[Elder of Ziyon] Jimmy Carter has "no problem" with Islamists in power (ElderToon)

AFP reports:

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to Egypt's parliamentary elections, saying the people's will was "expressed accurately."

"We have been very pleased," Carter told reporters during a tour of a polling station at the Rod al-Farag girls' secondary school in a working class district of the Egyptian capital

Asked about Islamists coming to power, Carter said: "I have no problem with that. The U.S. government has no problem with that either."

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party's platform, when discussing women, says (in Arabic)  that it aims to "Ensure that all women get their rights as long as these don't contradict Islamic Sharia and as long as they are balanced against their duties." Meaning that the FJP is explicitly against equal rights for women.

The platform also criticizes the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Yes, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and supposed defender of human rights - who quit the Southern Baptist Convention because of its stand towards women - has no problem with the most populous Arab nation being controlled by a group whose platform is explicitly against equal rights for women (not to mention its attitude towards Egyptian religious minorities.)

Where is the outrage from Carter's fellow liberals?






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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder of Ziyon at 1/12/2012 05:35:00 AM