http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=7789A delegation from the British Foreign Office met Thursday with Muslim Brotherhood officials in Egypt, a report from the group’s official English website reveals. The delegation was headed by British Consul General Marie-Louise Archer and the Relations Coordinator for the UK’s Foreign Office, Martin Hetringen. Present for the meetings were a number of prominent Brotherhood members, including the head of the group’s administrative office in Alexandria.
The report claims that UK representatives are hoping to promote more open and constructive relations between the British government and the Brotherhood’s party representatives in Egypt. According to the Brotherhood’s Parliamentary spokesman, Hamdi Hassan, the meeting was “a good opportunity to exchange views and discuss [our] view on the forthcoming presidential elections.”
While it may have been clear, formerly, that the Muslim Brotherhood’s political stock would rise rapidly after Mubarek’s toppling, this degree of formal Western engagement with the Islamist group remains quite shocking.While the Brotherhood deny their historic ties to international terrorism, they continue to politically discriminate against women, Christians and Muslim moderates both in Egypt and throughout the Middle East.
It may therefore prove both premature and unwise for the UK’s Foreign Office to have appeared getting so cozy with the Brotherhood, given the group is yet to even make public the latest edition of their political party’s platform – which has previously called for a return of clerical rule in Egypt.
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