Friday, February 11, 2011

Director of National Intelligence says Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular"


YNET

US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said during a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday that Egypt’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement was "a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam." [...]

3 comments :

  1. That is what I hear from my business associates in Egypt who compare Muslim Brotherhood to SHAS.

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  2. This is more or less what an Egyptian co-worker of mine, whom I would describe as a Muslim equivalent of LWMO (who, incidentally, is quite upset about Mubarak being forced out of office), has told me as well. When I asked her if she is concerned about an oppressive Iran-like far-right theocracy taking over in Egypt (an outcome that I can only assume would cause her anguish), she told me she is not worried about such an outcome at all.

    Overall, the picture she paints of what is going on in Egypt is quite different from the way it is being portrayed in American mainstream media. I can only describe the discrepancy as surreal.

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  3. Jersey girl,you listened to that rubbish without responding?Does shas consider a terror group like chamas as its palestine partner/wing.Don't you remember their public action's by the second leabonon war?

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