Obama Attacks UK Decision to Declare Moslem Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization

The United Kingdom declared the Moslem Brotherhood a terrorist group after an 18-month study ordered by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Immediately, the Obama administration decried the report as flying in the face of the Brotherhood's history as a "nonviolent Islamist group." ~~~~~ The report described the Moslem Brotherhood as anti-democratic, openly supportive of terrorism, dedicated to establishing an Islamist government - and opposed to the rule of law, individual liberty, and equality. Cameron's statement saying : "Aspects of the Moslem Brotherhood's ideology and activities...run counter to British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs....I have made clear this government's determination to reject intolerance, and to counter not just violent Islamist extremism, but also to tackle those who create the conditions for it to flourish. The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Moslem Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism." Therefore, Cameron said, the UK government will continue to refuse visas to Brotherhood members and associates and take other steps that include increasing surveillance on the group's activities and whether these actions could be prosecuted. Britain will continue to uphold the EU's freeze on the assets of Hamas, a terrorist group with ties to the Brotherhood, Cameron said. ~~~~~ Here are key statements from Cameron's report : **"The founder and first Supreme Guide, Hassan al Banna, called for the religious reformation of individual Moslems, the progressive moral purification of Moslem societies and their eventual political unification in a caliphate under sharia law." **"There is little evidence that the experience of power in Egypt...has caused a rethinking in the Moslem Brotherhood of its ideology or conduct." **"Material still being promoted by the UK Islamic Mission as of July 2014 continued to explicitly claim that it is not possible for an observant Moslem to live under a non-Islamic system of government."~~~~~ Cameron's position fits well with that of many Americans, but President Obama disagrees. His administration quickly condemned the report, saying the Moslem Brotherhood has a history of nonviolence. The Obama statement said : "The political repression of nonviolent Islamist groups has historically contributed to the radicalization of the minority of their members who would consider violence. The de-legitimization of non-violent political groups does not promote stability, and instead advances the very outcomes that such measures are intended to prevent." ~~~~~ As President, Barack Obama has long embraced the Moslem Brotherhood and has defended and promoted Islam. Last February, the White House refused until pressured to reveal the names of the people who attended a meeting of American Moslem leaders with President Obama. The Oval Office issued a statement saying the meeting covered "a range of domestic and foreign policy issues." In 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress the Moslem Brotherhood has "pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt. In other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the Moslem Brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally." In a 2009 interview with Saudi TV, Obama said: "My job is to communicate to the American people that the Moslem world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives....My job to the Moslem world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy." ~~~~~ Dear readers, we don't know how many Moslems Obama has placed in the White House or key agencies because their biographies are scrubbed. But if words and acts have meaning, they work for a President with serious affinities to Islam. Can the US be safe under Obama? The perceived 'enemy within' makes it impossible to trust that we're safe.