Muslim Brotherhood Reverses Course, Will Run Its Own Candidate for President in Egypt
- Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:27pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday said it decided to field the movement’s deputy leader and top strategist as its presidential candidate, ending months of speculation about whether or not the group would seek to round off its success in legislative elections with a bid for the country’s most powerful office.
(Related: Hundreds File Papers to Run for the Egyptian Presidency as Fears of Islamist Control Still Linger)
Top leaders of the country’s most influential political group announced in a press conference that it selected Khayrat el-Shater to contest the presidential race set to start in May.
The movement‘s decision to finally nominate one of its own is likely to escalate the group’s confrontation with the council of military generals who took over when longtime president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in an uprising last year.
It will also widen the gap with liberals and secularists, who fear that the movement – which has largely espoused moderate rhetoric in the past year – will implement a hardline Islamist agenda once it has enough power concentrated in its hands.
Mahmoud Hussein, the group’s deputy leader, said the decision was made in the face of “attempts to abort the revolution,” after the military council refused several requests by the Brotherhood to appoint a cabinet of ministers.
The move reverses a pledge made by the group’s leaders not to contest presidential elections to reassure liberals and Western countries fearful of an Islamic takeover.
The group won close to half of parliament seats in the country’s first post-revolution elections in November. That victory was largely due to the Brotherhood’s grassroots movement, however, and it is unclear how Shater will do against other candidates who might have greater name recognition and stronger television personas.
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Comments (65)
pinchanze
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:06pmAgain, does this surprise anybody?
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:59pmagreat and knowlegable man once said………………….SURPRISE……SURPRISE……..SURPRISE
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 6:46amThe only people surprised are Sweet Old Barack and Hilrod. They are the ones who kept telling us that the Muslim Brotherhood was a moderate organization and we would be able to reason with them.
Good Luck with that.
OMG 2012
Report Post »maccow
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 4:01pmNo really, who didn’t see this one coming?????
Report Post »Go ahead… raise your hands MSM. We know… You suck…. You chose not to see the obvious conclusion. Not a chance you will hold yourselves in any way accountable when tens of thousands die or are enslaved like in Cambodia. No, it will just be GWB’s fault again.
SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 8:53pmSomeone better tell Bill Kristol before he makes a fool out of himself…opps…Too late.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 1:35pmI’m shocked! Absolutely SHOCKED, I tell you!
Wait…no, hang on a second….I watch GBTV regularly, so I’m not surprised in the least. I’m only surprised they waited this long.
Report Post »jbrote47
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:11pmOnce again, the obama regime is silent. But of course, I suspect that there were “consultations” between obama and the brotherhood before hand. Isn’t called the brotherhood for nothing.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 8:55pmThey always seem to be silent when things are going as planned.
Report Post »toto
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:05pmAnyone in government who claims to be surprised by this is either an incompetent or a liar or both. Anyone with half a brain knew this would happen. Americans used to stand for something, now, not so much. For me this just proves there is no such thing as evolution, the dumb just get dumber, as well as less moral and less ethical.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:13pmI agree 110%.
Can anyone name a media personality that predicted this would happen?
I wonder did the same person predict the outcome of any election in egypt?
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:43pmTelevision persona, Shater will be the new President of Egypt, the land once ruled by great Pharaoh’s. Dark times are falling upon the citizens of Egypt and many others. The Parliament will cement his victory, even against the will of the people, Caliphate anyone? Well done to the Commander and Chief and his Secretary of State.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:39pmMay… Amon-Ra smite… the Muslim occupiers… and bring forth the Armies of Anubis!
Report Post »Just4thefax
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:23pmFact: Hold off until January 2013 and we will give you BH Obama !!!!!
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:09pmNo one here’s surprised. Beck warned of this exact thing before he got canned by FOX. :)
Report Post »Smug
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 7:33amI think Glenn quit on his own, but you’re right he warned this would happen a long time ago……MSSMUG
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:48pmWatch the Money. You know, the CASH Barry just funneled over to Egypt. The DEMOCRAT Party is the channel for this American TAXPAYER Money to be funneled into the Muslim Bro. Hoodie Party coffers. I wonder how much will be returned , for Barry’s campaign. Hey Hillary… Do you know????
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:40pmBS — the MuslimBrotherhood killed Sadat… and were suppressed under the last Government… so taking over, Rebellion, was always their Plan! And… Our Government & Media knows it… and helps them!
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:23pmWas there any doubt…..the good news is Obama made it all possible and continues to send Egypt billions of tax dollars to support these terrorist.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:20pmHere’s how it all ties together.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnriQ8Rry-g&feature=share
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:21pmArab Spring II! Brpught to you by the good folks at the State Dept. Rmember for all your revolution needs, contact Hiil or any one of her top notch buffoons! Be it mil;itary support, full military involvement , or just a few billion in good ol’ US greenbacks, , ,If you’re revolting we want to be who you think of first!
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:25pmLol
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:43pmI wonder if they will be running on the Hope and Change platform!
ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN was so right – this is definably a Jeffersonian Democracy taking place in Egypt.
Glenn called BS – I call BS – the whole world calls BS – Egypt will fall to Sharia and thousands of people will be slathered – The Blood of the innocent will be on the hands of everyone that works at the above News Stations all the way down to the cleaning crew.
Egypt has the size to train 10′s of thousands of terrorists with the mission – to kill Jews and Destroy America.
Crickets sounds coming from the Liberal News about this.
Report Post »NewLife56
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:13pmWhat a shock…simply amazing..hmmmmm.If Obama gets beat this November maybe he can “Ruin” their country?
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:21pmHe has the name.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:10pmIn other stunning news today: the administration still admits no responsibility for the economy, water remains wet, and the earth continues to rotate toward the east.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:15pmIf the earth rotates,,,
how does it stay on the turttles back?
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:08pmAfter all, they got the go ahead from Obama with funding the rat ba stards.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:06pmOnly AFTER the Muslim Brotherhood successfully puts their picks in most/all of the Arab Nations that “Sprung” last year-will CNN EVEN begin to THINK Gee, it might not be a good thing???? duuuhhhhh
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:57pmNoooooooooooooo kiding! Who would of thunk it was possible?
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:56pmApril Fools Day, go back to sleep everybody.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:54pmCaliphate here we come.
Report Post »I wonder when NObama will indorse the Muslim Brotherhood candidate and call him a great democratic leader?
Maybe they should change their name to the “Democratic Muslim Brotherhood Party“?
That will fool them!
I think the future looks bleak and things are about to hit the preverbal fan.
I wrote this song as a warning about the “The End Times” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10381143
KickinBack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:49pmWhat was that chant again?? Oh yeah…“This is what democracy looks like”…Really…
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:03pmTthese ppl have not changed since the begining of time & now they r suppose 2 , Wake up u Dummo-Crats. + Every Dictator was elected by Dummo-Crats every 1.
Report Post »Delicaterose65
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:48pmBut this WONT HAPPEN!! Remember???? Ohhh wait IT IS HAPPENING!!!
Report Post »@ CATB ~ Amen ~ to your post!!!
barber2
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:48pmNo. Gee, I am shocked. I never would have believed that these wonderful, “democratic” revolutions in the Arab Spring would end up with fundamentalists like the Egyptian Brotherhood in charge of their “democratic” governments! Just shocked. Just like I would be shocked if someone tried to tell me that the Democrats in the White House were Marxists. Or that the Democrats orchestrated all of the Occupies. Or that the Occupies were aimed at stirring civil unrest . Or that our Democrat Marxists were hoping for an American Spring Revolution for their now Hoodie ( “sanctified” by the Obama Campaign fund raisers ) band of Merry Occupy – Anarchists ! No. I would be equally shocked if any of these preceding events would take place ! Shocked .
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:46pmNow, if there had been a bet amount that was similar to this latest lottery…..I would have placed a bet this was going to be the plan for the Brotherhood to take control & rule with an “iron-fist”. “Fall-season” & not “spring-season”. It’s the season of the beast!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:46pmSoon enough will come the end of Israel and the restoration of the Caliphate thanks to the radical in the White House Kaiser Obama the Destroyer.
Report Post »c.foster4722
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:44pmMUSLIM BROTHERHOOD! Comeing soon to a mosqe near you!!
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:50pmI wish I had more time to comment – Muslims have purchased a piece of property in the next town – they are going to build a mosque on it – Not after we are done – I’m going to go and bury a dead pig on it and post the video showing the burial on You Tube.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:38pmWhy not? .. they are running one here … Democrat Party.
Report Post »drago
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:54pm@Catb.
Report Post »That would be the communist party, with muslim overtones………..
CatB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:25pm;-) .. well they are still CALLED the Democrat … even though they are communists/Marxists majority.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:52pmAlso they are occupying the White Masque as well.
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