| Even George W. Bush (like General Petraeus) has dealt with the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq (The Gazette of 8 February) |
| George W. Bush has not only treated from 2005 onwards with the Brothers Muslims in Baghdad, but has even set up their leader, Tariq al Hasehemi and its Islamic Party of Iraq (the Iraqi section of the Brotherhood) throughout the recovery strategy component of the Sunni Iraqi nation-building, including the Surge David Petraeus. Egyptian scenario today is different, but it is clear that the Obama Administration can not ignore the successes that the involvement of the Brotherhood in Mesopotamia has achieved. Especially when the seal is palpable throughout the country to the collateral of the "regime of Islam and all Islamic institutions. Al Azhar, Feb. 3 called on the protesters to leave the square at Tharia for return home to his family and then come to us, al Azhar for a dialogue between government and opposition. " Yesterday, Al Azhar has also exhibited internationally and has issued a tough statement against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who recently called for the establishment of an Islamic Republic in Egypt: "We condemn strongly the policy of Iran based on references from part of its senior clerics, in contrast with the principles of Islam, which blatantly violate the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet. We express strong concerns about the statements and proclamations regarding religious and foreign affairs of Egypt. " The refusal of the body of the Ulema line up front against the regime and the choice of a path of mediation is not just the top, as expected (the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed El-Tayeb, has been appointed as its predecessors with placet explicit Hosni Mubarak) but extends to all mosques in Egypt. Last Friday, the vast majority of the country's mosques, the imams of the prayer has launched an appeal because it preserves "the national dialogue, only path to save the country's highest interests, protect human life and public and private property." To date, except for incidents involving some imams a bit 'all over the country, there is a substantial failure of the Muslim Brotherhood to operate the formidable unification of their party and the mosques that was the key to the victory of the revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1978-79: the union-organized capillary between Hezbollah (the Party of God ") formed under the leadership Khomeini and the vast majority of mosques in Iran, led by the prestigious Koranic university of Qom. Mosques in Egypt today are not the background of consensus and the Muslim Brotherhood, undoubtedly anchored in all ganglia of the company-but not in the army but still-moving trailer. Strengthened by their undoubted potential for political representation, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood are therefore considered Omar Suleiman, as the U.S., a not-just-between the key stakeholders within an opposition that focused increasingly in the Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa a reliable leader for the transition. Of course, if one day it went bankrupt in the transition process-which is the guarantor, including plaza Thar, this bond between the military-fundamentalist party could be created and mosques, but it is too early to predict this outcome. The dialogue "even" with the Muslim Brotherhood today is thus an inevitable choice of realpolitik (except to repeat the mistake of the annulment of their victory in the 1991 election in Algeria, with disastrous consequences) But that leads to a high degree of caution in the face hasty elections. A complex path (there is no doubt the democratic unreliability of the Muslim Brotherhood), but forced, against some of the consistency of their consent (around 20% free consultations). The U.S. experience in Iraq, just about, is an interesting precedent. The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted in fact the first Iraqi elections for the Constituent Assembly on January 30, 2005, in apparent attempt to capitalize on the political-terrorist movement, flanked by the ulema in the Sunni Triangle. But immediately after the U.S., with Paul Bremer, appointed their leader Tariq al-Hashemi vice president and pledged in their recovery, culminating in their involvement in the area (and among the ulema) in the deployment of the Petraeus Surge (including through the recruitment of former officers entered the Brotherhood). Many times, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney have had formal meetings with Tariq al Hasehemi (the last in Baghdad 17 March 2008). A recovery strategy of the political bodies of Sunnis (especially in the division of oil revenues and softening of the Federal Oil "), accompanied by a complete rigidity on violence. Land on which it is-and marginal notation-the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have never ventured. Until now. |
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