"Muslim Brotherhood" to Create Militarized Islamic State and Wage War Against Infidel West

n an article in the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yousef, Egyptian author and intellectual Tarek Heggy responded to recent indications that Washington is ready to accept the risk of having the Muslim Brotherhood in power. In his article, Heggy points to the organization's fundamentalist, anti-democratic character, and asserts that while democratic reforms are necessary, they should not be made in a hasty manner that would allow the opponents of democracy to take power.

The following are excerpts from the article: [1] The "Muslim Brotherhood" Aims to Take Over the Islamic World

"With eruption of public protests in Egypt against and the government's anti-democracy crackdown, public attention has focused on the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is a transnational organization, established in Egypt in 1928, which aims to take over the Islamic world. Its goal is establishing a Caliphate, a religious militarized state, as the base to wage war against the 'infidel' West. The Muslim Brotherhood today is the best-organized political force in many Arab countries.

"The hasty promotion of democracy may bring the Brotherhood to power in Egypt, Syria, Jordan and elsewhere. While some in Washington are ready to accept this risk, it may entail dangerous unintended consequences. "It is important to understand the political thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood, in hopes of shedding some light on an issue many people in the world need to understand."

"Unlike Western democracies, which guarantee the political participation of all citizens regardless of ideology, opinion or religion, the Brotherhood makes political participation of individuals in society subject to the principles of Islamic holy law (the Shari'a). While in the West, the legislative and judiciary branches of government monitor state actions to ensure they conform to democratic rules, the actions of the state would be monitored by the Brotherhood to ensure they conform to the rules of Shari'a.

"The Brotherhood guarantees freedom of belief only for the followers of the three revealed (Abrahamic) religions. The Brotherhood's position on religious minorities can be summed up by its insistence [that] a non-Muslim can never become president and [that] non-Muslims will be subject to the Shari'a principles on which the entire legal system will be based.

"While Western democracies guarantee absolute freedom of the individual as long as it does not impinge on the freedom of others, the Brotherhood limits the freedom of thought within the strict parameters of a code derived from the Shari'a. The Brotherhood calls for restoring hisbah, which allows a private citizen to prosecute any individual who commits an act he considers a breach of the Shari'a even if the plaintiff himself was not personally injured by it…"

"In Western democracies, women enjoy the same political rights as men. But as far as the Muslim Brotherhood is concerned, women's political participation would be limited to municipal elections. There is no question, for example, of a woman ever becoming head of state. To further marginalize women and exclude them from any meaningful public role, the Brotherhood calls for educational curricula to include material appropriate for women, tailored to suit the female nature and role and insists on complete segregation of the sexes in classrooms, public transportation and the workplace.

"The organization calls for an economic system based on respect of private property. At the same time, however, it insists the system be based on the principles of Islamic Shari'a, which criminalizes charging interest on borrowed money, as by banks. They also call for state ownership of public utilities."

"Contrary to the democratic governmental system, based on peaceful rotation of power by elections, the Brotherhood calls for a government based on the principles of Shari'a and the revival of the Islamic Caliphate.

"The freedom of association enjoyed by civil organizations in a democracy would, in an Islamist system, be conditional on their adherence to the strictures of Shari'a.

"The Brotherhood opposes the notion of a state based on democratic institutions, calling instead for an Islamic government based on the Shura (consultative assembly) system, veneration of the leader and the investiture of a Supreme Guide. In this, they are close to the model established by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran, which enables diehard conservatives (a group to which the Supreme Guide belongs) to nip any reform or renewal in the bud."

"Over the last 57 years, the Brotherhood has opposed all attempts for a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The organization will never recognize the legitimacy of Israel.

"The Brotherhood calls for a constitutional and legal system based on the principles of Shari'a, including cruel corporal punishments in the penal code (stoning, lashing, cutting off the hands of thieves, etc.). The Muslim Brotherhood has never condemned use of violence against civilians, except when directed against Muslims.

"Finally, modern progress is realized by two tools – science and modern management. These are two disciplines of which the Brotherhood has not a vaguest idea. Instead, it promulgates a retrograde ideology, which can be deadly for sustainable economic development, growth in investment, and equality.

"Promoting democracy in the Middle East is an imperative necessity for all humanity. Given the right steps, the peoples of the Middle East (as Professor Bernard Lewis has repeatedly expounded) are capable of flourishing democratic societies. However, a hasty transformation is likely to be disastrous for the forces of progress in Egypt and in the Middle East."

To get an understanding of what they believe is the justification for their actions, you need to understand the terms:

Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb

This forms the basis for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, (all created by backing from the Muslim brotherhood by the way...) of why so much of the middle-east craves and funds the destruction of Israel. Israel creates a major problem with the concept of Dar al-Islam. Its blocks its contiguous flow from North Africa and the middle-east into its main target, Europe.

Dar al-Islam [House of Islam] includes any land, which is, or WAS IN THE PAST (thats a big one because at one time, the muslim hordes where knocking on Vienna's city gates and occupied major portions of southern europe), was under Muslim political and legal control. Dar al-Islam will forever remain the domain of Islam and there is an eternal obligation incumbent upon Muslims to liberate those lands from the yoke of the non-Muslims who gained control over them and to restore the rule of Islam as it was in its days of glory.

Dar al-Harb [House of War or House of the Infidels – those who are not Muslims] includes all of the lands, which have not yet been conquered by Islam and regarding which there is an obligation to convert them to Islam as the ultimate objective is Islamic political control over the entire world.

The Islamic studies scholar, Duncan McDonald, provided a comprehensive synopsis of this, “For them, the world is divided into two parts, the one is Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam), and the other is Dar al-Harb (abode of War). In the end, Dar al-Harb must disappear into Dar al-Islam and the whole world be Muslim.”

To these two parts, one has to add a third. Until the late 1980s, France was considered Dar al-Ahd, something in the middle, between Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam, a type of place where one could stay on a temporary basis; authorization based on the fact that there one can freely practice Islam. In the late 1980s the strategy undergoes a complete change, and in a UOIF convention, it was decided that France is becoming Dar al-Islam!

From a theoretical point of view, the Islamists interpret the law this way,

...and the jihad will remain an individual obligation until all other lands which formerly were Muslim come back to us and Islam reigns within them once again. Before us lies Palestine, Bukhara, Lebanon, Chad, Erythrea, Somalia, the Philippines, Burma, South Yemen, Tashkent, Andalusia...

Following this logic, it becomes clear that France, at least up to Poitiers, conquered in the eighth century, will remain forever a part of Dar al-Islam, that every Muslim has to free from the “Unbelievers’” yoke.

The coordination of the means involved is clear for the specialists. Thus, the Stasi Commission reports, “Today the state is to give room to new religions while succeeding in their integration and fighting the political-religious instrumentalizations.”

And Yves Bertand, head of the French Renseignements Généraux (intelligence services) stated,

I noticed 15 or 20 years ago, the rise to power of the Brothers (Muslim brotherhood) through a recognized organization nowadays, the UOIF, part of a European, and maybe world-wide structure...When I say “worldwide”, it is because of the link existing with Egypt and Saudi Arabia through the European Islamic Organizations Union and the so called BOLIM (World Islamic League Bureau), the UOIF executive. We have seen the UOIF weaving a real web on all the French territory.

The analysis of some of the resources used makes it possible to understand the nature and the extent of the problem.

There are areas in France characterized as Zones de non droit – “areas without law”. In those areas, the law of the land is, for all intents and purposes, not in effect and gangs intimidate the population. The rate of growth of these areas is astounding: From 106 in 1991 to 818 in 1999 and to more than 1,100 in 2001. Muslims reside in many of these areas.

The everyday life in these Zones de Non Droit is a nightmare:

...the only criteria are power, money and fear...violence is the pivot of the Zone...Threatening maintains the Law of Secrecy... Doctors do not get in for long... Letterboxes are smashed, garbage cans are regularly burnt...fire has become the main tool for threatening youth in these zones. From January to November 1999, not less than 10,985 cases of fire have been recorded, willingly lit by “young” people... In Trappes, Marseilles or Lyons, synagogues are the object of these criminal fires. Many men rape the same woman. In the newspapers, they call her a “turning one”. This practice has become frequent in these quarters...everyday teachers and students are insulted or attacked... In my school, I have noticed a virulent anti-Semitism among students mainly originating from the Maghreb... Firemen are attacked by 100 overexcited malefactors. A fireman is often injured. A polceman says: “Here it’s the Bronx and everybody gives up...” On September 1, 2003, in Beziers, a police van is attacked with rockets... On October 4, 2003, the police tried to save Sohane, a 17 year-old girl at the Balzac quarter in Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris, that Djamel was burning alive in a local garbage dumpster. Youth groups attacked the policemen and only after special police forces came to help, did the attack stop.

The policemen did not succeed in saving Sohane, who perished – burned alive!

These areas are fertile ground for Muslim activity: Initially, they employ violence in order to restore order and expel the drug and crime gangs. In Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, Muslims destroyed a café controlled by drug dealers, and the same is true of Lille in northern France:

In March 1991, during the first month of Ramadan after the Gulf War, young people identifying themselves with the cause of Islam wrecked a café in Nanterre which had been the center of the drug trade. It was the first “anti-drug action” associated with Islamism; others followed, notably in the Biscottes project in the south of Lille, in 1993”

The next step is extensive social activity, while complaining about French democratic values:

The French youth places education high on his list of priorities…however he estimates that French education has failed and that its objective is to brainwash young Muslims in an attempt to suppress Islam.

Taking advantage of the law allowing children of immigrants to study the language of their ancestral land, Muslims are at times successful in introducing their representatives into the French educational system and teach values opposed to the values of the Republic:

The curriculum teaching the language and culture of their countries of origin provides the non-French-born students with the opportunity to be educated in their mother tongue in their schools... In the 1980s, with the rise of the re-Islamization movements, the teachers would sometimes serve as religious educators providing an education, which runs counter to the values of the secular, tolerant Republic.

The incidents of violence and rebellion against the law have taken place in the French capital as well. This is what happened during a raid by tax authorities on stalls in the 18th quarter in Paris:

Only the arrival of reinforcements saved our colleagues from tragedy; they were on the verge of being lynched...not far from the police station in Paris’ 18th quarter. The police repaid the debt and began systematically checking 150 people... After 15 minutes, agitation increased and dozens of residents, men, women and children crowded around the police barrier... The police roadblock collapsed under the pressure of the crowd, some threw shoes at the security forces, others threw rocks and bottles, the more restive among them roared: “Long live bin Laden, Allahu Akbar...” The number of assaults against security forces in France rose 14% last year and totaled 19,740 incidents.

The French Muslim students movement, associated with the UIOF and consequently close to the Muslim Brotherhood, has successfully infiltrated the national level of French student representatives by aligning themselves with the large student movements. This student movement is the only religious student movement running in student elections, and although in 200 it received less than 1.5% of the votes, in 2002 it received 8% of the votes. French politicians, among them the Interior Ministry, are aware of this and are not indifferent to the might of the Muslim electorate. They are beginning to attempt to woo that electorate.

The Methods to Achieve the Objective
Achieving the objective is accomplished through varied means, undermining the foundations of democracy by means of a veil on the heads of the women and introducing religious-Muslim values to the schools in the guise of language studies, violent and open anti-Semitism, dominance of Muslim gangs in “no-man’s land”, etc.

Several examples follow:

A pronounced feature of that path is challenging the foundations of FrenchRepublic, taking advantage of that same democracy in order to change it substantially.

The first topic is the veil for women, which does not reflect any popular pressure. These veil cases are only symbols, tiny matters the media deals with because the UOIF and other organizations want it.

In 1989, the debate on the topic began, when two high school students who wore veils were expelled in violation of the neutrality rules in effect in French schools. UIOF representatives acted vigorously on behalf of those girls, which led to an increase in the movement’s prestige in France. Today, that topic is at the center of a public debate, when President Chirac appointed a committee to redefine neutrality (a translation of the word laïcité – meaning willful avoidance by the authorities from expressing positions regarding political or religious opinions, especially in schools and the administration).

This is an astonishing step in light of a 200 year tradition of absolute separation of church and state. It is interesting that while in the Arab countries the argument proffered in favor of the veils is religious, in France, the argument is based on individual freedom and democratic ideals. It is specifically those Muslims who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood’s domination of Islamic life in France, who deciphered what was going on: Thus Djida Tazdaït, who was a delegate in the European Parliament, compared the veil to the “Islamic political flag”, and Vassila Themzali, a lawyer and former director of the UNESCO program for the advancement of women: “The veil has many meanings, but it least of all expresses an act of spiritual faith. The first reason that women wear them today in France is political, and that is extremely dangerous.” The expert, Yves Lacoste, director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies of the University of Paris VII analyzes the topic in the following manner: “Ostensibly religious, however the topic of the veil has a political and even geopolitical aspect, because by means of the behavior of those girls, a manifestation of their Muslim identity symbolized by the veil, the question of control arises: Control over the French Muslim world and perhaps even genuine Muslim control in those quarters cut off from the French Government.”

Additional related cases arise on a daily basis. Thus, at the beginning of the 2003 school year, two girls who arrived with veils on their heads were suspended from their school. Despite their claim that they acted independently, the French intelligence services discovered that they were directed by the UOIF.

Similarly, immediately after the publication of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie in England, the UOIF and FNMF (National Federation of Muslims in France) and the Mosque of Paris representatives convened with the demand to prevent the translation and publication of the book in France.

After the French Government approved submission of legislation, which would prohibit wearing veils in schools,58 numerous demonstrations were organized throughout France, in some of which harsh anti-Semitic, anti-Democracy slogans were sounded.

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