The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-standing War On The West Options

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West
Part One (of Four)

By Adrian Morgan

The Founder



The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 in Egypt by a schoolteacher, Hassan al-Banna. He had been born in Mahmudiyya near Cairo on October 14, 1906, the eldest son of a watch-repairer, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Banna. Though the family was never wealthy, it upheld a long tradition of Islamic scholarship. Al-Banna senior was an imam who had graduated from Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the largest Sunni seminary in the world. Ahmad spent 40 years of his life compiling and cataloguing an estimated 45,000 reports of the sayings and deeds of the prophet Mohammed. The most respected collector of such hadith, Bukhari (810 to 870 AD), included only 2,062 of these quotations in his collection which he considered to be "sahih" or authentic.

Hassan al-Banna was taught to memorize the Koran at a young age, and trained to be a teacher. He started teaching in 1927. It was in March, 1928, that Hassan al-Banna, his younger brother Gamal and five others gathered at his home and made a pledge to live and die for Islam. Thus was founded the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwanu I-Muslimin or Hizb al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoon). In its initial years, the Ikhwan functioned as a youth organization engaged in daw'ah or missionary work. Its political philosophy grew as its membership increased. Al-Banna considered himself to be Sufi, which is essentially apolitical, and belonged to the Hasafiya Sufi order.

Despite this, there were global political issues that concerned him. On March 23, 1924, the last Caliphate, that of the Ottomans, was dissolved by Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish secularist. This system had been an institutional hub of the Muslim world since 1290 AD. In 1919, al-Banna had participated in demonstrations against British rule in Egypt. It has been suggested that al-Banna was a Wahhabist, perhaps confusing a movement from Saudi Arabia called the Ikhwan (Brotherhood), which had been employed by Abdul Aziz al-Saud to establish his rule over Arabia.

Hassan al-Banna is portrayed by Muslim biographers as a benevolent figure. He would be invited to the British Embassy, and his work in assisting widows and orphans was praised. But Banna's writings belie a more focused and uncompromising agenda. He stated: "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."

A work by al-Banna entitled The Way of Jihad presents some stark words to contradict those who would claim his ideology was benign. Many Muslims speak of Jihad as being an "inner struggle". But Banna made no bones about the meaning of the term. He wrote in the Epilogue of this book: "Many Muslims today mistakenly believe that fighting the enemy is jihad asghar (a lesser jihad) and that fighting one's ego is jihad akbar (a greater jihad). The following narration [athar] is quoted as proof: "We have returned from the lesser jihad to embark on the greater jihad." They said: "What is the greater jihad?" He said: "The jihad of the heart, or the jihad against one's ego." This narration is used by some to lessen the importance of fighting, to discourage any preparation for combat, and to deter any offering of jihad in Allah's way. This narration is not a saheeh (sound) tradition..."

"...But nothing compares to the honour of shahadah kubra (the supreme martyrdom) or the reward that is waiting for the Mujahideen."

In the same book, Banna writes: "It is fard (obligatory) on us to fight with the enemies. The Imam must send a military expedition to the Dar-al-Harb every year at least once or twice, and the people must support him in this. If some of the people fulfil the obligation, the remainder are released from the obligation."

Islam has always divided the world into two camps - Dar-ul-Islam and Dar-ul-Harb. Dar-ul-Islam is the "abode of Islam", and Dar-ul-Harb refers to the world that is not under Islamic rule. Dar-ul-Harb literally means "the abode of war". And al-Banna certainly approved of this war against the infidels who in the 1930s were seen as conquerors of Muslim lands.

Al-Banna believed that the West, with its separation of church and state, was weakening Islam with its influence. By 1934, there were 50 branches of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, and these branches established schools, mosques and factories. In 1935 a Syrian branch was founded at Aleppo. By the end of World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood had half a million members in Egypt alone, belonging to 2000 branches. By this time, there were said to be 50 branches in Sudan. A senior figure in the emergent Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood was Hassan al-Turabi who would later give shelter to terrorists Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal in 1991. In 1990 he also waged war on non-Muslims in southern Sudan, forcing them to abide by sharia rule.

Hassan al-Banna wrote many books and treatises on Islam during his lifetime, but he would not survive to see the massive international growth of the movement. He had made enemies within the Egyptian establishment. In 1936 he had written to King Farouk and the prime minister urging them to impose an Islamic system. Two years later, he again made this demand with more force. He wrote that all political parties should be dissolved on account of their corruption. In 1939, the Brotherhood established itself officially as a political group. The movement under al-Banna was rapidly becoming more militant and opposed to the Egyptian government.

In 1940, the Brotherhood established militant training camps in the Mukatam Hills near Cairo, as well as in the south of Egypt. Its members established kangaroo courts where fatwas were issued against those deemed to be enemies, and Ikhwan members would carry out these assassinations. In 1942, Hassan al-Banna established branches in Transjordan and Palestine. He ensured that several thousand Muslim Brotherhood members were sent from Egypt to fight against the formation of Israel in 1948. According to a 2002 report in the Military Review, in 1948 the Brotherhood carried out the bombing of the Circurrel shopping center. One of their targets for assassination was the prime minister, Noqrashi Pasha. In December of 1948, Pasha had urged the banning of the movement, after bombs were found in Ikhwan members' possession. The Brotherhood claimed that the weaponry was for use against Israel. An Ikhwan member murdered Pasha on December 28, 1948, although Hassan al-Banna condemned this act, and the Brotherhood was banned.

On February 12, 1949, Hassan al-Banna was shot dead in a Cairo market, almost certainly on the orders of the government. No one was ever charged with the killing. The official successor to al-Banna was Hasan al-Hudaybi, a respected judge. But the intellectual power of the Brotherhood would be carried by a slightly-built man, whose writings still greatly influence today's jihadists.

Sayyid Qutb


From the 1940s, the Brotherhood had been in close association with Gamel al-Nasser, who had a secret wing within the Egyptian army called the Free Officer Movement. The Ikhwan and the Free Officers had a shared contempt for the British and their involvement in not only Egypt but the rest of the Middle East. In 1948, Nasser met with Hassan al-Banna for the first time. An agreement was established, in which the Brotherhood pledged to assist Nasser in his plans to overthrow the government, after which the Ikhwan would expect a share of power. In 1949 nine members of the Free Officer Movement formed a coup committee. Nasser became head of this group in 1950 and in July 1952 Nasser and his associates seized power.

Though Nasser had been considered an ally, he offered the Brotherhood only a minor role within his new government, inside the Waqf or "religious affairs" department. The Brotherhood's resentment would soon lead to enmity with Nasser. One man would emerge as the spiritual successor to Hassan al-Banna, a shy former supervisor within Egypt's Education Ministry called Sayyid Qutb. This man, born in the same year as al-Banna in the village of Mush in Ayut province, southern Egypt, had initially supported the United States. Between November 1948 and 1951 he had been sent by the Education Ministry to the USA, to study American education programs.

The outward boat journey was a traumatic experience for the 42-year old virgin bachelor. One night a young American woman, scantily clad and worse the wear for drink, knocked on his stateroom door. She asked to be his guest, and Qutb indicated that there was only one bed in his stateroom. When she said that a single bed could hold two people, Qutb slammed the door in her face. He heard her land on the deck with a thump, and thanked Allah for sparing him from succumbing to temptation.

This incident was the first of many that would convince Qutb that the American woman was a "vixen" and seducer, and her only suitable partner would be a brutal primitive male, driven on by greed. He would later write in a book entitled "The America I Have Seen": This primitiveness can be seen in the spectacle of the fans as they follow a game of football... or watch boxing matches or bloody, monstrous wrestling matches... This spectacle leaves no room for doubt as to the primitiveness of the feelings of those who are enamored with muscular strength and desire it.

Like the French revolutionary Robespierre, who had no warm and physical relationships yet clinically sublimated his passions into his political "grand plan", Qutb became a man whose ideology became sharply intellectualized, yet devoid of humanity. Where Robespierre dreamed of implementing a new order by totally destroying the old, Qutb saw Islamic revolution as a redemption from perceived sins and depravities which so alienated him.

In 1949, Qutb was based at Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley, 100 miles north of Denver. Even in this quiet conservative town, Qutb saw depravity everywhere. He even saw the habit of mowing lawns as a sign of American greed. Attending a dance held at a basement of a church, where men danced with women, Qutb was appalled. He wrote: "They danced to the tunes of the gramophone, and the dance floor was replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists, lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was full of desire..."

Upon his return from the US in 1951, Qutb joined the Muslim Brotherhood. At the time of the 1952 coup, Qutb was head of the Brotherhood's propaganda department. The resentments against Nasser led to one member, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, trying to assassinate Nasser on October 26, 1954. The Ikhwan was once again banned. As a result of Nasser's suppression of the movement, many Muslim Brotherhood members fled to neighboring countries, including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Nasser attempted to overthrow the kingdom of Jordan, and the local Brotherhood supported King Hussain. When the Jordanian king abolished political parties in 1957, the Brotherhood was allowed to remain in Jordan.

The 1954 assassination attempt against Nasser would lead to most of the Brotherhood leadership being taken to jail in Egypt. Here the leaders, including Qutb, would be subjected to torture. His experience of such rough justice did not prevent him from writing. During his sojourn in prison, he completed his largest writing project, Fi Zalal al-Koran (In the Shadow of the Koran), a 30-volume commentary on the Koran which he had begun to publish in installments since 1952.

His experiences of being incarcerated for 10 years of his life inspired his most famous book - Milestones on the Road (Ma'alim fi'l-Tariq). In this, his final book, he laid out a ground plan for political jihad, leading ultimately to Islam's global domination. This book is still read by Salafists and jihadists and has inspired the current global jihad. The book was published shortly after he had been released from jail in 1964. The revolutionary nature of the work led to Nasser ordering Qutb to be rearrested. He was sentenced to death in August 1965.

Qutb wrote in Milestones: "Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head - this being just a symptom and not the real disease - but because humanity is devoid of those vital values which are necessary not only for its healthy development but also for its real progress. Even the Western world realizes that Western civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind. It knows that it does not possess anything which will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.... It is essential for mankind to have a new leadership... Islam is the only system which possesses these values and this way of life."

In Milestones, Qutb advocated the establishment of a force of believers to lead a war against Jahiliyya, the state of ignorance that existed before Mohammed's message. The book can be read online. In its fourth chapter which discusses jihad, Qutb writes: "The establishing of the dominion of God on earth, the abolishing of the dominion of man, the taking away of sovereignty from the usurper to revert it to God, and the bringing about of the enforcement of the Divine Law and the abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching. Those who have usurped the authority of God and are oppressing God's creatures are not going to give up their power merely through preaching; if it had been so, the task of establishing God's religion in the world would have been very easy for the Prophets of God! This is contrary to the evidence from the history of the Prophets and the story of the struggle of the true religion, spread over generations."

"....God held back Muslims from fighting in Mecca and in the early period of their migration to Medina, and told them, "Restrain your hands, and establish regular prayers, and pay Zakat". Next, they were permitted to fight: "Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they are oppressed, and God is able to help them. These are the people who were expelled from their homes without cause. The next stage came when the Muslims were commanded to fight those who fight them: "Fight in the cause of God against those who fight you." And finally, war was declared against all the polytheists: "And fight against all the polytheists, as they all fight against you;" "Fight against those among the People of the Book who do not believe in God and the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not consider the true religion as their religion, until they are subdued and pay Jizyah." Thus, according to the explanation by Imam Ibn Qayyim, the Muslims were first restrained from fighting; then they were permitted to fight; then they were commanded to fight against the aggressors; and finally they were commanded to fight against all the polytheists."

In 1966, Nasser granted an amnesty to the Brotherhood, and most of its imprisoned members were freed. Within months there were three assassination attempts against the dictator, and the leaders of the Brotherhood were rounded up once more. All, including Sayyid Qutb, were hanged. Qutb died on the gallows of Tura Prison on August 29, 1966.
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In the same book, Banna writes: "It is fard (obligatory) on us to fight with the enemies. The Imam must send a military expedition to the Dar-al-Harb every year at least once or twice, and the people must support him in this. If some of the people fulfil the obligation, the remainder are released from the obligation."

Now that explains a lot....

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West Part Four (of Four)

Author: Adrian Morgan
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: June 8, 2007


In this final installment of FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan’s hair-raising series on the Muslim Brotherhood, we learn of ignorant American politicians who try to make deals with this nefarious lot. These politicians betray not only the people who elected them and the nations they serve, but they jeopardize the security of the Western world at large. Find out who they are.
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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West
Part Four (of Four)

By Adrian Morgan

UK Politicians Legitimize The Brotherhood


In Britain in 1997, the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). This group claims to be moderate, and promotes missionary (dawah) work among the young. Its founder, Kamal Tawfik Helbawy, was at that time the Brotherhood's European spokesman. Born in Egypt in 1939, he had been a member of the Brotherhood since the age of 12. He co-founded the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in Saudi Arabia in 1972 with Abdullah bin Laden, Osama's nephew. WAMY is an organization which has been accused of funding terrorist organizations, including Hamas. Kamal Helbawy was WAMY's first president.

In November 1997, in the same year that he had founded MAB, Helbawy helped to found the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB), which was officially inaugurated on March 1, 1998. As Helbawy stated in a 2005 interview: "I played a role in the establishment of the MCB. Our objective was that the MCB should remain independent and its primary function should be to represent and protect the interests of Muslims."

The MCB, whose senior members have supported extremism, enjoyed an unprecedented position with Blair's government, acting as advisers on all things Islamic. In June 2005 its then-secretary general Iqbal Sacranie was given a knighthood by Blair, even though he is an anti-Semite who wishes to see Holocaust Memorial day scrapped. In 1996, Sacranie supported plans to invite Osama bin Laden to the UK to lecture to Muslims, claiming the terrorist was an "Islamic Scholar". Despite boycotting memorials for the Shoah, Sacranie nonetheless attended a memorial service for Sheikh Yassin, the founder of terror group Hamas. This service was held at London's Central Mosque in 2004.

In 2005, the MCB persuaded Blair to introduce a bill which would have outlawed any criticism of Islam, which was neutered by the Lords, parliament's Upper House. In June 2006, the unelected MCB succeeded in persuading the elected Blair government to abandon its 18-month campaign to outlaw forced marriage, which annually affects at least 250 young Muslim girls.

The government has been so manipulated by the claims of the "moderate" Muslims in Britain, that MI6 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have actively courted the Muslim Brotherhood. The overtures to the Brotherhood have been made through a unit called the “Engaging With the Islamic World Group" (EWIG) which was founded in 2003. EWIG is led by a 27-year old former Muslim radical called Mockbul Ali. In July 2006, this group used taxpayers' money to pay Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, to attend a conference in Turkey. On July 14, 2005, one week after the London bombings, Mockbul Ali argued that a visa should again be given to Qaradawi. That document and others can be found here.

After the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005, the Blair government invited Tariq Ramadan, son of Said Ramadan and grandson of Hassan al-Banna, to sit on a working committee. This committee was set up to find ways of preventing radicalism amongst Britain's youth. Ramadan is not even a UK citizen, and according to Jean Charles Brissard, he has had meetings with known terrorists in his native Switzerland. The UK government sponsors a website promoting "the radical middle way" of Islam, where Ramadan has his own page. Tariq Ramadan is still barred from entering to the US, though he insists he is not a Muslim Brotherhood member.

US Politicians Duped By The Brotherhood


In the United States, one individual maintained a pretense of "moderation" which would later embarrass the left and the right. According to the testimony of Dr. Michael Waller to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Abdurahman Alamoudi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. A man born in Eritrea in 1951, he arrived in the US in 1979 and became a naturalized US citizen on May 23, 1996. From 1985 onwards he became involved in many Muslim groups. In 1990 he founded the Washington DC-based American Muslim Council (AMC), which Waller states "has been described as a de facto front of the Muslim Brotherhood." The AMC was an affiliate of the American Muslim Foundation, which was also headed by Alamoudi. Despite this, in June 2002 the FBI called the AMC "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States."

What is of concern is the manner in which Alamoudi persuaded US authorities under two administrations of his reliability. Around 1993, he was an adviser for the Pentagon on which Muslim chaplains should serve in the US military. He continued this role until 1998. From 1997 he acted for the State Department as a "goodwill ambassador" to Muslim countries. He was regularly at the Clinton White House and had advised Hillary Rodham Clinton on managing iftar dinners since 1996. Alamoudi had made donations to the Democrat party but was open to wooing the opposition.

In 1998, as Frank Gaffney recounted, Republican Grover Norquist formed the Islamic Institute, which aimed to recruit Muslim and Arab Americans to support the GOP. Alamoudi made contributions both to the Islamic Institute and later, in 2000 and 2001, he made payments to a lobbying firm connected with Norquist.

Alamoudi's Brotherhood connections were not touted openly, but in August 1997, he was publicly proclaiming on Fox TV that Hamas was a "freedom fighting organization". Hamas had started its first bombings of Israeli civilians in February 1996, a year earlier. On October 28, 2000, Alamoudi attended an anti-Israel protest at Lafayette Park outside the White House, where he was caught on video proclaiming "I have been labeled… as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here? Hear that, Bill Clinton. We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah. Anybody who supports Hezbollah here?"

Shortly after the White House outburst, Hillary Clinton returned a donation of $1,000 to her election war chest, which Alamoudi had presented on May 25 of that year. Alamoudi embarked upon at least 10 clandestine trips to Libya. On September 28, 2003, after returning from a multi-stage excursion he was arrested at Dulles International Airport. He was handed a 19-count indictment on October 23, on charges including money laundering and dealing with a prohibited nation.

Alamoudi had been stopped at Heathrow on August 16, 2003 before boarding a flight to Syria, and had $340,000 of Libyan money seized. On July 30, 2004, he pleaded guilty to three charges - violating conditions barring transport to, and commerce with, prohibited nations (Libya), failure to disclose to IRS his income, and lying to ICE federal investigators. On October 15, 2004, Alamoudi was given a jail sentence of 23 years. He had told officials that he provided Libyan money to London-based Saudi dissidents to finance a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.

Politicians may have been fooled by Alamoudi, who headed sixteen US-based Islamist organizations, but despite what is known of the Muslim Brotherhood's support of terrorism and extremism, US politicians are now openly courting the Brotherhood. On April 5 this year in Egypt. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with Mohammed Saad el-Katani, the leader of the Brotherhood's 55 members within the Egyptian parliament. Hamdi Hassan, the Brotherhood's spokesman, said Hoyer met with el-Katani once at the parliament building and later at the home of the US ambassador to Egypt.

On May 27, a delegation by four members of the House of Congress again met with Mohammed Saad el-Katani in Egypt. The delegation was led by David Price, a Democrat who represents North Carolina.

The Enemy Within

While Said Ramadan was establishing European bases for the Muslim Brotherhood in Geneva and Munich, similar actions were being taken in the United States. In 1962, an organization called the "Cultural Society" was set up, the first Muslim Brotherhood body to be formed on American soil. Muslim Brotherhood members are sworn to secrecy when they join up ("kitman" or concealment) so exact details of this group are murky. The Cultural Society mainly drew its recruits from foreign Muslim students at mid-western universities, such as Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. The name "Cultural Society" was employed to draw attention away from its Brotherhood identity. The following year, the Muslim Students Association (MSA) was formed by the US Brotherhood, and up until the 1970s, new bodies proliferated.

The website of a newer Brotherhood-founded group, the Muslim American Society (MAS) describes its founders as "pioneers" - "The call and the spirit of the movement reached the shores of North America with arrival of Muslim students and immigrants in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These early pioneers and Islamic movement followers established in 1963 the Muslim Student Association (MSA) of the U.S and Canada as a rallying point in their endeavor to serve Islam and Muslims in North America. Other services and outreach organizations soon followed, such as the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) and the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA), to name a few."

All of the groups listed above were formed by the Muslim Brotherhood. MYNA was founded by Ahmed Elkadi, who was the US Brotherhood's treasurer from the 1970s until 1984, when he became its president. He held this position until 1995, but has since left the Brotherhood. He did not resign from his position as president of the US Ikhwan (MB) - he was pushed.

Other groups were founded by the US Brotherhood later - the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) was formed in the 1980s as an outgrowth of the Muslim Students Association (MSA).

The Muslim American Society, under Brotherhood leadership, was incorporated in 1993 in Illinois. The decision to incorporate the MAS was made at a meeting of 40 Ikhwan (MB) members at a hotel near the Alabama-Tennessee state line. Shaker Elsayed, a leader within MAS, has admitted the Brotherhood had founded the Muslim American Society, saying: "Ikhwan members founded MAS, but MAS went way beyond that point of conception."

MAS is based in Falls Church, Virginia, the same town where Abdurahman Alamoudi lived. Five miles away in Alexandria lay the US headquarters of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth or WAMY, which was co-founded by a Brotherhood member, Kamal Helbawy. On Friday May 28, 2004 the WAMY offices were raided by agents of the FBI, ICE and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. An affidavit from a customs agent claimed that one WAMY publication included a section entitled "Animosity Toward the Jews", and stated: "The Jews are humanity's enemies: they foment immorality in this world." The affidavit mentioned links with WAMY and the terrorist group Hamas.

The director of MAS' "Freedom Foundation", Mahdi Bray, pushed for the release of a Falls Church citizen, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who had been accused of plotting to assassinate George W. Bush in an al-Qaeda plot. Ali, who had been educated at the Saudi-funded Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, was convicted on November 22, 2005 and sentenced to 30 years' jail on March 29, 2005.

MAS, which has 10,000 members in 53 chapters across the US, is also involved in the disputes at Minneapolis-St Paul airport, where Somali taxi drivers have refused to carry passengers carrying alcohol. Three quarters of the 900 drivers are Muslim, mostly from Somalia. Last year, 5,400 potential rides were turned down because passengers had alcohol. The Metropolitan Airport Commission sought guidance from Muslims, and a fatwa was made by the MAS. Khalid Elmasary declared: "It is expressly stated. Transportation of alcohol for Muslims is against the Islamic faith, and therefore forbidden." The issue still has not been resolved.

It is sometimes hard to work out if such Muslim "representatives" are really following the ways of the prophet, or are following the plans laid out in Muslim Brotherhood's "Project" manifesto for gaining national and global power.

Mahdi Bray, who is based in Washington, D.C., where he has a radio talk-show, is accused of taking part in protests where there were calls for the death of Jews. Steve Emerson in his book American Jihad stated that at the October 28, 2000, rally for Hezbollah and Hamas at Lafayette Park, "Mahdi Bray, stood directly behind Alamoudi and was seen jubilantly exclaiming his support for these two deadly terrorist organizations." Three weeks earlier, Bray had "coordinated and led a rally where approximately 2,000 people congregated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.... at one point during the rally, Mahdi Bray played the tambourine as one of the speakers sang, while the crowd repeated: 'Al-Aqsa is calling us, let's all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews."

Bray, who was awarded a Congressional Black Caucus award in September last year, has issued a press release claiming "victory" in the settlement of a vindictive lawsuit launched by the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), which attacked 16 organizations and individuals, including Steve Emerson.

There was no settlement agreed between the parties - the Islamic Society of Boston mysteriously dropped its lawsuit, which claimed "defamation", on May 29, 2007. With MAS coming to its defense, and with Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurahman Alamoudi listed as one its founders and trustees, with the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi as another early trustee, it is not unreasonable to assume that the Islamic Society of Boston began its life in 1982 as another outreach of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2002, Qaradawi appeared by videolink at an ISB fund-raising event.

The ISB, which is building the largest mosque in Eastern United States at Roxborough, Boston, was in January 2006 defended by Arsalan Iftikhar, the legal director of the Council of American Relations (CAIR), who said: "Unfortunately, I see the Boston case as indicative of a growing trend in anti-Muslim rhetoric that has grown after 9/11." It should be noted that the two co-founders of CAIR, Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, were officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine, which was established by Hamas member Mousa Abu Marzook, and has been called a "Hamas Front". Nihad Awad and Ahmed Bedier, head of CAIR's Florida chapter, have both openly pledged their support for Hamas, which itself is derived from the Muslim Brotherhood.

With its previous links to Muslim Brotherhood members, ISB may be thankful that it was not listed as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to fund Hamas. This has been the recent fate of CAIR. In a trial in Dallas, Texas, Ghassan Elashi, the head of CAIR's Texas chapter, is accused along with a staggering list of co-conspirators. Elashi was also head of Texas branch of the outlawed Holy Land Foundation. The indictment maintains that other officials from the Texas branch of the Holy Land Foundation had conspired with numerous others to supply funds to Hamas. Ghassan Elashi and his brothers Bayan and Basman were convicted of "conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists" on April 13, 2005. Elashi was given a seven year sentence on October 13, 2006.

The named co-conspirators include eight Muslim Brotherhood individuals and organizations: Abdurahman Alamoudi, Gaddor Ibrahim Saidi, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA), Nizar Minshar, North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), Raed Awad and Tareq Suwaidan. The trial will begin on July 16. The trial will hopefully clarify further the exact roles of CAIR, and also the mysterious American contingent of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a body to be trusted. It claims peace and moderation, while simultaneously planning to conquer the globe by fair means or foul. It propagates anti-Semitism, and justifies and supports the murder of Israeli civilians. Its current motto is: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." Those politicians who try to make deals with such a group are betraying not only the people who elected them and the nations they serve, but they jeopardize the security of the Western world at large.

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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan is a British based writer and artist who has written for Western Resistance since its inception. He also writes for Spero News. He has previously contributed to various publications, including the Guardian and New Scientist and is a former Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society.
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