April 7, 2012

Why Fund the Muslim Brotherhood?

Andrew McCarthy, National Review

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In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States.

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