MB Chief Calls for "Holy Jihad" Against Israel.(TIP).The head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood called for Muslims to "raise the flag of Jihad in the way of God" to liberate Jerusalem. In a statement issued Thursday in Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper, Mohammed Badie said negotiations are pointless.
"Let Muslims know and let Believers be certain that the recovery of the holy sites and the safeguarding of goods and blood from the hands of the Jews will not be through the corridors of the United Nations, nor through negotiations," a translation of Badie's statement said. "The Zionists only know the method of force. They will not step back from transgression, unless they are forced to. This will only be by holy Jihad, and enormous sacrifices and all forms of resistance. One day they will be certain that we will choose this Way, and raise the flag of Jihad in the Way of God. We will go forth to the field of Jihad. This will curb their hands and prevent their tyranny."
Egypt's new President Mohamed Morsi, "grew up in the Muslim Brotherhood" and was the group's designated candidate for leadership. He has not disavowed similar threatening statements from Badie, his Brotherhood colleague. In a July sermon, after Morsi's election, Badie said Muslims have a duty "to purify it from the hands of usurpers and cleanse Palestine from the clutches of the Occupation - that is an individual duty on all Muslims. They must wage Jihad with their money and lives and free it, and free its prisoners, male and female … and enable all of the displaced to return to their homeland, their homes, and their possessions."Read the full story here.
Tell me... If you lived under a repressive apartheid regime that routinely shot children, and you were a faithful Christian, would you not invoke the name of god when you cried out "injustice!"? Criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood because they oppose Israeli policies is deeply hypocritical and illogical -- UNLESS you wish to support the notion that religion has no place in politics, in which case most Christian Republicans ought to stop voting. Heck, if they did stop, we might not have been electing idiots who ran up massive debts and then relied on propaganda to blame everyone but themselves. You want to complain about the deficit now, as you did in the post after this one... start with Reagan. You want to complain about lost jobs... start with Nixon. Consistently doing the same thing and voting for the same policies, despite the obviously negative results, is a textbook example of stupidity.
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