About that Muslim Brotherhood...

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Zvi Mazel, The Jerusalem Post

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"Are the Arab revolutions going anywhere? The daily Asharq Alawsat published a lengthy op-ed from a leading Arab commentator on June 1: “History teaches us that the model of a revolution attempting to topple a stable regime in order to introduce reforms gradually – such as in Bahrain or Egypt – leads to a more extreme regime less inclined to protect civil rights. The revolutions of the Arab world are not like the 1848 revolutions in Western Europe or the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. They are nothing more than popular unrest in a region where extreme religious ideologies and exacerbated nationalism are at work.”

"The writer goes on: “The whole region is undoubtedly undergoing a difficult historical test, but many commentators do not see that this test will not necessarily be over in a year or two, but probably in many years, and that it will not necessarily bring about better results as far as democracy is concerned, that is, a fair regime and above all economic welfare.”

"He adds: “The best evidence of the state of anarchy prevailing at this stage is that better economic conditions, which were the basis of the outbreak of manifestations, is no longer on the demonstrators’ agenda. All that is left is the demand for revenge and the spirit of revolution enshrining lofty ideals but demanding the blood and the property of people for reasons not always fair and in order to purge the previous regime.”

"A harsh judgment indeed, and one the West is reluctant to accept, preferring to wax lyrical on the Arab spring, in the naïve belief that liberal forces will emerge to take over and lead the Arab world to a Western type of democracy based on tolerance and acceptance of the other, freedom of speech, equality for women and human rights.

"Reality is different. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Syria’s Assad are still very much there and won’t give up without a bloody fight. The fate of a wounded Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen is still unclear. If they fall, Islamic organizations are ready to take over. In these three countries, the Muslim Brothers and Salafist groups are the central political force able to “harvest” the revolution. It should not be forgotten that in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is making an all-out effort to bring about an Islamic bloc, together with other extreme Islamic formations, in order to win the next parliamentary elections. In Jordan, the Brothers, represented by the Front for Islamic Action, are also at the forefront and pushing for demonstrations.

"On the one hand, Iranian subversive activities are on the rise; on the other, the Muslim Brothers are doing their best to take over some of the countries of the Middle East. This does not look as if it will take the region much further on the road of democracy, let alone promoting tolerance and even less the recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people."

More @

http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=224380

 

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Viva la France!

 

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One year ago the Mavi Marmara, cast by its sponsors as the Palestinian Exodus, led a "Gaza Freedom Flotilla." Its goal was not to condemn the ruling Hamas government in Gaza, sworn to Israel's destruction, but to breech the Israeli blockade. Its "humanitarian aid" cargo included ballistic vests, gas masks, night-vision goggles, clubs, slingshots, daggers, knives, metal pipes and stun grenades.

After rejecting Israel's proposal for cargo inspection at the Ashdod port, the Mavi Marmara was boarded by Israeli naval commandos. They encountered what even the BBC described as a premeditated attack. With three Israeli commandos thrown from the top deck, two shot, three stabbed and slashed, and others attacked with metal pipes, the Israelis relinquished their paintball guns for live ammunition. The expressed wish of two of the nine assailants for martyrdom was fulfilled.

To mark the anniversary of the Mavi Marmara, pro-Hamas activists have organized a new flotilla, scheduled to depart for Gaza later this month. Another confrontation with the Israeli navy is likely. Once again, Israel will be internationally vilified in a predictable melodrama that will unfold before an appreciative world audience, eager to pillory the Jewish State. The flotilla planners seem not to have noticed that their encore is superfluous: the Gaza-Egypt border is now open.

Jerold S. Auerbach
The American Thinker

 

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- from The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) Jun 11th 2011 at 10:59 am...

Egypt’s main Islamist group has long denied official links to the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, but public statements and actions by its senior leaders have often gone a long way to undercut the credibility of such denials.

On Friday, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, eulogized little-known Hamas founder, Mohamed Hassan Shamaa. Shamaa, 76, reportedly died of a stroke after decades as a senior leader of the Gaza-based terrorist group. After his death, Hamas admitted Shamaa was the leader of the group’s governing body, or Shura Council. The identities of the Council’s other leaders is a closely guarded secret, and Shamaa’s name had never been previously disclosed.

Of Shamaa, Badie gave high praise and “offered condolences to the Muslim world in general and the Palestinians in particular…” In the eulogy, Shamaa is described as an “influential” public figure with an “exceptional ability to listen and dispense sound wisdom.”

Shamaa’s likely role in killing or injuring hundreds, if not thousands, of Israeli and American citizens since Hamas’ founding in 1987 is notably absent from Badie’s comments.

Contrary to repeated denials by the Brotherhood of ties to Shamaa’s group, Hamas was established as the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood—a fact the group readily admits in its founding charter. The Brotherhood has ideologically stood by its progeny, frequently calling for armed resistance against “crusaders” and “occupiers” in Palestine.

Following the fall of longtime President Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood appears to be growing increasingly bold in its actions and statements. The MB has formed a political party—the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)—and has increased its target for the number of seats it will contest in September’s important parliamentary elections to nearly 50%. It has also ratcheted up its rhetoric in support of Iran and Hamas.

Badie’s recent statement appears to be yet another example that the group, now a legally sanctioned party in Egypt, is growing more and more comfortable showing in public where its heart truly lies.

http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2011/06/11/muslim-brotherhood-praises-terrorist-group-founder/#more-127836

 

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Happy-go-lucky community organizers and born-again reformers of the scimitar...

 

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June 15, 2011
Islam 2.0: Coexistence
William A. Levinson

Who is the Enemy: Militant Islam or Islam as a Whole?

Ann Barnhardt's "A Peaceful Neo-Nazi" contends that "[t]here is no more 'moderate Islam' than there is 'moderate Nazism.'" The article quotes Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as follows: "There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it." Turkey is among the world's most advanced Muslim-majority nations, so this reinforces the position that there is no such thing as moderate Islam.

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger's Psychological Warfare warns, however, that it is generally bad policy to define the enemy too widely. If we extend this definition to the opposing rank and file, we reinforce its determination to fight instead of surrendering, mutinying, or deserting as we would like it to do.

The most effective psychological warfare directs hatred and contempt only at the enemy leaders while it portrays their followers as pawns of the leaders' personal agendas and ambitions. The instant the followers conclude that their organization, whether it be a religion, political party, or government, is serving itself at their expense, the end of that organization is in sight. That is exactly the manner in which the anti-Second Amendment Million Mom March was destroyed as an organization in 2000; columnist J.R. Labbe exposed its misuse of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt donations to support candidates for political office. We personally brought the MMM Web pages in question to Labbe's attention.

PsyWar that breaks the bond of trust and commitment between leaders and followers is therefore totally devastating, but its success requires that the practitioner identify and relate to the Propaganda Man.

Who is the Propaganda Man?

Linebarger defines the Propaganda Man as the hypothetical audience we wish to persuade. It is vital to identify and relate to him, as shown by the difference between injunctions to "surrender" and "cease resistance." The difference to Japanese soldiers was literally one of life or death; those who were offered "surrender passes" treated them as insults and fought to the death, but they were often willing to "cease honorable resistance" instead.

A public relations war against Islamic aggression must consider (1) the rank-and-file Muslim whom we wish to lead away from jihad and (2) fellow infidels whom we want to fight Islamic aggression. If we define all Muslims as enemies, we leave Muslims with no way to walk away from the enemy camp without becoming apostates, atheists, kafirs, or infidels -- a status to which many might prefer death. We must instead provide a palatable means for Muslims to "cease honorable resistance."

Islam 2.0: Ceasing Honorable Resistance

Jesus resolved the conflict between state and religion by saying to render to Caesar that which was Caesar's and to God that which was God's. The kingdom of Jesus (or Jehovah, or Brahma depending on one's faith) is not of this world; England's Henry V and Prussia's Frederick William I elaborated that every subject owed his duty to the State but eternal salvation was between the subject and God.

We will define Islam that conforms to this arrangement as Islam 2.0 in contrast to Islam 1.0, the unevolved and violent ideology that Mohammad invented to unite his followers. We explain to the rank-and-file Muslim that, no matter how badly ancient Hebrews and medieval Christians behaved as described by the Old Testament and historical records, respectively, modern Jews and Christians do not act that way. The ancient Hebrews may have had to "smite" their neighbors to flourish or even survive, and Mohammad's followers might have had to do so as well. Nobody has to behave this way in the 21st century, though, and behavior that worked for the ummah or Muslim community in the Dark Ages works against its interests today.

To this we can add that Islam 2.0 is genuine submission to the will of God as reflected by Natural Law (John Locke) or the Constitution of the Universe (Henry Ford). Islam 2.0 therefore gives the Muslim Propaganda Man a place to go, and a place to stay if he has already assimilated into a civilized society. Those whom the Islam 1.0 shoe fits know who they are, and we must denounce them as hostis humani generis: enemies of all Humanity.

Islam's Declaration of War on Civilization

Islam 1.0's division of the world into the Dar al-Islam (House of Submission or House of Peace) and the Dar al-Harb (House of War, the non-Islamic world, including the wrong kinds of Muslims such as Sunnis or Shiites, depending on who defines Islam) is a declaration of war on our society by definition. To this we add specific examples of Islamic aggression:

Anjem Choudary has declared war on the United States by calling upon Muslims to overthrow the Constitution and replace it with Sharia law.

Ukrainian teenager Katya Koren was recently stoned to death, allegedly by three Muslim youths who did not like the idea that she had competed in a beauty pageant.

Immigrant youths have used Islamm as an excuse to commit gang-rape, which they call tournantes or "taking turns" in France.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference sanctions criminal domestic violence.

"Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah, considered one of the Islamic Republic's most radical clerics, issued a religious edict on his website whereby suicide attacks are not only legitimate but are a must for every Muslim." He is in no hurry to complete this religious obligation himself, though, which leaves what he calls Islam wide open to the most devastating PsyWar methods.

Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the United Kingdom's most senior Muslim cleric, said it is acceptable to rape women who do not cover their heads with sacks. He compared such women to "uncovered meat" that cats were free to eat, and added that women who wore hijabs (veils) and stayed at home did not have to worry about rape.

Many European countries have passed so-called hate crime laws to punish those who speak out about these outrages. Geert Wilders is currently being prosecuted under laws of this nature. Denmark recently convicted Lars Hedegaard of "racist statements" for his criticism of incestuous rape in Islamic society.

Those who enact and enforce these speech codes must be regarded as Quislings who collaborate with their countries' domestic and possibly foreign enemies. They are also enablers of criminal violence such as rape because suppression of a crime's discussion protects and encourages the criminals. If Europe has not learned anything from the last time its residents were punished for speaking out about a rising tide of evil and tyranny, Americans must speak for them -- and we will do so with willful and intentional contempt for the European speech codes in question.

The American Thinker

 

[Ishmael]

You've read enough of my early writings re. Islam bro. Do you see the flaw in the article you just posted?

Ishmael

 

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That there's an Islam 2.0?

 

[Saint Peter]

You've read enough of my early writings re. Islam bro. Do you see the flaw in the article you just posted?

Ishmael

The source?

 

[Ishmael]

That there's an Islam 2.0?

There WAS an Islam 2.0. It was completely and utterly destroyed from within. It was the destruction of Islam 2.0 that proximaly led to the Crusades. Islam 1.0 conveniently overlooks that historical point.

The flaw I'm speaking of, and there really are two bound together here, is the notion that there is some unified or central leadership in Islam.We know that to be false. Leaders arise within the religion, but they are only capitalizing on the core philosophy of the religion itself. In other words Islam breeds the leaders that are being attacked, the leaders are NOT driving the religion. So while Islam exhibits the outwards behavior of Nazi-ism, there is no Hitler and that is where the analogy falls apart.

And that brings us to the core flaw and that being the notion that a force acting outside of a religion can force internal changes in that religion. Over long periods of time one might make a case for that, but since Islam 1.0 destroyed Islam 2.0 some 1000 years ago Islam 1.0 has proven itself to be remarkably resistant to any changes pressured by external forces. The only cases where a religion has undergone profound internal change from external force has been when that religion has been thoroughly subjugated, or destroyed, by those external forces. Accommodation and reasoned argument are not effective tools against the sacred when those tools are employed by the profane.

Ishmael

 

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There is a Hitler. He died long ago (undefeated) and his writings are uniting the true faithful still to this day.

There is a variation on the motives of some of the leadership, but they're still taking orders from he who cannot be depicted.

 

[Ishmael]

There is a Hitler. He died long ago (undefeated) and his writings are uniting the true faithful still to this day.

There is a variation on the motives of some of the leadership, but they're still taking orders from he who cannot be depicted.

That's another way of putting it, but even so there is a disconnect between the messenger and the message. So even an attack against the 'Hitler', while sure to cause a general uprising among the faithful, does nothing to invalidate the message. The message has to be totally re-interpreted and that can only happen from within.

Ishmael

 

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I still think it's going to take a sack of Mecca and a diaspora to get them to that point.

 

[Ishmael]

I still think it's going to take a sack of Mecca and a diaspora to get them to that point.

If you want results within a reasonable time period you're probably right.

Ishmael

 

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If you want results within a reasonable time period you're probably right.

Ishmael

There's a REASON Jesus kept a strict separation of Church and State, maybe if he had lived and gained Jerusalem, the message would have been modified...



... Islam bears the arrogance of never having to have fully submitted amidst the ruins of their hatred.

 

[Ishmael]

There's a REASON Jesus kept a strict separation of Church and State, maybe if he had lived and gained Jerusalem, the message would have been modified...



... Islam bears the arrogance of never having to have fully submitted amidst the ruins of their hatred.

Where's Halagu when you need him?

Ishmael

 

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Where's Halagu when you need him?

Ishmael

His book just wasn't written well enough...

 

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Weiner’s In-Laws and the Secret Muslim Brotherhood Connections Revealed

"Was Huma Abedin, the wife of Anthony Weiner and the Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton, unaware that her mother was reported as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? Is it possible she does not know that her brother is tied to the Brotherhood’s radical leadership? Did Western media miss what has been revealed in several Arab newspapers, which has remained secret in American government circles?

"Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) claims to have leaked an extensive list of members of the Brotherhood’s secret women’s division, which is known alternately as the Muslim Sisterhood or the International Women’s Organization (IWO). This detailed list was partially published by Al Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers. And it included Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin.

"Egypt’s Al-Dostor revealed that the Sisterhood included 63 International members that span 16 different countries; it’s also confirmed by the Arab Centre for Research and Studies, headed by researcher Abdul Rahim Ali.

Big Man on Campus

"Neither Huma nor any major Western media outlet even mention what is common knowledge in the Arab world. Yet, Arab sources have confirmed that Huma Abedin has a brother named Hassan Abedin who works at Oxford University. Oxford University, which has long been infiltrated by Islamists who founded the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), lists Huma’s brother as a fellow and partners with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members on the Board, including al-Qaeda associate Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi; both have been listed as OCIS Trustees. Naseef continues to serve as Board Chairman."

...rest of the piece here:

http://floydreports.com/weiners-in-laws-and-the-secret-muslim-brotherhood-connections-revealed/

 

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Outreach...





And people get pissed at Israel for spying on us.

 

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A perfect person for a top secret clearance in a Democrat administration.

Just harmless, happy-go-lucky community organizers...






... one wonders what direction their community will take, once it is organized.

Step one, demand footbaths in public institutions and refuse to carry alcohol in a cab...

 

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Copts

Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when Allah comes for you...

 

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When we're weak, we're meek.

When we're strong, you submit...