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The Grand Jihad
The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat
is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the
American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but to shred the
fabric of American constitutional democracy. In The Grand Jihad,
bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy provides a harrowing account of how the
global Islamist movement's jihad involves far more than terrorist attacks, and
how it has found the ideal partner in Barack Obama, whose Islamist
sympathies run deep.
McCarthy is the former federal prosecutor who convicted the notorious "Blind
Sheikh" and other jihadists for waging a terrorist war that included the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. In his national bestseller, "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad," he explored government's conscious avoidance of the
terrorist threat, which made the nation vulnerable to mass-murder attacks.
In The Grand Jihad he exposes a more insidious peril: government's active
concealment of the Islamist ideology that unabashedly vows to "conquer
America." With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of
government, Islamism doesn't merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating
Islamic enclaves in our midst and gradually foists Islam's repressive law,
Sharia, on American life. The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause
with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our
constitutional order. The prognosis for liberty could not be more
dire.
DiscoverTheNetworks.org says The Muslim
groups which today threaten the West with terrorism, subversion and
insurgency are not only "fascist" in the broad sociological sense, but
can trace their literal historical origins to Nazism and its genocidal
ambitions.
The ideology of the Islamists whose ranks today
include not only al-Qaeda but also Hamas and Hezbollah, originated with
Egypt’s
Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 by Sheikh Hassan
al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood finds not just its roots, but
much of its symbolism, terminology, and political priorities deep within
the heart of Nazi fascism.
For al-Banna, as for many other
Muslims worldwide, the end of the caliphate, although brought about by
secular Muslim Turks, was a sacrilege against Islam for which they
blamed the non-Muslim West. It was to strike back against these
evils that al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928.
Al-Banna’s
antipathy towards Western modernity soon moved him to shape the
Brotherhood into an organization seeking to check the secularist
tendencies in Muslim society and return to traditional Islamic values.
Al-Banna recruited followers from a vast cross-section of Egyptian
society by addressing issues such as colonialism, public health,
educational policy, natural resources management, social inequalities,
Arab nationalism, and the weakness of the Islamic world. Among the
perspectives he drew on to address these issues were the anti-capitalist
doctrines of European Marxism and especially fascism.
As the
Muslim Brotherhood expanded during the 1930s and extended its activities
well beyond its original religious revivalism, al-Banna began dreaming a
greater Muslim dream: the restoration of the Caliphate. He would
describe, in inflammatory speeches, the horrors of hell expected for
heretics, and consequently, the need for Muslims to return to their
purest religious roots, and resume the great and final holy war, or
jihad, against the non-Muslim world.
The first big step in the
international jihad al-Banna envisioned came in the form of
trans-national terrorism during the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-39, when
one of the most famous of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders, the Hajj
Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti (Supreme Muslim religious leader) of
Jerusalem, incited his followers to a three-year war against the Jews in
Palestine and against the British who administered the Palestine
Mandate. In 1936 the Brotherhood had about 800 members, but by
1938, just two years into the Revolt, its membership had grown to almost
200,000, with fifty branches in Egypt alone. By the end of the
1930s, there were more than a half million active members registered, in
more than 2,000 branches across the Arab world.
To achieve that
broader dream of a global jihad, the Brotherhood developed a network of
underground cells, stole weapons, trained fighters, formed secret
assassination squads, founded sleeper cells of subversive supporters in
the ranks of the army and police, and waited for the order to go public
with terrorism, assassinations, and suicide missions. It was
during this time that the Muslim Brotherhood found a soul mate in Nazi
Germany.
The Reich offered great power connections to the
movement, but the relationship brokered by the Brotherhood was more than
a marriage of convenience. Long before the war, al-Banna had
developed an Islamic religious ideology which previewed Hitler’s Nazism.
Both movements sought world conquest and domination. Both were
triumphalist and supremacist (in Nazism the Aryan must rule, while in
al-Banna’s Islam, the Muslim religion must hold dominion). Both
advocated subordination of the individual to a central power. Both
were explicitly anti-nationalist in the sense that they believed in the
liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a trans-national unifying
community. And both rabidly hated the Jews and sought their
destruction.
As the Brotherhood’s political and military
alliance with Nazi Germany developed, these parallels facilitated a
full-blown alliance, with all the pomp and panoply of formal state
visits, de facto ambassadors, and overt as well as sub rosa joint
ventures. Al-Banna’s followers easily transplanted into the Arab
world a newly Nazified form of traditional Muslim Jew-hatred, with Arab
translations of Mein Kampf (translated into Arabic as My Jihad) and
other Nazi anti-Semitic works, including Der Sturmer hate-cartoons,
adapted to portray the Jew as the demonic enemy of Allah.
When
the Second World War broke out, Al-Banna worked to firm up a formal
alliance with Hitler and Mussolini. But the best known Nazi
sympathizer in the Muslim Brotherhood was the
Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and one-time
President of the Supreme Muslim Council of Palestine. The Grand
Mufti was a bridge figure in terms of transplanting the Nazi genocide in
Europe into the post-war Middle East and creating a fascist heritage for
the Palestinian national movement.
Israel National News says for the first time
ever, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an
extremist Islamic organization, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
On Monday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt’s new
government will have to include a "whole host of important non-secular
actors." Most prominent among these is clearly the Muslim
Brotherhood -- which has made Islamic world domination one of its
ultimate goals. It also opposes Egypt’s 30-year-old peace treaty
with Israel.
Gibbs said the Muslim Brotherhood must reject
violence and recognize democratic goals for the U.S. to be comfortable
with it assuming a role in the new government. This caveat does
not significantly alter the new American approach, which is very
different than that of the previous Administration, in which George W.
Bush pushed Mubarak for democratic reforms but never publicly accepted a
role for Islamists.
Today, new White House chief of staff William
Daley moderated the position very slightly, saying the U.S. hopes for a
"strong, stable and secular Egyptian government." Noting that the
strengthening of the Muslim Brotherhood is "some people’s expectation
[and] some people’s fear," Daley acknowledged that the situation in
Egypt is largely out of American control.
Obama's new position,
while not totally surprising, is worrisome to many. "The White House
appears to be leaving Hosni Mubarak, an ally for three decades and
lynchpin of Mideast stability, twisting slowly in the wind," writes
David Horowitz of the Freedom Center. "And worse, it appears to be
open to allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to play a key role in a
'reformed' Egyptian government, as long as the organization renounces
violence and supports democracy. If the Obama White House really
believes this is possible, it is even more hopelessly incompetent than
we imagined!"
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, with 600,000 members,
is not on official U.S. terrorism lists, as are Hamas and Hezbollah, but
the American government has had no contact with it because of what Gibbs
said were "questions over its commitment to the rule of law, democracy
and nonviolence."
The Muslim Brotherhood stands for the
re-establishment of the Islamic Empire (Caliphate), the takeover,
spiritually or otherwise, of the entire world, and jihad and martyrdom.
It has front organizations in the UK, France, and the United States.
Robert Spencer says that now that Barack Obama
has given a green light to Muslim Brotherhood participation in a new
Egyptian government, it is unlikely that the organization will be kept
out of power. And since the Brotherhood is the largest and most
ideologically committed group in Egyptian politics, most likely it will
end up in the driver’s seat in any new regime, and set the nation on
course toward becoming an Islamic state.
Obama almost certainly
knows all this, and yet approved of Brotherhood involvement anyway.
A look at some of his appointments, associations and activities shows
that this should come as no surprise.
Starting in the earliest
days of his administration, Obama showed an intense desire to establish
friendly ties with the Islamic world, while showing little or no
interest in examining his chosen partners in dialogue and targets for
attempts at rapprochement for ties to jihad terrorism or Islamic
supremacism. His uncritical stance toward Islamic organizations
included American groups with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, despite
the Brotherhood’s stated goal of "eliminating and destroying Western
civilization from within."
Obama’s first attempt at outreach to
Muslims came when he chose the head of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group
that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror
funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies.
Ingrid Mattson, who was then president of the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obama’s
Inauguration Day -- despite the fact that the previous summer, federal
prosecutors rejected a request from ISNA to remove its unindicted
co-conspirator status.
There is no record of Obama ever asking
Mattson to explain ISNA’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
On the contrary: he sent his Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to be the
keynote speaker at ISNA’s national convention in 2009.
Even
worse, in April 2009, Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of
Los Angeles, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the
Department of Homeland Security. Just two weeks before he received
this appointment, Alikhan (who once called the jihad terror group
Hizballah a "liberation movement") participated in a fundraiser for the
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Like ISNA, MPAC has links to
the Muslim Brotherhood. In a book entitled In Fraternity: A
Message to Muslims in America, coauthor Hassan Hathout, a former MPAC
president, is identified as "a close disciple of the late Hassan al-Banna
of Egypt." The MPAC-linked magazine The Minaret spoke of Hassan
Hathout’s closeness to al-Banna in a 1997 article: "My father would tell
me that Hassan Hathout was a companion of Hassan al-Banna….Hassan
Hathout would speak of al-Banna with such love and adoration; he would
speak of a relationship not guided by politics or law but by a basic
sense of human decency."
Al-Banna, of course, was the founder of
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama's Egypt Plan Includes Role For Muslim
Brotherhood
NewsMax.com
is reporting that the Obama administration is secretly crafting a
plan for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave office immediately --
a plan that includes a place for the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood
to be in an interim government, The New York Times reported Thursday
night.
The paper detailed a process in which administration
officials are discussing with Egyptian officials the exit strategy.
A transitional government would be headed by Vice President Omar
Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration
officials and Arab diplomats told the Times Thursday.
But so far
Mubarak has balked. Still, officials are pushing the plan in
discussions with Suleiman, backed by Sami Enan, chief of the Egyptian
armed forces, and Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the Defense Minister.
More importantly, though, the proposal calls for the
transitional government to invite members from the banned Muslim
Brotherhood to begin work to open up the country’s electoral system in
an effort to bring about free and fair elections in September, the
officials told the Times.
That plan apparently is one of several
options under discussion with high-level Egyptian officials around
Mubarak, though not him directly, in an effort to convince him to step
down now.
Administration officials cautioned that the outcome
depended on "several factors, not least of all the mood of the
protesters on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities and the
dynamics within the Egyptian government," the Times story said.
Obama And The Muslim Brotherhood
Jim Hoft
says it’s like reliving the Carter years -- only worse.
For
the first time ever, a US Administration supports granting Islamic
extremists a government role.
Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly
that he’s not concerned about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
After all, Obama says only certain strains of the Muslim Brotherhood are
against the US.
FOX News reported:
Any sudden toppling of the Mubarak regime
could create major headaches for the United States, particularly if
the void permits a group like the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which
is negotiating with the current government about leadership changes,
to emerge victorious.
Obama suggested he’s less concerned
about that.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt.
They don’t have majority support in Egypt, but they are well
organized and there are strains of their ideology that are against
the U.S., there’s no doubt about it," Obama said. "But here’s
the thing that we have to understand, there are a whole bunch of
secular folks in Egypt, there are a whole bunch of educators and
civil society in Egypt that wants to come to the fore as well.
So it’s important for us not to say that our own only two options
are either the Muslim Brotherhood or a suppressed people."
To
avoid such scenarios, Obama said that the U.S. must make sure "that
we get all the groups together in Egypt for an orderly transition
and the one that is a meaningful transition.
Obama said this after a leader of the Muslim
Brotherhood told the Egyptian Army this week
to prepare for war with Israel.
Related:Obama Linked to Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood
Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties
Robert Spencer
says
Barack Obama has declared that all opposition groups should have
representation in the next Egyptian government, which essentially
ensures that the Muslim Brotherhood will be part of that government.
The Brotherhood is the largest opposition group in Egypt, so it will
probably end up in the driver’s seat in any new regime, and steer Egypt
toward becoming an Islamic state inveterately hostile to the United
States.
So why isn’t Obama working to limit the Brotherhood’s
scope and influence? Maybe because he doesn’t really have a
problem with the Brotherhood, despite its hostility to America. He
made sure to invite Brotherhood leaders to attend his notorious speech
to the Islamic world in Cairo, Egypt, in June 4, 2009. Starting in
the earliest days of his administration, he showed an intense desire to
establish friendly ties with Brotherhood-linked organizations -- despite
the Brotherhood’s stated goal of "eliminating and destroying Western
civilization from within."
Obama first reached out to the
Brotherhood when he chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked
group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror
funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies.
Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obama’s
Inauguration Day -- despite the fact that the ISNA has admitted its ties
to the Brotherhood. The previous summer, federal prosecutors
rejected a request from the ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator
status.
Obama didn’t ask Mattson to explain the ISNA’s links to
the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: He sent his
senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, to be the keynote speaker at the ISNA’s
national convention in 2009.
Even worse, in April 2009, Obama
appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as assistant
secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security.
Just two weeks before he received this appointment, Alikhan (who once
called the jihad terror group Hezbollah a "liberation movement")
participated in a fund-raiser for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
(MPAC). Like the ISNA, MPAC has links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a book titled In Fraternity: A Message to Muslims in America,
co-author Hassan Hathout, a former MPAC president, is identified as "a
close disciple of the late Hassan al-Banna of Egypt. "The
MPAC-linked magazine The Minaret spoke of Hathout’s closeness to al-Banna
in a 1997 article: "My father would tell me that Hassan Hathout was a
companion of Hassan al-Banna. ... Hassan Hathout would speak of al-Banna
with such love and adoration; he would speak of a relationship not
guided by politics or law but by a basic sense of human decency."
The late al-Banna, of course, was the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Terror researcher Steven Emerson’s Investigative
Project has documented MPAC’s indefatigable and consistent opposition to
virtually every domestic anti-terror initiative. Its magazine The
Minaret has dismissed key counter-terror operations as part of "[t]he
American crusade against Islam and Muslims." For his part, while
Alikhan was deputy mayor of Los Angeles, he blocked a Los Angeles Police
Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques
in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct
surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD
Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an
outreach program: "We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians, and
Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities." But
Alikhan and other Muslim leaders said that the project manifested racism
and "Islamophobia," and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study
the mosques.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a pro-Sharia group.
Obama’s chief adviser on Islamic affairs, Dalia Mogahed, is a pro-Sharia
Muslim. In their Gallup survey published under the hubristic
title, "Who Speaks for Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really
Think," Mogahed and Saudi-funded dhimmi, or non-Muslim, pseudo-academic
John Esposito cooked their data to increase the number of Muslim
"moderates," counting as "moderate" Muslims who wanted Sharia rule,
hated America , supported jihad-martyrdom suicide bombing, and opposed
equality of rights for women. Mogahed also defended Sharia on a
British TV show.
With Brotherhood operatives in the American
government and working closely with it, thanks to Barack Obama, it’s no
surprise that he would have no problem with their being part of the
Egyptian government too.
A Movement Of Brotherly Hate
Investors.com
says that if the Muslim Brotherhood had a slogan, it might be "Today
Egypt, tomorrow the world." Yet Obama is intent on seeing this
global jihadist group in a good light.
If you think the political
upheavals in Egypt are frightening, read the self-proclaimed objectives
of the opposition group that Obama says should have representation in
the next government.
The Israel-based media watchdog Palestinian
Media Watch on Tuesday released an English translation of "Jihad is the
Way," the final volume of "The Laws of Da'wa" by Mustafa Mashhur, who
ran Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood from 1996 to 2002.
The Jerusalem
Post says Mashhur wrote the Brotherhood's goal is "realizing the great
task of establishing an Islamic state and strengthening the religion and
spreading it around the world." His book states "the banner of
Jihad ... shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until
every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, and the State of
Islam established."
Palestinian Media Watch founder Itamar Marcus
warned the Israeli newspaper of the dangers of downplaying the
organization's ideology, or expecting it to moderate once it gets power,
because it differs from terrorist groups like al-Qaida only as to
tactics, not goals.
The objectives of this organization have
never really been a big secret. In 2007, PBS ran a documentary by
Newsweek investigative reporters Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff on
the Muslim Brotherhood.
At the time, Isikoff said, "their
publicly proclaimed goal is the creation of a worldwide Islamic
caliphate that would govern according to Shariah, Koranic law."
The terror group Hamas is "the Palestinian branch of the Muslim
Brotherhood," he also said.
Chillingly, Isikoff also noted that
in covering the global war on terror since the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, "in every step of the way we kept running into the Muslim
Brotherhood." He pointed out that "many of the most prominent
figures in international terrorism -- Osama bin Laden, and (bin Laden
right-hand man Ayman) Zawahiri himself -- grew out of the Muslim
Brotherhood."
A comparison might be made with Ireland's Sinn
Fein. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, it was founded in the first
half of the 20th century, gained great popularity as a broad-based
political organization in the aftermath of an armed uprising, went
dormant for decades and then re-emerged as the political arm of
terrorists before formally gaining political power at the ballot box.
Yet Obama has been courting the Brotherhood from his first day in
power. As Jihad Watch founder Robert Spencer said Tuesday in Human
Events, Obama "chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group
that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror
funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies."
Have you ever asked yourself why, despite more than ten years of
efforts --involving, among other things, the loss of thousands of
lives in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-over a trillion dollars
spent, countless man-years wasted waiting in airport security lines
and endless efforts to ensure that no offense is given to seemingly
permanently aggrieved Muslim activists -- are we no closer to
victory in the so-called "war on terror" than we were on 9/11?
Thankfully, we have been able to kill some dangerous bad guys.
The sad truth of the matter is that, by almost any other measure,
the prospect of victory is becoming more remote by the day. And no
one seems able to explain the reason.
In an effort to provide
the missing answer, on April 24, the Center for Security Policy is
making available via the Internet a new, free ten-part video course
called "The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within." This
course connects the proverbial dots, drawing on a wealth of publicly
available data and first-hand accounts to present a picture that
has, for over a decade, been obscured, denied and suppressed:
America faces in addition to the threat of violent jihad
another, even more toxic danger -- a stealthy and pre-violent form
of warfare aimed at destroying our constitutional form of democratic
government and free society. The Muslim Brotherhood is the
prime-mover behind this seditious campaign, which it calls
"civilization jihad."
Frank Gafney's 10-part series, "Muslim
Brotherhood in America," can be seen
here . . .
he explored government's conscious avoidance of the
terrorist threat, which made the nation vulnerable to mass-murder attacks.
In The Grand Jihad he exposes a more insidious peril: government's active
concealment of the Islamist ideology that unabashedly vows to "conquer
America." With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of
government, Islamism doesn't merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating
Islamic enclaves in our midst and gradually foists Islam's repressive law,
Sharia, on American life. The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause
with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our
constitutional order. The prognosis for liberty could not be more
dire.
