Nay, nay 'tis no so. A modern era leader amount the Brothers but the Brothers were founded in 1928. Few who were men of 1928 still breath enough to move a line of ink to paper.
It was a year after the Hebron Massacre. Walt Disney released the short film starring Mickey Mouse titled Steamboat Willie. Haile Selassie became King, Chiang Kai-shek became Generalissimo, and Herbert Hoover became President.
1951. That was the year Al Zawahiri was born in Cairo to a prosperous and professional family, his father a Professor of Chemistry. Born June 19th. In the US Hank Ketchum's Dennis The Menace comic strip had started running three months prior and one month later King Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated by a Palestinian as the King attended Friday prayers in what was then Jerusalem, Jordan. The assassination was planned by associates of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husayni. 1951 was also the year that Chinese communist forces captured Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and Seoul, Korea.
Al Zawahiri joined the Brotherhood at the young age of 14. 1965. That was the year LBJ became President, that the US entered Viet Nam in any significant force, that Churchill died and Malcolm X was assassinated. Martin Luther King marched in Selma, and the Sound of Music opened on Broadway. The Pakistanis invaded Kashmir, India and Red China increased it's troop along the border with India. There was a coup in Tunisia, Koufax pitched a no-hitter, and the government of Indonesia started rounding up and executing communists.
” Nay, nay ‘tis no so. A modern era leader amount the Brothers but the Brothers were founded in 1928. “
Thank you for the historical correction....
And 1965 was the year I joined the navy and went aboard my first ship to Vietnam. Came back to San Diego for “A” school in 1966 and the Sound Of Music was playing at the theater on Rosecrans Blvd. The Sound of Music was still playing the following year as I departed for Vietnam on my second ship. And still playing when we returned.
Yes, but back then the Muslim/Islamic Religion was only a quarter of the size it is today. More importantly, the Military powers of that time would have turned a rogue nation like Iran or North Korea into a solar panel.
The rest of the World has now become weak (Especially the USA) and Islam sees this as their big opportunity. You can fall back on those old bias’ all you like. But the modern reality says something quite different.