The Muslim Brotherhood

Now, I don't believe that it is up to the White Man to tell Arabs and Muslims who should lead them.  And it is not up to past and present colonial powers to issue certificates of legitimacy to leaders of Arabs and Muslims.  Frankly my dear, as Clark Gable said in Gone with the Winds, we don't give a damn.  And, we have seen your choices of preferable Middle East leaders and--to put it politely--they are despicable: those puppets, kings and presidents in our region.  But I don't trust the Muslim Brotherhood and its variations, one bit.  It is up to the Egyptian people to decide, but I won't rust that lousy organization given its opportunistic history.  It was a too of US/Saudi Arabia during the Arab cold war, and sided consistently with the Zionist camp.  It is the organization that welcomed the advent of the Sadat regime.  Not to mention its archaic views on women and minorities.  I don't even trust them on Palestine: they have been allies of the friends of Israel throughout the region.  And they are now pretending to have found a new courage: they con't come close to the Egyptian and Tunisian secular protesters.  In Lebanon, the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood  there (Al-Jama`ah Al-Islamiyyah) marched in support of the the Egyptian Uprising.  This organization has been bought off in full by Hariri family and is part of an alliance that was aligned solidly with Mubarak.  Who are you fooling.  And the most cowardly branch of the brotherhood in Jordan, heaped praise on King `Abdullah of Jordan, simply because he agreed to shake their hands.  And they there demonstrate against Mubarak, and yet it would be much more impressive if they demonstrate against their own tyrant.  The Muslim Brotherhood deserves another century: maybe ten centuries ago, or even earlier.