Weeks after welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood into the UK, Cameron orders them investigated for “links to extremism”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/weeks-after-welcoming-the-muslim-brotherhood-into-the-uk-cameron-orders-them-investigated-for-links-to-extremism

Robert Spencer Apr 1, 2014 at 9:47am Muslim Brotherhood, United Kingdom 1 Comment

Just weeks after the British government declared that membership in the Muslim Brotherhood was “not proof of extremism” and welcomed Muslim Brotherhood members to live and operate in the UK, David Cameron orders British officials to investigate the Brotherhood. This is, in other words, yet more indication that the British government has no idea what to do about Islamic jihad terror and supremacism, and is running blind and scared. they’re banning counter-jihadists from the country in an effort to appease Leftists and Islamic supremacists and welcoming in the Brotherhood, and then looking at their hopelessly compromised position and trying desperately to shore it up. Unless they throw out Cameron and his gang of sycophants soon, and replace it with a sensible anti-jihad government, Britain is finished.

“David Cameron orders inquiry into activities of Muslim Brotherhood,” by Nicholas Watt for The Guardian, March 31:

David Cameron has ordered Whitehall officials to launch an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood – drawing on assessments by MI5 and MI6.

A Downing Street source confirmed that the review would examine allegations that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the murder of three tourists on a bus in Egypt in February and that it planned extremist activities from Britain.

The source said: “The prime minister has ordered a review to get a better understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood and its values – and look into its alleged links to extremism.”
The No 10 source confirmed a report in the Times that the investigation is being

launched as the prime minister faces pressure to follow the example of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which claim that the Muslim Brotherhood uses London as a crucial centre for its activities, to ban the group.

The Times reported that MI6, Britain’s overseas intelligence agency, would examine claims that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the bus attack in Egypt. MI5 will assess how many leaders have been based in Britain after last year’s coup in Egypt in which Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president, was ousted.

The regime of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the head of the Egyptian armed forces who played a leading role in the overthrow of Morsi last year, has placed the former president on jail where he awaits trial for treason. Morsi was the candidate for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party for the 2012 presidential elections in Egypt.

Cameron ordered the investigation after it was concluded that Whitehall has insufficient intelligence about the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in Britain and in Egypt. Downing Street has asked Sir John Jenkins, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia to draw up a report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s “philosophy and values and alleged connections with extremism and violence”.

Sir Kim Darroch, the prime minister’s national security adviser, has already started work. A key role will be played by Sir John Sawers, the current chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), who served as UK ambassador to Egypt between 2001-03. Sawers, who had previously served as Tony Blair’s foreign affairs adviser in Downing Street, had strong contacts with the regime of the former president Hosni Mubarak.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, was branded a terrorist group by the Egyptian authorities last year. It had been banned during most of the latter part of the 20th century up until the Arab spring which saw the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak as Egyptian president.

British officials are saying it is “possible but unlikely” that the Muslim Brotherhood will be banned in Britain on the grounds of terrorist links. Foreign Office officials figures have until now resisted proscribing the organisation on the grounds that that could encourage extremists. “The truth is that this is a large, disparate organisation that takes different forms in different countries,” an official told the paper.

The security services are said to take a more hardline view. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, has reportedly described the Muslim Brotherhood as “at heart a terrorist organisation”….