A window on the muslim brotherhood in america

Elibiary (cont’d): I am fully aware of how controversial my viewpoint is within certain circles. However, despite the hundreds of complaintspublic citizens have recently sent to the Department of Homeland Secu­rity, articles written in American and Egyptian media outlets, as well as complaints by certain Congressmen; I felt this was the right position forme to publicly express the past several months, as it became obviousEgypt was headed for a major crisis of governance.

Our country is the largest military aid supplier to Egypt, so we have amoral responsibility in my opinion as Americans to speak up when wesee that military might being turned upon civilian Egyptian democracyadvocates, be they secular or religious.

Currently I do not assess any national security concerns to the UShomeland from the MB, but I can clearly see a political challenge for theUnited States and a geopolitical challenge for allies of ours in the neigh­borhood, such as Israel and the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, should the MB succeed politically in Egypt. MB-Egypt is truly a grassroots or­ganization and like many other similar social networks native to theMediterranean region from southern Europe to North Africa, they arealso a patronage network with a healthy appetite for hard negotiations.

Fresh from praising the Brotherhood in the passages above, Elibiary next comes downexplicitly in favor of the disastrous Muslim Brotherhood-engagement policies put intopractice by the Obama administration since its inception in 2009. What he proposes is akind of “realpolitik” foreign policy—albeit one that would completely discount the truecharacter of what is a thoroughly ideological movement. It would enlist the United States as the enabler of shariah-fueled anti-American movements worldwide.

Notice that, in the previous passage, Elibiary correctly cites the threat his suggestedpolices would represent to our current allies in the region. He nonetheless presses for theadvance of Islamists’ interests in the region.