Dialogue with madmen

For the past few months, maybe longer this administration has been quietly talking with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.  The political entity created to fool the infidel is ironically named "The Freedom and Justice Party" and our leaders have bought into this face lift with all the faith of one who is standing in front of Niagara falls hoping to get only slightly moist.  Freedom and justice in Islam is a polar opposite from our definition, yet we insist there can be dialogue and consensus if we just listen and respond with kindness and understanding.  


Kindness never fed the bulldog, as Colonel Potter from MASH said, and this Islamic bulldog will most certainly take a chunk out of our backside when it feels the need to feed.


This is madness and another example of Obama behaving like a Muslim.




From Reuters October 2 by Edmund Blair

U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat

(Reuters) - U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Washington announced the plans in June, portraying such contacts as the continuation of an earlier policy. But analysts said it reflected a new approach to the way it dealt with a group which Mubarak banned from politics.

The Brotherhood is one of Egypt's most popular and organized groups, with a broad grassroots network built up partly through social work even in Mubarak's era.

The contacts may unsettle Israel and its U.S. backers. The Brotherhood renounced violence as a means to achieve political change in Egypt years ago. But groups like Hamas, which have not disavowed violence, look to the Brotherhood as a spiritual guide.

Yeah.

Under the previous policy, U.S. diplomats were allowed to deal with the Brotherhood's members of parliament who had won seats as "independents" to skirt the official ban. This offered a diplomatic cover to keep lines of communication open.

"We have had direct contacts with senior officials of the Freedom and Justice party," the senior diplomat told Reuters, referring to the Brotherhood's party that was founded after politics opened up following the ouster of Mubarak.

The diplomat said U.S. officials did not make a distinction between members of the Brotherhood or its party. "We don't have a policy that makes a distinction, that one or the other is off limits," he said, without saying when the meetings took place.

A really bad idea which will have implications far into the future.

The diplomat was responding to a question about whether any meetings had occurred, after Freedom Justice Party Chairman Mohamed Mursi told Egypt's Al-Dostour newspaper last week that U.S. officials had not made contact since the policy shift.

Speaking to Reuters on Sunday, the party deputy head Essam el-Erian also denied any meetings had taken place with U.S. officials when asked about the diplomat's comments.

It was not immediately clear why the two sides gave different accounts.

"HIGH-LEVEL" MEETINGS"

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked in an interview broadcast on Saturday with Egypt's Al-Hayat television whether Washington would be ready to work with a future government that included members of the Brotherhood.

"We will be willing to and open to working with a government that has representatives who are committed to non-violence, who are committed to human rights, who are committed to the democracy that I think was hoped for in Tahrir Square," she replied, according to a U.S. transcript.

Believing the MB/Freedom and Justice Party will fulfill those ideals will get innocents killed, and we will have abetted those murders by treating the MB as just another group we can negotiate with.

Under the former Egyptian president, the Brotherhood was banned and its members often detained. Mubarak often presented himself as the bulwark preventing Egypt's slide into Islamist hands, an approach that analysts said help secure him backing from Washington and other Western powers wary that Egypt could turn into another Iran or Gaza.

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