Who financed the Brotherhood's trip to the United States? A delegation of five members visited 12 US cities and stayed in the finest hotels for three weeks recently. While there, they met with government and civil institutions as well as with members of Congress and the US State Department.
I pose the question to Egyptian authorities and ask them to take action.
This trip was in violation of political protocols. The Brotherhood, as explained by Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry, is not a formal political party. It is a secret and illegal organization. Also, as I wrote yesterday, the fact that US officials met with them contradicts the US-stated policy about fighting Islamist terrorism, which has emanated from the “takfiri” and “jihadi” thoughts of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Although Washington declines, for personal interest reasons, to call the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and although certain European countries do the same, it is well known that the Brotherhood is linked to terrorism. Also, now that it has finally been proven that Osama bin Laden of Al-Qaeda was from the Muslim Brotherhood, it is indisputable that Hamas, which all of the West labels a terrorist group and refuses to deal with although it was elected like the Brotherhood, is the Brotherhood of Gaza, as it calls itself and as the Brotherhood itself calls it.
Check the Brotherhood websites after the last heinous attack in Sinai and you will find that they all call for a jihad to topple the regime that was freely and overwhelmingly chosen by the Egyptian people. Is this not terrorism?
I am talking here about the Arabic sites, of course, not those in English that have a completely different tone, depending on the Brotherhood’s different and misleading policies.
Receiving a delegation from the illegal Brotherhood group in the United States, before a conference in Washington takes place to confront terrorism itself, confirms the double standards of the American policy in the Middle East. It also casts doubt on Washington's intention to tackle terrorism, which it has funded and encouraged under different pretexts.
The Washington conference will urge other nations to fight terror groups on behalf of the United States and bear the consequences of that, while Washington continues to extend them courtesy, as the US State Department spokesperson described the meetings with the delegation.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
