Muslim Brotherhood favored to win elections in Egypt

Do you remember when the Obama administration welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into the political dialogue in Egypt?

CBN NEWS – Some 14 million voters are casting ballots in 27 provinces over the next two days to elect 150 members of parliament.

The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win the majority of seats in the 498-member lower house.

The Islamist party is already the country’s most influential group. It’s leaders are saying they will not recognize Israel “under any circumstance.”

“The Brotherhood respects international conventions, but we will take legal action against the peace treaty with the Zionist entity,” the party’s deputy leader said during a recent interview.

Other liberal and secular groups that led the uprising that forced Mubarak from power have performed poorly in the staggered elections, which began Nov. 28.

Let me remind you of how Salim Mansour described the pushing of the Muslim Brotherhood into power:

That intelligent people, or people who claim to be intelligent, (I have in mind the talking heads in the U.S. media such as Chris Matthews or Fareed Zakaria) cannot make the difference between the sham of the Muslim Brotherhood talking about freedom and democracy and the generic thirst in man to be free. These are the people who have, like the Bourbons, learned nothing and forgotten nothing. They are glibly about to put the Lenins of our time into trains heading for Moscows of our time, they find nothing odd that they are pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood to be taken into governing when everything needs to be done to keep the Muslim Brotherhood out even as one carefully negotiates the long historic transition of Arab societies from tribal autocracy and military dictatorships to representative rule and constitutionally limited government.

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Also, it has been reported that the Muslim Brotherhood will hold a public referendum on the Israel Peace treaty. Gee, I wonder how that’s going to go.


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