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Source: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/102413/muslim-brotherhood-egypt-arab-spring-election
The Muslim Brotherhood's Mendacious Charm Campaign in Washington
(New Republic) Eric Trager - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a Muslim Brotherhood delegation in Washington last week to better understand how the Islamist group will govern Egypt. The Brotherhood came with an agenda: selling itself as a "moderate" organization by completely misrepresenting itself. Thus, the Brotherhood presented a version of its politics very different from the one that would be familiar to Egyptians. For instance, when asked about the organization's plan to sink Egypt's peace treaty with Israel by putting it to a referendum - which multiple Brotherhood officials have called for quite publicly - Brotherhood MP Abdel al-Dardery simply denied it. The Brotherhood also denied the limited representation that it had afforded Christians and secularists on the Constituent Assembly, which will write Egypt's next constitution. The writer is a Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.