About that Muslim Brotherhood...

[vrosej10]

Americans! Everything that happens in the whole world somehow revolves round them.

 

[Beco]

Americans! Everything that happens in the whole world somehow revolves round them.

Well, finally, now you get it!

hey, Iran sending warships.....Israel not happy...

Lets get this party started................!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Here's something you won't see on your CNN or other mainstream media new sites today:

Friday, February 18 may be a turning point in Egyptian history. On that day Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the best-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the world and one of the most famous Islamist thinkers, will address a mass rally in Cairo.

Up until now, the Egyptian revolution generally, and the Brotherhood in particular, has lacked a charismatic thinker, someone who could really mobilize the masses. Qaradawi is that man. Long resident in the Gulf, he is returning to his homeland in triumph. Through internet, radio, his 100 books, and his weekly satellite television program, Qaradawi has been an articulate voice for revolutionary Islamism. He is literally a living legend.

Under the old regime, Qaradawi was banned from the country. He is now 84 years old -- two years older than the fallen President Husni Mubarak--but he is tremendously energetic and clear-minded.

It was Qaradawi who, in critiquing Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida, argued that Islamists should always participate in elections because they would, he claims, invariably win them. Hamas and Hezb'allah have shown that he was right on that point.

Symbolically, he will give the Friday prayer sermon to be held in Tahrir Square, the center of the revolutionary movement. The massing of hundreds of thousands of people in the square to hear Islamic services and a sermon by a radical Islamist is not the kind of thing that's been going on under the 60-year-old military regime that was recently overthrown.

The context is also the thanking of Qaradawi for his support of the revolution, an implication that he is somehow its spiritual father.

Qaradawi, though some in the West view him as a moderate, supports the straight Islamist line: anti-American, anti-Western, wipe Israel off the map, foment Jihad, stone homosexuals, in short the works.

One of Qaradawi's initiatives has been urging Muslims to settle in the West, of which he said, "that powerful West, which has come to rule the world, should not be left to the influence of the Jews alone." He contends that the three major threats Muslims face are Zionism, internal integration, and globalization. To survive, he argues, Muslims must fight the Zionists, Crusaders, idolaters, and Communists.

What is his view of both the Mubarak regime and the young, Facebook-flourishing liberals who made the revolution? As he said in 2004: "Some Arab and Muslim secularists are following the U.S. government by advocating the kind of reform that will disarm the nation from the elements of strength that are holding our people together."

Have no doubt. It is Qaradawi, not bin Ladin, who is the most dangerous revolutionary Islamist in the world, and he is about to unleash the full force of his power and persuasion on Egypt.

Who are you going to bet on being more influential, a Google executive and an unorganized band of well-intentioned liberal Egyptians or the world champion radical Islamist cleric?

Barry Rubin
The American Thinker

Okay, maybe you will see a little hope and change from them, like Iran before...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Yeah, the warnings to the West certainly do not mean Australia...






The Brotherhood LOVES Australia!




Saving it for last...

 

[MeeMie]

"One of Qaradawi's initiatives has been urging Muslims to settle in the West, of which he said, "that powerful West, which has come to rule the world, should not be left to the influence of the Jews alone."

Chilling ... a direct intention heralded.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Chilling ... a direct intention heralded.

History repeats. The "Education Department" should have seen this one coming, but it read something totally different between the lines...

Reminds me of the Amicus thread yesterday when some bright liberal light was positing, that like the Constitution to today's youth, Aristotle was just too hard for Rand to read and actually "understand."

 

[MeeMie]

Of course, all of these "young liberals" are so much more intelligent than the human folk majority of the country ... you know, us unwashed illiterates.

 

[Lancecastor]

Chilling ... a direct intention heralded.

No more chilling than the USA's "strategic influence" in the governance of countries around the world.

The more cultures, religions and societies blend, the more difficult it is for any one group to exert influence over others, due to inevitable assimilation.

 

[MeeMie]

No more chilling than the USA's "strategic influence" in the governance of countries around the world.

The more cultures, religions and societies blend, the more difficult it is for any one group to exert influence over others, due to inevitable assimilation.

You meant the USA's protection and aide to countries around the world?

As a Canadian, you should appreciate the taxes you save on military spending by knowing the USA will protect your asses.

 

[Beco]

As a Canadian, you should appreciate the taxes you save on military spending by knowing the USA will protect your asses.

As long as Obama is President, I wouldn't count on that....

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Allahu Akbar
Idbah al-Yahud

 

[KingOrfeo]

As a Canadian, you should appreciate the taxes you save on military spending by knowing the USA will protect your asses.

"Protect" from whom? Who, other than the U.S., has ever posed a threat to Canada?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

"Protect" from whom? Who, other than the U.S., has ever posed a threat to Canada?

Quebec...

 

[JenAltArmy]

Well, finally, now you get it!

hey, Iran sending warships.....Israel not happy...

Lets get this party started................!

for this next political season, I think Iran should purchase ads for obama

Iran can talk about how awesome obama is....

 

[JenAltArmy]

"Protect" from whom? Who, other than the U.S., has ever posed a threat to Canada?

Canada is Canada's biggest threat
also if there is no hockey
if they run out of beer

 

[MeeMie]

"Protect" from whom? Who, other than the U.S., has ever posed a threat to Canada?

My point exactly ... more like "Who would dare pose a threat to Canada with the US protecting it from threat to its own borders. Which subsequently allows Canada to save a great deal on military expenses in their own defense.


Military expenditures Canada: $18.28 billion (2009-10)
Military expenditures USA: $663.7 billion ( 2010)

American defense arrangements with Canada are more extensive than with any other country.

The Permanent Joint Board of Defense, established in 1940, provides policy-level consultation on bilateral defense matters. The United States and Canada share North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mutual security commitments. In addition, American and Canadian military forces have cooperated since 1958 on continental air defense within the framework of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Moreover, interoperability with the American armed forces has been a guiding principle of Canadian military force structuring and doctrine since the end of the Cold War. Canadian navy frigates, for instance, integrate seamlessly into American carrier battle groups.

In December of last year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged in the House of Commons that, “Canada already operates under what is called the Security and Prosperity Partnership with the United States." A perimeter approach to continental security is a continuation of the SPP agenda and will serve to expand the Canada-U.S. relationship in the confines of Fortress North America.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Watching Fareed Zakaria on CNN interviewing Harvard Prof Tariq Massoud, who is writing a book about the MB in Egypt. Points he makes:

These are not Egypt's poor -- the MB is full of well-educated, upwardly mobile professionals.

Their "relationship to the modern world is complicated." "They want to turn Egypt back, but not the way the Taliban wants to turn it back." They are not at all hostile to Western culture or science; they see no contradictions with their social views. They want Egypt and Islam all as modern as possible.

They do want a "Caliphate," but their idea of it is "a kind of United States of Islam, or European Union for the Islamic states, the head of which would be called the 'Caliph.'"

They have been reluctantly liberalizing their views on women. They accept women should vote. The majority have not come around to the view that a woman could be president of Egypt. Many younger members have broken with the movement over this.

Massoud is convinced that the MB's commitment to democracy as such is sincere, and, in any case, everyone accepts that autocracy has no future in Egypt.

al-Qaeda views the MB as sellouts who have abandoned the idea of jihad.

The MB has "an extremism of ends but not means." They are entirely opposed to violent tactics.

 

[KingOrfeo]

My point exactly ... more like "Who would dare pose a threat to Canada with the US protecting it from threat to its own borders.

MeeMie, look at the map. Canada borders on only one foreign country. Who else is in a position to threaten them? Greenland? If the U.S. reduced its military to Canadian levels, Canada would still be just as safe.

 

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[MeeMie]

MeeMie, look at the map. Canada borders on only one foreign country. Who else is in a position to threaten them? Greenland? If the U.S. reduced its military to Canadian levels, Canada would still be just as safe.

Let me rephrase that ...

The United States would defend Canada if simply to protect OUR OWN borders.

If a hostile enemy attacked Canada, it would become a threat to the United States, as well.

Got it?

 

[Beco]

Let me rephrase that ...

The United States would defend Canada if simply to protect OUR OWN borders.

If a hostile enemy attacked Canada, it would become a threat to the United States, as well.

Got it?

Like I said, if Obama is President, and that happens, don't count on the US defending Canada.

 

[phrodeau]

Like I said, if Obama is President, and that happens, don't count on the US defending Canada.

Maybe you think we should elect a Canadian next time.

 

[Beco]

Maybe you think we should elect a Canadian next time.

No, next time, I think we should elect someone who was born USA....

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Our Democrat Media serves us so well...

Last Friday (2/18/11) marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood "Spiritual Guide" Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation's provisional military rulers. Qaradawi's own words were accompanied by images and actions during his appearance which should have shattered the delusive view that the turmoil leading to President Mubarak's resignation augured the emergence of a modern, democratic Egyptian society devoted to Western conceptions of individual liberty and equality before the law.

Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi can be seen prominently behind al-Qaradawi for the duration of the latter's speech. Recently Higazi, during his Arabic-language program "Age of Glory," broadcast on the Egyptian al-Nas satellite television network, issued an unabashed call for aggressive violent, jihad. He quoted a hadith from ‘Ali, the son-in-law of the Muslim prophet Muhammad and Islam's fourth "Rightly Guided" caliph, in which ‘Ali tells his sons: "Go, fight, and please your grandfather [i.e. Muhammad]. Let him be pleased with you. Fighting is what pleases the prophet (peace be upon him)." Higazi also urged jihadists, graphically, when attacking non-Muslim infidels to "Strike and split the head, and cut it in half." Equally plain are Higazi's goals for this brutal jihadism -- the re-creation of a transnational Muslim Caliphate:

I am convinced that Islam is imminent, the caliphate is imminent. One of these days, the United States of Islam will be established. Allah willing, it will be soon. Egypt will be one state in this [United States of Islam.] Morocco and Saudi Arabia will be states as well.

And of course the requisite accompaniment to Higazi's jihadism would be a jihad genocide of Israeli Jews, as described in other media pronouncements the cleric has made, such as,

"Dispatch Those Sons of Apes [Koran 2:65; 7:166] and Pigs[Koran 5:60] to the Hellfire," and "Yes, I Am an Antisemite; If Not for the Arab Rulers, We Would Devour the Jews with Our Teeth."

Contrast the prominence afforded Higazi, with the treatment of Google executive Wael Ghonim. Upheld by a fawning Western media as the putative embodiment of Egypt's "democracy uprising," Ghonim was forcibly barred from the platform where Qaradawi spoke in Cairo's Tahrir Square. According to an Al-Arabiya report,

Ghonim tried to take the stage in Tahrir, but men who appeared to be guarding Qaradawi barred him from doing so. Ghonim, who was angered by the episode, then left the square with his face hidden by an Egyptian flag.

But notwithstanding MEMRI, and my colleague Al-Mutarjim (whose translation follows), no mainstream media outlets have reported that Qaradawi himself issued a clarion call for the jihad re-conquest of Al-Aqsa mosque, i.e., Jerusalem. This pronouncement was met with thunderous applause.

A message to our brothers in Palestine: I have hope that Almighty Allah, as I have been pleased with the victory in Egypt, that He will also please me with the conquest of the al-Aqsa Mosque, to prepare the way for me to preach in the al-Aqsa Mosque. May Allah prepare the way for us to (preach) in the al-Aqsa Mosque in safety-not in fear, not in haste. May Allah achieve this clear conquest for us. O sons of Palestine, I am confident that you will be victorious.

The media's egregious omission was hardly accidental. Qaradawi's statement immediately following this deleted jihad rallying cry -- about having the Egyptian Army open the Rafah border crossing into Gaza to facilitate "delivering aid to our brethren" -- was widely reported. The deliberate omission of Qaradawi's bellicose incitement to re-capture Jerusalem reflects a larger, sustained campaign by both the mainstream media, and the warped pseudo-academics whom they choose, selectively, to provide their background information. The poisonous fruit of this incestuous relationship has been a concerted effort to characterize as "pluralist, reform Islam" Qaradawi's obscurantist, albeit mainstream Islamic Weltanschauung of Sharia (Islamic Law)-based, aggressive jihadism, and its corollary -- virulent Jew, and other infidel hatred.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/qaradawi_and_the_treason_of_th.html

 

[off2bed]

The Muzzie Bros aren't violent, nope not at all.

DOHA (AFP) – Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi should do so "to rid Libya of him."

The cleric, spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and longtime resident of Qatar, heads the International Union for Muslim Scholars.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110221/wl_mideast_afp/libyapoliticsunrestfatwa_20110221212046

I guess Ka'Daffy just wasn't Sharia enough for them.