SWC Urges President Obama To Order Cut Off Of All US Contacts With Muslim Brotherhood In Wake Of Anti-Semitic Call For Jihad By Group's Supreme Guide

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling on President Obama to publicly condemn the anti-Semitic call for Jihad against Israelby the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, Mohammed Badie and to order the cutoff of all contacts with the organization until the threat is withdrawn.

In a speech reported Thursday in al Ahram, Badie said, "The Jews have...spread corruption on earth, spilled the blood ofbelievers and in their actions profane holy places, including their own." Badie called on Arabs to confront Israel "through Holy Jihad, high sacrifices and all forms ofresistance", adding, "Zionists only understand the language of force and will not relent without duress."

"Badie's rant confirms our long held view that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is the most dangerous anti-Semitic organization inthe world today," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, founder and dean and associate dean, of the leading Jewish human rights NGO.

"We are not dealing with a Youtube video or a lone extremist Imam, but a call to anti-Semitic violence by a man who has tensof millions of followers and leads the organization that controls Egypt's future. It cannot be business as usual in Washington when such an assault is launched against the Jewishpeople,” they added.

We urge President Obama to condemn the rhetoric and cut off all official and unofficial US contacts with the MuslimBrotherhood until they desist from their hate and war mongering," Hier and Cooper concluded.

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