Andrew Belonsky whitewashes the Muslim Brotherhood

Just a short time before Glenn Beck's successful rally, the insane moonbat writer Andrew Belonsky attacked Beck, and not only that, he even whitewashed the Muslim Brotherhood:

Though Beck and his partners want to strengthen ties between America’s conservative Christians and Israel’s right-leaning Jewish and Christian activists, that inter-religious cooperation also comes with plenty of anti-Islam sentiment.

“Old hatreds have begun to rear their ugly head once more, yet those who swore to never let it happen again are inexcusably sitting silently by and allowing the hate to fester,” Beck wrote on his website earlier this month. “The Muslim Brotherhood, long banned in Egypt, was immediately allowed re-entry and enjoys popular support. Turkey has moved aggressively towards Sharia Law and has befriended Iran – a nation who has renewed its long standing call to wipe Israel off the map. That is just the tip of the iceberg.”

The Brotherhood is but one of the many groups whose names are casually invoked to mean “Shariah law,” something Beck and his ilk see as a threat to the United States and to Israel. While some Islamic groups do indeed want to take down Israel, the Brotherhood does not.

As journalist James Traub explained in ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t pose much of a political or terrorist threat:

...Not only because the Muslim Brotherhood is not Hamas, but because, in the wake of the thoroughly secular mass protest movement, the Brotherhood is no longer likely to attract a majority of Egyptian voters.

Still, that’s not a risk Clinton or the Muslim Brotherhood’s more vocal American detractors are in the mood for. The “specific agenda” they fear is not that the Brotherhood will impose sharia, but that it could destroy Israel. The Brothers with whom I spoke were not only anti-Israel, but pro-Hamas. Israel has every reason to fear the prospect of a Muslim Brotherhood government. But would a secular democracy in Egypt be more sympathetic to Israel than an Islamist one? In Egypt, as elsewhere in the Arab world, elites have learned that accepting Israel’s existence is the price of admission to international good opinion.

Despite common opinion that the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic parties will have to take a more moderate stance to curry international favor, and because they know Israel will always exist, it’s almost guaranteed that Beck and his fellow speakers, especially infamous Islamophobe Herman Cain, will use the next few days to stoke historic hatreds that are easily exploited for political ends.

Oh dear, this man has no shame. As the following report (via Tundra Tabloids) tells:

The Muslim Brotherhood has threatend to kill Israel's ambassador to Cairo if he does not leave the country. The radical Muslim group has been leading daily protests at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the envoy and a break in relations between Egypt and Israel.

Hundreds of demonstrators surrounded the embassy Monday as armored military and police officers prevented them from repeating Saturday night’s incident when rioters broke down the gate. One firebomb smashed through a front window of the embassy’s office.

And in this article:

Despite some skeptics, many Islam watchers report that the Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist group—and no friend of Israel.

And in this posting on Newsbusters:

On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, as correspondent Richard Engel informed viewers that many thousands of Egyptians are again protesting against the government in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, he noted that organizers of the original protests fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will have too much influence in the new government, and recounted the Islamist group’s increased power in Egypt since January.

He went on to highlight the "staunchly anti-Israel" views of the Brotherhood and showed a clip of one of the group’s leaders making an anti-Semitic statement accusing Jews of wanting to "live in war," claiming that it is their "history":

RICHARD ENGEL: The Brotherhood says it is not antagonistic to the United States, but it is staunchly anti-Israel.

HASAN AL-ARIAN (SP?): Israel cannot tolerate peace.

ENGEL: Why not?

AL-ARIAN: Because they want to live in war. It is the history of Jewish people.
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Engel documented that the Muslim Brotherhood’s power in Egypt has gained substantially since former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall, while the more secular organizers of the original protests have very little money or facilities.

More transcripts at the link. So. What's that about the MB not wanting to destroy Israel again? And despite their taqqiya, you can be sure the MB is anti-American. Belonsky should be ashamed of himself for denying this and for his blatant assault on Beck too.

Some of the comments on his article sum it all up quite well. For example:

this entire article was one giant lie or you have never watched or listened to a single thing the man has ever said.

And,

watched the restoring courage with Beck on TBN. It was uplifting, honest and hopeful. We need to stand with Israel and show our Love to the Jewish people and to all people that WANT peace. I hope all that are posting the negative will take the time and watch with an open heart and mind. You can't deny the truth.

And,

Wow, Bill Keller! You either get in the boat with Mormons or with the GLBT community!

Guess it doesn't matter, you've got enough hate in you for ten people. And you hate just about everyone, so it's all fair.

Yep, that's young master Belonsky alright, who can't seem to think of anything better to do but hatemongering against the right, and any leftist who says something he doesn't agree with. And he even has the gall to use a biased article from Foreign Policy to justify his lugubrious standings.