Tuesday, September 3, 2013
One could hardly come up with a more explosive allegation about a U.S. president than secret membership in an Islamist group.
Al Jazeera’s blog posted
a story Monday featuring tweets from the Director of Research at the
Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar, who reported that an Egyptian
newspaper’s front page story claimed President Barack Obama is a member
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
If
you missed it, “liberal” Egyptian newspaper has front page headline
claiming Obama as full-on member of Muslim Brotherhood international.
@shadihamid
Shadi Hamid
“Newspaper also claims that son of MB leader threatened Obama w- release of ‘papers’ revealing his MB membership,” writes Shadi Hamid of Brookings.
One could hardly come up with a more
explosive allegation about a U.S. president than secret membership in an
Islamist group. And if that weren’t enough, the newspaper also claims
that President Obama’s half-brother Malik is allegedly an Al Qaeda
activist.
Jonathan Spyer, senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center and an Arabic speaker, tells TheBlaze that the newspaper — Al-Wafd — specifically accuses Obama of being a member of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The article goes on to say that Obama
originally embraced the thought of the Brotherhood while living in
Indonesia, per Spyer, and further alleges that the son of Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater had threatened to expose a
document revealing the secret membership.
But Syper says such allegations are the result of an angry Egyptian populace expressing frustration.
According to him, the publication of
this kind of conspiracy is rooted in the ongoing dissatisfaction on the
Egyptian street with the Obama administration’s policy which some have
viewed as pro-Muslim Brotherhood.
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