Ahmed Zewail Quotes
I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
Zewail, Ahmed. Reflections on World Affairs: Peace and Politics. Imperial College Press, 2015.
1st Viscount Milner
Referring to the 1988 acceptance speech of Democratic Presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis:
At the time the Republican party was a minor, third party and Douglas was disparaging that. While Douglas' general point has held true, the Republicans supplanted the Whigs as the second major party shortly thereafter.
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
He was comparing the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS. H was trying to eradicate both organizations. Most Western leaders saw the Muslim Brotherhood as a less dangerous and less virulent organization than ISUS, HAMAS and other more overt terrorist organizations. Siri however has perspective of owe 50 years of history with the Muslim Brotherhood, and although they have got through periods of claimed political participation and not terrorism, Sisi and other Egyptians observe that all of these more virulent terrorist troops share the same ideology and end goals as the Muslem Brotherhood, and all these terrorist groups have been outgrowths of the Muslim Brotherhood. H argues that the Brotherhood must be wiped out else there will be more and more terorist groups to replace those that we might destroy.
He was one of the few Radio Talk Show hosts who was a middle-of-the-roader as opposed to catering to a very leberal or very conservative audience.
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
