Muslim Brotherhood Website: Support Palestinian 'Resistance,' Hike Price of Oil to West

 For those who say that the Muslim Brotherhood is not an extremist group, their own website appears to suggest otherwise. The Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in Egypt and is perhaps most famous for its 1981 conspiracy that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for creating peace with Israel two years earlier. A former member of the Brotherhood was Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of al Qaeda. The radical group Egyptian Islamic Jihad is an offshoot of the Brotherhood and was formerly commanded by Zawahiri.

The Brotherhood's formal stance is that it has renounced violence. However, its inclinations appear to be the opposite. Protesters, probably affiliated in the group, were reported to be shouting "jihad" in the streets of Cairo yesterday.

The group wants a share of power in any new Egyptian government. It has been in talks with Vice President Omar Suleiman and demand key ministries. If the Mubarak dictatorship is overthrown and the army does not step in the Brotherhood will be the best-equipped and organized group to form a new regime.

According to the Muslim Brotherhood website, Ikhanweb, the organization lays down some key demands. Some are for changes to the Egyptian constitution. Most distressing are its calls for the cancellation of the peace treaty and all relations with the 'Zionist state.'

Fifth: immediately reviewing the Egyptian foreign policy, especially regarding the Zionists and the need to cut ties with them and support the Palestinian resistance as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

 Supporting the Palestinian resistance? Considering the organization's ties with groups like Hamas it appears likely that a new Egyptian government under their command would likely open the spigot for funding for terrorist groups.


The new regime would also 'review' the sending of oil to Western nations if they support Israel:

3 – stopping the pumping of oil and gas to the Zionists and to review the prices and export it to other countries.

This is beginning to sound more and more like 1979 every day.

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