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To: Sherman Logan
Of course the MB allied itself with the Nazis. They were fighting for (what they saw as) their freedom from British occupation.

Al-Banna was quite clear that his goal was not solely an anti-colonialist struggle in Egypt nor the refurbishment of Islam, but rather a world revolution that would establish Islam as the dominant religion of the entire world:

"we will not stop at this point [i.e., “freeing Egypt from secularism and modernity”], but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world. Only then will Muslims achieve their fundamental goal… and all religion will be exclusively for Allah." Hassan al-Bannan-founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Habeck, Knowing the enemy p. 120)

i'adat al Khalifa al Mafqudah (restoration of the lost Caliphate or, IOW, "world domination")- is the chief immediate political goal of the Islamist movement. http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-EastEncyclopedia/hassan_al-banna.htm

20 posted on 01/30/2011 5:27:44 PM PST by RC one (Come get some.)
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To: RC one

Thanks. You obviously agree with me. The alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazis was by definition one of convenience only. Their goals were mutually compatible. If together they destroyed their enemies, then one would sooner or later destroy the other.

Given the relative competence of the two groups, I know which one I’d put my money down on.

While the MB was obviously willing to take elements from Nazi ideology and use them where convenient, it is obvious the ideologies are no more compatible with each other than either is with freedom.


21 posted on 01/31/2011 4:45:55 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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