Change!… Obama Administration Resumes Contacts With Muslim Brotherhood

In February, Kamal al-Halbavi, a senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, said he hoped that Egypt would have a “a good government, like the Iranian government, and a good president like Mr. Ahmadinejad, who is very brave.”

Kamal al-Halbavi (Kamal Helbawi) also told Iranian news outlets that the Khomeini revolution in Iran over three decades ago set an example for others to follow today. Al-Habawi added, “Unfortunately there are no personality like Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamenei.”

The Muslim Brotherhood wants Sharia Law in Egypt.

This week the Obama Administration decided to resume contacts with the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Reuters reported, via Weasel Zippers:

The United States has decided to resume formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, in a step that reflects the Islamist group’s growing political weight but that is almost certain to upset Israel and its U.S. backers.

“The political landscape in Egypt has changed, and is changing,” said the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency.”

The official sought to portray the shift as a subtle evolution rather than a dramatic change in Washington’s stance toward the Brotherhood, a group founded in 1928 that seeks to promote its conservative vision of Islam in society.

Under the previous policy, U.S. diplomats were allowed to deal with Brotherhood members of parliament who had won seats as independents — a diplomatic fiction that allowed them to keep lines of communication open.

Where U.S. diplomats previously dealt only with group members in their role as parliamentarians, a policy the official said had been in place since 2006, they will now deal directly with low-level Brotherhood party officials.

Obama and leaders of the G8 pledged $20 billion in assistance for the transitions in Tunisia and Egypt in May.

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