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Last week, the Obama Administration decided to open talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose political influence over Egypt is growing. The White House initiative will be framed as simply pragmatic - one has to talk to all the parties involved. It will be approved by most Western elites, whose endless hope that "dialogue and engagement" can solve all human problems will outweigh any qualms, such as the Brotherhood's goal of wiping out Israel and, according to its international spiritual leader Yusef al Qaradawi, all the Earth's Jews. Dialogue uber alles.
It will be fascinating to see how Boston's Jewish leaders - given their own short-lived dialogue with the Brotherhood front group here - react to Obama's parleys with Egyptian Islamo-nazis. It was the Jew-hating Qaradawi himself, after all, who personally raised funds in the Hub for the controversial Roxbury mega mosque, and was for eight years one of its trustees. It's a touchy subject on High Street. Ever since the "great mosque lawsuit/dialogue battle" - in which the Jewish Community Relations Council silently disengaged from its tete-atetes with the radical Muslims who run the mosque, Islamic fundamentalism in Boston's own neighborhoods has become a taboo subject in the halls of Jewish leadership.