Associated Press
via FoxNews.com
12/10/2011
CAIRO – Sen. John Kerry has met in Cairo with members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that’s set to dominate the new parliament.
In a statement, the Muslim Brotherhood says three of its top officials attended the meeting with the Massachusetts Democrat, who was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson.
Brotherhood officials vowed to respect civil rights and international treaties that have been signed in the past. That assurance could be an attempt to calm fears that the group may try to re-examine Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel.
The group says Kerry told the Brotherhood’s members that he’s not surprised by their success in parliamentary elections.
The elections were the first since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Kerry, who is also chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was among the first U.S. politicians to call on Mubarak to step down earlier this year.
Read also, John Kerry says America welcomes Egypt election results. Which America is that? In this article Pamela Geller shows readers the photograph of John Kerry posted by the Egypt Independent. WDYT?
Update: Glenn Beck’s audience will recognize this guy: Al Qaradawi: Sharia to be applied slowly, gradually…!
In order to desensitize and brutalize a population to the point where they consent to public stoning of adulterous women, floggings and beheadings, you gotta apply ‘gradualism’, the “laws of nature that Allah Almighty has created”, explains Yusuf al Qaradawi, chief lunatic of the Muslim Brotherhood…
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