The Muslim Brotherhood, Part V – Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun in the 21st Century

Posted on September 26, 2012 by lburt

From its humble beginnings in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has grown into a global Pan-Islamic movement. The group is riding a wave of successes as it moves into the 21st century. Despite many setbacks, the “Brethren” have been remarkably successful in advancing their agenda not only in the Middle East but around the world. What factors can account for their success? The following analysis considers some of the most-critical ones.

1. The Muslim Brotherhood has sharply-defined its mission and core values in its motto, “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.^“ Members know what the group stands for, and the goals for which it is striving. In military terms, the motto functions as a set of mission orders which set forth the objectives for which the individual believer is striving.

2. The Muslim Brotherhood functions, in part, according to the “leaderless movement” model and functions as a distributed network. Although the group has a leadership hierarchy and bureaucracy, it pushes much operational responsibility down to the local level. Local groups are compartmentalized cells or “franchises,” which are capable of independent operation as well as coordinated action. By using small cells as the basic unit of organization, the Brotherhood enhances its resiliency and also makes infiltration and penetration by outsiders and enemies more difficult.

3. The bureaucracy of the movement is divided into a General Organizational Council, composed of delegates from individual chapters of the Brotherhood; the Shura Council, which formulates the general goals of the organization; and an Executive Office, which implements the directives of the Shura and GOC. Within this bureaucracy are found offices devoted to executive leadership, education, fund-raising, political action, finance, and affairs of the Muslim Sisterhood.

4. The Muslim Brotherhood has links to a vast number of international, national, regional and local organizations, including Islamic charities, madrasas and schools, clinics/hospitals, newspapers/publishing houses, and electronic media outlets. The movement also has an office devoted to propaganda and public relations, and maintains websites in Arabic, English and many other languages. This network functions to cultivate new followers, collect donations and funds, and also to provide services to Muslims around the globe. These groups are also part-and-parcel of the civilizational jihad project of the Brotherhood – whose aim is to spread Islam into the non-Muslim world. Moreover, this web of services assures the continued good will – and financial support - of existing members. Patrons of the group include many fabulously-wealthy members of the royal families of the Middle East.

5. Like many of today’s most-successful crime syndicates, the Muslim Brotherhood goes to great lengths to present a “respectable” face to the world at large, while hiding the often-brutal and violent means it uses to advance its agenda. Since the 1960s, the organization has publicly-disavowed violence - while continuing its clandestine support of the PLO-Fatah, Black September, Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and other terrorist and direct-action groups. The dual nature of the group functions offers a degree of protection from retaliation by its enemies. Using proxies for direct-action also provides the organization a degree of plausible deniability and helps maintain its cover as a “legitimate” organization.

6. The Muslim Brotherhood have proven to be skilled manipulators of the western, left-leaning press. The movement’s tactics include a heavy reliance on disinformation, psychological operations and propaganda to advance its agenda in the non-Islamic world, and obscure its intentions. This objective is accomplished via multiple means, but one of the most common is through non-profit organizations such as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), the MSA (Muslim Student Association), and other front groups, which promote Pan-Islamic views in their respective spheres of influence. The Ikhwan also have a significant presence at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language cable TV network. These initiatives are funded by petrodollars flowing from Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni Arab Gulf States.

7. Consistent with its goal of civilizational jihad and stealth sharia, the Brotherhood has targeted schools and universities as focal points of its efforts to advance Islam into the western world. In Texas, independent researchers discovered that a wealthy Muslim was trying to influence the textbook and the lesson plans used in public schools. Many universities have received extremely generous gifts from Muslim benefactors in return for opening Centers for the Study of Islam or similar initiatives. Naturally, these centers are staffed by academicians sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood and Pan-Islamism in general.

8. As shown by the recent controversy involving Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior aide, Huma Abedin - a member of the Muslim Sisterhood - the movement has also been very active at infiltrating the government and the military. The notorious Ft. Hood shooter and mass murderer, psychiatrist Nidal Hasan (who had the inscription “SoA” or “Soldier of Allah” on his U.S. Army business cards) and U.S. Army Sergeant Hasan Akbar (who killed two fellow soldiers in a grenade attack in Kuwait in 2003) attest to the degree of penetration by Islamists into government and the military.

9. The Muslim Brothers have made a concerted effort to reach out to disaffected blacks; the movement has also recruited extensively from the U.S. prison population. The preferred method of the Brotherhood is to sponsor imams who then go into prisons and recruit/convert inmates. Of course, these outreach efforts omit or hide the historical crimes committed by Muslims against blacks, such as the role of Islamic slave-traders in the capture and sale of Africans into bondage during the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – and the continued , wide-spread existence of illicit slavery within the Islamic world today.

10. The communications strategy of the group has been to tone-down or dilute statements made to the non-Islamic or western press, while continuing to preach jihad, sharia and Islamic supremacy to Muslim audiences. This same strategy is followed by imams in mosques across the western world. Thereby, western audiences are presented with an image of Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood utterly at-odds with the one Muslims themselves are seeing, hearing and reading.

11. Spearheaded by such groups as the Organization of Islamic Conference and supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, attempts are now-underway at the United Nations to criminalize criticism of Islam.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part IV – Sayyid Qutb

Posted on September 14, 2012 by lburt

by PETER FARMER

Part I – A Brief History of the Muslim Brotherhood (Can be found by clicking here)Part II – The Muslim Brotherhood – Haj Amin al-Husseini (Can be found by clicking here)

Part III – The Muslim Brotherhood – Hitler’s Imam

If one wishes to understand the origins, ideology and goals of the modern-day Muslim Brotherhood, one must study the life and works of Egyptian theorist and writer Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). His writings remain enormously-influential within the Ikhwan and the Pan-Islamic movement generally, and are also vitally-important to any informed understanding of such figures as Osama bin-Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Anwar al-Awlaki and groups such as al-Qaeda. Indeed, Qutb’s name has entered the lexicon of the Muslim world; those who follow his ideology and teachings are referred to as ”Qutbists” or simply Qutbi. Despite his importance to Sunni Islam, Qutb is relatively unknown in the non-Islamic world.

Qutb was born in 1906 in the rural village of Musha, Egypt. His father was a well-known political activist and land owner. As a teenager, Sayyid was a quiet and artistic young man; he displayed few if any outward indications of the ideologue he was later to become.

After completing studies in Cairo at Dar al-’Ulum in 1933, he took a post as a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction. During the 1930s, he wrote extensively, trying his hand as a novelist and literary critic. In 1939, he accepted a bureaucratic post in the Ministry of Education, while continuing to write and move within Egyptian artistic and literary circles. In 1948, Qutb traveled to the United States intent upon studying educational administration; during a two-year period abroad, Qutb studied at Woodrow Wilson Teacher’s College in Washington, D.C., at Stanford University in southern California, and at Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, Colorado. He traveled widely elsewhere in the United States during this period.

Upon his return to Egypt in 1950, Qutb resigned his civil service position, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, and quickly emerged as one of its senior leaders. He became the editor-in-chief of the journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, and also took an active role in the propaganda section of the organization. Qutb’s sojourn abroad marked a watershed in his life; he returned to Egypt a very different man than the one who had left two years before. He had departed an unassuming and diffident man; he returned a hardened Islamic ideologue and firebrand. What had so changed him?

Shortly after his return to Cairo, Qutb wrote an impassioned article entitled “The America I Have Seen,” which provided an answer. A revealing window into his perceptions and thoughts upon the U.S. and the modern world generally, this work revealed the extent of his transformation. Qutb was fiercely critical of what he viewed as the decadence and moral degradation of Americans. He condemned everything from the individual freedoms of U.S. citizens to their materialism to what he believed to be the wanton and highly-sexualized behavior of American women. He accused his former hosts of having barbaric tastes in music and the arts, and abhorred the “animalistic mixing” of the sexes in churches and other public places. He decried the “spiritual degeneracy” of common Americans, and lamented their enjoyment of “primitive” sports such as boxing and football. His complaints even extended to the quality of the haircuts he received.

Qutb’s list of grievances did not end there; for the first time, his writings displayed his sense of racial identity and a growing hostility to American and European civilization. “The white man in Europe or America is our number-one enemy,” he wrote, “…the white man crushes us underfoot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives.” He recommended, “Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust and revenge in the souls of these children; let us teach these children (from the time their nails are soft)…that the white man is the enemy of humanity and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity.”¹

Qutb was not only critical of the United States and Europe, but modernity itself and its values – rationalism, secularism, individuality, tolerance, materialism and sexual egalitarianism. Similarly, he held an equal measure of outrage and indignation for pro-western modernists and secularists in Egypt and elsewhere within the Middle East. He reserved special contempt for the corrupt and decadent princes of Saudi Arabia, whom he viewed as unworthy of the task of guarding Islam’s holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Qutb’s emerging worldview held that modernity and Islam were fundamentally incompatible, and that Islam must be returned to its unpolluted origins. The world was divided into two camps – Islam and Jaliyya,hi i.e., the state of paganism, ignorance and barbarity that existed before the arrival of the Prophet Mohammed. The entire modern world he labeled as jahiliyya; those Muslims who supported it were takfiri – apostates and betrayers of the true faith.²

Like many others in the Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb felt that gradualism had failed to bring about an Islamic revolution in Egypt, and that more radical and violent methods would be necessary. However, in 1952, the Egyptian monarchy was overthrown by a group of nationalists headed by General Gamal Abdel Nasser. The new president and Qutb had been allies, but when the Brotherhood turned against Nasser, they became bitter adversaries. In 1954, after a failed assassination attempt against him, Nasser ordered a crackdown against the Ikhwan and imprisoned many of its high-ranking leaders, including Sayyid Qutb.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part III – Hitler’s Imam

Posted on September 4, 2012 by lburt

Haj Amin al-Husayni – Bosnian-SS

by Peter Farmer:

After escaping Iraq ahead of pursuing British security forces and making his way to fascist Italy, Amin al-Husseini arrived in Germany in November 1941. Upon reaching Berlin, al-Husseini was treated as visiting royalty; a head of state in exile. The Nazi Party supplied him with several luxurious homes staffed with servants, a chauffeured Mercedes limousine, a monthly stipend equivalent to $10,000, and suites in two of Berlin’s most-prestigious hotels. He was also allocated a generous entertainment allowance, intended for his use in influencing the substantial Arab expatriate community then in Berlin.

Seeking support for Arab pan-nationalism and Muslim causes, al-Husseini had been in contact with members of the Nazi regime as early as 1933. He presented the Nazi leadership with a draft proposal of German-Arab cooperation, under which Germany would recognize the legitimacy of an Arab state encompassing Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jordan and Iraq, in return for Arab support of the Axis Powers in the Middle East. These views found favor in the highest reaches of the Nazi Party. On November 28, 1941, after meeting with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, al-Husseini was granted an audience with Führer Adolf Hitler.

In Hitler, al-Husseini found a soul mate. Although Hitler had written years before in Mein Kampf of the “racial inferiority” of Muslims, the Führer’s views had modified considerably since that time. Indeed, in the blond-haired, blue-eyed and light-complexioned al-Husseini, Hitler found a fellow Aryan. The Mufti and he shared a passionate hatred of the Jews and the British. Thus united, they formed a new strategic partnership.

In the months following his successful meeting with Hitler, al-Husseini formed a number of close relationships with members of the Nazi inner circle, including friendships with Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler’s elite body guard and the chief paramilitary force of the Reich; and SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Adolf Eichmann. The Grand Mufti remained close with Reichsminister von Ribbentrop. Soon, al-Husseini and these men discovered a shared passion for the extermination of Jews.

At al-Husseini’s request, Von Ribbentrop ordered that no Jews within German-controlled territory be allowed to leave Europe to enter Palestine. He also directed the formation of a special bureau within the Foreign Ministry devoted to extermination of Jewry abroad, called the “Anti-Jewish Action Abroad.”

With the assistance of Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, al-Husseini began pro-Axis Arabic-language radio broadcasts from Berlin to the Middle East as early as December, 1941. In these broadcasts, he called upon his Arab brethren to commit acts of sabotage against the British and to kill Jews and other infidels at every opportunity. Assisted by Iraqi fellow exile Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, the Mufti called upon Muslims worldwide to wage jihad against the Allies. In one such broadcast on March 1, 1944, al-Husseini urged his listeners, “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion.”

The Grand Mufti collaborated actively with Himmler and Eichmann in the conduct of the “Final Solution” to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He toured Auschwitz concentration camp with Eichmann, and according to later testimony at the Nuremburg Trials by top Eichmann aide and SS-Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny, al-Husseini constantly urged greater haste in the killing of the Jews.

In 1943, Himmler asked for al-Husseini’s assistance in recruiting Muslims into the SS for use in the Balkans; under the Mufti’s enthusiastic direction, the notorious 13th Mountain Division “Handschar” of the Waffen-SS was formed from some 20,000 Croatian Muslim volunteers. It later saw action against Yugoslav partisans under Marshall Tito, and participated in ethnic cleansing operations against Jews and other “undesirables” in the region. Over 800,000 Yugoslav Serbs, Jews and Roma (gypsies) were exterminated, many by the cruel members of the Handschar division.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part II – Haj Amin al-Husseini

Posted on August 27, 2012 by lburt

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini

by PETER FARMER

Part I – A Brief History of the Muslim Brotherhood (Can be found by clicking here)

The identity of today’s Muslim Brotherhood, in many ways, parallels the lives of just three influential men, who founded and shaped the Brotherhood as it grew into the largest and most-influential Pan-Islamic movement in the world today. The three men were Hasan al-Banna, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, and Sayyid Qutb. In the previous installment of this series, we examined the life of the founder of the movement, Hasan al-Banna. In this, the second installment, we turn our attention to a second key figure – Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini.

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was born in 1895 in Jerusalem in what was then British Mandatory Palestine into an influential, politically-powerful clan. Young al-Husseini was indoctrinated by his father and other clan members, who hated the British and the Jews. He attended a Koranic primary school and then a Turkish-funded secondary school, where he learned the language of that nation. He matriculated briefly in 1912 at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he learned Islamic (sharia) law. In 1913, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims, and thereafter appended the prefix “Haj” to his name.

Join Our Protest of the Chicago Caliphate Conference

Posted on June 7, 2012 by lburt

by Ryan Mauro

An Islamic extremist group called Hizb ut-Tahrir that opposes democracy and supports violent jihad, including the killing of U.S. soldiers, is coming to Rolling Meadows, Illinois on June 17. The conference, titled “Revolution: Liberation by Revelation–Muslims Marching Toward Victory” is about how Muslims must help resurrect the Caliphate and institute Sharia-based governance.

The event is to be held at the Meadows Club at 2950 W. Golf Rd from noon to 4:00 PM EST. If you wish to express your opinion to the Meadows Club, the business can be contacted at info@themeadowsclub.com or called at 847-640-3200. In 2010, Hizb ut-Tahrir’s annual conference at the Chicago Marriott Oak Brook hotel was canceled after the venue dropped the group’s reservation.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT) was founded in 1953 in East Jerusalem when it was under the control of Jordan. It was begun by a former member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood named Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. He also worked with with Haj Amin al-Husseini, a cleric who is most famous for his close alliance with Hitler. HUT came to the U.S. in the early 1990s under a front called “Walnut,” or the Islamic Cultural Workshop. HUT now operates openly in the U.S.

Zeyno Baran, an expert on Islamist groups, calls HUT a “conveyor belt for terrorists.” Multiple members have been radicalized by its preaching, which gives Muslims every reason to become violent, and gone on to commit terrorism. Examples include Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

What makes the Meadows Club’s hosting of HUT especially outrageous is the fact that HUT is outwardly anti-American and jihadist. The promotional video for the conference features a clip of a protester in the Middle East declaring, “We are here to say that we want to reestablish an Islamic state with Sharia as the “only source of legislation.” This is followed by a clip of an Egyptian cleric preaching, “Oh Muslims! Rise up to aid and support the call for Khilafah [Caliphate] even if it is at the expense of your lives.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir says that it is non-violent, but the reality is more complicated. It does not engage in violent jihad as an organization but that doesn’t mean that it opposes violent jihad by its members on their own accord or by other groups. Its website explains:

“So whenever the disbelieving enemies attack an Islamic country it becomes compulsory on its Muslim citizens to repel the enemy. The Hizb ut-Tahrir in that country are part of the Muslims and it is obligatory upon them.to fight the enemy and repel them. Wherever there is a Muslim amir who declares jihad.the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir will respond in their capacity as Muslims in the country where the general call to arms was proclaimed.”

HUT’s Facebook page links to an article by “Hizb-ut-Tahrir Publications” about jihad. It opens with Quran 9:29: “Fight those who believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day.until they pay the Jizya [a special tax for non-Muslims] with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” Non-Islamist Muslims may have a passive interpretation of this passage’s meaning, but Hizb ut-Tahrir’s threatening interpretation is clear.

The author of the article fondly recalls the “days when the Islamic Ummah [the Muslim community] was an ummah of jihad” and how “the Jihad of the Muslims imprinted in the minds of the Europeans the notion that the army of Islam is invincible.” The power of the Muslim world has fallen because Muslims “relinquished jihad.”

The group has called for killing U.S. soldiers specifically. In January 2010, it accused the “U.S. crusaders” of massacring Afghan children and stated that it must “be answered by sharp swords of Muslim united armies under true Muslim leaders.” The invitation to an HUT conference in Denmark in January 2011 mentioned “the duty of armed resistance of the Muslims in Afghanistan and its environs. We consider this resistance as fully legitimate.” HUT has also published materials supporting jihad against U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq.

After the bombings in London in 2005, a top HUT official was asked to condemn them. His response was that he’d “condemn what happened in London only after there is a promise from Western leaders to condemn what they have done in Falluja and other parts of Iraq and in Afghanistan.” Its Facebook page has promoted an anti-democracy lecture by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Al-Qaeda leader who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

The vilest rhetoric is directed at Israel and Jews as a whole. A HUT document reads, “if the plane belongs to a country at war with Muslims, like Israel, it is allowed to hijack it, for there is no sanctity for Israel or for the Jews in it.” A HUT spokesman in Denmark distributed a leaflet that instructed Muslims to “kill them all [Jews], wherever you find them” and endorsed suicide bombings against Israel as acts of “martyrdom.”

After the Turkish flotilla incident in 2010, HUT’s branch in the U.S. supported violent retaliation. “There is no solution except to mobilize armies, gathering the capable soldiers and fight the Jews.” It criticized Pakistan and Iran for not attacking Israel. “O you possessors of the missiles that you boast can blow ‘Israel’ off the map, so where are you now, O Pakistan and Iran’s rulers?” it asked.

The Pakistani branch of HUT told the country’s military must “prepare nuclear bombs and other weapons for Jihad.fight under this command to annihilate Israel.” The Bangladeshi branch saidMuslims must “eradicate Israel and purify the earth of Jewish filth.”

HUT also supports violent jihad against India. In July 2011, the Pakistani HUT believes “The only way Kashmir can be liberated is through organized jihad under a state that mobilizes the armies.” Its journal from December 19995 said “Muslims need swords, not candles” in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. HUT leaders have also been videotaped endorsing jihad in Chechnya and Kashmir.

The group is openly hostile to Western secularism and democracy. It does not even pretend to believe in the system. A speaker during its last conference in the U.S. admitted that HUT would dismiss the Constitution entirely and replace it with Sharia Law. One past edition of its publication compared the Founding Fathers to “tyrant dictators.”

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