Muslim Brotherhood: Dems didn’t invite us to speak to Congress
posted at 3:39 pm on April 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I’m happy to be wrong about this one. Like I said yesterday, it sounds like Hoyer did a reasonably stand-up job dealing with the cretin he met with. What he thought he would accomplish by meeting with him in the first place is a separate and unanswerable question.
The Muslim Brotherhood has denied an Egyptian newspaper report saying that a visiting delegation led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had invited members of the radical Islamist group to visit the U.S. Congress.
“These reports are totally groundless,” Muslim Brotherhood executive bureau member Mohamed Mursi said in a statement posted on the organization’s website.
Mursi said the group’s stance on dialogue with any foreign official was that “this dialogue should be held through sound diplomatic methods in the presence of a representative from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.”…
Hoyer spokeswoman Stacey Bernards on Friday denied the al-Mesryoon report, saying she had “no knowledge of any invitation to members of the Muslim Brotherhood” and that she believed the report to be incorrect.
An Egyptian blogger calling himself Goha the Simple expressed doubts about the veracity of the al-Mesryoon report, saying it was “almost certainly a fantasy.”
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Oh thank the Lord I don’t have something else to lose it over today.
SouthernDem on April 13, 2007 at 4:07 PM
were do you think MEMRI got its report from? any truth to them being a front for mossad?
jp on April 13, 2007 at 4:16 PM
AMEN
KelliD on April 13, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Again I read this story in Al jazeera’s arabic site.
Apparently what MEMRI caught was the Brotherhood saying that they didnt trust any americans so that a meeting with them had to be held in a very public place so that they couldnt be “deceived” but also so that the mazimum amount of propaganda could be gleemed from it.
The MB was pushing for a meeting with the dems figuring “Hey they are meeting everyone else why not us ?”
William Amos on April 13, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Sounds like the Dems weren’t real keen on whatever the MBros had to say. I can’t imagine why.
SpartRan on April 14, 2007 at 2:22 AM
OK, so they didn’t get caught this time. Still, they’re probably guilty of something, right? Them rich white folk always are.
bdfaith on April 14, 2007 at 2:33 AM