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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 897861" data-attributes="member: 1246">November 5, 2011 @ 8:12 pm | Obama Admin Says It Would Be “Satisfied” If Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Wins Elections…Insanity.(Reuters/JPost) — The United States would be “satisfied” should free elections in Egypt produce a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood, AFP reported Friday according to the US’s special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, William Taylor.

Taylor said the US would judge elected parties in the Middle East based “on what they do, and not what they’re called,” AFP quoted him as saying. He added that he did not meet with Brotherhood officials in his latest visit to Cairo, but would have had he been given the chance.

The point man on Middle East transitions said that so-called Arab Spring revolutions and a desire for democratic elections create an environment in which groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are able to shed associations with terror.

Taylor’s comments came the week after Tunisia — widely seen as the birthplace of Arab Spring revolutions — elected its own Islamist Ennahda party to form a
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 897861, member: 1246"] November 5, 2011 @ 8:12 pm | Obama Admin Says It Would Be “Satisfied” If Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Wins Elections… Insanity. [INDENT](Reuters/JPost) — The United States would be “satisfied” should free elections in Egypt produce a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood, AFP reported Friday according to the US’s special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, William Taylor. Taylor said the US would judge elected parties in the Middle East based “on what they do, and not what they’re called,” AFP quoted him as saying. He added that he did not meet with Brotherhood officials in his latest visit to Cairo, but would have had he been given the chance. The point man on Middle East transitions said that so-called Arab Spring revolutions and a desire for democratic elections create an environment in which groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are able to shed associations with terror. Taylor’s comments came the week after Tunisia — widely seen as the birthplace of Arab Spring revolutions — elected its own Islamist Ennahda party to form a [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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