ANALYSIS: Will The US Government Condemn Muslim Brotherhood Anti-Semitism?

ANALYSIS: Will The US Government Condemn Muslim Brotherhood Anti-Semitism?(GMR).It may be instructive to examine some excerpts from recent remarks by US Government officials concerning the film at the center of recent violence in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Islamic world. The first excerpt is from remarks made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a recent Eid (end of Ramadan) dinner at the State Department:

There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind. And we look to leaders around the world to stand up and speak out against violence, and to take steps to protect diplomatic missions from attack. Think about it. When Christians are subject to insults to their faith, and that certainly happens, we expect them not to resort to violence. When Hindus or Buddhists are subjected to insults to their faiths, and that also certainly happens, we expect them not to resort to violence. The same goes for all faiths, including Islam. When all of us who are people of faith – and I am one – feel the pain of insults, of misunderstanding, of denigration to what we cherish, we must expect ourselves and others not to resort to violence. That is a universal standard and expectation, and it is everyone’s obligation to meet that, so that we make no differences, we expect no less of ourselves than we expect of others. You cannot respond to offensive speech with violence without begetting more violence. And I so strongly believe that the great religions of the world are stronger than any insults. They have withstood offense for centuries. Refraining from violence, then, is not a sign of weakness in one’s faith; it is absolutely the opposite, a sign that one’s faith is unshakable.

Notably absent from Ms. Clinton’s list of faiths that have been under attack is Judaism. 

Since June 2007, the GMBD has cataloged a near constant stream of anti-Semitic invective emanating from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as well as the global Brotherhood organizations. Recent examples include an Egyptian cleric who has given two recent sermons on Al-Aqsa TV in which he said he has met people all over the world who “thirst for the blood of the Jews” and that Jews have entered Egypt in order to commit crimes including deliberately infecting Egyptian girls with AIDS,  an article posted on the  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood  website titled ”We can make peace with Israel, if you can make peace with cancer”  and articles recently posted on the Egyptian Brotherhood site with antisemitic motifs, including Holocaust denial and descriptions of the “Jewish character” as covetous, exploitative, and a source of evil in human society. Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, recently appointed to an Egyptian national board of senior Islamic scholars, is a noted anti-Semite who has called for the death of all Jews.

It does not appear that any official of the U.S. government has ever publicly held the Brotherhood accountable for this vitriol, described it as “disgusting and reprehensible”, or condemned it in any pubic forum.

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