Thread: State Dept. Misled Reporters About Meeting with Muslim Brotherhood

State Dept. Misled Reporters About Meeting with Muslim Brotherhood

Jen Psaki / AP

BY: Adam Kredo
February 2, 2015 5:48 pm

The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a recent delegation of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and allies who were hosted for a meeting with officials at Foggy Bottom.

State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki claimed last week that the controversial delegation of key Brotherhood leaders and allies had been “organized and funded by Georgetown University.”

However, the university denied this is the case when reached by the Washington Free Beacon.

Psaki clarified her original comments made on Jan. 29 during a Monday meeting with reporters.

The meeting between the Brotherhood allies and the State Department sparked controversy in Washington and Cairo, where Egyptian government officials expressed anger at the Obama administration for hosting representatives of a group they consider to be terrorists.

The State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials.

While Psaki continued to defend the decision to host the Brotherhood allies at the State Department, she clarified that Georgetown actually had nothing to do with the delegation.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t have the accurate information on one small piece. The meeting was set up by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, a nonprofit. So the visit was not funded, as you know, by us or the U.S. Government, but it was also not funded by Georgetown,” Psaki said.

When asked by a reporter “if there’s been any rethink in—within the building about the appropriateness of this visit, considering what happened afterwards and the photographs that some of the participants took,” Psaki responded, “No.”
While at the State Department last week, one member of the delegation, a Brotherhood-aligned judge in Egypt, posed for a picture in which he held up the Islamic group’s notorious four-finger Rabia symbol, according to his Facebook page.
Psaki went on to say that the Obama administration remains comfortable entertaining the Brotherhood.

“Are you—is the building comfortable with continuing to do business with this center, this group?” a reporter asked.
“Yes. Yes,” Psaki responded.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned the visit and expressed frustration with the State Department for hosting the Brotherhood-aligned delegation, which was first reported by the Free Beacon.

“These statements are incomprehensible to me, we do not understand that there will be such a communication with the elements involved in terrorist acts to intimidate the Egyptians,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri was quoted as saying in the regional press.

“The Brotherhood is not a political party,” but “a terrorist organization,” Shukri said.

Just days after the Brotherhood-aligned delegation was hosted at the State Department, the Islamist organization released a statement calling for “a long, uncompromising jihad.”

“It is in incumbent upon everyone to be aware that we are the process of a new phase, where we summon what is latent in our strength, where we recall the meanings of jihad and prepare ourselves, our wives, our sons, our daughters, and whoever marched on our path to a long, uncompromising jihad, and during this stage we ask for martyrdom,” the statement reads.
When initially faced with questions about the meeting following the Free Beacon’s initial report, Psaki
implied that the delegation was legitimate due to its ties to Georgetown.

“Well, State Department officials meet—recently met with a group of visiting Egyptian former parliamentarians whose visit to the United States was organized and funded by Georgetown University,” she said. “Such meetings are fairly routine at the State Department where we regularly meet with political party leaders from across the world.”
“The Georgetown group included former members of the Freedom and Justice Party, among others. So this was a meeting – we meet on a regular basis with a range of groups, and obviously, as I mentioned, this was a group sponsored by Georgetown,” Psaki said.

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Muslim Brotherhood Calls for “Long, Uncompromising Jihad” 2 Days after Meeting with Obama State Department
Tim Brown
January 31, 2015


People can call the Muslim Brotherhood and their front groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America and others as "harmless" and "peaceful" all they want. However, the reality is quite different. Following a meeting with the Obama State Department, the Muslim Brotherhood declared an open jihad in Egypt.
The State Department hosted a delegation of Muslim Brotherhood-aligned leaders concerning their opposition to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. One of those delegates, Waleed Sharaby posed for a picture, which he posted on his Facebook page. Note the infamous four finger R4BIA he flashes for the camera, the same hand sign put up by Obama's former Homeland Security advisor Mohamed Elibiary.

Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reports:

The Muslim Brotherhood called for "a long, uncompromising jihad" in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group's key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released this week.

Just days after a delegation that included two top Brotherhood leaders was hosted at the State Department, the organization released an official statement calling on its supporters to "prepare" for jihad, according to an independent translation of the statement first posted on Tuesday.

The State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials.

Keep in mind that Egypt dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood as a political organization and the country designated them as a terror group, something that the Obama administration is unwilling to do. That is probably due to the fact that he has had pro-Muslim Brotherhood advisers surrounding him, his brother is actively involved with the Muslim Brotherhood and that he has been outed by the Egyptian media as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Just days after a jihad attack in the Sinai region, which killed at least 25 people, the Muslim Brotherhood issued this statement:

"It is incumbent upon everyone to be aware that we are in the process of a new phase, where we summon what is latent in our strength, where we recall the meanings of jihad and prepare ourselves, our wives, our sons, our daughters, and whoever marched on our path to a long, uncompromising jihad, and during this stage we ask for martyrdom."

The statement also goes on to cite the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Imam al-Bana, who has called for the death of the Jews.

"Imam al-Bana prepared the jihad brigades that he sent to Palestine to kill the Zionist usurpers and the second [Supreme] Guide Hassan al-Hudaybi reconstructed the 'secret apparatus' to bleed the British occupiers."

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow Eric Trager said, "The State Department should have foreseen what an embarrassment this would be."

"The fact that the Brotherhood issued its call to jihad two days after its meeting at the State Department will be grist for endless anti-American conspiracy theories about a supposed partnership between Washington and the Brotherhood," Trager said.
The obvious question should be raised as to why Obama entertains America's enemies in the people's house, and why does Congress do nothing to stop it? The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing but contempt for the United States and they have planned our destruction from within, using our own system to do it. The only answer that makes any sense is that Obama is one of them and that Congress is composed of compromised men.

However, there is a way to deal with those who are compromised and the campaign to do that is a grassroots movement you can be a part of. Take a look at these two articles (here and here) and see how you can be a part of holding these men accountable to the law.


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