I mean, come on, the Ikhwan is not exactly a debating society that runs a homeless sheleter, but if you listened to Clapper’s testimony that is what he made them out to be.

The sooner this guy is fired, the better, because if he remains as the DCI and has great influence on how our anti-terror operations are run, all of our lives are made that much less secure than they could or should be.

Sure sounds dreadful, though.

I will manfully refrain from the obvious riffs on the DNI’s name and intelligence that come to mind.

“The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ … is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam,”

“They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera. … In other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally”…

Clapper said later in the hearing that the Brotherhood in Egypt runs 29 hospitals ”not under the guise of an extremist agenda.” He said the group fills a vacuum cause by the absence of government services, but added, “It is not necessarily with a view to promoting violence or overthrow of the state.”

And here, in contrast, is the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was established in Egypt in 1923 as a revolutionary organization to “reform” Islam i.e. to bring it back to its original roots and purity, to its foundational traditions and ideology, to work for the reestablishment of the Caliphate, and for the victory of Islam over all the world and the all unbelievers in it that Allah, the Qur’an, and Muhammad called for and decreed:

“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way.

Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!