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Summary of FTR#540—(Note: The massive
volume of ‘For The Record’ programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391.
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455, 456 are compilations of
much of the key documentation culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11.
Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is recommended
that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) In late 2005 and early 2006, the Islamofascist Muslim Brotherhood
scored significant electoral successes in Egypt and in the Palestinian
territories. Representing itself as “moderate” and “democratic,” the
Brotherhood has enjoyed the encomiums of an amen chorus in parts of the West. A
political ally of Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy during World War II, the
Brotherhood is, in fact, an Islamic fascist organization. The parent organization
of Al Qaeda, the Brotherhood has retained all of its fascist character, behind
its “moderate” façade. In this program we examine the organizational structure,
operational strategy and religious/philosophical roots of the Muslim
Brotherhood, relying in large measure on an excellent analysis of that
organization developed by the Air War College. Masking its totalitarian program
and ambitions behind noble rhetoric, the Brotherhood perverts Islamic doctrine
to its own ends. Utilizing Islam’s mandatory charitable functions to gain
popularity in the largely impoverished Muslim world, the Muslim Brotherhood
strives to translate its charity work into electoral success at the polls. When
that fails, the same charitable NGO’s that are the vehicles for almsgiving double
as terrorist funding conduits. Central to the Brotherhood’s military and
terrorist operations is a philosophical perversion of the Islamic concept of
“jihad,” which is [in its original meaning and intent] peaceful. Purposely
vague in its enunciation of specifics, the Brotherhood’s political vision is
predicated on a mythical, idealized conception of Islam’s past.
Program Highlights Include: The Bush
administration’s “democratic” agenda, which is putting the Muslim Brotherhood
and other Islamofascists in power in the Middle East; the primary role of
foreign expatriates in Brotherhood operations around the world; the
Brotherhood’s great success in using civic and constitutional protections
afforded by American democracy to enhance its terrorist operations; the
Brotherhood’s efforts at banning the distribution of feminine sanitary napkins
at women’s high schools in Egypt; the labeling of the Holocaust as a myth by
the head of the Brotherhood’s Egyptian branch; the Brotherhood’s influence on
Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran; the influence of Mussolini’s “squadristi” on the
Pakistani branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1.
Beginning discussion of the Muslim Brotherhood, the broadcast notes
that the Brotherhood has essentially become the template for political Islam.
After electoral successes in Egypt and Palestine, the Brotherhood is
cultivating an image as a “moderate” organization. Just how “moderate” this
fascist group is will be seen in the concluding portion of the program. For
more about the Muslim Brotherhood and its history, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 455, 456, 473, 537. Note that Hamas is
the main Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. “ . . . The Brotherhood has long been the
model for Islamic political movements and has close ties with the Islamic
Resistance Movement, or Hamas, which won last week’s Palestinian legislative
elections. Though the Brotherhood formally renounces violence in Egypt, it
provides outspoken support for Hamas’s armed campaign against Israel’s occupation
of the West Bank. In Egypt, the Brotherhood has tried to quickly position
itself as a mainstream reform party. . . .” (“Egypt’s Muslim
Brotherhood May Be Model for Islam’s Political Adaptation” by Daniel Williams; The Washington Post; 2/3/2006; p. A14; accessed
at: http://www.washingtonpost.com.)
2.
In the wake of the Brotherhood’s electoral successes, the U.S. is
apparently considering opening up discourse with these “moderates.” “The United States
has signaled the possibility of making contact with members of Egypt’s banned
Muslim Brotherhood after the opposition group’s stunning success in
parliamentary polls. Washington has refused to acknowledge the Islamist
organization’s strong showing, recognizing only that an unprecedented number of
‘independents’ had won despite widespread violence and intimidation. But a
senior State Department official suggested US officials might be in touch with
victorious members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has emerged as a key player
in Egyptian politics even if it is not a formal party. ‘I would expect us to
meet with the independent candidates,’ said the official, who spoke to
reporters on condition of anonymity. The 77-year-old Brotherhood, which has
renounced past ties to violence and is still tolerated in Egypt, shocked Cairo
by taking 88 of 444 parliamentary seats at stake in the month-long elections
that wound up on Wednesday. Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said
the United States would respect Egyptian law prohibiting contacts with the
Muslim Brotherhood as an organization. . . . .” (“US Seeks Contact
with Brotherhood” Business in Africa;
12/09/2005; accessed at: http://www.businessinafrica.net/news_in_brief/all/829422.html.)
3.
Next, the program highlights the view of Bush administration critics
that the “democratization policies” advocated by “W” are counterproductive for
the United States and beneficial to its enemies. It is Mr. Emory’s considered
viewpoint that Bush’s administration is a front for the Underground Reich, and
that the architects of the “democratization” process deliberately intend a
Brotherhood ascendance in the Muslim world as part of their geopolitical
strategy. (Mr. Emory views Bush personally as a figurehead, not the generator
of the policies for which he is the spokesman.) Note that the Republican Party
is a repository for personnel selected by Helene Van Damm, a protégé of SS
Middle East expert and CIA operative Otto Von Bolschwing. Von Bolschwing was an
architect of the Third Reich’s policies in the Middle East, viewing support for
Jewish immigration as a vehicle for generating Arab sympathy for the Nazis and
hostility on the part of the Arab population toward nations demonstrating
support for Zionism. For more about Von Bolschwing, see FTR#’s 332, 399, 465. FTR#399 highlights
Von Bolschwing’s Machiavellian view of the utility of Zionist immigration for
the Nazi cause. “The
Bush administration’s strategy of promoting democracy around the world is under
fire from critics who say it is not only utopian but advances the interests of
America’s adversities. In particular, they say, it has produced striking gains
for Islamists rather than secular moderates in recent elections in the Middle
East. In the wake of the progress of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the
relative failure of secular parties in Iraq, the militant group Hamas—outlawed
in the US as a terrorist group—appears poised to do well in Palestinian
legislative elections on January 25. Nonetheless, President George W. Bush
shows little sign of retreating from the principles he laid out in his second
inaugural address a year ago. Invoking God, he said that ending tyranny
worldwide reflected the unity of ‘America’s vital interests and out deepest beliefs.’
. . .” (“Critics of ‘Utopian’ Foreign Policy Fail to Weaken Bush
Resolve” by Guy Dinmore; The Financial
Times; 1/13/2006; p. 6.)
4.
In FTR#537 (among other
programs), we examined the fascist ideology and heritage of the “moderate”
Muslim Brotherhood. This program supplements that discussion with information
about the Brotherhood’s aping of fascist methodology in post-World War II
Pakistan: “ .
. . In Pakistan [Muslim Brotherhood chief Said] Ramadan worked closely with a
young Islamist named Abul-Ala Mawdudi, who had founded a Muslim
Brotherhood-style movement called the Islamic Society. Just as he had recruited
angry young Muslims to take up arms in Palestine, so Ramadan helped Mawdudi
mold a muscular phalanx of fanatical Islamic students into a battering ram
against Pakistan’s left. Known by its Urdu initials as the IJT and modeled on
Mussolini’s squadristi, the group
deployed its often-armed thugs to do battle with left-wing students on campus.
‘Egg tossing gradually gave way to more serious clashes, especially in
Karachi,’ writes Seyyed Vali Reza Nast, a leading expert on the movement. In
the process, the IJT trained the generation of radicals who seized control of
Pakistan in 1977 under the far-right dictator General Zia ul-Haq, sponsored the
jihad in Afghanistan, sheltered Al Qaeda, and even today represents a threat to
General Pervez Musharraf’s shaky regime. . . .” (“Cold War, Holy
Warrior” by Robert Dreyfuss; Mother Jones;
January/February 2006; p. 57.)
5.
Much of the program consists of reading and analysis of one of the best
pieces ever written about the Muslim Brotherhood--a report on the organization
written for the Air War College curriculum [at Matthews Air Force Base]. The
report underscores the organization’s atavistic nature—it is preoccupied with a
mythologized past and intends a return to a state of affairs based on that
mythology. In the case of the Muslim Brotherhood, an idealized and mythologized
vision of the Caliphate is the predominant concept in its political program. “ . . . Bard E.
O'Neill, in his book Insurgency &
Terrorism: Inside Modem Revolutionary Warfare, classified the Muslim
Brotherhood as a ‘reactionary-traditionalist’ type of insurgency because of
their insistence on the strict adherence to ancient religious customs,
traditions, and practices. O'Neill states, ‘Traditionalist insurgences also
seek to displace the political system, but the values they articulate are
primordial and sacred ones, rooted in ancestral ties and religion... Within the
category of traditionalist insurgents one also finds more zealous groups
seeking to reestablish an ancient political system that they idealized as a
golden age.’ This description applies to the Muslim Brotherhood considering its
avowed desire to reestablish Sharia law and the Caliphate. Sharia law is a
compilation of sacred laws resulting from ijima or consensus decisions by
leading Islamic scholars, qiyas or analogy reasoning by judges, lawyers and
scholars, the sunna-hadith, and the Quran. The Caliphate was the religious,
military, and political structure that governed the Muslim people and lands
after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in A.D. 632. The caliph, or successor
to the prophet, served as the ruler of the Muslim community. . . While the
title Caliph extended to 1924, the actual influence and control of the entire
Muslim world community was minimal after the thirteenth century. The Muslim
Brotherhood's desire to see the return of the Caliphate raises substantial
questions concerning their historical point of reference and definition of the
Caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood's desire to reestablish the Caliphate hinges
more on pan-Arab revivalism than on acknowledgement of the turbulent nature of
the Caliphate following the first four Caliphs.” (Treatise on the Muslim Brotherhood [from
the curriculum of the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base]; Chapter 3—“The
Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Radicalism” by Gary M. Servold; pp. 58-59.)
6.
As we shall see, the Brotherhood’s agenda embraces the goal of a
world-wide, totalitarian Muslim theocracy—a program that does not smack of “moderation.” This agenda
was articulated by Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, in an interview with
John Roy Carlson (conducted in the immediate aftermath of World War II.) Cairo to Damascus—the book containing
the quote—is available on the Spitfire website
at the URL posted at the top of this description. “ . . . I asked his [Al-Banna’s] views on
establishing the Caliphate, the complete merger of Church and State—the Moslem
equivalent of religious totalitarianism, as in Spain. ‘We want an Arabian
United States with a Caliphate at its head and every Arab state subscribing
wholeheartedly to the laws of the Koran. . . . The laws of the Koran are
suitable for all men at all times to the end of the world.’ . . . I could not
help making a mental note that the word ‘Christian’ has been similarly used and
with similar fanaticism among Western exponents of authoritarianism. . . .” (Cairo to Damascus; John Roy Carlson; Copyright
1951 by John Roy Carlson; Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; ISBN 51-11068; p.
92.)
7.
Next, the discussion returns to information from the Air War College
document. One of the secrets of the Brotherhood’s success has been the
organization’s successful mobilization of social welfare programs on its
behalf. In the [largely] poor, disadvantaged Muslim world, these programs are
very influential, because of the real relief they offer to their recipients.
Acting through international NGO’s, these programs translate into grass-roots
electoral success at the polling places. As will be seen later in the program,
many of these NGO’s double as terrorist funding conduits. In FTR#455 (among other
programs), we examined the analysis of the Brotherhood as a “Far-Right cult.”
In that context, note the cult-style ideology and verbiage of the Brotherhood
doctrine. Much of what it superficially espouses sounds good in its initial
manifestations, ending in the goal of “mastering the world” through Islam. “ . . . The
Brotherhood uses a structure of charitable non- governmental organizations to
formally pursue their youth, health, religious, education, and social welfare
service programs. They establish small businesses and factories to generate
income, employ members, and employ sympathizers. The Brotherhood uses
membership in formal professional organization and syndicates as a vehicle to
influence the national infrastructure. The main objectives of the Brotherhood
are: 1. Building the Muslim individual: brother or sister with a strong body,
high manners, cultured thought, ability to earn, strong faith, correct worship,
conscious of time, of benefit to others, organized, and self-struggling
character. 2. Building the Muslim family: choosing a good wife (husband),
educating children Islamically, and inviting other families. 3. Building the
Muslim society (through building individuals and families) and addressing the
problems of the society realistically. 4. Building the Muslim state. 5.
Building the Khilafa (basically a shape of unity between the Islamic states).
6. Mastering the world with Islam. .
. .[Italics are Mr. Emory’s.]” (Treatise
on the Muslim Brotherhood [from the curriculum of the Air War College,
Maxwell Air Force Base]; Chapter 3—“The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic
Radicalism” by Gary M. Servold; p. 56.)
8.
Utilizing core principles of Islamic belief as an organizational pillar
for realizing their temporal political goals, the Brotherhood uses the mosque
as a place for members to network, organize and socialize. “The basic pillars or long-term plan of
action of the Muslim Brotherhood includes, first, the establishment of Islamic
Sharia law; second, establishment of Muslim states; and third, the unification
of Muslim nations. These steps are directly tied to their Islamic doctrine.
Likewise, the Brotherhood's objectives, goals, and funding are also directly
related to Islamic doctrine. The first and foremost source of Islamic doctrine
is the Quran or Koran. Muslims believe the Quran is the infallible word of God
revealed through divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh
century A.D. The Quran identifies five pillars of faith: Profession of Faith to
Allah and his apostle, Prayer, Almsgiving (zakat and sadaquat). Fasting, and
Pilgrimage (hajj). The Quran is organized in chapters or suras that are revered
as the recited words of God. The suras constitute the basis for the ritual
prayers performed by devout Muslims five times a day. This pillar of the Muslim
faith serves as a unifying focal point for the Muslim Brotherhood. Prayer at
mosques built by the Muslim Brotherhood provides a frequent forum for contact
and promulgation of their fundamentalist ideology.” (Ibid.; pp.
56-57.)
9.
The paper notes that, in its early development, the physical presence
of Muslim believers in an environment populated with rival religions and
non-believers mandated that the “umma”—believers—unify and solidify,
particularly in the face of physical hostility. This tendency to band together
becomes perverted by the Brotherhood and serves as a protofascistic unifying
element. “The
Quran is a ‘doctrine of the absolute oneness of God’ that ‘refers to, and is
concerned with, three religious groups: heathens, Jews, and Christians.’ Since Islam's inception the ‘absolute
oneness’ and unyielding belief that the Quran expresses the literal words of
God, served as a unifying point for the community of believers or the umma.
Living among rival religions and hostile tribes necessitated a strong bond
between like-minded believers. Physical struggles with non-believers forced
Muslims to band together. While there are divergent sects and local variations
in the practice of the Islamic faith, a clear distinction exists between
believers and non-believers. The Muslim Brotherhood capitalizes on this
unifying force as an ideology for the creation of a greater Muslim state and
Islamic world. The Muslim Brotherhood exploits and promotes this communal
religious unification as a protection measure, recruiting tool, and a call to
arms for Muslims to defend their brethren throughout the world. It is this
sense of religious ideological unity that mobilized the ‘Arab Afghans’ to fight
the Soviets in Afghanistan. From Bosnia to Sudan to Indonesia to the Philippines,
protection of the umma is a familiar call to arms for militant Islamic
fundamentalists and the Muslim Brotherhood. The protection of the umma is tied
to the Islamic concept of jihad.” (Ibid.;
p. 57.)
10.
At the core of the Brotherhood’s protofascistic perversion of the
concept of the umma is their distortion and cynical utilization of the concept
of jihad. A complex concept, jihad in its original conception is
peaceful, entailing the struggle of the believer to realize the will of God
through submission to that inherently good calling. For the Brotherhood, jihad entails a chauvinistic, malevolent
and violent course of action against those it calls its enemies. “Jihad is a word
that is difficult to translate from Arabic to English. Its best translation is
‘a sincere and noticeable effort (for good); an all true and unselfish striving
for spiritual good.’ Jihad is a multi-dimensional concept with the primary
focus on the individual. At the individual level it is striving to live a good
life in accordance with the Quran, being just, performing righteous deeds,
protecting people’s rights and freedoms, spreading the faith, and personally
defending the faith. It is about the individual’s spiritual struggle for
‘submission’ (English for Islam) to God’s will that is good and just, not
evil.” (Idem.)
11.
The Brotherhood’s membership is large, and the international diaspora
of Brotherhood members from the Middle East has provided the foundation for the
organization’s subsidiary NGO’s and academic institutions abroad. “The structure of
the Muslim Brotherhood is not widely known outside the membership of the
organization for reasons of security and self-preservation. While the exact
number of members is not known, there are other indicators of the memberships'
relative strength. In Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, and Lebanon admitted
Muslim Brotherhood members hold public office; this is an indicator of the
organization's extensive strength and internationalism. A more sinister
indicator of strength is the estimated number of Brotherhood members and
sympathizers killed in Syria, 10,000 to 30,000, and the number of persons
displaced, 800,000, in 1981. The bulging prison population of Muslim Brothers
in Egypt is estimated to exceed 15,000. The rising number of Brotherhood
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like Islamic Relief, Mercy International,
Muslim Association, Muslim Arab Youth Movement, and the Holy Land Foundation
are just the identifiable tip of the iceberg of the Muslim Brotherhood's
worldwide NGO support efforts. The Brotherhood's identifiable presence on
college and university campuses spans much of the world, University of South
Florida (US), Oxford College (UK), West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education
(UK), Cairo and Al Azhar University (Egypt), Khartoum University (Sudan), Amman
University (Jordan), the University of Medina (started by the Brotherhood in
Saudi Arabia), 22 University of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), and Islamic University
(Pakistan). While these examples and figures do not give an exact number of
members, the sheer global nature of the organization suggests a membership in
the many millions.” (Ibid.; p. 54.)
12.
Utilizing a cellular structure and an informal network, the Brotherhood
has insulated itself against hierarchical state control. As noted in the Air War
College study, this type of informal networking is common to Middle Eastern
cultures. “The
Brotherhood uses an informal social network that is relatively impervious to
authoritarian state control. The informal network is an indelible component of
the Middle East social fabric. The basic building block is a five-man cell
known as a ‘family’ in which the initial indoctrination to the Brotherhood
occurs. Through everyday interaction the networks serve as the focal point for
mobilizing collective action. The Brotherhood uses weekly small group meetings
(Halaqua), monthly multi group meetings (Katibah), trips, camps, course of
instruction, workshops, and conferences to indoctrinate and educate members and
coordinate action. . . . The Brotherhood’s worldwide branches work in
accordance with the country’s local circumstances to achieve their objectives.
. . .” (Ibid.; p. 55.)
13.
As noted above, the Brotherhood’s NGO’s are a source of its appeal, in
that they provide very real and badly needed charitable services in the largely
impoverished Muslim communities that they serve. In addition to generating and
sustaining the Brotherhood’s electoral popularity, these NGO’s also double as
terrorist funding conduits, making the isolation and neutralization of
Brotherhood terror networks difficult, particularly in Western democracies that
traditionally provide constitutional protection religious and charitable
organizations. “In
Islam, almsgiving or charity represents one of the five pillars of the faith.
Charitable donations are as important as praying. Typically, Muslims give ‘2.5
% of their annual income’ to charitable causes. This is known in Arabic as
‘zakat.’ Much of this funding goes directly to grass root non-governmental
organization (NGO) efforts. The
Muslim Brotherhood's strategy relies heavily on this pillar of the Islamic
faith to fund their social welfare programs that provide their base of popular
support. The Muslim Brotherhood draws heavily for financial support from
diasporas from countries like Egypt, Algeria, and Syria where repression of the
Islamic fundamentalists has resulted in massive relocations and emigration to
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Europe, and America. A prime example of
the magnitude of this phenomenon is Syria. In February 1981, the Syrian
government, following a wave of Muslim Brotherhood inspired violence, brutally
repressed the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood movement. The Syrian government's
repression resulted in the complete destruction of the town of Hama and the
estimated death of some 10,000 to 30,000 men, women, and children. Following
this brutal suppression over 800,000 Syrian Muslim Brotherhood members and
Islamic fundamentalist sympathizers fled the country to Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
and Lebanon. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 60.)
14.
Europe and America are two of the primary destinations for the
Brotherhood diaspora. “In Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt the aggressive repression of
the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamic fundamentalist organizations
resulted in a massive emigration to Europe, the Middle East, and America.
During recent decades, the Muslim population of France has grown to over five
million. Over one half of these emigrants hail from North Africa. According to
U.S. Immigration records, over 78,000 legal immigrants from Egypt and Syria
entered the U.S. between 1989 and 1999. In both Europe and the United States,
these new immigrants, driven by a religious requirement, channel their
charitable donations back to country organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood
that have both a charitable and a political agenda. . . .” (Idem.)
15.
Of particular importance is the United States. For reasons enumerated
in the passage that follows, the terrorist sub-groups of the Brotherhood have
found the U.S. to be fertile ground. The Washington D.C.-based terrorist
funding apparatus revealed by the 3/20/2002 Operation Green Quest raids
channeled money to Al Qaeda, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At the
epicenter of the SAAR network targeted by the raids was the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Bank Al Taqwa. “The Muslim Brotherhood and the more violent organizations
it has created, like Hamas, have found a very permissive, lucrative, and
hospitable operational environment in the United States. They are following their organizational
doctrine to build a coalition of likeminded fundamentalists whose non-violent,
overt actions camouflage their acceptance and support of terrorist violence to
accomplish their common objectives.
The United States affords freedom of action, superb communication
capabilities, a wealth of funding opportunities, and a recruitment base of
educated talent. Working through non-profit and tax exempt foundations, the
Muslim Brotherhood has constructed a network of organizations. While there is
no hierarchal command structure, they share a linkage through their core Muslim
Brotherhood beliefs. These organizations provide the infrastructure that
facilitates dissemination of propaganda, indoctrination of members,
communication between organizations, appeals for financial support, access to a
larger contact population, and the conscription of future terrorist recruits.” (Ibid.;
p. 63.) [For more about the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist operations in the
United States, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
454, 455, 456, 462, 464, 467, 513, 515, 538. Be sure to use the search
function at the top of this page to learn more about Brotherhood stateside
operations such as the SAAR network, the Safa group and Ptech.]
16.
When the Brotherhood’s very real charitable infrastructure fails to win
success at the ballot box, the janus-faced organization turns to its “dark
side”—the terrorist infrastructure that exists alongside its benevolent
operations. Reflecting on the SAAR network mentioned above, it is interesting
to note how the Muslim Brotherhood advocates infiltrating existing institutions
in order to co-opt them to its own ends. “The structure of the Muslim Brotherhood provides a
vehicle through which terrorist organizations can cooperate on a local level
without the use of the traditional pyramid command structure. As was seen in
the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, terrorists of five different
nationalities, different organizational affiliations, and different agendas,
were able to find a common ideological base in the doctrine espoused by the
Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's preferred course of action is to
gain control of the governments through the ballot box. With control of the
government secured, they then seek to institute their objective of ‘Islamizing’
the nation. To accomplish this task the Muslim Brotherhood use a two-pronged
approach. At the ‘intelligentsia’ level, they seek to control social
institutions by infiltrating and attaining prominent positions in professional
organizations, government offices, institutions of higher learning, and labor
unions. At the ‘proletariat’ level, they seek to develop popular support
through charitable and religious programs. The Brotherhood seeks to
indoctrinate the population with their ideology in order to form a sympathetic
voting block to push their objectives through the political system. Their
slogan, ‘Islam is the solution,’ is a clever tool for drawing popular political
support for their cause and is also a call to stem the modernization and
globalization promoted by the Western world. . . .” (Ibid.; pp.
63-64.)
17.
Although the Brotherhood professes support for democratic values, its
purposeful vagueness about its ends is revealing: “ . . . The Brotherhood's lack of definition
as to how they would use power is a significant concern. Would they use power
to reverse the democratic process to create theocratic authoritarian regimes?
Their stated objectives leave little room for the democratic concepts of
political compromise, majority rule, and minority rights. The Brotherhood
everywhere advocates the integration of their interpretation of Islamic
precepts into the existing secular government structure, the establishment of
Islamic theocracies, the use of international terrorism to further their cause,
the manipulation of NGOs to support their cause, and the use of Muslim
Brotherhood mujahidin to serve as a Brotherhood foreign legion in the internal
conflicts of other Islamic states. Everywhere it exists, the Muslim
Brotherhood's activities range from political party activism to promoting an
insurgency that uses terrorism as a tool. The Muslim Brotherhood's past
strategies pointedly show how this supposedly non-violent organization aids and
sustains radical Islamic groups who resort to violent means if their popular
efforts are subverted. From the ranks of the Brotherhood, members have answered
the call to ‘Jihad’ in Palestine, Bosnia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and
Chechnya. In Algeria, Syria, and Egypt the Brotherhood serves as the umbrella
organization promoting armed struggles. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 71-72.)
18.
Behind the empty sloganeering of the Muslim Brotherhood, their
self-professed moderation shows itself to be what it is. In Egypt, Brotherhood
parliamentary members lobbied against the distribution of female sanitary
napkins in the women’s rooms of public high schools!! Some moderation!! [In fundamentalist Islam, menstruating women are
considered to be unholy.] “ . . . The record of Brotherhood members in the outgoing
parliament provides some clues to what this could mean for Egypt . . . .
[Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary member Gamal] Heshmat was stripped of his
seat in parliament in 2003 when his victory was challenged by election
officials but hopes to regain it in the second round on Sunday. Before he was
swept aside, though, he and other Brothers in parliament railed against the
Miss Egypt beauty contest and the
distribution of female sanitary napkins in high schools. [Italics are Mr.
Emory’s.] . . . .” (“Muslim
Brotherhood Doubles Strength in Egypt Parliament Sunday’s Vote Could Boost
Group’s Power as Opposition Bloc” by Charles Levinson; San Francisco Chronicle; 11/19/2005; accessed at: http://sfgate.com.)
19.
Manifesting its fascist nature and its affiliation with the Underground
Reich, the Muslim Brotherhood briefly let down its façade after its success in
the Egyptian parliamentary elections. In December of 2005, the leader of the
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood echoed the president of Iran in labeling the
Holocaust a myth. Some moderation! “Two weeks after the Muslim Brotherhood won 88 seats in
Parliament and established itself as Egypt’s only significant political
opposition organization, its leader issued a statement Thursday condemning
America while declaring that the Holocaust was a ‘myth’ . . . .” (“Egyptian
Leader of Muslim Group Calls Holocaust a Zionist Myth” by Michael Slackman; The New York Times; 12/23/2005; p. A9;
accessed at: http://select.nytimes.com.)
20.
Not even Al Jazeera could
negate the fact of the Brotherhood’s Holocaust denial. “The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, the
main opposition force in Egypt’s parliament, has echoed Iran’s president in
describing the Holocaust as a myth. ‘Western democracy has attacked everyone
who does not share the vision of the sons of Zion as far as the myth of the
Holocaust is concerned,’ Mohamed Akef said in a statement on Thursday. . . .” (“Brotherhood
Chief: Holocaust a Myth”; Al Jazeera;
12/23/2005; accessed at: http://english.aljazeera.net.)
21.
The forerunners of the Shiite fundamentalists in Iran were also deeply
influenced by the Brotherhood. (As we saw in FTR#’s 352, 456, Ayatollah Khomeini’s
exile in France was financed by Nazi banker Francois Genoud. For more about
Genoud, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 453, 456.) “ . . . The regime of the ayatollahs in Iran
grew out of a secret society called the Devotees of Islam, a Brotherhood
affiliate whose leader in the 1950’s was the mentor of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini. . . .” (“Cold War, Holy Warrior” by Robert Dreyfuss; Mother Jones; January/February 2006; p.
56.)
22.
Signs of “moderation to come” were evident in the wake of the furor (Fuehrer!?) that exploded over the Danish
cartoons of the prophet Mohamed. The subject of “cartoongate” will be dealt
with in a future broadcast. “ . . . In London, hundreds of Muslims marched from the
Regent’s Park mosque, one of the biggest Islamic centers in Europe, to the
heavily protected Danish embassy, bearing placards declaring ‘Behead the one
who insults the prophet’ and ‘Free speech to hell’ . . . .” (“Muslim
Outrage Gathers Pace” by Bertrand Benoit; The
Financial Times; 2/3/2006; accessed at: http://news.ft.com.)
23.
A picture of “moderation” is worth a thousand words. One of the
splinter groups of the Muslim Brotherhood is Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Check
out this photograph of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rally from April of 2005: http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=52636194&cdi=0.