This is a remarkable story. Via the Washington Free Beacon:
Georgetown University is scheduled to host an event on Egypt that features a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party.
Georgetown University’s Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Center for Christian Muslim Understanding is scheduled to host a Dec. 5 event on “Egypt and the Struggle for Democracy.”
The event features a slew of speakers sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Coptic Christian Ramy Jan, who cut his teeth on the Egyptian political scene as a member of the country’s Nazi Party, according to multiple sources.
As you can see, apart from the Muslim Brotherhood supporters, the event features two notable names:
The event is scheduled to take place all day at Georgetown’s ICC auditorium and feature a keynote address by Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.).
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Other participants include Dalia Mogahed, who was picked by President Barack Obama to advise White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Mogahed said on Twitter Tuesday that organizers of the event had no knowledge that Jan was a member of Egypt’s Nazi party.
“I can assure you the organizers had no idea about his ‘other baggage,’” she said.
When reached for comment Tuesday about the event, an official at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Center directed a reporter to contact event organizers at the Egypt Freedom Foundation, which did not respond to several requests for comment.
Hours after being contacted by the Free Beacon, the event organizers scrubbed his name from the event flyer and quietly reposted an altered version.
Christine Kidwell, the Alwaleed Center’s associate director, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Ellison’s spokesman Mike Casca also did not respond to a request for comment.
Michael Totten has more:
We can only hope somebody humiliates these cretins in public like an Egyptian TV host did on Cairo’s Dream1 TV back in 2011. Take a look at this video. The host puts several founding members of Egypt’s Nazi Party on camera and treats them exactly how they deserve to be treated.
“Nazism is a tyrannical fascist political ideology,” he says, “which brought ruin and destruction on the entire world…Why should we, in Egypt, adopt these tyrannical, fascist political movements and evoke them from history after they have been vomited from the entire world?”
Thus he gets them on the defensive from the very beginning. But, hey, never fear. “We have nothing to do with Hitler,” one of them says. “The one and only thing we have adopted from Nazism is racial supremacy. That’s it.”
He won’t be put on the spot. That’s because, having been rumbled, Georgetown has dropped the Egyptian Nazi:
When reached for comment Tuesday about the event, an official at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Center directed a reporter to contact event organizers at the Egypt Freedom Foundation, which did not respond to several requests for comment.
Hours after being contacted by the Free Beacon, the event organizers scrubbed his name from the event flyer and quietly reposted an altered version.
Christine Kidwell, the Alwaleed Center’s associate director, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Ellison’s spokesman Mike Casca also did not respond to a request for comment.
Why would they drop Ramy Jan? In what way are the policies and expressed views of the Muslim Brotherhood substantially different from that of the Nazis?
