Sarah Palin and the Muslim Brotherhood
Posted by Shadi Hamid
So I've been reading with great interest the rather amusing stories of Republican post-election infighting. "Factions" strikes me as an appropriate word here. I was watching FNC's Carl Cameron dishing the juicy gossip, and I kept on thinking to myself: where have I heard this before?
It sounds a lot like the the Muslim Brotherhood after it lost big in the 2007 Jordanian elections (mostly due to pretty blatant vote rigging). The MB won only 6 seats out of 110 - it's worst result in history. The movement was in disarray, with the conservative base ("hawks") calling for the heads of the relatively moderate leadership ("doves"). Conservatives accused moderates of not staying true to the movement's principles and capitulating to the ruling elite. You wanna talk about "going rogue"? Palin's got nothing on Zaki Bani Irsheid, the secretary-general of the Islamic Action Front, the MB's political arm. The group had called a press conference to announce their list of candidates for parliament. Irsheid calls up the Brotherhood head, Salem Falahat, and tells him he's not going to show up, even though he's the leader of the party. He was for boycotting the election, but didn't get his way, so he proceeded to sabotage the party's electoral prospects from within.
After the election, the factions organized against each other. Eventually, the group's highest policymaking body, the Shura Council, dissolved itself and new internal elections were called. The conservatives won 23-22, and were able to elect, for the first time, a leader of Palestinian origin, who also happened to be a fiery hardliner. The story continues. The two factions have reached a temporary rapprochement, but the underlying disagreements have not been resolved. I suspect that, at some point, they will have to be. This does not mean there will be an internal civil war, but it does mean that one side will have to assert dominance over the other. I only bring this up to point out the difficulties that previously ascendant parties find themselves in after a crushing electoral defeat.
Sahara Palin brought a breath of fresh air to a dumb campaign. It looks like they threw her to the wolves then would not defend her. A simple retort and slap down of the reporters like any democrat would expect from his or her party after her 2 interviews would have been a normal reaction. I voted for Palin-McCain while I held my nose about McCain. His campaign was as bad this time as it was in 2000. To blame any of this disaster on Sahara is ridiculous. I watched Carl Cameron from Fox News nearly wet his pants as he excitedly reported the gossip of unrest in the campaign to Bill O’Rielly. If there was a problem within the campaign then that person or persons should have been fired on the spot. Sahara Palin was the candidate. Obama will prove to be a terrorist coward and McCain will regret their decision to not exploit that every chance he had. His ridiculous stand on share the wealth and spread it around and his multi stands on Russia’s invasion of Georgia gave many opportunities to prove Obama is an empty suit. McCain’s concession speech was his best speech which showed why he could not win against a very weak opponent.
AJM
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