JazzB1987 said: When will people realize that there is no such thing as bad muslim brotherhood or whatever. |
Michelle Bachman is her own kind of stupid. A stupid the far-right echoes often. Don't be another kind of stupid.
Before posting this you could have at least spent five minutes reading up on Wikipedia about the Muslim Brotherhood. They are real, and they could be dangerous, however right now they are the enemy of two of our enemies, Al-Qaeda and Iran.
Like I said, they are dangerous. They hate Israel, and their belief is that the Sunni Muslim faith is the one true faith. Which means not only are they a threat to any non-Sunni Muslims (the vast majority of Arab Muslim's are Sunni) but they are a potential threat to any non-Muslim (regardless of faith).
But the old adage applies. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Israel's biggest threat at the moment is Iran. The worst Egypt could do at the moment, if the government believed toppling Israel militarily would be smart, would be to bother them like a fly. The Muslim Brotherhood is a bigger threat to Iran than it is to Israel, especially if they are able to topple Syria. The hatred between Sunni and Shia runs pretty deep, as witnessed by the strife that occurs in Iraq where Sunnis and Shias frequently attack each other.
But what would you rather have? One future enemy in the potential enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood, or three enemies now in the form of Iran, Al-Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood? I'll take one future enemy over three current ones and let the Muslim Brotherhood take care of my other two enemies.
So they are real, and on their own they are a potential threat, but right now they are a bigger threat two to of our enemies and that is potentially more beneficial than making them another enemy in a region where we have few friends.