on the secular elements who had tried to oust Mubarak and moved to restore Sharia Law. He was particularly vicious in his persecution of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, the minority that comprises between a tenth and a quarter of Egypt’s population.
Shortly after Morsi took office, a wave of violence gripped the Coptic community and their leader accused Morsi’s government of “delinquency” and “misjudgments” for failing to prevent sectarianstreet-fighting. He noted that “this is the first time the main Coptic Orthodox Cathedral has been attacked in Egypt’s history.” 40 In foreign affairs, Morsi steered a course of cooperation with the Palestinian terrorists and appeared to all but junk the 1979 Camp David accords that brought peace to the Egyptian-Israeli relationship.
But Hillary was Morsi’s biggest fan. On July 14, 2013, as millions of anti-Islamists demonstrated in Cairo against his regime, Hillary flew to see the embattled leader and lend him support. But the Egyptian Army, long a key force in their politics, wanted Morsi to go. As the threat of military intervention to unseat Morsi hovered over his presidency, Hillary declared that the United States “supports the full transition to civilian rule with all that entails.” She demanded “the military’s return to a purely national security role.” 41
Breitbart News reported that “the meeting itself sent a historic message. Seated in an ornate room in the presidential palace, Mrs. Clinton smiled for cameras and traded pleasantries with President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist jailed more than once by the American-backed autocracy overthrown 18 months ago. She became the highest ranking United States official to meet Mr. Morsi since he was sworn in.” 42
Hillary’s visit cemented what Morsi’s wife called a “special relationship” between her husband and the secretary of state. 43 Of Mrs. Clinton, she said, “We have a long friendship of many years. We lived in the U.S. and my children learned there. This friendship increased further when my husband became the legitimate president of the country.” 44
Hillary’s backing for Morsi was very significant. The United States gives Egypt almost $3 billion of foreign aid each year, the bulk of it aimed at subsidizing the country’s military—a payoff given for their entry into the Camp David Accords which guaranteed peace between Egypt and Israel.
Huma Abedin was not the only hook the Muslim Brotherhood had into the secretary of state. She had another Islamic radical in her midst. As noted, Gehad el-Haddad, the son of Morsi’s foreign affairs advisor, served as the Muslim Brotherhood’s top Englishlanguage communications official in Egypt. At the same time, he was employed by the Clinton Foundation, heading the Cairo office of the Clinton Climate Initiative. In April 2015, el-Haddad was sentenced to life in prison in Egypt for his work with the Muslim Brotherhood. With her top aide, Huma Abedin, an open sympathizer with the Muslim Brotherhood, and el-Haddad working for her foundation as he advised Egyptian president Morsi, we are right to ask Hillary, Which side are you on?
Reason Five: Which Hillary? She Flips, She Flops, and Then She Flips Again
It can be dizzying to watch the fast changing policy positions of Hillary Clinton. With no real convictions other than ambition, she changes her views with the rapidity and totality of a kaleidoscope. The only thing her shifting views have in common is that they are driven by her political needs at that moment. It is a wonder that anyone listens to her anymore. Her political views have a half-life of a few months . . . or until the wind changes. Here is just a sampling of some of the recent flip-flops. Just a sampling.
Gay Marriage
As she began her solo political career in 2000, she announced in White Plains, New York that she opposed gay marriage: “Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes