Muslim Brotherhood site says Egypt’s new president is secretly Jewish
Source: Washington Post
IkhwanOnline, the official Web site of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, posted an article on Thursday asserting that the countrys new interim president, Adly Mansour, is secretly Jewish. The article, since taken offline, suggested that Mansour was part of an American and Israeli conspiracy to install Mohamed ElBaradei, a former U.N. official and Egyptian opposition figure, as president.
Mansour, the supreme justice of Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court, was sworn in as interim president on Thursday after the military announced that President Mohamed Morsi was no longer in charge. Morsi was a close ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has held large demonstrations protesting his ouster. That the Muslim Brotherhood would be suspicious of Mansour, and of the military that toppled Morsi to install him, is not surprising.
Still, the IkhwanOnline article suggests that some elements of the Muslim Brotherhood may be indulging in conspiracy theories that ignore their own role in public outrage about Morsis rule and may be promoting the anti-Semitic ideas that engendered so much international skepticism of their rule. There is no indication that there is any truth to the article.
The article cited as its source the purported Facebook page of an al-Jazeera Arabic broadcaster, although its not clear whether the Facebook page is real. The article claims that Mansour is considered to be a Seventh Day Adventist, which is a Jewish sect (in fact, Seventh Day Adventism is considered part of Protestant Christianity). It further claims that Mansour tried to convert to Christianity but was rebuffed by the Coptic pope, a major Egyptian religious figure, who supposedly refused to baptize him.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/05/muslim-brotherhood-site-says-egypts-new-president-is-secretly-jewish/
underpants
(182,904 posts)Oh...then there is this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101662664
Sand Wind
(1,573 posts)In this region, Israel or the Jews are always there for good justification.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I knew that christian fundies considered them a heretic cult, but even THEY have never called them Jews.
Memo to islamic wackos: Having Saturday as your church day doesn't automatically make a person Jewish, dudes.
Sand Wind
(1,573 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)At least the SAD family I know.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or something else?
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,991 posts)Almost as shocking as those who don't see it as a problem or ignore it to "look over there."
Translation: Not shocking at all.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,991 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Mouth breathing fundies can kiss this Jew's ass. Even mouth breathing Jewish fundies.
7962
(11,841 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Bur let's to give them any ideas.
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)Would it be relevant if a deleted post from here was used as evidence of the secret plans of the Democratic Party? I don't really give a wrinkled rat fuck about the present misfortunes of the Ikhwan (except that they were well on the path of discrediting themselves before the idiotic generals re-infused their crumbling order with some raison d'etre), but this piece is just ridiculous.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)If the Republican Party put out an article that said Obama was secretly Jewish on this main website, you'd bet there would be a massive and overwhelming uproar about it. Hell as disgusting as most mainstream republicans are, the big players always tried to stay far away from the "secret Muslim" shite.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)This site has a translation into English (maybe you can confirm its accuracy?) and a screenshot of the original article posted in Arabic on Ikhwan Online (which, unlike DU, is the actual party website for the Muslim Brotherhood).
http://mbinenglish.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/ahmed-mansour-reveals-a-jew-in-egypts-seat-of-power/
jessie04
(1,528 posts)nt
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)jessie04
(1,528 posts)I can see that.
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)Really makes me want to put them back in power.
marble falls
(57,270 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Hopefully they won't come to a meeting of the minds