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| Muslim Brotherhood to disband? |
| 2004-12-21 |
| On the face of it, a little-noticed report in a London-based Arabic-language newspaper last week seemed to signal a major victory in the Bush administration's international campaign to crack down on alleged financiers of Islamic terrorism. According to the Nov. 11 edition of Al-Sharq-al-Awsat, the Muslim Brotherhood Organization, an international fundamentalist movement that spawned many of the world's key Islamic extremist and terrorist groups—including Al Qaeda—recently held a secret conference at which its leaders discussed whether to dissolve their organization in the wake of Washington's moves to crack down on some of its leading members and corporate organizations. But like other developments in what the administration calls the global war on terror, the alleged move by the Brotherhood to abolish itself may have less substance than meets the eye. Indeed, it may even mean that efforts by the U.S. and its allies to move against financiers of Islamic terror groups will become more difficult. U.S. intelligence and diplomatic sources point out that some Arab nations banned the Brotherhood years ago. Notable among those countries is Syria, where former president Hafez Assad's brutal crackdown against the Brotherhood in the early 1980s left thousands of militants dead. Instead of driving the brotherhood out of business in Syria, however, the crackdown there forced some of its leading members into exile in countries like Germany, where Syrian Brotherhood expatriates ultimately helped to recruit to the cause of Islamic jihad a group of Hamburg polytechnic students who later became 9/11 hijackers. Other Brotherhood activists in Syria simply went underground for years, only to resurface later inside Syria with new organizational names, under which the current Syrian government of the current Syrian president, Bashar Assad, son of Hafez, allows them to operate under the watchful eye of security agencies. U.S. government experts acknowledge that if the Brotherhood does dissolve itself, its local branches will probably just lie low for a while and then resurface under new names. The Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 as a religious and quasi-political counterweight to the corrupt and increasingly decadent royalist and colonial governments dominating the Islamic world, always has had two faces: one a peaceful public, proselytizing and social-welfare oriented wing; the other a clandestine, paramilitary wing. The militant arm has engaged sporadically in violent campaigns to resist or overthrow what the Brotherhood regarded as corrupt local tyrannies, like the Egyptian monarchy. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 The solution to the Muslim Brotherhood version of Islamofascism is simple..... Extermination. |
| Posted by: leaddog2 2004-12-21 11:42:06 PM |
| #5 I love this! It has all the elements of a typical NPR or BBC piece (except sound effects) and is a classic 20th Century propaganda, - fit for the museum. I'd fisk the whole thing, but I don't have time - but here are some main elements. 1. Underneath the happy surface lurks a dark and sinister plot. Although it would appear to be good thing that the Muslim Brotherhood is disbanding, if you look closely, it is actually a bad, bad, very bad thing, very dark, very sinister...ooooh 2. Doom awaits if anything is done to solve the problem. It would be better to do nothing, because if you do anything, it will just make it worse and you will be really, really, sorry. 3. Lame example using one freak incident to prove the norm, like: "capitalism is evil, because one time, a lady didn't have any food, and she starved to death". Or in this case, the last time they tried to break up the Muslim Brotherhood, it resulted in 911. 4. No matter what's going on, it's the fault of an evil government and thus 3 steps to being the US govn'ts fault. If you are smart and you look closely, you'll see the bad guys are really not to blame. 5. Acknowledges that the accused may be guilty, but, if you are smart and look closely enough, they really aren't so bad, and perhaps they are just being persecuted by the government…oooooh 6. Authors have seen/obtained "secret" documents that show the government is working behind the scenes and should be presumed to be up to no good! 7. Contains good information, if you know how to read it. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-21 8:15:27 AM |
| #4 Shipman As we (the Joooooos) have been dispersed once to our detriment (See: Diaspora) I intentionally chose the word disband at the risk of commiting a mistake. I now stand corrected as well as dispersed, methinks :) |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2004-12-21 5:19:21 AM |
| #3 The woid is disperse, not disband. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-21 5:06:16 AM |
| #2 As an Elder of Zion I must confess I am amazed by the exploits of the Muslim Brotherhood... On a second thought and as a subtle counterstrike, I hereby declare the official disbanding of the venerable "Elders of Zion" institution and the beginning of a new organization: the "Dhimmi Brotherhood". Membership candidate forms for the new organization may be obtained in every Masonic temple in your neighbourhood. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2004-12-21 4:16:43 AM |
| #1 What's in a name? Would shit not smell as rank... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-21 12:40:10 AM |