JESUS DEATH - 60 SECONDS

Folks, after reading this message, why would I not want to share

it with you!! May the Lord bless you and your household richly this

 Easter Season!

With all the uncertainty and turmoil that's going on around the world, maybe a "little time off" is in order - for us all to be reminded of this very important time, many years ago, about a 33 year old MAN, of what HE went through for us.  Let's ask for HIS help - we surely need it now.  JESUS DEATH - 60 SECONDS   For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever  you're doing and take this opportunity!  Let's see if Satan can stop this...      THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS   At the  age of 33,  Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.  At the  time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, for unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was nailed to the cross by His hands and feet, rather than tied... Each  nail was 6 to 9 inches long.    The  nails were driven into His wrist - not  into His palms  as is commonly portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.  The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wist, that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself, so that He could breathe.    Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that  impaled His feet to the cross.  Jesus could not support himself with His legs for long because of the pain. So He was forced to alternate between arching His back and using his legs just to continue to breath.  Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.  Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.   Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died,  Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.   From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side...  But do we remember the many wounds  made to his body?  A hammer driving large nails through the wrists, the feet overlapped and a nail hammered through the arches. Then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. And before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten.  The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns (two to three inch thorns) cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.    He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds.   The human adult body contains about 5 liters (just over a  gallon) of blood.  Jesus  poured all 5 liters of his blood! He had three nails hammered into His body, a crown of thorns on His head  and beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His side. All  these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own  cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his  face and threw stones (the cross beam was almost 30 kg of weight, to which His hands were nailed).   Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you may have free access to God.   So that your sins can be "washed" away.  All of them, with no exception!  Don't ignore this.  JESUS  CHRIST DIED...FOR YOU!  For you, who now read this e-mail.  Do not believe that He only died for others  (those who go to church or for pastors, bishops, etc.).   He died for you! Accept  the reality, the truth, that  JESUS IS THE ONLY SALVATION FOR THE WORLD.   God has special plans for YOU!  Share this with all your friends... about what He went through to save you.  May God bless you!   For the next 60 seconds,  set aside what you're doing and take  this opportunity! Let's see if Satan can stop this.  All you  have to do  is:  1. Pray for the person who sent this message to you.   2. Send this message to 5 people ... More if you wish. 3.That way, 5 people will pray for you  and you will encourage many people  to pray to God for others.   4. Take a moment to appreciate the power of God in your life, as you do what pleases Him.  Yes, I love God. He is my source of life and my Savior.  He keeps me alive and safe, both day and night. Without Him, I am nothing,  but with Him "I can do all things through Him  who strengthens me". Philippians 4:13.     :  .

24 Hours of World Wide Praise to Celebrate our Creator of creation

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Public Announcement: 24 Hours of World Wide Praise to Celebrate our Creator of creation, Adonia Elohim for who He is. Performance by: Brian Doersken, "Come. Now is the Time to Worship." Song-Music permission granted March 28, 2012 (one Year) to Praise 24/ Lloyd Paul Young: Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire)

Praise 24 is the World Wide Celebration Event and you can participate. For information: jon3three@gmail.com

Hormone Guide For Men ---- Humor!

Wise lesson ....
 

The Hormone Guide Women will understand this! Men should memorize it! Every woman knows that there are days when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his life in his hands! This is a handy guide that should be carried like a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, co-worker or significant other! DANGEROUS SAFER SAFEST ULTRA SAFE What's for dinner? Can I help you with dinner? Where would you like to go for dinner? Here, have some wine. Are you wearing that? You sure look good in brown! WOW! Look at you! Here, have some wine What are you so worked up about? Could we be overreacting? Here's my paycheck. Here, have some wine.. Should you be eating that? You know, there are a lot of apples left. Can I get you a piece of chocolate with that? Here, have some wine. What did you DO all day? I hope you didn't over-do it today. I've always loved you in that robe! Here, have some wine. Forward this information to all of your friends and those who might need a good laugh..... and men who need a warning. And, have some wine.

2012-04-01 AWESOME 1st Contact Team Interview Hugh-Man on Our Galactic Family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDGiOC9PLSc


Graham Dewyea interviews "The Hugh-Man" on Our Galactic Family. 

My guest this week is the "Hugh-Man from Venus," where in his first public interview ever, he will talk about his work with a team of Pleiadians who are part of the First Contact team of extraterrestrials who will make themselves known on earth.

As one of many serving on the Ground Crew on the planet, he will discuss his role, and some of the plans that are in place to introduce our star family to people on earth, including how they will be showcasing their ships, and the free-energy technology they will share, including wheel-less, anti-gravity vehicles, and personal communication devices with holographic imagery.

He'll talk about the mothership, The Neptune, and that people have visited it recently, but visits are on hold due to the fleets' high alert status.

We'll discuss switching from 3rd to 5th dimension, and moving from a carbon-based body to a fully DNA activated, crystalline, youthful body. We'll also talk about Atlantis, the Annunaki, the abundance programs, him meeting Jesus, and more.

Music: Rene Aubry, La Grande Cascade and the Orlando Pops Orchestra: A Space Odyssey.

Listen live Sunday evening at 8pm EST by calling in or clicking on the show link that appears at the start of the show. A recorded archive and description will be available after the show.

MY COMMENTS
I swear I heard this guy on some NESARA Light Workers conference calls as a host often connected with the Darryl Freck calls 2 odd years ago. I labelled blogs on him http://www.thankyouwhiteknights.com/category/darryl-freck/

Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - April 4, 2012

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Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - April 4, 2012

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Date: Wednesday, 4-Apr-2012 15:57:42

Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - April 4, 2012 Ashtar communicates directly to the minds and into the hearts of all who wish to receive his love and his guidance. Ashtar does not speak through any channels at this time. Ashtar does not have a need or want to share information in this manner. Ashtar hears what is called for to guide those who seek his guidance, and he answers their call in ways that do not necessitate the need for a medium or channel. There are many beings throughout the cosmos that do speak through channels to share their thoughts, their feelings, their teachings, their guidance and their love, but Ashtar does not communicate with any of you at this time in this way. Anyone who claims they are channeling Ashtar at this time is either mistaking Ashtar as the sender of their communications or they are purposely perpetrating a hoax or a con. These individuals who claim to be channeling Ashtar himself may not be channeling any other being at all, and may only be sharing a reflection of their own thoughts. We do not judge anyone for this. We only wish to make it clear to all who wish to understand this; Ashtar, the Supreme Commander of the Ashtar Command, is not speaking directly to you or through any channels at this time. There are individual members of the Ashtar Command who are speaking to you through channels at this time, and some of these communications speak officially for the Ashtar Command as an organization and some of these communications speak only of the personal views and teachings of the individual members of this command that are sending messages in this way. In the great scheme of all that is transpiring here in your world and what ripple effects spread throughout your universe, it is important to understand the influences of your thinking and your behavior. We do not wish for you, our brothers and sisters, to be misled in any way, shape, or form. We understand that many of you have your different opinions as to who are trustworthy sources of this kind of information and we honor and respect the choices each of you make, and we do not wish to tell you who's words to follow and who's not to follow. What we wish to do instead is offer you guidance and our wisdom to help you better use your own powers of discernment and intuition to reach understandings of where particular information is deriving from. We feel this way is far greater for your advancement and your growth then merely pointing you in the right direction ourselves. We would rather offer you the tools and share our knowledge of how to use these tools, and then allow you to make these decisions on your own. Today we only say to you that Ashtar himself is not communicating with you at this time in a manner that necessitates a channel because we see a great amount of information coming from certain areas at this time that is impeding the progress that we feel needs to be made. We feel this progress is of such importance that we decided we would step in and clear this matter up to allow you to more clearly and confidently receive the important information and notifications that we are sending you through our channels at this time. You now understand better certain avenues of information that is being given to you, and we hope that you take this information and use it wisely to assist you to make better choices as to which voice of guidance you will follow through the days up ahead that will present to you certain challenges. We have decided that we could not sit back and allow voices of false information to lead you into certain situations that would require great effort and intervention on our part to assist you in eradicating yourselves from the consequences of following such false information. As we have said many times, we must honor each and every decision that you make, but if there came a time where you asked for our assistance to help you in your time of need we would respond, and so with foresight we are attempting at this time to share with you information that can, if you so choose, allow you to stay clear of certain situations in the days ahead that would require you to ask for our assistance to remove you from these situations that you do not wish to be in. That is why we say to you that although it is important for you all to follow your own intuition and inner voice, we do officially state that Ashtar, the Commander of the Ashtar Command, is not speaking to you, offering you guidance, instructions, and predictions of your days ahead. Ashtar is with you in spirit and in love and he is very much a part of our mission here at this time, but he offers his service to you in other very important and wide-ranging ways. Now that we have this matter cleared up once and for all, we can continue with our messages to you which we feel are imperative for you to understand, as many events are about to unfold and each of you would do well to have a solid comprehension of them. These events are many, and each of them carries its own importance for your world. We would like to begin the first stages of our disclosure plans which will necessitate a working relationship with selected individuals who we feel would be qualified and very suitable for this purpose. We will begin contacting those of you who we feel we would like to work with throughout this process, and you will clearly recognize when we begin these communications. You will be instructed on how to proceed and what the next steps will be, and we ask you to keep this information to yourselves at this time as there are matters of safety concerns and a certain level of discretion is called for. There is no reason or need to share this information publicly, and we wish you to know that many of your postings throughout online social networks are monitored by those who do not play for our team. There is no reason to fear or be concerned about this as it should be no surprise to you that the Internet is accessible by anyone, and of course, it is just natural that not only those of the light communicate in this manner. You have absolutely nothing to be concerned about in regards to your safety, as we are watching over you and we have and will continue to make every effort to protect your safety and well being throughout our mission and our disclosure project. If you wish to share this information with family or friends privately, we say to you that this is acceptable and that there is no gag order rule issued to you, but we do suggest you not speak of this information through your online social networks even when you are sending a private message, as the security of these websites cannot be absolute and block computer hackers from accessing these communications. We thank you for your cooperation in this matter, and tell you that in the days ahead there will no longer be a need for this type of security precaution, but that day is not yet at hand and we ask you to assist us in our efforts to protect you by practicing a certain level of discretion. We thank you very much for your cooperation and for your willingness to participate in our disclosure project. We see this project reaching millions of your people, and we say to you this will surely be a most exciting time for you and the people of your planet. Those of you who we are selecting to take part in this project will be the ambassadors for your people and will also be ambassadors for our people. This is why our selection process has been a careful one, and we have carefully chosen each of you for this assignment. We have great confidence in each and every one of you, and we look forward to working with you to bring to the people of your planet evidence of our existence and our true nature, and an understanding of our mission in service and in love to the people of your world. You may assist this project at this time by preparing yourselves to be able to leave your places of residence with little or no prior notification whatsoever. We will try to give you at least a few minutes’ notice of when we are going to come to rendezvous with you, however, we cannot guarantee this as every precaution must be taken to protect you as well as our crew sent to collect you. Please try to remain prepared to be able to leave your residences at a moment’s notice. This will require different levels of preparation for each of you, and we ask you to think about what it is you will have to do to be able to leave your home without any prior notice to meet with us for an indefinite amount of time. We understand that many of you cannot leave your home for days at a time, and we will see to it that you are returned within a suitable time frame. We do have much to discuss with you, and when we can speak more personally we will make known our entire disclosure plan with you and you will learn when you will be called upon to meet with us and how long you will stay. We will not disclose this information with you at this time through our channels or any other way. We will wait until we can speak with you personally. We look forward to meeting with each of you that we have selected for this process, and say to those who have not been selected at this time that there will be many more opportunities for you to take part in this process and also on many other projects that we will be working together on. This disclosure project will merely be the first project we undertake with you, and this will open the door and allow our many other projects to get underway. By necessity, there will not be a long waiting period between our disclosure efforts and the projects we will be working on together, so those of you not selected for the initial disclosure project will not have long to wait to meet with us and begin working with us. You can be assured of this, as time is running short and we have much work to accomplish. Please be advised we are at this time contacting many of you who have been selected for this project, and we ask you to keep your eyes and your ears open for our communications. These communications will differ from individual to individual depending on how fast we feel you will recognize our attempts to communicate with you. Please use your powers of intuition and make an effort to recognize our attempts to contact you. If you do this, we are confident you will indeed recognize these communications, and we will know that you have understood our message and there will be no need for you to attempt to contact us and inform us that you have received our message. We will know this. You are asked again not to publicly announce that you have received this invitation from us. Again, safety is a priority, and a certain level of discretion is called for. We thank all of you who have been selected for this process, and tell you we look so very forward to meeting with you personally and discussing our plans with you. Many lives will benefit through the success of this project, and we ask you to give this project your sincerest efforts and focus once we begin. Many lives will be changed in very positive ways once we are able to begin working with you, and this disclosure project is the key that will open this door for your world. It will be an honor for us to meet and begin working with you, and we look so forward to the coming together of our people and your people in the spirit of love and universal cooperation. We will achieve such great things together, and will bridge the gap not only between worlds and star systems, but of dimensions. This is what we can do when we come together as one and work to achieve a common goal, and we see nothing stopping us from achieving what we set out to do together. So much can be accomplished when people and worlds put aside their differences and cooperate with each other to achieve common goals, and your world will be a testament to how much can be accomplished when we all work together as one. This is our mission here, and many different worlds have contributed to this truly universal project. Your world and your people will soon be welcomed into our Galactic community as you have earned your place of honor at our Galactic Roundtable. This is a place where discussions concerning Galactic projects take place, and planning and strategies to build worlds and bridge gaps between them are the topic of discussion. Your planet will have representation at this Galactic table, and you will have the ability to voice your views and visions for this galaxy, which is also your galaxy. Much can be learned by everyone at these meetings, and we look so forward to your contributions and your thoughts and vision to build upon our universe. Much planning and design goes in to the construction of our galaxy and our entire universe, and it is here at meetings such as this where policy and projects are conceived. Your representatives will learn a great deal about your galaxy and universe and take back home to your people this knowledge which will allow you all to gain a further understanding of your home. We look forward to this day when you are officially welcomed and a seat is pulled out for your representatives. We remember the day we were welcomed at this table and tell you that you may feel honored, for indeed an honor it is, and we congratulate each of you for this achievement to be welcomed into your Galactic community. We are the Galactic Federation of Light. * Please note: In addition to the Galactic Federation of Light, I channel my Star Family from Tauri C once per week who are members of the Ashtar Command, and I have never claimed to channel Ashtar himself as several others do. As channeled through Greg Giles http://ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com/-

DIVINE FLASH 4:4

http://2012portal.blogspot.com/

http://2012portal.blogspot.com/2012/04/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html

DIVINE FLASH 4:4

Today, April 4th, 2012, in the exact moment when Mercury turned direct, a divine flash emanated directly from the Source and descended into the physical matter of planet Earth. This has healed a significant part of quantum anomaly that had this planet in its grip since early Atlantean times. Quantum fluctuation field is now less chaotic and more harmonious.

Before this event, Calabi-Yau manifolds looked like this:

 And now they look like this:

This opens up interesting possibilities. Through 11-dimensional stargates of Calabi-Yau manifolds, the Galactic Confederation has more direct access towards physical matter of planet Earth. So it will happen much more often, that the »missiles won't launch« and that the »guns won't fire«. There is a divine hand making sure that all wars will end soon and humanity is set free.

Also, the general mode of stargate / dimensional shift translation is changing from Antarion Conversion towards An Conversion. Antarion Conversion is defined as a nonlinear phasar thrust inversion / conversion dimensional translation system, whereas An Conversion is a linear phasar flow direct dimensional translation system. Put is simple, it means that our connection with the Source will be much easier and our Ascension door is open as never before

HERE'S A HAPPY LITTLE THOUGHT TO BRIGHTEN OUR DAY! 

From Stand Up America US

Islamic terror camps, MB of Egypt, all here in USA

April 3, 2012 | Filed underBreaking News,Terror | Posted by SUAadmin

Editor’s Note – The reports of Islamic terrorist groups firmly embedded in the US has been around for years now. However, the media and the majority of politicians have chosen to ignore them, or more often, refer to them in the most incredible politically correct fashions. Groups like CAIR continue to operate a propaganda machine that attempts to give the public of non-Muslims a very incorrect picture.
Released in January of this year, a video and the supporting research show us the extent at Live Leak:

WASHINGTON – A Muslim group responsible for nearly 50 attacks on American soil is operating 35 terrorist training camps across the nation, but the U.S. government refuses to include the organization on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, known in the U.S. as “Muslims of America,” has purchased or leased hundreds of acres of property – from New York to California – in which the leader, Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, boasts of conducting “the most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare.”
In a recruitment video captured from Gilani’s “Soldiers of Allah,” he states in English: “We are fighting to destroy the enemy. We are dealing with evil at its roots and its roots are America.”

This is very scary indeed, but what is even scarier is this gem below. The Muslim Brotherhood has been allowed to come to America, yet, they are one of the core international organizations that support the groups mentioned above. Not only that, but there is proof now, and it has been widely reported that many Muslim Brotherhood (Read the expose’ here.) members are working in our government, some are even in the White House and at the State Department.
High level meetings have occurred between State and the MB (See their web site here.) because of the big wins in Egyptian politics. Money is definitely flowing to them, yes, your tax dollars. On top of that, the MB is conducting an “international charm offensive” described in the last article listed below.
Next step for America…Dhimmitude…

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is in America:

Holding Meeting in Secret Location Tomorrow With US Islamic Organization!

Logan’s Warning
Yes that’s right! The Muslim Brotherhood, whose goal is Islamic world domination, have actually been allowed into our great country! They are touring Washington DC, and will be holding a conference with the American organization,the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). MPAC is similar to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). They both bully and brainwash America to suit Islam.CAIR does a lot of bullying of businesses, and fights anti-Sharia bills in US Courts. MPAC has also fought anti-Sharia bills, and has been known to manipulate our government and media. Both organizations are subversive to America.
Now MPAC has taken advantage of our Islam loving government,and will be holding court with the Muslim Brotherhood at an“undisclosed location”.

MPAC to Host Dialogue with Political Wing of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
RSVP for Tuesday Forum, Seating Limited
(Washington, DC, – 03/30/12) — The Muslim Public Affairs Council announced today that it will be hosting a conversation on Tuesday, April 3, with a delegation from the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
The delegation from the Freedom and Justice Party is on a tour in Washington, DC, and will be visiting other institutions such as Georgetown University, theCouncil on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

SNIP
Religion, Power and Politics:
A Conversation with Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party
WHEN:
Tuesday, April 3, at 7 p.m.
WHERE:Location information available upon RSVP
SPEAKERS:
Abdul Mawgoud Dardery
Member of Parliament, Freedom and Justice Party – Luxor
Member, Foreign Relations Committee, Freedom and Justice Party
Hussein El-Kazzaz
Businessman
Adviser, Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party
Sondos Asem
Senior Editor, Ikhwanweb.com
Member, Foreign Relations Committee, Freedom and Justice Party
Khaled Al-Qazzaz
Foreign Relations Coordinator, Freedom and Justice Party
RSVP:
Email Hoda Elshishtawy at hoda@mpac.org or 202-547-7701.
Seating is limited, based on RSVPs

Allowing these Slaves to Allah into America, is the equivalent of Nazis being allowed in Israel. Plotting in our own backyard….
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The Muslim Brotherhood comes to America

By Lauren Bohn
Editor’s note: Lauren Bohn is a 2010-2011 Fulbright fellow and multimedia journalist based in Egypt. She’s a Pulitzer Center grantee and a 2012 Overseas Press Foundation fellow.
(CNN) – Sondos Asem has butterflies, formulating answers to questions she expects to be asked and practicing her diction with the devotion of a high school debate champion. The gentle 24-year-old graduate student at the American University in Cairo is in a hotel room in downtown New York, figuring out what to wear on national television. (“This blazer would look good, right?” “Should I wear more color?”)
Like many young Egyptians, she’s been tweeting the fallout after the 2011 uprising that brought down former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The stakes are higher than 140-character dispatches might suggest. Asem has emerged as an unlikely unofficial spokeswoman for the Muslim Brotherhood, helping to run its English-language Twitter feed, @Ikhwanweb, and in turn revamp the group’s image in the West.

Sondos Asem, right, and her mother, Manal Abu Hassan, use social media in their Cairo living room

In no more than three lines, often using abbreviations and hyperlinks, she hashes out the views of the Brotherhood, the 83-year-old fountainhead of political Islam in the region and one of the most powerful organizations in Egypt. The Brotherhood’s newly established political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, has won just under half of the seats in the country’s new parliament — more than any other group — and will have a major hand in rewriting the country’s constitution.
This week, Asem and five members of the Brotherhood are in New York as part of the group’s first delegation in the United States, the face the Brotherhood thinks perhaps would be well received in the West. Asem is part of a worldly, urban generation. She shops at Egypt’s flashy mega-malls. She brushes her eyelids with a modest dash of sparkly eye shadow and wears designer head-scarves. She has an affinity for cosmopolitan cities and uses American teen parlance like “You rock” and “Yeaaah, girl.” She seems very unlike the kind of person who has historically been loyal to the Brotherhood.
Founded in Egypt in 1928, the group is the oldest and largest Islamist movement in the world. It has affiliates and branches throughout the region and adherents in Europe and the United States. Mostly made up of middle-class doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, the Brotherhood has sought a more traditional Islamic society by building extensive networks and social services across the country, often filling in gaps left by the neglect of sclerotic, corrupt regimes.
Band of brothers
Until the Egyptian uprising in 2011, the Brotherhood was officially banned by Mubarak’s government. Its members were routinely imprisoned. But it was given limited room to operate in the country and became one of the largest dissident organizations.
Many Western pundits and politicians have long denounced the group as a quasi-terrorist organization and the ancestor of al Qaeda. While some al Qaeda leaders — notably Ayman al-Zawahiri,who is Egyptian — have roots in the Brotherhood, al Qaeda largely dismisses it for renouncing violence and engaging politically.
When it comes to charming a largely Western audience, Asem is one of the Brotherhood’s prized go-to people. She comes from a stalwart Brotherhood family. Her father is in charge of publishing all the organization’s educational materials, like “How to be a good Muslim father” and “How to be a good Muslim wife.” Her mother ran unsuccessfully for parliament and is the current chairman of the political party’s committee on women.
Asem is persuasive and assertive, gesturing confidently as she talks, but she still looks down and shows the insecurities of a 20-something caught up in a national identity crisis.
Just six months ago, Asem went by a pseudonym in the press for fear of suffering a backlash among her private-university classmates, who are mostly secular and perceive the Brotherhood as a bunch of religious ideologues, bent on imposing Islamic law and diminishing civil liberties.
But times have changed since the Arab Spring.
The Brotherhood’s near-landslide victory in parliamentary elections has given Asem and fellow members the confidence to back the group publicly. She and some of her equally eloquent colleagues have shuttled across the world to attend conferences on the revolutionary uprisings, and their opinions are being heard and heeded on an unprecedented scale.
At the recent Daily Beast/Newsweek Women in the World summit, Asem brushed elbows with actresses Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie and sat on a panel moderated by Andrew Sullivan, a renowned gay Catholic blogger. It was a far different scene from a few years ago, when she and other members gathered clandestinely in cramped living rooms, turning off their mobile phones because they were afraid state security forces could be tracking their whereabouts.
As Asem settled into her hotel room in New York and prepared to meet with a prominent news organization’s editorial board, she got word that her boss had decided to run for the presidency of Egypt.
“Wow! I can’t believe it,” she exclaimed.
Not many can. The political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has nominated its longtime strategist and financier Khairat al-Shater for president. The announcement ran counter to the Brotherhood’s previous pledge to stay out of the race, a decision the group said was made to prevent flooding the fledgling political system and derailing a smooth transition of power in the country.
The delegation that Asem is part of is meeting with Pulitzer-prize-winning journalists and the editorial boards of prestigious papers. The Council on Foreign Relations is hosting them in New York for a talk and they’re meeting with the Carnegie Endowment and the Brookings Institution in Washington, with a lot of coffee-talk in between. The goal: to alleviate the fears of a still-suspicious American establishment.
Global charm offensive
The delegation is really part of an international charm offensive, analysts and critics say, that is strategically unrepresentative of the deeply hierarchal Brotherhood. The image the group is trying to portray to the West belies its oppressive views of women and religious minorities, these experts say. And politically that could be a concern to the West, because the Brotherhood has historically been hostile to Israel.
On the other hand, it would be foolish to shun the delegation, and the least the West should do is continue to engage the group to understand its strategic influence in the new Egypt, say Marc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University.
Lynch says the recent meeting of former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain with al-Shater in Cairo was perhaps the most eye-catching moment in this new engagement. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was traveling with McCain, reportedly said of the trip: “I was very apprehensive when I heard the election results. But after visiting and talking with the Muslim Brotherhood, I am hopeful that … we can have a relationship with Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is a strong political voice.”
But at same time, there is going to be mutual suspicion on both the U.S. and Brotherhood sides, Lynch predicts. The Brotherhood will likely realize that whatever sympathy it got from America for being oppressed by Mubarak won’t continue unless the Brotherhood brings democracy to Egypt.
“I don’t discourage these road shows,” says Michael Hanna, a Middle East analyst at the Century Foundation, a progressive nonpartisan think tank. “But there’s always that question that hangs over the interactions: just how representative are these people of a very parochial, more conservative organization?”
It’s not just abroad that the Brotherhood finds itself on the defensive, but also on its home turf.
Read the rest here at CNN.

Where are Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Obama on this ?

--- Where are Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Obama on this ? A week ago, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black kid named Tyrone Woodfork severely beat an elderly couple, a Mr. & Mrs. Strait, who had been married for 65 years.  Tyrone RAPED Mrs. Strait, and she died of injuries received at his hands. Mr. Strait served in the 101st Airborne during WWII. NO national media carried the story. Tyrone was arrested yesterday. I supposed that if Mr. Strait had shot Tyrone, the whole country would know about the story. As it is, only Mrs. Strait died, so it's not of interest to Brian Williams and the rest of the main stream media. Think about it. After 65 years of marriage. After serving our country. After 90 years of life, Mr. Strait has lost his wife to a rapist/murderer. NO ONE in the national media gives a flip. They're interested in their wonderful hero, Trayvon Martin. Man charged with murder in deadly home invasion Tyrone Woodfork, arrested on murder complaint for beating death of 85-year-old Nancy Strait. Her husband, Bob Strait, 90, was also severely beaten. COURTESY By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer Published: 3/26/2012  4:53 PM Last Modified: 3/26/2012  4:53 PM A man accused of assaulting an elderly couple this month was formally charged Monday. Tyrone Woodfork, 20, was charged in Tulsa County District Court with felony first-degree murder, two counts of robbery with a firearm and first-degree burglary. Bob and Nancy Strait were assaulted March 14 in their home in the 3300 block of East Virgin Street. Nancy Strait died March 15 from injuries related to the assault. She was also raped. Bob Strait is still recovering from multiple injuries and has been re-admitted to a hospital. Woodfork was arrested March 15 after witnesses reported seeing the couple’s stolen 2001 Dodge Neon in the 3500 block of East Fourth Street. He remains in the Tulsa Jail without bond. By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer (By the way, If Obama had a son, would he look like Tyrone Woodfork?  Just asking....)