“Muslim Brotherhood” on The Daily Caller

What might well be the most significant election in Middle Eastern history is about to be held, yet the situation and its implications are simply not understood abroad. (more)

With the revelation that the Obama administration has donated $1.5 billion to the Muslim Brotherhood, we now have a better idea of why the president is campaigning so hard for the “Buffett Rule” and its additional $4.7 billion in annual revenue. Other terrorist-friendly organizations with political aspirations may require “investments” from the United States as well. (more)

President Barack Obama told progressive donors Thursday that he is pushing a diplomatic strategy that would champion women and minorities overseas. (more)

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has postponed an open confrontation with the country’s military rulers and other political players Tuesday when it delayed a decision about whether to field a candidate for the first presidential elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. (more)

Retired 3-star general William Boykin told The Daily Caller that Sharia law, if implemented in some parts of America, would threaten the rights of gays and women — two groups whose advocacy groups have defended the Muslim Brotherhood. (more)

(Reuters) – Leading Egyptian political parties will back a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) for the assembly’s speaker, with another Islamist group and a liberal party taking the deputy posts, an FJP official said on Monday. (more)

Egypt’s two leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes for party lists in the second round of polling for a parliament that will help draft a new constitution after decades of autocratic rule, the election committee said Saturday. (more)

The parties that have received the most votes in Egypt’s elections are the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist al-Nour Party. Both are Islamist parties. Yet Western observers — including Obama administration officials — claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “moderate Islamist” group while the Salafists are radical. (more)

Ibn Warraq says the West has become gun shy in defending the values of Western civilization. (more)

“There has been a serious lack of study and analysis of the different branches of Islam and a failure to understand the agenda of Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in this country.” (more)

CAIRO (AP) — Anticipating a strong presence in the new Egyptian parliament, ultraconservative Islamists outlined plans Friday for a strict brand of religious law, a move that could limit personal freedoms and steer a key U.S. ally toward an Islamic state. (more)

Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo’s most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to “one day kill all Jews.” (more)

The White House has cautiously condemned Sunday’s attacks on Egyptian Christians by Islamists and security forces, but critics say its policies have spurred the country’s slide toward Islamic rule. (more)

There’s a new political timeline for Egypt. Apparently horrified by disorder and radicalization, the military junta has decided to slow things down. (more)

Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks, a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, had strong words Friday following the admission from Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Obama administration is engaging with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with a policy of “limited contact.” (more)

President Obama came into office pledging a new approach to the Middle East. We were told that his middle name — Hussein — would give him unprecedented entrée to the corridors of power in that troubled region — and to the Arab street. (more)

Contemplating the end of his Latin American visit and the apparently imminent turnover of operations in Libya, President Obama said: “This is something that we can build into our budget. And we’re confident that not only can the goals be achieved, but at the end of the day the American people are going to feel satisfied that lives were saved and people were helped.” (more)

The Daily Caller has acquired the talking points that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, supplied to its supporters as an aid in attacking the Muslim radicalization hearing New York Republican Rep. Peter King held Thursday. Save for Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s incoherent ramblings on Thursday, Democrats’ statements and testimony against King’s hearing, whether intentionally or unintentionally, largely mirrored MPAC’s talking points. (more)

National Public Radio released internal e-mails between now-ousted CEO Vivian Schiller, newly-appointed temporary CEO Joyce Slocum and other senior NPR officials in an attempt to push back on video released by conservative James O’Keefe suggesting that the organization was willing to take money from what it thought was a Muslim Brotherhood front group. (more)

National Public Radio has released an official statement responding to conservative James O’Keefe’s new video, in which NPR’s senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley is heard telling a man acting as a member of a fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group that NPR would take a $5 million donation from his organization and help protect the organization’s identity in the case of a government audit. But, NPR made no mention of its latest gaffe: saying it refused the $5 million donation when, in fact, the new video suggests the organization was open to accepting it. (more)