The Muslim Brotherhood is largely responsible for the uprising in Egypt and calls for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, and demands that a former top-level United Nations (U.N.) official, El Baradei, assume control of the country. A few years ago when President Barack Obama visited Cairo, Egypt, he invited at least ten members of the Muslim Brotherhood to observe his speech. But what ideals does the Muslim Brotherhood support?

According to Jihad Watch, “the Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamic organization dedicated to the imposition of Sharia (strict Islamic law), by violent or peaceful means, throughout the world. It was founded in Egypt in 1928 as a reaction to the abolition of the caliphate by the secular Turks in 1924, in order to reassert the political and supremacist elements of Islam.”

Apparently, in the United States of America, Mohamed Akram wrote in, ‘An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,’ on May 19, 1991, that the Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within an ‘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.”

Marc Ambinder for the Atlantic wrote on June 3, 2009, “’Brotherhood’ Invited to Obama Speech by U.S.’”

Jihad Watch quotes Ambinder as writing that, “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 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 in the region and traces its intellectual lineage to Sayyid Qutb, a top American-educated Islamic intellectual who was executed – or martyred – by the Egyptian government in 1966. The Brotherhood has direct links with Sunni groups like Hamas in the Palestinian territories. Its standing in Egypt has suffered as of late because of a crackdown by the Egyptian government …”

To read the entire article from Jihad Watch, link here:  To read special reports by China Radio International, link here:  To read about El Baradei's visit to the Muslim Brotherhood, link here:

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