Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Branches Out Into Anti-Semitic Movies To Recruit New Members…

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(JPost) — Egyptian Islamic group only recently allowed back into politics ventures into film, new media to galvanize, attract new supporters.

Ikhwan [Brotherhood] Cinema isn’t sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest Islamic movement and a contender for power in upcoming elections. But it was set up and is run by people belonging to its youth wing and it has gotten an official endorsement from the organization.

Its short films grapple with issues as diverse as corruption, sectarian strife, illicit gains and — using classic anti-Semitic imagery — Israeli cruelty towards Arabs. In the film “Soccer Match,” for instance, two stereotypical Jews with ear locks gloat as they witness intra-Arab animosity on the soccer field, with the Israeli national anthem playing in the background.

Ali Khafagy, director of youth affairs in the Giza branch of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s new political party, said he loved Egyptian film but could not set foot in an Egyptian cinema.

“I don’t go there because many films have love scenes, which our censorship doesn’t remove,” Khafagy told The Media Line. “I want to see films I can benefit from.”

Khafagy said the Egyptian film industry alienated and provoked many traditional Egyptians like himself, but the new youth initiative gave Egyptian film producers an alternative model for “clean and meaningful film.”