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Britain to Crack Down on Muslim Brotherhood
FrontPage Magazine ^ | October 24, 2014 | P. David Hornik

Posted on 10/24/2014 5:20:25 AM PDT by SJackson

Britain to Crack Down on Muslim Brotherhood

Posted By P. David Hornik On October 24, 2014 @ 12:45 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 4 Comments

Britain’s The Telegraph reports that Britain is aiming to take serious measures against the Muslim Brotherhood. The situation contrasts notably with the one in the U.S., where—among much else—the Obama administration has cut back ties with the current, geopolitically moderate Egyptian government because—backed by the most massive popular protest in world history—it came to power by overthrowing a Muslim Brotherhood regime that the administration favored.

As The Telegraph describes it:

Downing Street is to order a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and a network of Islamist groups accused of fuelling extremism in Britain and across the Arab world. 

[Prime Minister] David Cameron launched an inquiry into the Brotherhood earlier this year, prompted by concerns it was stoking an Islamist ideology that had encouraged British jihadists to fight in Syria and Iraq.

Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), is an adviser to the inquiry and “is reported to have described [the Brotherhood] as ‘at heart a terrorist organization.’”

The Telegraph adds that:

A senior source close to the inquiry said its report—compiled but not yet published—had identified “an incredibly complex web” of up to 60 organisations in Britain, including charities, think tanks and even television channels, with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which will all now come under scrutiny. 

The inquiry, aided by the security services, has also investigated its network abroad. One expert said that the Brotherhood was now operating from three major bases—London, Istanbul and Doha, the capital of Qatar. 

That the Brotherhood operates out of Turkey and Qatar is, of course, not news to politically sentient people in the Middle East, who are well aware of the Turkey-Qatar-Brotherhood-Hamas axis.

As for what Britain plans to do about its domestic Brotherhood terror base:

The Government crackdown will stop short of outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood but action is expected to include: 

Þ Investigations into charities that are effectively “fronts” for the  Brotherhood; 

Þ Inquiries into funding of the organisation and links to jihadi groups abroad; 

Þ Banning clerics linked to the group from countries such as Qatar and Turkey from coming to Britain for rallies and conferences.

In other words, the British government has come around to viewing the Brotherhood the way it is viewed in the U.S. by people who are considered Islamophobic and bigoted for raising such issues.

Politically incorrect U.S. conservatives have for years been calling attention to the role of Brotherhood-linked officials in the administration, the stealth jihad practiced by Brotherhood front organizations, the domestic Brotherhood’s ties to foreign terror, and the Obama administration’s very problematic sympathy and support for the Brotherhood.

As Andrew McCarthy, writing in 2012, described the situation back then:

Last month on Breitbart Katie Gorka noted that: 

On June 13, 2012, five members of Congress called for an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood influence operations in the Obama administration. The five members—Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Tom Rooney (R-FL), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)—were widely criticized for doing so, even by their own Republican leadership, including John McCain (R-AZ), John Boehner (R-OH), and Mike Rogers (R-MI).   

Meanwhile, Gorka points out, it is none other than the New York Times that has published a major exposé of foreign governments’ influence-buying at U.S. think tanks—focusing especially on Brotherhood-patron Qatar’s large donations to the Brookings Institution and other centers. The Times observed that these think tanks “push…United States government officials to adopt policies that often reflect the donors’ priorities….”

Gorka also recalls the Justice Department’s “sweeping review” in 2011 of

all counter-terrorism trainers and materials used throughout federal law enforcement and every branch of the military.  Hundreds of training slides were reviewed by an anonymous panel of reviewers. Many trainers were forbidden from future training and material that used terms like “jihad,” “Islamic terrorism,” or “Islamist violence….”   

The general purge of “incorrect” terminology led famously, of course, to the administration’s dubbing the 2009 Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence.”

The administration’s ongoing affinity for the Brotherhood camp was well evident this summer during the Gaza War when Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Israel negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas under Turkey’s and Qatar’s auspices. Israel’s (along with Egypt’s) refusal to do so was one of the factors that led the administration to embargo all arms to Israel for days.

That Britain has come to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist, jihadist nature is encouraging news. It can be hoped that, by 2016, a U.S. administration will—unlike the present one—be able to as well.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; muslimbrotherhood; qatar; turkey; uk
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1 posted on 10/24/2014 5:20:25 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Why now? Does Cameron fear UKIP?


2 posted on 10/24/2014 5:21:44 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: SJackson

About time UK...


3 posted on 10/24/2014 5:22:08 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SJackson

ooooooooooooooh obola is gonna be so mad!


4 posted on 10/24/2014 5:25:45 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: SJackson

Too little, way too late. The Islamist have the Brits on the precipice of hell’s fire-pit.


5 posted on 10/24/2014 5:27:28 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: SJackson

Bump


6 posted on 10/24/2014 5:29:34 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Cowboy Bob

When Cameron fears UKIP more than Anjem Choudary & his muzzie monkeys, then maybe Britain stands a chance.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 5:29:58 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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If things get too rough, the President will invite them here.

8 posted on 10/24/2014 5:30:37 AM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: rrrod

> In other words, the British government has come around to viewing the Brotherhood the way it is viewed in the U.S. by people who are considered Islamophobic and bigoted for raising such issues.

Obola thinks we should embrace Islam, give up our guns, and let them be our slavemasters. Also that we should like the feel of steel slicing through our necks if we have white skin and vote R.


9 posted on 10/24/2014 5:32:21 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

This is what he believes........

if there are no enemies, there can be no war

10 posted on 10/24/2014 5:36:51 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Right... ‘about time’, but probably too little, too late.

The radicalization of citizens is like Ebola.... rabid and pervasive.

Prisons are FILLED with these people and a real breeding ground


11 posted on 10/24/2014 5:43:06 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Why now? Does Cameron fear UKIP?”

I was thinking the same. But too late! They should have acted well before now, instead of laughing at their “teas” as they call them...assuming that they would put their foot in their mouths (as conservatives everywhere are prone to do).

They underestimated Nigel, he is a BRILLIANT MAN. Going after immigrants from Poland and Hungary is ingenious...no charge of racism can be filed (i.e., they can’t simply make him ‘go away’ by jailing him, like they do throughout Europe when someone has a problem with Muslim immigration), yet EVERYONE knows that he’s not really talking about Eastern Europeans, he’s talking about the obvious.


12 posted on 10/24/2014 5:51:27 AM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: LucyT; maggief; WildHighlander57; crosslink

And the progressives in charge in the USA just hire their relatives /s


13 posted on 10/24/2014 5:58:26 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: bert

And he is an idiot. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. God made it clear warning Israel many times to the bible that they needed to rid themselves of foreigners living amongst themselves for good reason and each time they disobeyed they ended up being enslaved and invaded. We need to take his “advice”. Two cultures as diametrically different as Christianity / Americanism cannot coexist with Islam and their barbaric tendencies. Already we see them assimilating blacks, Hispanics, and even white youths and they are using them to attack Christians and attempting to takeover the U.S. The white middle class has already been enslaved to pay for minorities (or should I say the “majority’) “benefits and pay for the operating expenses of the U.S. government while the leeches suck the wealth right out of the U.S. We can no longer sit by idly with blinders on. We cannot tolerate the terrorists any longer and they need to be removed from the key positions they hold because they are most likely assisting their own kind in infiltrating the the U.S. It’s no longer a situation IF they can detonate a nuke on American soil It’s WHEN and our own government has made it easy for them to do by not securing our borders. Hell this administration is most likely assisting them...


14 posted on 10/24/2014 5:58:31 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: rrrod
ooooooooooooooh obola is gonna be so mad!

That's OK, as long as he replaces the divots.

15 posted on 10/24/2014 5:59:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: jsanders2001

islam = satan’s death cult

Knowing that factual reality should dictate America/Israel’s position...DESTROY iSLAM!!!!!!!


16 posted on 10/24/2014 6:02:01 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: bert
This one is more to Obola's liking...


17 posted on 10/24/2014 6:05:46 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: SJackson

Too late.


18 posted on 10/24/2014 7:21:57 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SJackson

The MB isn’t the only bunch of wild animals they’re going to have to reign in.


19 posted on 10/24/2014 7:56:01 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SJackson

obama and Hillary Clinton literally are surrounded by members of the muslim brotherhood terror group. Both support the terrorists!

What will obama do to England?


20 posted on 10/24/2014 10:52:31 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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