Obama Bypasses Congress, Gives $1.5 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood

Developing Story: Obama Bypasses Congress, Gives $1.5 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood

March 22, 2012

The news breaking now is that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon announce that President Obama will “resume funding for Egypt’s military, despite Congressional restrictions and objections from human rights and democracy advocates.”


According to Breitbart.com and other sources, the Obama administration is set to Bypass Congress, yet again, and fund the Muslim Brotherhood with an additional $1.5 Billion. Last Friday it was his Executive Order amendment to the Defense Production Act of 1950 is significant in that it is now amended to for control 'in peacetime'. WUA Story Here

If this turns out to be true, at what point do impeachment proceedings begin? This is a exactly what many predicted would happen when he realized he would be a one term president - do as much damage as possible before we throw him out of the Whitehouse. The eviction notice has been given and the tenant of OUR HOUSE is kicking in the walls and leaving a stench that will linger for decades to come.

Have a look at Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) who spoke today on the House floor and addressed the recent report that the Obama Administration is giving $1.5 billion in military aid to the Muslim Brotherhood.



The Washington Post reported on February 12 that -

"A crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups in Egypt and a bill before parliament that would further restrict nongovernmental organizations here are inhibiting development work and activism during a period many Egyptians hoped would be marked by greater freedoms."

“This has become a huge impediment to the U.S.’s ability to deliver and to have an impact with its aid,” said Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Washington-based Project on Middle East Democracy. “This is casting a real shadow over all U.S. assistance to Egypt.”

Full Article Here

Then on February 16th the Washington Post wrote -

"The Obama administration intends to resume funding for Egypt’s military, despite congressional restrictions and objections from human rights and democracy advocates.

For months, the money for Egypt — more than $1.5 billion, with the bulk earmarked for the military — has been withheld amid that country’s crackdown on pro-democracy groups, including several U.S.-based organizations with close ties to political parties in Washington."

"A law passed by Congress in December forbids funding unless the State Department certifies that Egypt is making progress on basic freedoms and human rights.

But Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is close to announcing plans to bypass those restrictions on national security grounds, according to senior administration officials"

Full Article Here

This is what democracy looks like Mr. President, Hope and Change Muslim Brotherhood style - and now you want to give them $1.5 Billion? November elections may be too late to end this travesty of a US presidency, this brotherhood with evil needs to end and who will rise up and say it? Will we guard the Constitution or continue to allow it's utter abuse?

Janet Napolitano Gives Top-Secret Security Clearance To Muslim Brotherhood

5 USC 7311 - Sec. 7311. Loyalty and striking

U.S. Code - Title 5:

An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he -

(1) advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government;

(2) is a member of an organization that he knows advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government

Janet Napolitano Gives Top-Secret Security Clearance To Muslim Brotherhood

As The Brotherhood Takes Office

As The Brotherhood Takes Office Can we Keep Faith with the People?

by Shoshana Bryen

An Egyptian man chants pro-democracy slogans during a rally outside the Egyptian Embassy in London to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of protests in Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (Photo:AP)

In London, hundreds of Egyptians stood in front of the Egyptian embassy, with some speeches calling for solidarity with the Egyptian people and other revolutions of the Arab Spring, condemning Western meddling in some Arab nations.

The Egyptian Parliament re-opened this week with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and the Salafists in second place. Googling liberals were far behind. It is not surprising as the vast majority of Egyptians are rural, poor, and religious, but since majority rule should never be confused with democracy, the Obama administration is in a tight spot.

The U.S. wants western-style capitalism and free markets in a country that looks and acts like ours. The State Department appears to believe it is America's job to tell the Brotherhood what it wants and what it expects.

Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Deputy Secretary of State William Burns' meeting with the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi was, "an opportunity to reinforce U.S. expectations that Egypt's new government will support human rights, women's rights and religious tolerance and support Egypt's peace treaty with Israel." CNN reported that Burns' message was, "We want to work with your government. We want a meaningful partnership that fully accepts your government and we want to work with you on your primary goal, which is economic development as long as we feel you are building a democracy that respects human rights and freedom and supports regional peace."

Mr. Burns may believe that economic development should be the Brotherhood's "primary goal," and national survival may bring it to the top of the list right now, but the Muslim Brotherhood stands for the establishment of an Islamic society based on its understanding of God's requirements for man. Mr. Burns is likely to be disappointed when those requirements don't include universalized "human rights and freedom" or "regional peace" for Israel.

In Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Iran, not to mention Hezbollah and Hamas, the best organized groups are in political ascendance—and they are also the ones who deeply reject American political, moral, and social standards. They believe in an international Islamist revival, and it underestimates them to assume they are closet capitalists and free-thinkers.

We cannot demand and should not expect, but the United States has had experience dealing rationally with countries whose systems of government do not include democratic norms and principles, placing ourselves on the side of the people and ensuring that both the rulers and the dissidents know where we stand.

We've done the Cold War.

After decades of ignoring Soviet depredations against their own people, and an uncomfortable experience as wartime allies, the occupation of Central Europe made it impossible to accept the Soviet system as compatible with our own. Certainly we recognized the Soviet Union, talked to it, negotiated with it, traded in some measure with it, and generally tried to avoid war with it. But we also generally did our best to defend against it, restrict it, deny it victories, and keep faith with its people.

Our diplomats knew the names of dissidents and prisoners, and they asked about them in Moscow—and Secretary of State George Shultz's 1987 Moscow Seder was an extraordinary moment for the West. We had trade restrictions, the Helsinki process, COCOM, and Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe to tell prisoners of communism the news of the West and the news of their own countries. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the dissidents said, "We knew you were there; we knew you were on our side."

That is a huge point. During the Cold War, we were good at the distinction between the people and their government. We didn't expect the Soviet government to be like us, but only to know that we were watching and their choices would cost them.

Our Western heritage—not so much electoral politics, but free speech, rule of law, free market economics, independent judiciaries, property rights, and tolerance—is, in fact, responsive to the economic and social conditions confronted by people across the Middle East and North Africa. But while the U.S. demands that Egypt and others be "democratic" and tolerant, we pay only lip service to the universal benefits of Western Civilization, primarily by supporting the winners of referendums masquerading as elections.

Victorious Islamist governments are unlikely to listen to the message of the West, but many people in the region want us and need us. If we don't see the active assertion of our values as part of our policy, future generations in the Arab world will fall farther and farther behind economically and socially.

The West is in a difficult twilight period with the Middle Eastern Arab world plus Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; not so much a "long war" as a "cold war." There are no military answers or easy "soft" answers, but scholar and author Robert Kaplan drew up a concise set of priorities for our government to manage as we go forward:

1.     Regime type matters. Authoritarian regimes, including Russia and China, face uprisings and should not be considered stable partners. To the extent that they permit joint economic activity within the rule of law, we can work with them for the benefit of their people.

2.     Military matters. American influence in the world is proportional to our ability to protect our interests. As we plan to draw down in the Middle East and "pivot" toward Asia, we have to ensure that we have sufficient resources for defense.

3.     Europe matters. Despite their current economic problems and ours, they are the "go to" ally. China doesn't appear to want the responsibilities that go with economic clout, nor does India. Brazil and Turkey have not been helpful, and their longevity as rising economic powers is unclear, and finally,

4.   America matters. No one else is us. Unless we abdicate our leadership, we can exercise it. And we should. source:

El-Katatni: From prisoner to Egypt's Speaker of Parliament

El-Katatni: From prisoner to speaker of parliament

Nearly a year ago, the Muslim Brotherhood was politically restricted by the former regime; El-Katatni one of the group’s leaders is parliamentary speaker

Egypt's parliamentary election

• From:The Australian 
• January 25, 2012 12:00AM

FEW developments more tellingly symbolise the extent of change in Egypt than the election of a stalwart of the Muslim Brotherhood -- an organisation suppressed by successive regimes for 84 years dating back to the monarchy -- as Speaker of the new parliament.

With Islamists from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the fundamentalist Salafist Nour Party winning 70 per cent of the seats in the first democratic election in six decades, victory for Speaker Saad el-Katatni was never in doubt. With it comes formalisation of the challenging new reality in the Arab world's biggest and most influential nation, namely that Islamists from an organisation long forced to operate in the shadows and which exerts profound influence (if not control) over the likes of Hamas, now have democratic legitimacy and are on the cusp of achieving political power that never seemed likely to be their destiny.

The new parliament will nominate a committee to draw up a new constitution. For the time being, the ruling military council retains the whip hand. It will do so until presidential elections in June. But with Islamists -- including Salafists demanding an extremist sharia law regime involving gender segregation, regulation of women's dress and a ban on alcohol sales as in Saudi Arabia -- so overwhelmingly in control of the parliament, it is unlikely the generals will be able to hold out against the political forces now so strongly in the ascendant in a country formerly a pillar of moderation in the Middle East.

The parliamentary assertion of muscle by the Islamists, backed by a massive popular vote, is undoubtedly a watershed moment not only for Egypt but also for the Arab Spring. It raises a range of questions. Not least is what impact the Islamist triumph symbolised by Mr Katatni's election will have on the peace treaty with Israel, which has for so long been the linchpin of Middle East peace but is an agreement bitterly opposed by the Muslim Brotherhood's creation, Hamas. Its an issue on which the Islamists need to think long and hard. The last thing Egypt's new democracy needs is another war with Israel, a conflict they would be bound to lose. That moderation has served Egypt well in the past is unquestionable. The Islamists, while understandably savouring their election victory and asserting their authority in the new democratic parliament, would be foolish to ignore that reality. source:

El-Katatni of the Muslim Brotherhood greets other members of parliament in Cairo (Photo: Reuters

On 27 January 2011, Mohamed Saad El-Katatni and tens of other Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested as the government of Hosni Mubarak sought to repress the growing popular uprising.

Nearly a year later, it is fair to say that the Brotherhood has turned the tables on the toppled regime, with El-Katatni overwhelmingly elected as the new parliamentary speaker, while former president Mubarak faces charges in court.

Last January’s mass arrest of Brotherhood figures was not instigated through clear legal avenues or formal charges issued by the prosecutor general.

Rather, it was widely seen as an impulsive attempt by the Mubarak administration to pile pressure on the Brotherhood, to dissuade them from being in the streets during the January 25 revolution.

Such a move, needless to say, did not pay off, as with other oppressive measures applied by Mubarak’s government, eventually overthrown on 11 February last year.

Brotherhood and Mubarak’s regime switch roles

As the 18-day revolt intensified and prison gates were mysteriously opened, El-Katatni along with hundreds of inmates were freed, days before Mubarak and his oligarchy were brought down.

The aftermath of the revolution saw the Brotherhood realise their long-held dream by establishing a political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which gives the group the solid political representation Islamists did not have under Mubarak.

Before the revolution, Brotherhood members and other Islamists used to run for parliamentary elections as independent candidates and not through political parties. They were unable to form political parties due to restrictive conditions imposed by the former regime, in addition to the prohibition of parties with religious frames of reference.  

Several leading Brotherhood figures served prison sentences in Mubarak’s Egypt.

Since February, it is Mubarak and many of his oligarchs who have been in court. The 83-year-old former president faces charges of corruption and suspected involvement in the killing of peaceful protesters during the uprising.

Some of former associates of Mubarak are already in jail, such as former interior minister Habib El-Adly who was found guilty of corruption and is currently serving a 17-year prison sentence.

Although several observers have noted limitations to the Mubarak trial in terms of leniency shown towards the defendants, the fact remains that many Egyptians would never have imagined such a trial taking place.

Those who imprisoned the Brotherhood and other opposition figures are now in court or prison, while the Brotherhood dominates the new People’s Assembly.

After the establishment of the FJP, El-Katatni, who a year ago was incarcerated in Wadi El-Natroun prison, was appointed as the party’s secretary general.

The FJP recently emerged as the biggest winner of the parliamentary elections and now comprises 47 per cent of the People’s Assembly.

El-Katatni officially announced his nomination for the position of the People’s Assembly speaker in the opening session on Monday, and was elected after amassing 399 votes out of 508 in a ballot held shortly afterwards.

  

He opened the People’s Assembly session the following day.

Mini Factbox

El-Katatni was born in the Upper Egyptian governorate Sohag on 4 March 1952.  He is a microbiologist and worked as a professor at the Science Faculty of Minya University from 1994 to 1998. He also conducted Islamic studies

The 59-year-old first joined the Brotherhood in 1981 and was elected to the Guidance Bureau in 2008

El-Katatni represented the Brotherhood in parliament  from 2005 until 2010.

From 1990-2006 El-Katatni served as secretary general of the Minya University’s Teaching Committee.

Shit San Franciscans Say

Where do we go lobby Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States?

Original Text:

أين يتجه اللوبي الإخواني وأوباما بالولايات المتحدة؟

Where are the Muslim Brotherhood and the Obama Administration Taking America? Dr. Essam Abdallah

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In this article, published in the leading liberal pan Arab "Elaph”, Egyptian liberal writer Dr. Essam Abdallah exposes the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood within the Obama Administration and the campaign led by CAIR and its allies against Middle East Christians, US experts and American Muslim reformers. Abdallah's article is powerful evidence to a reckless policy of backing Islamists, perpetrated by the Obama Administration and its advisors on Islamic affairs. The Editors.

Disturbing reports are coming out of Washington, D.C.

These reports reveal the depth of the below-the-surface coordination between the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan. This bloc of regimes and organizations is now becoming the greatest Islamist radical lobby ever to penetrate and infiltrate the White House, Congress, the State Department and the main decision making centers of the US government. All of this is happening at a time when the US government is going through its most strategically dangerous period in modern times because of its need to confront the Iranian Mullahs regime, which is expanding in the Middle East, as well as penetrating the United States, via powerful and influential allies.

It looks like the near future will uncover many surprises after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, as we realize more and more that the popular revolts in the Arab world - and the Obama Administration’s position towards them - were determined by political battles between various pressure groups in Washington. Moreover, pressures by these lobbying groups have left an impact on the region's events, the last of which was the canceling of the visit of Maronite Patriarch Rahi to Washington. A number of Arab and Western news agencies have leaked that one of “those who sought to cancel this visit was Dalia Mujahid, a top advisor on Islamic and Arab affairs at the State Department, who is of Egyptian origin. And that”, said the reports, “came at the request of the high command of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who wish to see the US Administration support the Islamist Sunni current.”

Also very noticeable at this point is the growing domination of Islamist forces around the Mediterranean: the victory of the Nahda Islamist Party in Tunisia, the declaration by (TNC Chairman) Mustafa Abdeljalil that Libya is an Islamist state and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. These developments wouldn't have happened without the approval of the United States. A document published inWashington indicated that Egypt will face more violence and tensions while movingto the Pakistani, rather than the Turkish, model. Egypt will be ruled by an opportunistic bourgeoisie and a regime declaring itself Islamist, and it will be backed by a military institution. The military will be used by the Islamists to maintain power but the armed forces, the parliament, the regime and the constitution will all become Islamist.

In return, the Maronite Patriarch is denied a visit to Washington, Coptic Christian churches are destroyed in Egypt, and Coptic demonstrators are massacred at Maspero in Cairo by the Egyptian military, demonstrating that the goal is to suppress Christians in the Middle East, who are - as Patriarch Rahi said - paying a high price for the revolts of the Arab Spring. Rahi expressed his concerns about the fate of Syrian and Lebanese Christians and sees, as does the world, the flight of millions of Iraqi and Middle Eastern Christians from their homelands as a result of events in Iraq, and the methodic persecution against the Copts. The Christians of Egypt aren't only facing suppression and ethnic cleansing but a form of genocide.

The real question now is: who is allowing the Muslim Brotherhood lobby to damagethe relationship between the US Administration and millions of Middle East Christians? This lobby was able to delay meetings between leaders from Coptic Solidarity International, including Magdi Khalil and Adel Guindy, with the US Government. Similar obstructions have been happening with Chaldean and Assyrian delegations over the past few years. Moreover, the Muslim Brotherhood has waged a hysterical campaign against prominent experts in counterterrorism such as Steven Emerson, Daniel Pipes, John Guandolo and Robert Spencer. One particularly rough campaign was waged by CAIR against Professor Walid Phares, one of the most important, and even prescient, experts in counterterrorism and Jihadist movements in the US. In his book, “The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East”, Dr. Phares predicted its evolution and the shape of coming Islamist regimes in the region.

But the Muslim Brotherhood’s campaign is not limited to liberal Arabs, Christians, Jews and Atheists. It has also targeted Muslims who oppose the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) lobby such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, the President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD); Sherkoh Abbas, from the Syrian Kurdish Council; Farid Ghadri; the Somali-American author Ayan Hirsi Ali; Ali al Yammi; Tarek Fatah and many more. Attacking Muslim liberals in the West helps the Muslim Brotherhood's project in the radical Islamization of the Middle East, but it does not at all help US interests. Oppressing opposition, diversity, pluralism, and shedding human rights and freedoms are in direct contradiction to the values defended, and sacrificed for, by America's founding fathers as well as by all those who fought wars for America throughout her history.

These intimidation and suppression campaigns directed against Arab and Middle East Christians – and against intellectuals and researchers opposing the Muslim Brotherhood and its sinister ties to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran - in fact are aimed at America’s ability to become aware of the threat all of them pose to American freedoms. For American strength isn't only in its navies and military power, but in its Constitution and the laws which provide the moral force for all other distinctly American liberties.

Note that the US Constitution did not include any suppressive articles (regarding freedom of religion or freedom of speech), the lack of which is the case in many Middle Eastern countries. Rather, it was written in the spirit of a Jeffersonian federal democracy based on individual freedoms.

So, all things considered both here and in the Middle East, where exactly are the Obama Administration and the Muslim Brotherhood lobby, together, taking America? And why?

Dr. Essam Abdallah is an Egyptian liberal intellectual who writes for the leading liberal pan Arab "Elaph”. SOURCE:

October 31, 2011