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STRATFOR: Ikhwan wants “true sharia” for Egypt
STRATFOR SITREP
May 22, 2011
In his latest audio message, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri expressed support for the recent wave of Arab revolts, SITE Intelligence Group reported May 22. Though the Egyptian constitution claims to be Shariah, Egypt’s legislation is man-made, and Egyptians should use the opportunity afforded by the revolution to impose true Shariah, Zawahiri said. He also called on Egypt to end its relationship with Israel and to cease closing the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, going so far as to urge Egyptians to “dismantle” the crossing. Regarding Libya, Zawahiri said NATO seeks to replace Moammar Gadhafi with its own “tyrannical” ruler, and he urged protesters in Syria to continue their demonstrations against the regime of President Bashar al Assad.
On Bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood Makes Different Statements in English and in Arabic
Pajamas Media exposes the usual Islamic game of saying one thing in English and another in Arabic. This game was first used by the Barbary Pirates when they signed a treaty with Jefferson making sure the Arabic copy did not say what the English one did, showing exactly how honourable in intention the Muslim culture is. This was a precedent for Islamic strategy and clearly has carried out to this very day shown on a continuing basis on Al Jazeera where the English station is quite dramatically different in content from the Arabic one I am reliably informed.
Eeyore
The Muslim Brotherhood, a dominant political force in Egypt and around the Arab world, is notorious for saying one thing to Western media and something else to local media. That was the case today, when leading member Essam al-Erian gave Reuters a strong but measured statement on the killing of Osama bin Laden — but left out key details from the group’s reaction on its Arabic-language website.
“With Bin Laden’s death, one of the reasons for which violence has been practised in the world has been removed,” Essam al-Erian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s governing body, told Reuters. “It is time for Obama to pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq and end the occupation of U.S. and Western forces around the world that have for so long harmed Muslim countries.”
While al-Erian portrayed bin Laden as a cause for violence in the Reuters article, the Muslim Brotherhood’s statement on their Arabic-language page said nothing critical of him. The website refers to the killing of “Sheikh” Osama bin Laden, using an honorific title, and condemns the attack as an assassination. It demands America stay out of the internal affairs of Arab and Muslim countries, and blames the West for launching a media campaign to demonize Islam.
Above all, the MB’s Arabic-language statement “confirms that the legitimate resistance against foreign occupation, for any country is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine law and international convention,” in reference to America’s presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. By supporting violence against America’s troops in Muslim lands, the MB essentially defends the al-Qaeda campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The text also instructs the United States to stop its intelligence operations in Muslim lands, the key source of information that led to bin Laden’s killing. It furthers support the “legitimate resistance” of Palestinian groups against Israel, and tells the U.S. to do the same.
So while the MB claims to have renounced violence, it has honored bin Laden as a sheikh and called for terrorism against American forces in Muslim lands.
See the translation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s statement on the next page.
Panic in Egypt over Muslim Brotherhood’s call for Islamic rule
20/04/2011 ASHARQ-E.COM
By Mohammed Hassan Shabaan
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Statements by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Deputy General Guide Dr Mahmoud Izzat about the implementation of Islamic Shariaa and punishments in Egypt has aroused strong fears among the liberal and left-wing political powers. They consider this to be a dissent from the national unanimity and a violation by the Muslim Brotherhood of its public stance and a wriggling out of the commitment to the civil state.
Statements by a number of Muslim Brotherhood leading members have revealed that the group pursues the establishment of an Islamic government system, and to implement the Islamic Shariaa punishments in Egypt.
Al-Misri al-Yawm last week reported statements by Saad al-Husseini, member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood, at a popular rally organized by the group in Bulaq District in which he said: “At this period, we would like to lead the society to achieve its Islamic identity in preparation for the Islamic rule.” The newspaper also said that Dr Mahmoud Izzat, deputy general guide of the group, stressed: “The implementation of the Islamic Shariaa punishments comes after owning the ground. The punishments have to be implemented after Islam enters the lives, ethics, and dealings of the people.” Continue Reading →
Brother of Muslim Brotherhood Founder Speaks About islam
Clinton warns creeping intolerance threatens to derail Arab democratic revolutions
Clinton does not get that this is true democracy. It is the will of the majority that influences the actions of the state. This woman needs a dictionary.
YAHOONEWS/CANADIANPRESS…BERLIN – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Friday that rising intolerance toward women and religious minorities threatens to derail democratic transitions around the Arab world and spread violent extremism.
Accepting an award named for a pre-Nazi era German Jewish businessman, politician and foreign minister who was murdered for his promotion of inclusion and tolerance, Clinton said she was disturbed by recent developments in post-revolt Egypt in which women and Coptic Christians were singled out for attacks and abuse. They are signs, she said, that extremists are intent on seizing transitions for their own aims.
The 1922 assassination of Walter Rathenau, was “a cautionary tale about how these transitions can be undermined by intolerance and hijacked by extremists,” she told a ceremony in Berlin.
She said the incidents in Egypt were testing the unity of pro-democracy demonstrators whose peaceful protests ousted Egypt’s authoritarian president and could fracture the reform movement.
Clinton said she feared similar backsliding elsewhere in the Mideast and stressed it was critical for Egyptians and other Arabs whose nations are in the throes of change to resist intolerance and demand that their new leaders embrace open and inclusive governments.
“It will be critical,” she said, for citizens and leaders “to work together to resist these dangers and keep their nations on track to become open, inclusive, pluralistic democracies.”
“Democracy is a never-ending task that requires participation and protection and it is only possible if every citizen can enjoy its benefits,” she said. “Societies thrive when all their people contribute and participate. But they stagnate when women are excluded or minorities are persecuted.”
Israeli Vice Prime Minister On the Muslim Brotherhood – “They Mean Bussiness!”
MSA (Muslim Students Assn) behind terror plots? From CBN
Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of Europe
This is the English version of the Norwegian documentary I posted the other day with German titles. It was up here on Vlad some time ago but whoever had uploaded it to youtube removed it. So here is a working embed.
BAT YE’OR: BIG DANGER OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WINNING IN UPCOMING ELECTION IN EGYPT
An interview with Egyptian ex-pat, Bat Ye’or, at the Norwegian website, Document.no. KGS
NOTE: Special thanks to Cecilie for the translation
Bat Ye’or: The Brotherhood wants to Islamize modernity, not to modernize Islam
Bat Ye’or, thank you for letting Document.no. interview you. There has recently been a revolution in your native country, Egypt. Everybody was apparently surprised by the fall of Mubarak’s regime. Were you surprised too?
Yes, of course.
Few commentators seem to have any clear idea of where the road leads to for Egypt. The subsequent future events compared with both the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the revolution in Iran in 1979. Where do you think the country is heading now?
We are on the way to the end, I fear, for the Muslim Brotherhood is the only well-organized and structured movement with clear objectives and an international power base. It also seems that it has almost unlimited access to financing. I am of the opinion that any comparison with Western revolution is meaningless, because we are dealing with a Shariah society that works within a political view of reality that rejects the foundation of our own. I have also noticed with great sadness that the attacks and murders of Copts have increased.
Foreign Correspondents in Egypt say that the protesters’ anger was a cry for justice, and they recognized that there was something genuinely positive in the uprising. But the most cautious would add that this is not something upon which to build a community, given that it is easier to unite against someone than it is to find the way forward together. Can all this youthful energy have some positive impact, or is it disorganized?
I agree with the correspondent’s point of view. But democracy, freedom, jobs and justice can only be developed if you develop the right institutions and have a grasp of the economy. Egypt is a poor country with more than 80 million inhabitants, of whom a large percentage are illiterate who can not cope with the challenges of the 21st century. I do not doubt the abilities of the academic and educated elite, but the social problems are so huge. The general trend towards a more traditionally religious society based on the Koran will also not contribute to modernization.
Do the Egyptian masses want democracy in any meaningful sense of the word, or do they lack a clear understanding of what it is all about?
They surely want democracy, but when you listen to what they have to say, it seems they think there is something tangible that they can grasp and carry, and not an abstract idea that needs time and requires effort from the entire nation to be accomplished. Democracy is not just majority rule. It involves a political independent judiciary, equal rights for all – including non-Muslims and non-Arab minorities such as Kurds, Assyrians and Berbers – and freedom of expression and acceptance of pluralism and criticism. But all this is forbidden both in Sharia law and in the Cairo Declaration of 1990 on human rights in Islam. In order to achieve democracy, one must first eliminate the Sharia.
Professor Bernard Lewis says that there is something in the Muslim tradition that is vaguely reminiscent of democracy; in other words these consultative groups consisting of key people, clan leaders etc. Is such a corporate model, the best you could hope for?
Such meetings, in which unelected tribal leaders make decisions, have nothing whatsoever to do with a modern democracy as we know it.
Speaking of infiltration of US orgs by Muslims seeking domination….
Here is a website with extensive evidence on ACU Board Member Suhail Khan’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood, as a case study.
Then we have this from Pajamas Media:
Suhail Khan is a member of the American Conservative Union’s board of directors. ACU hosts and operates the Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual conference, and during this week’s CPAC conference in Washington, Khan has come under fire for alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood. During a panel on conservative inclusion at CPAC on Saturday, Khan flatly declared that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. The Tatler has obtained video of Khan’s remarks, below.
The Muslim Brotherhood identifies many front groups in their own internal documents, documents which were entered into evidence by federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial. A simple Google search of “Muslim Brotherhood United States” also easily proves Khan’s assertion to be false. Numerous groups working in the United States, in various capacities, have been provably linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. To note but one prominent example, the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, has been identified by the FBI as a group connected with the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas. Hamas itself is the Palestinian affiliate for the Muslim Brotherhood.
The video was shot and brought to PJTV by the Florida Security Council, floridasecuritycouncil.org, led by Tom Trento, J. Mark Campbell and Randy McDaniels.
And lastly, an excellent video from CPAC: David Horowitz on the Muslim Brotherhood
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CPAC: David Horowitz on the Muslim Brotherhood
Frank Gaffney & Nonnie Darwish on Ikhwan influence ops in America
Norwegian documentary on Ikhwan (The Islamic Brotherhood)
The Moslem Brotherhood from Geir Olsen on Vimeo.
WASHINGTON POST MEGA BLUNDER: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD INSPIRED BY THE YMCA
The Village People: So were we!
So YMCA inspred them, not the Nazis, thanks for clearing that one up Wa-Po. No mention of the Nazis funding the Great Arab Uprising from 1936-1939, boosting MB ranks from 200 to 200,000? Grand research! According to the WaPo:
Muslim Brotherhood says it is only a minor player in Egyptian protests
WA-PO: “Inspired by the YMCA when it was founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been under a ban since 1948, and its real size is difficult to gauge. The group was brutally repressed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s. Since then, it has at times been propped up as a foil – especially for Western audiences – with periodic crackdowns that have sent many of its members to prison.”
Obviously, many of their actions as well as the rhetoric and the slogans used in this antisemitic campaign were clearly taken over from Nazi Germany. The Brotherhood, however, included Islamic roots of hatred against Jews as well. They used and disseminated a quotation from the Koran that Jews are to be considered ‘the worst enemy of the believers.’ In addition, they evoked old stories of the early history of Islam by pointing to the example set by Mohammed who, as legend has it, succeeded not only in expelling two Jewish tribes from Medina during the 7th century, but killed the entire male population of the third tribe and sold all the women and children into slavery. And they stressed (and still consider) Palestine as an Islamic territory (‘‘Dar al-Islam“) where Jews should never be allowed to govern a single village let alone an entire state.
H/T: DG