Muslim Brotherhood: from Cairo to Weston Charles Jacobs - The Jewish Advocate, February 10th, 2011 We all know the sad history of revolutions America being the one clear exception how idealism quickly turns bloody as political thugs manage to triumph over the moderates. Will Egypt be different or only a reenactment of Bolsheviks smashing Mensheviks, or Komeiniites devouring anti-shah democrats? Power is a dirty business; in times of turmoil, small numbers of organized, ruthless gangs easily rip power from the hands of decent democrats. Like nearly all Arab leaders, Mubarak is a tyrant, but will his replacement be less tyrannical? In the Middle East there are rarely good or bad alternatives only bad and worse. Have we not heard of the Muslim Brotherhood? Not to worry, say the usual folks at The New York Times, CNN and BBC, who've had decades of practice managing reality to fit their utopian liberation fantasy narrative (in this case: get rid of the bad, and you will automatically get something better). The media conveniently overlooks the anti- Semitism and genocidal pronouncement of the crowds, while claiming that the MB has only 20 percent support (as if that is relevant) and the Brotherhood has renounced violence at least publicly which is what matters most for those who cannot tell the difference between sham and hope. Or its members surely will be responsibly moderate as they take power (see Gaza). And besides, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei is a democrat. Oh? A Noble peace prize winner (more sham and hope) an Egyptian expatriate who has lived in Europe for the past 30 years on the UN payroll ElBaradie is the man who blocked effective sanctions against Iran. He's got no real political experience and is shopping for a grassroots organization. Actually, some think he found it that the Brotherhood's already behind him, that he's a fig leaf, a Trojan horse, a transitional figure. Not unheard of. It's shocking to see how (willfully) ignorant and naïve the Western media is about the MB, now waiting for its moment to capture power, rule the largest Arab nation, tip the balance in the region and threaten the life of most Egyptians and, of course, the Jewish state. Check out how many news stories suggest that it be accepted as a legitimate political party. What could possibly go wrong? So what is the Muslim Brotherhood? In the ruins of WWI, three modern ideologies arose to explain the collapses and failures of world order: Nazism, Communism and Islamism. To the founders of Islamism, the fall of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) the last caliphate (Islamic empire) was a theological catastrophe that had to be explained. How could Allah have permitted this? Their answer: Muslims had abandoned the true faith. The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt to organize a global Islamic comeback. Its tenets: Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Explained its founder, Hassan al-Banna: It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated; to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet. Like the communists, the Brotherhood is an international movement for global dominance and governance with branches in more than 70 countries. In Gaza, it's called Hamas. In America, with the help of Saudi funding, it has as the communists had done set up multiple front groups. Through the capture of MB planning documents, federal authorities have identified one such front group the Muslim American Society (MAS) as the overt arm of the MB here in America. The MAS, with branches in more than 30 cities, runs the Saudi-funded mega mosque in Boston's Roxbury section. The captured planning document says that the goal of the MB is to destroy Western Civilization from within with its own hands. That means the MB generally avoids violence and prefers to insinuate itself into the civic fabric of the society, seeking privilege for Muslims, proselytizing to potential converts and organizing the Muslim community for political power and cultural influence (prayer time for public school students, Muslim school holidays). This strategy of stealth jihad a long march through our institutions is the way to build and gain influence for Islamism in America. In addition to funding an extensive Arab/Muslim Lobby in Washington, the MB is focused on building a vanguard of leadership in America, and significant resources go to organizing and recruiting on college campuses. In the '60s, with Saudi funding, the MB established the Muslim Student Association (MSA), which now has chapters across North America where it espouses Wahhabism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism and agitates against US Middle East policy and expresses solidarity with militant Islamist ideologies. The MSA is now moving down the food chain into our public high schools. In the Boston area, one of the vanguard branches (we are told) is in the tiny suburb of Weston. Supported by the school administration and teachers, Weston High's Muslim Student Association, in one of its first public events, invited Bilal Kareem whose Brotherhood-linked Muslim American Society runs the Roxbury mosque to talk to students about Islam: Raising Awareness. The actual presentation was quite nice, a charm offensive for the students and parents. But a few unexpected questions were asked that made the host teacher very uncomfortable since the whole point was to make everyone comfortable about Islam, and not to raise troubling questions about the radical nature of the national student organization or mosque leadership, or the long history of Arab/Islamic imperialism, or today's Islamist oppression, slaughter or enslavement of Christians in Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, etc. No, the host teacher declared, this was not meant to be a spicy meeting. Asking these kinds of questions was considered rude, not appropriate for a house of learning. So aside from a few prayers by Bilal (I hear he has a nice voice) and a discussion of how wonderful Islam is when it comes to diversity and tolerance and how vulnerable and needing of support Muslim students are on college campuses it was a quiet evening. (Actually, those who need support on campus are the Jewish students who are harassed, intimidated and even physically assaulted by members of MSA.) The cult of victimhood is a favorite motivating device of radical Muslims. Sadly, this false narrative is not just promoted by the Islamists; it is also promoted and enabled under the banner of multiculturalism by our media and educational establishments. So, sorry to report that while there is reason to be apprehensive about Egypt, there should be nervousness aplenty about the long reach of MB into our community right here in Boston. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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