Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West; Part 2

The Brotherhood, Nazism And Islamofascism
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, declared his support for the virulent anti-Semite Waffen SSHaj Amin Al-Husseini, who was then the "Mufti of Jerusalem". The British High Commissioner of Palestine, Herbert Samuel, had bestowed this title upon Husseini on May 8, 1921, even though he had organized anti-Jewish riots on April 4, 1920, in which five Jews had been killed. Husseini was expected to maintain order in the region, but continued to enact pogroms against Jews in the region in 1921, 1929 and 1936. Samuel sacked Husseini in 1936 after he led a general strike and instigated a revolt against British rule. After the British tried to arrest him in July 1937, the "Mufti" went into hiding and in October disguised himself as a woman and fled to Lebanon.

Husseini (1895 - 1974) had developed links with the German Nazi party during the 1930s, and in 1941 he traveled to Germany. He had a formal meeting with Hitler on November 28, 1941. He collaborated with Eichmann and Himmler on their plans to exterminate Jews. On July 15, 1946 at the Nuremburg trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny testified that Husseini had said that "accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz". Wisliceny also said that Husseini intervened when Eichmann had been persuaded to spare thousands of Polish Jewish children in a prisoner exchange. The deal was abandoned and the children were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp to be processed and dispatched to death camps.

troops & Husseini Husseini encouraged Bosnian Muslims to join the Handschar, the 13th division of Himmler's Waffen SS. 20,000 Muslims joined up, and at Potsdam, the Mufti supervised their induction. In 1944, Husseini was given a special villa in Oybin, Saxony, pictured in a German video.

After the war, Husseini went to Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood ensured that he was granted asylum. Though he was not allowed to enter Jerusalem, when a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood opened there in the mid-1940s, Husseini was declared a local leader of the group.

The anti-Semitism of the Muslim Brotherhood was displayed in its literature. Dr Matthias Kuntzel observed that "up to 1951 the jihad movement of the Brotherhood was almost exclusively focused on Zionism and Jews.... Their newspaper al-Nadhir published a regular column called 'The danger of the Jews of Egypt'. They published the names and addresses of Jewish businessmen and the publishers of allegedly Jewish newspapers al over the world, attributing every evil - from communism to prostitution - to the 'Jewish menace'."

The 1947 decision by the UN to partition Palestine was denounced by the Brotherhood as an "international plot carried out by the Americans, the Russians and the British, under the influence of Zionism." The Muslim Brotherhood sent 10,000 fighters to Israel in 1948, and at this time had established links with members of the "Free Officers" group - Anwar Sadat and also the future dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, who would lead the 1952 revolution.

Sayyid Qutb, like Hassan al-Banna, was an ardent anti-Semite. In 1950 he had written an essay entitled "Our struggle with the Jews". In this, he maintained that Jews were identical to their ancestors who "confronted Islam with Enmity from the moment that the Islamic state was established in Medina. They plotted against the Muslim Community from the first day it became a Community."

In the same document, Qutb claimed that Jews employed "machinations and double dealings which discomfited the Early Muslims... The Jews continue – through their wickedness and double-dealing – to lead this (Muslim) community away from its religion and to alienate it from its Koran." He asserted that "From such creatures who kill, massacre and defame prophets one can only expect the spilling of human blood and dirty means which would further their machinations and evilness."

Qutb declared in this work that "Allah brought Hitler to rule over them" and wished the worst upon the Jews - "Allah bring down upon the Jews people who will mete out to them the worst kind of punishment, as confirmation of his unequivocal promise."

Qutb's undiluted hatred of the West, hatred for the Jews and hatred of anything that did not conform to the society established under the leadership of Mohammed the prophet led to his works having an influence beyond the Muslim Brotherhood. His ideas were closely followed by two Islamist groups that emerged in Egypt after Nasser had died in 1970. These were Islamic Jihad and Gamaa Islamiya (also called Jamaa Islamiya or al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya). The latter group had been founded as a response to an official decision by the Muslim Brotherhood to renounce violence.

Nasser's successor was Anwar Sadat, who promised the Muslim Brotherhood that he would impose Sharia law upon Egypt. In 1970 he released all Muslim Brotherhood members who were in prison. Sadat reneged on his promise of Sharia and alienated the Brotherhood and other Salafists (conservative traditionalists) such as Gamaah Islamiya and Islamic Jihad. In the Egyptian general election of 1976, no Muslim Brotherhood members were allowed to stand as candidates. Some Brotherhood members stood as "independents" and some as members of the Arab Socialist Party. Thus they managed to gain 15 seats in the People's Assembly.

One Egyptian admirer of Qutb was a young eye surgeon called Ayman al-Zawahiri, who came from an affluent family in Cairo's Maadi district. He had first been arrested in 1966, for being a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. He was 15 at this time. A decade later he was the leader of Islamic Jihad. This group, acting with Gamaa Islamiya, carried out the bomb attack which killed Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981.

Sadat had alienated Islamists by signing a peace accord with Menachem Begin, Israel's prime minister, on March 26, 1979. After Sadat's killing, Zawahiri was arrested. Though no evidence pointed to his direct role in the assassination, he was imprisoned for three years for possessing a rifle. Ayman al-Zawahiri is now famous as the second-in-command of Al Qaeda. Many of his current speeches imitate the style and content of Qutb's writings. In August 2006, Ayman al-Zawahiri announced that Gamaa Islamiya had officially become an affiliate of al-Qaeda.


Hamas

Sheikh YassinThe pan-Arabist movements in the Middle East would frequently come into confrontation with Muslim Brotherhood members. Some Arabist leaders received support from the Soviets. The recipients of Soviet aid included Egypt, Syria and Jordan. In the lead up to the Six Day War of June, 1967, the Soviets helped to arm these Arab protagonists.

It has been alleged that the CIA gave assistance to the Brotherhood and other Islamic groups who were seen to be in opposition to these pro-Soviet regimes. In 1951, before Egypt's coup, the CIA is said to have opened negotiations with Nasser. After the Suez crisis which began five years later, and Nasser's Soviet flirtations, the CIA's support supposedly went to his opponents. Former US Justice Department prosecutor John Loftus suggested in 2004 that copious CIA files on the Muslim Brotherhood had been destroyed.

What is verifiable is that the only solid thing to unite Arabs of all political persuasions and degrees of religiosity was a hostility to Israel. The contempt for Israel was exploited by the Muslim Brotherhood with its consistent traditions of open anti-Semitism. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, born in 1938 in al-Jora, south of the Gaza Strip, was an active member of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood. In 1969 - 1970, he had revived the Brotherhood's activities in Gaza. A sporting accident in his youth had paralyzed his legs and hands, but he preached for the destruction of Israel in mosques around Gaza, gaining popularity and prestige. In 1987, he was head of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was in this year, around the time of the first intifada that he set up the group Hamas, assisted by Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, who had become a Muslim Brotherhood member in Gaza in 1976.

Hamas now has offices in Damascus in Syria and also in Lebanon. Soon after it began its operations, Hamas became progressively more violent, launching suicide attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets. Israel finally responded with targeted missile strikes. Yassin was killed on March 22, 2004, and a month later on April 17, al-Rantissi was killed. By this time, Hamas had mounted more than 425 terrorist attacks against Israel. Ismail Haniya, who is now the leader of Hamas, said outside the hospital where Rantissi died: "Israel will regret this. Revenge is coming."

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood had reacted to the death of Sheikh Yassin as the loss of one of their own. There were riots and protests across Egypt. The Brotherhood issued a statement which read: "Sheikh Yassin is not the first or last martyr as long as there is occupation." The letter said that resistance and jihad were the only way to free Palestine, and blamed the US for giving "political and military support for the Zionists" and "using American taxpayers' money to shed innocent blood everywhere."

The Hamas Charter, the document which lays out the ethos of the group, declares its implacable opposition to any Jews remaining in Israel. Written in 1988, it includes the statement: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a world organization, the largest Islamic Movement in the modern era. It is characterized by a profound understanding, by precise notions and by a complete comprehensiveness of all concepts of Islam in all domains of life: views and beliefs, politics and economics, education and society, jurisprudence and rule, indoctrination and teaching, the arts and publications, the hidden and the evident, and all the other domains of life."

Article 15 of the charter asserts that "When our enemies usurp some Islamic lands, Jihad becomes a duty binding on all Muslims. In order to face the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner of Jihad. This would require the propagation of Islamic consciousness among the masses on all local, Arab and Islamic levels. We must spread the spirit of Jihad among the [Islamic] Umma, clash with the enemies and join the ranks of the Jihad fighters."

The Hamas Charter, in effect, is the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood, writ large. Hamas craftily ran "charities" in the Palestinian territories, at the same time as organizing terrorist attacks. Many of these "charities" are either fronts for the terror operations of Hamas, or they are places such as schools and orphanages where hatred of Israel and the desire for martyrdom, as eulogized in the writings of Hassan al Banna and Sayyid Qutb are indoctrinated into young minds.

In 2002, Israel carried out Operation Defensive Shield, and seized documents which proved that some of the charities, such as the Bethlehem Orphan Care Society were donating reward money to families of suicide bombers. On August 22, 2003, the US Treasury designated six Hamas leaders and five charities which funded Hamas as terrorist entities. Britain, somewhat typically, has refused to ban one of these Hamas-supporting charities - Interpal, which is based in Kilburn, west London.

The current leader of the Muslim Brotherhood is 79-year old Mohammed Mahdi Akef. He was elected as "guide general" of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood on December 31, 2003. He was the sixth "guide general" of the Brotherhood, succeeding Mamun al-Hodaiby who had died in the previous week.

The Muslim Brotherhood claims to reject violence, but this is a lie propagated to allow it to function with little interference in 70 nations around the world, rather than a genuine statement of philosophy.

Akif joined the Brotherhood in 1948, and was one of the founders of the "special operations" unit, the al-Nizam al-Khas, set up by the Brotherhood to commit acts of terror and assassinations. In 1954, Akif had been given a death sentence for attempting to kill President Nasser, but this had been commuted to hard labor. Last year, Akif offered to send 10,000 Muslim Brotherhood members to assist Hezbollah in the conflict which it had deliberately created between Israel and Lebanon, somewhat contradicting Brotherhood claims to be "peaceful".

The current "spiritual leader" of the Muslim Brotherhood is Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is based in Qatar. This individual has issued a fatwa sanctioning terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a highly influential movement, but it is a chameleon, employing deception to gain a foothold on power. It professes non-violence and implementation of political solutions, but it influences and supports terrorist organizations. In Egypt in the elections of 2005 the Muslim Brotherhood was officially banned from entering any candidates. Despite this, it repeated tactics it had used in the 1976, 1984 and 1987 elections, and stood candidates who claimed to be "independent" or affiliated with legitimate parties. As a result, the Brotherhood gained 88 seats out of a total of 454, becoming the largest opposition group in the Egyptian Parliament.

As I will show in Part Three, the wide-ranging global influence of the Muslim Brotherhood has been used to establish Islamic banking operations which have funded terrorist operations, yet its leaders have not only been tolerated, but actively courted by politicians in the West.


>>> Continued in Part 3


Adrian Morgan is a British based writer and artist who regularly contributes in Family Security Matters. His essays also appear in Western Resistance, Spero News and Faithfreedom.org. 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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