The Intelligent American’s Guide To Islamism - The Egyptian Version: The Muslim Brotherhood

In the National Interest ^ | June 16, 2005 | Tarek Heggy

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The Muslim Brotherhood has struggled for more than 75 years to impose radical Islam on the nation. Successive regimes — British, Royal, Nasserite and most recently that of Hosni Mubarak — have, in their own autocratic ways, successfully kept the organization under wraps. Today’s MB leadership has adopted a moderate face, including even saying Coptic Christians are welcome as members, but the Brotherhood remains true to its Islamist core beliefs.

Islamism can be defined as a movement that seeks control of government, establishment of Islam as the state religion, and imposition and enforcement of Shari’a law. The Muslim Brotherhood, established in Egypt in 1928, is the leading Islamist group in the country. A radical transnational organization that aims to take over the Islamic world in order to establish a Caliphate, the Brotherhood is the best organized political force in many Arab countries. Once in power, the Caliphate, which is a religious militarized regime, would be the basis of waging religious war against the infidel West.

Too hasty promotion of democracy may bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt, Syria, Jordan and elsewhere. While some in Washington are ready to take on this risk, it is fraught with danger and replete with unintended consequences. It is time Americans understood the political thinking of the MB and the threat it presents to the noble objective of establishing free and democratic societies in the Muslim world.

Unlike Western democracies, which guarantee the political participation of every citizen regardless of ideology, opinion or religion, the Brotherhood would make the political participation of individuals in society subject to the principles of Islamic Shari'a. While in democracies, the legislature writes laws to be carried out by the executive branch of government and adjudicated by the judiciary, in a Caliphate all government and civil actions of the society are monitored to ensure they conform to the rules of Islamic Shari'a.

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FYI Only: Not only is Arab society naturally violent, but it is deliberately kept violent by its leaders for their own purposes. "The hatred which we indoctrinate into the minds of our children from their birth is sacred," wrote Syrias's Minister of Education Suleiman al-Knash in a letter to Rene Maheu, director General of UNesco. Parenthetically (at the time this was written) Israel was banned from UNESCO as Racist. syria is a Memeber.

The Assasins were the main influence on the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The AGA Khan is a descendant of the leaders of the Assassins. The Ismailis to some extent merged witht eh Sufi Sect of Mystics, and the Sufis were an inlunce on the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood, which in turn influenced General Nasser and the founders of Al-Fatah. (ARAFAT et al)