The Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian government.
"The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) was founded as an Islamic revivalist movement in the Egyptian town of Isma'iliyaa in March 1928 by school teacher Hassan al-Banna (1906-1949). The vast majority of Sunni terrorist groups - including al Qaeda, Egyptian Islmaic Jihad, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad - are derived from the Muslim Brotherhood. (Also CAIR)
The Brotherhood's goal has been to promote the implementation of Shari'ah (Islamic law derived from the Quran and the Sunnah). The movement has grown exponentially, from only 800 members in 1936 to over 2 million in 1948, to its current position as a pervasive international Sunni Islamist movement, with covert and overt branches in over 70 countries."
Mr Obama also supports a role for this group in America. Is there any doubt where this is heading?
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