US backing for Israel reaps Muslims hatred, Egypt's MB

By: Atef Hussein

CAIRO, Egypt: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood warned that Washington's support for Israel which is massacring innocent Palestinians, and not only its support of dictatorships, is the main cause of the resentment felt by Muslims toward the US.

“There is a great deal of truth in the fact that US support to tyrannical regimes is one reason for the hatred expressed toward the United States,” said the Brotherhood's leader, Mamoun El-Hodeibi.

“But the most important reason for the Muslim people's hatred of the United States is its total bias toward the Zionist entity ... and US aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan; Bush ignored these.”

He said that if Bush wants to lend credibility to his speech, “he had better stop Sharon from using US weapons to slaughter the Palestinians.”

The banned but tolerated Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in Egypt.

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