Friday, October 27, 2006  The Nation: Give terrorists a chance
Occasionally I make a quick foray to the Left and get really,
really scared.  In an article just posted at The Nation, Stephen
Glain waxes poetic about the wonderful Muslim Brotherhood: Kemal
Helbawy is a founding member of the Muslim Association of
Britain and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian-
based Islamist movement with chapters throughout the Islamic
world, including Hamas in the Palestinian territories. It
comprises the largest opposition bloc in the Egyptian
parliament, with eighty-eight seats, and it administers a
network of social services that is far more efficient and
responsive than those provided by the state. Brotherhood leaders
have been at the vanguard of Egypt's grassroots push for
political reform, consistent with the Bush Administration's
policy of democratizing the Middle East.  But on October 18,
Helbawy found out what all that hard work and credibility is
worth, at least as far as the White House is concerned.