Posted on 04/28/2025 6:31:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Muslims praying in Whitehall, London
A remarkable situation is fast developing in which the West is becoming more Islamist — the term for Islamic holy war extremism — than the Arab Muslim world itself.
This week, Jordan banned the extremist Muslim Brotherhood. All Brotherhood offices there have been closed, and its assets will be confiscated, shortly after 16 of its members were arrested in an alleged armed plot against the kingdom.
The authorities found weapons and explosives being stored in residential areas and transported across Jordan; secret missile-manufacturing facilities that could have produced up to 250 short-range missiles; and “training and recruitment operations” linked to the group.
Hamas, the Brotherhood’s armed wing, praised the alleged plot as an “initiative” by young Jordanian men conscious of the “continued genocide in Gaza”.
The Brotherhood has long been banned in Egypt, where it originated, and in the United Arab Emirates. The ban by Amman is extremely significant and not without danger for Jordan’s King Abdullah, who is permanently threatened by his substantial and restive Palestinian Arab population.
The Muslim Brothers are powerful enemies against whom he has preferred, until now, not to act. However, the Islamist group has been exploiting public anger over the war in Gaza by leading street protests denouncing the government for co-operating with Israel, with which it has had a peace treaty since 1994.
Six months ago, two Jordanian Brotherhood members tried to mount a cross-border raid near the Dead Sea but were shot and killed by Israeli forces. The incident occurred shortly after the group made significant parliamentary election gains amid anger at Israeli actions in Gaza.
Jordan is also worried about a potential Iranian connection with the Brotherhood, especially given Tehran’s increased attempts to destabilise the kingdom through violent cross-border smuggling of weapons and drugs.
Yet the West is even now choosing to ignore or even deny the threat to itself from the Islamist group.
The Brotherhood is a global organisation that works in the shadows to conquer the West for Islam. Its tactics are to use a combination of terrorism, infiltration of democratic processes and maintaining a high birth-rate among western Muslims.
Amjad Taja, a counter-extremism analyst from the UAE, has observed of the Brothers’ strategy: “They operate schools, gyms, universities and charities freely. These groups can turn a son against his mother, instill hatred for one’s own people, burn national flags, incite religious conversion and encourage attacks on teachers … their goal is moral collapse”.
The Islamist group’s aims were laid out explicitly in Brotherhood documents discovered during the 2008 Holy Land terrorism trial in Texas. These described its work in America as “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying western civilisation from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions”.
Nevertheless, successive US administrations have ignored the threat from the Brothers and other radical Islamists, whose activities and influence have become ever more extensive and brazen.
At a ceremony to mark the start of Ramadan last month, Andre Sayegh, the mayor of Paterson, NJ, boasted that Paterson “embraces and appreciates Islam” so much so that the Muslim call to prayer could now be heard in the city. “Paterson is the capital of Palestine in the United States of America,” he declared.
To “celebrate” Arab Heritage Month, the mayor of Chicago draped himself in a keffiyeh alongside representatives of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). This body was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial; its founder has openly defended Hamas, and its national executive director called the October 7 massacre “exhilarating” and “energising”.
Islamic radicals have been prominent in the repeated street demonstrations in support of Hamas and against America. At Yale University, demonstrators chanted, “We will honor our martyrs.”....SNIP
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
Europe is gone and the USA is not far behind.
Yup, the writing is on the wall.
In my small town there is an Islamic center & mosque.
but islam is a backward cult
Women should be worried about their new lives as Slaves
Pat Buchanan prophesized the Death Of The West. It’s here.
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