Investigative Project on Terrorism
Egypt's longtime
banned Muslim Brotherhood—the parent organization of nearly every subsequent
Islamist movement, including al-Qaeda—has just won the nation's presidency,
in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the
international community, when once such news would have been deemed
devastating, is due to the successful efforts of Muslim apologists and
subversive agents in the West who portray the Brotherhood as "moderate
Islamists"—irrespective that such a formulation is oxymoronic, since to
be "Islamist," to be a supporter of draconian Sharia, is by
definition to be immoderate.
Obama
administration officials naturally took it a
step further, portraying the Brotherhood as "largely secular"
and "pluralistic."
Back in the
real world, evidence that the Brotherhood is just another hostile Islamist
group bent on achieving world
domination through any means possible is overwhelming. Here are just
three examples that recently surfaced, all missed by the Western media, and
all exposing the Brotherhood as hostile to "infidels" (non-Muslims)
in general, hostile to the Christians in their midst (the Copts) in
particular, and on record calling on Muslims to lie and cheat during elections
to empower Sharia:
Anti-Infidel: At a major conference supporting Muhammad
Morsi—standing on a platform with a big picture of Morsi smiling behind him
and with any number of leading Brotherhood figures, including Khairat
el-Shater, sitting alongside—a sheikh went on a harangue,
quoting Koran 9:12, a jihadi favorite, to portray all those Egyptians who do
not vote for Morsi—the other half of Egypt, the secularists and Copts who
voted for Shafiq—as "resisters of the Sharia of Allah," and
"infidel leaders" whom true Muslims must "fight" and
subjugate.
The video of
this sheikh was shown on the talk show of Egyptian commentator Hala Sarhan,
who proceeded to exclaim "This is unbelievable! How is this talk related
to the campaign of Morsi?!" A guest on her show correctly elaborated:
"Note his [the sheikh's] use of the word 'fight'—'fight the infidel
leaders' [Koran 9:12]; this is open incitement to commit violence against
anyone who disagrees with them…. How can such a radical sheikh speak such
words, even as [Brotherhood leaders like] Khairat el-Shater just sit
there?" Nor did the Brotherhood denounce or distance itself from this
sheikh's calls to jihad and takfir.
Anti-Christian: It is precisely because of these sporadic
outbursts of anti-infidel rhetoric that it is not farfetched to believe that
Morsi himself, as some
maintain, earlier boasted that he would "achieve the Islamic
conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians
convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya."
Speaking of
the minority Christian Copts of Egypt, in an article titled "The Muslim
Brotherhood Asks Why Christians Fear Them?!" secularist writer Khaled Montasser,
examining the Brotherhood's own official documents and fatwas, shows exactly
why. According to Montasser, in issue #56 of the Brotherhood journal The Call
(al-da'wa), published in December 1980, prominent Brotherhood figure
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah al-Khatib decreed several anti-Christian measures,
including the destruction of churches and the prevention of burying unclean
Christian "infidels" anywhere near Muslim graves. Once again, this
view was never retracted by the Brotherhood. As Montasser concludes,
"After such fatwas, Dr. Morsi and his Brotherhood colleagues can ask and
wonder—"Why are the Copts afraid?!"
Lying,
Stealing, and Cheating to Victory:
In a recent article titled "The
Islamist Group's Hidden Intentions," appearing in Watani, author
Youssef Sidhom exposes a document "which carries the logos of both the
Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice
Party." Written by Khairat el-Shater, the Deputy to the Supreme Guide,
and addressed "to all the Brotherhood branches in the
governorates," the memo calls on Muslims to cheat, block votes, and "resort
to any method that can change the vote" to ensure that Morsi wins,
which, of course, he just did—amidst many accusations of electoral fraud.
El-Shater concluded his memo by saying, "You must understand, brothers,
that our
interest lies wherever there is the Sharia of Allah, and this can only be
by preserving the [MB] group and preserving Islam."
In short, the
Muslim Brotherhood has not changed; only Western opinion of it has. As it was
since its founding in 1928, the group is committed to empowering and
spreading Sharia law—a law that preaches hate for non-Muslim
"infidels," especially Islam's historic nemesis, Christianity, and
allows anything, from lying to cheating, to make Islam supreme. Now that the
Brotherhood has finally achieved power, the world can prepare to see such
aspects on a grand scale.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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