August 14, 2012

Morsi Elevates 'Closet Muslim Brotherhood General' With US Encouragement

Andrew G. Bostom

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi elevated Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to defense minister, with the apparent encouragement of (rather witless) counterterrorism czar John Brennan, and other Obama administration officials.

Consistent with Team Obama's rather blatantly pro- Muslim Brotherhood policies, the Wall Street Journal also notes,

People with knowledge of the Egyptian military said Gen. Sissi has a broad reputation within military circles as a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, a rare trait in a military culture inured against Islamism. "Sissi is known inside the military for being a Muslim Brother in the closet," said Zeinab Abul Magd, a professor at the American University in Cairo and an expert on Egypt's military.

When will the clarion calls of the National Security Five for a Congressional investigation of Muslim Brotherhood influence peddling be heeded?

FOLLOW US ON