The Muslim Brotherhood are turning into Leninists in Islamist dress. Egypt is in real trouble

Telegraph - UK ^ | November 5, 2012 | Alan Johnson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Paul Berman, the New York intellectual, is perhaps the most penetrating and imaginative essayist writing about Islamist movements and ideas alive today. In 2010 he published The Flight of the Intellectuals, a stylish account of the Muslim Brotherhood: the Islamist political movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna (known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen). According to Berman, the party was shaped decisively in both its ideology and organisational methods by mid-century European totalitarianism and was a politically hardened, ideologically-driven and anti-Semitic movement. It was from this inconvenient truth that much of the western media and many public intellectuals were in flight.

When I praised Berman’s insights to a group of normally super-astute democracy promotion analysts in DC, to my surprise most took the view that Berman’s thesis was "crazy" and that the Muslim Brotherhood were really like the Christian Democracy in Europe; they had confessional roots, for sure, but were pragmatic folk and could be a force for "moderation". I responded that the Brotherhood was exactly like the CDU – apart from its party structure, ideology, rhetoric, policy, and goals.

Back in 2010 ours was an academic argument. Well, not any more. The Brotherhood will dominate the region’s politics over the next decade.......

.....Back in 2001 the Iranian sisters Ladan and Roya Boroumand wrote a seminal article, "Terror, Islam and Democracy". They warned that Islamist political movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, confront the West with "Leninism in Islamist dress". Once again we confront "a power that saw itself as God on earth, organised as an all-powerful state, denying the right to individual belief, and reserving the right to define truth about and for the individual". It is time to see the Brotherhood plain. And to start playing hard ball on behalf of our true friends in that part of the world.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Read in full for a complete picture.

[Mad_as_heck]

A surprise to exactly no one outside the entire political classes of the EU and USA.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the post. BTTT.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Bttt.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And Obama, his inner circle, middle circle and outer circle find it difficult to call them out as terrorists or to stand with our allies who live under this threat too.

Must be that Obama does not see the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat, that he’d like to see their philosophy spread through global control.

[mrsmel]

I don’t doubt it a bit, his “gaffe” referencing his Muslim faith to Stephanopoulos is seared into my memory.

[DaveTesla]

That's just Hillary and Obama spreading Global
communisum.

[tomkat]

When we have carte blanche to turn them into carrion, please ping me.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The U.S. Election is a Referendum on Civilization

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife. Gosh, it’s surprising that the MB didn’t back Hitler during the war. ;’)

http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=http://www.varchive.org&q=mufti&domains=http://www.varchive.org

[Biggirl]

Obama is a Muslim, just that he was trying to hide it.

[PMAS]

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[gotribe]

It won’t help that we no longer have a government that understands and abides by the limits set by the US Constitution. Over-reaching, authoritarian Muslim Brotherhood? No problem.

[winkadink]

Obama calls them folks; he also calls us folks. Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. (sarc)

[arthurus]

There has never been much practical difference between MIslam and Communism beyond the identification of the Deity.

[kristinn]

Thanks for posting this article.

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[RaceBannon]

I have been telling people
Marxism and Islamic finance are common
equal representation among the classes, except those who are above the class
no interest
equal outcomes
No wonder Islamic countries found it easy to be Soviet influenced, it is similar to Islamic law
No Wonder Obama is amarxist Muslim, the idea of atheism of Marx can just be tossed if they keep the economics, sort of an Islamic Third Wave economics