The other night on Jon Stewart they made fun of the Texas Christians who are against a Jew, Joe Straus, being speaker of the House down there. They quoted a leader of the Texas Pastors’ Council who said that a Muslim should not hold public office in Texas. Intolerance.
Well, on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU in Washington yesterday, a powerful politician expressed similar intolerance with respect to a religious group in Egypt. The reporter is Tom Sherwood. Politician is Ben Cardin. By the way, he’s Jewish. Is he a Zionist? I can only guess. (thanks to Ali Gharib for all facts in this post)
SHERWOOD 12:14:47 What are the — what is the role and what is the Muslim Brotherhood, which some people are just hearing for the first time, as a participant in whatever happens next?
CARDIN 12:14:58 Well, the Muslim Brotherhood is probably the best organized of the opposition. It’s a very small group within Egypt, but it’s a group that has supported terrorists. It’s a group that is opposed to the peace process, and it’s a group that the United States — I think, the region and the international community has a legitimate right to say should it be — should have no part in the governance of Egypt.
