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Children of Egypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood President Won’t Give up U.S. Citizenship Despite Demands

Children of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood President Wont Give up U.S. Citizenship

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP photo)

While the debate rages in the U.S. over concerns the Muslim Brotherhood could be infiltrating the government, in Egypt questions are being raised about the loyalty of those closest to the country’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi.

This week, Egypt Independent translated an intriguing item from the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm on the controversy surrounding the citizenship of Mohammed Morsi’s children. Two of his five children were born in the U.S. when their father was studying for his doctorate at the University of Southern California and are, therefore, U.S. citizens. Despite the outcry from their father’s political opponents and a legal suit against them, they’re refusing to give it up. The paper reports:

Children of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood President Wont Give up U.S. Citizenship

Morsi's son Ahmed

President Morsy’s children that were born in the United States, will not give up their US citizenship because it is their personal freedom, his son Osama told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

He was commenting on a case before the Administrative Court, which requests his two siblings, Ahmed and Shaimaa, be stripped of their American citizenship.

He is certain the case is not based on objective grounds, since forcing someone to give up their nationality is illegal and incomprehensible, but said it was up to the court.

Mohammed Salem, a lawyer, filed a lawsuit to demand Morsy’s children to give up their American nationality, which they were granted when they were born there while President Morsy was working there.

The case was considered last Sunday by the Administrative Court, which decided to postpone the case until a session on 20 September.

Because only this one item appeared in Egypt’s English language press, TheBlaze contacted Middle East Analyst Raymond Ibrahim, a fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, to learn more. After finding additional details in the Arabic press, he explains that neither of the children who are U.S. citizens currently reside in the U.S. Son Ahmed works in Saudi Arabia, while daughter Shaimaa lives in Egypt. He tells TheBlaze:

As for why the children won’t abandon their US citizenship, they cite “free choice.”

Children of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood President Wont Give up U.S. Citizenship

Morsi's daughter Shaimaa

Yes, Morsi’s opponents, including lawyers and politicians are demanding that the children of Egypt’s president have no loyalties to any other countries — especially America, which is being portrayed as having interfered enough already in Egypt’s internal politics. They cite the fact that American citizens, based on the citizenship oath, are obligated to be loyal to America before any other nation, asking – so what if Egypt and America are at war? Will the children of Egypt‘s president be aiding Egypt’s enemies?

This of course begs the question: if it is dangerous for Egypt to have a president with children who have US citizenship, does the same logic not apply in the reverse, that it may be dangerous for America?

During the election campaign this spring, Morsi’s opponents pointed to the U.S. passports to question the Morsi family’s loyalty to Egypt. Ibrahim explains that the contest over which candidate was most patriotic and “how ‘un-Egyptian’ the other guy was” became a big issue.

Another crisis ensued when it was revealed that the mother of Abu Hazm, an Islamist who was eventually disqualified, also held U.S. citizenship.

There is an additional irony here which can’t be overlooked.

It’s popular in Islamist circles to criticize Western immorality, as exemplified by the United States. Here’s just one example: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Muhammad Badi —the group’s “Supreme Guide” – said in a 2010 sermon that the U.S. was “heading towards its demise” and was doomed to collapse due to its being “immoral.”

Dual citizenship is allowed under Egyptian law. It appears even for the most hardline Egyptian patriots and Muslim Brotherhood loyalists, the allure of a U.S. passport is just too precious a thing to pass up.

Comments (24)

  • Arc
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 4:50pm

    I would hope that anyone who holds dual citizenship here in the US would be closely monitored should the “balloon go up ”.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 1:54pm

    In case it isn’t already obvious, then this is the primary reason that America‘s Founding Fathers didn’t believe in awarding anchor-baby citizenship:

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    “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
    Emerich de Vattel: The Law of Nations (1758)

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  • kalli
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 1:07pm

    “the group’s “Supreme Guide” – said in a 2010 sermon that the U.S. was “heading towards its demise” and was doomed to collapse due to its being “immoral.”

    I have to agree with this statement. This nation is the most immoral, corrupt and wicked in its history. It has become a toilet bowl of sin, and God is getting ready to flush!

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  • OniKaze
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:27pm

    The U.S. should give the children an ultimatum..

    1. Keep your U.S. citizenship, and as long as your father is in power, no communication will be permitted. You will be sheltered and protected by the U.S. (something like witness protection, since doing this would certainly be a call for execution under Islam).

    -or-

    2. Give up your U.S. citizenship and go elsewhere.

    If they love the American way of life, they will chose to stay here… And if that is their choice we should support it. If they chose to renounce, the U.S. should wash thier hands of them, and tell them that they are on their own.

    I have a feeling if the U.S. gave them that option, they will chose the U.S. (after all, only a fool would chose to go BACK to an Islamic country…)

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

    Why did a member of the Muslim Brotherhood get permission to live here in the first place? I know the story said he was getting his doctorate…., but why allow him to do that? We probably paid for it. Quit allowing our enemy and future enemies come here to get educated and/or

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Look at the age of his children… I have a feeling he wasn’t a member of the M.B. when he was here for college. It looks like that took place about 25 – 30 years ago (just a guess by looking at the age of his children).

      Back then… Egypt was our friend, and not hostile to the U.S. That is a recent issue from the last 10 or 15 years…

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  • Macrobat
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

    The line “what if Egypt and America are at war” tells us volumes about their plans. But – seriously – anyone who thinks any correctly-conducted war between the two would last more than 3 days is an idiot in the first place.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:34am

    do give up NO ONE WANTS YOUR MURDERIOUS MUSLUM WAYS besides YOULL BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER… cant wait for that day.. see MUSLUMS will wane… islam is a man made cult of hate n death PERIOD no heaven only HELL awaits ALL MUSLUMS

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  • Americanfortruth58
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:29am

    Just put them on black list and don’t let them ever enter the country and seize all their assets to pay their taxes, then they may want to give it up so they can get their money!

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  • DeOppressoLiber
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:02am

    I wonder if this article has anything to do with the DOS and the Muslim Brotherhood. It talks about the DOS dragging their heals on issuing passports to the CIA for work in the middle east.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/16/the-petraeus-passport-puzzle

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    • joe conservative
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:08am

      Why would he give it up? If they get another 4 years of Barack Obama they will have free reign over here. Remember when the media mocked Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Don Smith for reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood taking over in Egypt? These guys were mocked endlessly. What just happened? The MB has taken control of Egypt.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6GbaOl4x-4

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    • SurhanSurhan
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:12am

      @ JOE CONSERVATIVE- I know in America there is no such thing as an open and honest election but in Egypt they had an open, honest and fair election and the citizenry voted for their government. Leave’em alone!

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    • Passerby
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:16pm

      The Military still runs Egypt, not much has changed. An exploding population, and no jobs or housing for them.

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:48am

    Assuming BHO doesn’t get a 3rd term, I predict the DNC will nominate Ahmed for pres in 2016.

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  • barber2
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:36am

    Wonder who is working on the book ” While America Slept ?”

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  • barber2
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:35am

    Interesting. Article today in the WSJ about that 2010 New York Russian spy ring which was whisked back to Mother Russia . Turns out their “ long term” plan was to use the children of these people to create more Americanized informants for Mother Russia whose ex- KGB people ( Like Putin ) still had scores to settle with America ! Reminds me of this Muslim Brotherhood situation. An open society is vulnerable.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:51am

    Speechless.

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  • cdn1979
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:29am

    this is a no brainer. Who in their right mind would give up US citizenship for Egyptian. And if you have US citizenship, what the heck are you still doing in egypt. vacation time is done over there. get out!

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:56am

    And there we seem to have the truth of the matter.

    There is the hatred and the outrage borne of envy.

    The collective Muslim Brotherhood’s neck veins must be popping with fury as they consider the effect that this must be having.

    Imagine trying to convince the newly subjected hoi polloi that they really are better off under a repressive and brutal theocracy when two of the president’s children, who have a precious gift through accidental timing of birth, know what they have and are not giving it up.

    It’s kind of nice to watch them squirm.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:15am

      @NZKiwi:

      Their neck veins will be doing more than popping; the lives of those two children are in grave danger from the radicals of the Muslim Brotherhood. There will be those among the factions who will see the fact their birth in America alone taints them, and thus will condem them to death.

      I learned of the Brotherhoods “mercy” in such matters, which means none, first hand. I read this article and could only sympathize with those two, hopefully they will neve need to feel the blade of a knife on their skin or a loss of an eye to the Brotherhood fanatics.

      Personally there may come a time when the new Egyptian President will have to make a choice of his position or the lives of his children; I wonder which he will choose in the end?

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:16am

      and we still give them billions of dollars

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  • ThePostman
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:50am

    When are we going to pivot back to the economy, Blaze?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 7:47am

    His two children will soon enough face the final ultimatum and have to choose to become Egyptian, flee to America, or stand their ground for freedom and die. Any way they choose they will be marked by the extremists of the brotherhood for death due to the “taint of Infidel America in their blood.”

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:16am

      Sadly, Snow, I think you are right.

      Isn’t islam such a wonderful cult. Without the gun and the religious police, I‘m pretty sure it wouldn’t survive past a generation…

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