By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The tables have been turned.
Egyptian officials summoned US Ambassador Steven Beecroft to Cairo yesterday. Egypt summoned the US ambassador to discuss their displeasure over the fact that a delegation from the Muslim
Brotherhood is in Washington, DC on a mission to determine if they will set down roots in the US capital.
Egypt is not merely displeased. Egypt is livid.
According to the Reuters report the Muslim Brotherhood delegation is not meeting with US officials. The Egyptians, however, take exception to the very presence of the Brotherhood in the US capital.
According to the Egyptians, the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group and is dedicated to the destruction of Egyptian society. The Brotherhood wants to establish a caliphate, a Muslim state, in Egypt.
Over the past year the Muslim Brotherhood has been responsible for hundreds of terror attacks in Egypt - including attacks against military bases, soldiers, civilians and even natural gas lines.
The United States defended the Muslim Brotherhood when their representative, Morsi, was elected president and then again when he was ousted from office last year. The US slowly came around to recognizing the current leadership and to the realization that the Muslim Brotherhood was threatening the entire region.
Or so we thought. This latest move tells us that the United States may not have actually internalized the message.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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