saying rapid reforms would be too risky.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110209/wl_nm/us_egypt