{"id":3978,"date":"2011-01-31T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2011-01-31T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:28:09","slug":"elbaradei-muslim-brotherhood-not-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/elbaradei-muslim-brotherhood-not-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"ElBaradei: Muslim Brotherhood Not a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear fear mongering on the right that the populist revolution taking place in Egypt today could result in a radical Islamic Regime under the Muslim Brotherhood.  I admit that the Russia\u2019s progressive-socialist Kerensky government was shortly overthrown by the totalitarian Bolsheviks and the populist Iranian revolution gave way to the current theocratic regime there, and know one can say where a revolution will lead.  Perhaps the Kerensky government might have held if European nations and the US has not invaded Russia in support of the Tsar.  Perhaps the extremism in Iran could have been avoided had not the US overthrown Iran\u2019s democratic government and installed the Shah.  Obama is right to leave the outcome to Egyptians.  Republican lies from the likes of Neocon Jon Bolton should be ignored.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"31MuslimBrotherhood\"Thousands of Egyptians continue to take to the streets in protest of President Hosani Mubarak\u2019s 30-year-long authoritarian regime. But while the Obama Administration inches towards public support for the Egyptian people, many Republican hardliners are throwing up roadblocks to U.S. endorsement of democratic reform<\/strong>. Their delusion-du-jour<\/strong>? The threat of the Muslim Brotherhood<\/strong><\/font>. <\/p>\n

Those who subscribe to Rep. Thaddeus McCotter\u2019s (R-MI) [GOP lies delinked] and Amb. John Bolten\u2019s [GOP lies delinked] fear-mongering warn that the inevitable result of this pro-democracy movement will be the enfranchisement of the Muslim Brotherhood and other anti-American \u201cjihadist nutjobs.\u201d <\/p>\n

Today on CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria GPS, former International Atomic Energy Agency director, Egyptian activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei blasted the delusion as a \u201cmyth\u201d lacking \u201cone iota of reality.\u201d Intimately familiar<\/a> with both Iranian and Egyptian politics, ElBaradei pointed out that the Muslim Brotherhood is not actually an extremist group and the idea that extremists would takeover the government is just a myth \u201cperpetuated and sold\u201d by the Mubarak regime<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n