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The Evils of the
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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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