Frank Gaffney: The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy

CNN and Fox News had on reports from Egypt and here in the United States where Egyptians were demonstrating. When Geraldo came on Fox News, CNN came on the TV. Noticed a lot of people interviewed wanted Mubarak gone but were not sure what the outcome would be. It is a world that most of us know little about. That's why this morning I looked for an article by Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, who is an expert on foreign policy and calls it like he sees it including the dangers to America that he is seeing by the Muslim Brotherhood.

You don't have to be a Middle East expert not to trust the Muslim Brotherhood and have a hard time figuring out over the years why so many government officials of both parties see no problem with them. Excuse me, but they want to fundamentally change our way of life in America by introducing 'Shariah Law' as the law of the land. How they even got to first base here in the United States is beyond most of us. This is their creed -- not exactly Mom and apple pie -- actually is frightening:

“The Brotherhood’s creed is: ‘God is our objective; the Koran is our law; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.’”

This article by Gaffney gives the facts which are scary and shows what we are facing if we don't get out act together right here in America.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the ‘vanguard’ or tip-of-the-spear of the current Islamic Movement in the world. While there are other transnational organizations that share the MB’s goals (if not its tactics) – including al Qaeda, which was born out of the Brotherhood – the Ikhwan is by far the strongest and most organized. The Muslim Brotherhood is now active in over 80 countries around the world.

Now we have a group of 'kumbyya' types heading our Government led by a President Obama who doesn't want to acknowledge the dangers America faces from the Islamic extremists led by the Muslim Brotherhood. He prefers to tell us they are no threat to our way of life. We will never forget his ability to recite the Islamic prayer in their dialect during the campaign and yet we heard the media raving about how wonderful it was to have a candidate of the world.

Excuse us but we would prefer to have a candidate and President raised in the American culture who sees the threats to America that organizations like The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR bring to America and the World. We are frankly tired of the 'kumbaya' we see on display in this White House toward our enemies and hatred displayed toward some our allies like Great Britain. This also includes the State Department under the current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is friend with Arafat's wife, and the Justice Department under Eric Holder. There isn't one of those people we trust with the security of the United States.

The last paragraph of this article should send chills up the spine of anyone who loves America and our way of life:

In short, the Muslim Brotherhood – whether it is operating in Egypt, elsewhere in the world or here – is our enemy. Vital U.S. interests will be at risk if it succeeds in supplanting the present regime in Cairo, taking control in the process not only of the Arab world’s most populous nation but its vast, American-supplied arsenal. It is no less reckless to allow the Brotherhood’s operatives to enjoy continued access to and influence over our perceptions of their true purposes, and the policies adopted pursuant thereto.

When you think of all the military equipment and arsenal we have provided the Egyptians over the years, it is extremely dangerous for the world and especially Israel right now as The Muslim Brotherhood continues to agitate and make a bad situation worse. We are no fans of Mubarak and his dictatorship but we are also smart enough to realize that Democracy is not going to happen in Egypt as the Muslim Brotherhood will move rapidly to take control of Egypt when not if Mubarak falls. Flashback to Iran under Carter is what we are seeing.

Read this article and ask yourself how did the American voters elect such an inexperienced person to be President who was not raised in the typical American way of life. Growing up in Indonesia, going to Islamic mosques, being mentored by a known Communist, joining a church run by former Muslim, Rev Wright, who preaches black separatism and hate America rhetoric,and becoming a community organizer is not a resume for an American President. Yet the media and the progressive democrats pushed him as the 'International President' -- wonder what they think now?

We are depending on Obama to do the right thing with this worsening Egyptian situation? God help Israel and the rest of us who love Freedom.  We are all about to go through some dark days ahead with the fall of Mubarak in Egypt.  If the Muslim Brotherhood take control of the Suez Canal, which happens to oil prices?  We have oil companies and rigs leaving the Gulf because of Obama policies and now we are facing a possible shortage of oil from the Middle East.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy
Posted by Frank Gaffney Jan 30th 2011 at 3:31 am

Suddenly, Washington is consumed with a question too long ignored: Can we safely do business with the Muslim Brotherhood?

The reason this question has taken on such urgency is, of course, because the Muslim Brotherhood (or MB, also known by its Arabic name, the Ikhwan) is poised to emerge as the big winner from the chaos now sweeping North Africa and increasingly likely to bring down the government of the aging Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak.

In the wake of growing turmoil in Egypt, a retinue of pundits, professors and former government officials has publicly insisted that we have nothing to fear from the Ikhwan since it has eschewed violence and embraced democracy.

For example, Bruce Reidel, a controversial former CIA analyst and advisor to President Obama, posted an article entitled "Don't Fear Egypt's Muislim Brotherhood" at the Daily Beast. In it, he declared: “The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.”


Then, there was President George W. Bush’s former press spokeswoman, Dana Perino, who went so far on January 28th as to tell Fox News “…And don’t be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This has nothing to do with religion.”

One reason we might be misperceiving the MB as no threat is because a prime source of information about such matters is the Muslim Brotherhood itself. As the Center for Security Policy’s new, best-selling Team B II report entitled, Sharia: The Threat to America found: “It is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the MB or a derivative organization. Consequently, most of the Muslim-American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution.”


In fact, for much of the past two decades, a number of these groups and their backers (including, notably, Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal) have cultivated extensive ties with U.S. government officials and agencies under successive administrations of both parties, academic centers, financial institutions, religious communities, partisan organizations and the media. As a result, such American entities have been subjected to intense, disciplined and sustained influence operations for decades.


Unfortunately, the relationships thus developed and the misperceptions thus fostered are today bearing poisonous fruit with respect to shaping U.S. policy towards the unfolding Egyptian drama.

A notable example is the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). A federal judge in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial – which successfully prosecuted the nation’s largest terrorism financing conspiracy – found that CAIR was indeed a front for the Ikhwan’s Palestinian affiliate, Hamas. Nonetheless, Fox News earlier today interviewed the Executive Director of CAIR’s Chicago office, Ahmed Rehab, whom it characterized as a “Democracy Activist.”

True to form, Rehab called for the removal of Mubarak’s regime and the institution of democratic elections in Egypt. This is hardly surprising since, under present circumstances, such balloting would likely have the same result it did in Gaza a few years back: the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood and the institution of brutally repressive theocratic rule, in accordance with the totalitarian Islamic politico-military-legal program known as shariah.

An important antidote to the seductive notions being advanced with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt – and, for that matter, in Western nations like ours – by the Ikhwan’s own operatives, their useful idiots and apologists is the Team B II report. It should be considered required reading by anyone who hopes to understand, let alone to comment usefully upon, the MB’s real character and agenda.

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In short, the Muslim Brotherhood – whether it is operating in Egypt, elsewhere in the world or here – is our enemy. Vital U.S. interests will be at risk if it succeeds in supplanting the present regime in Cairo, taking control in the process not only of the Arab world’s most populous nation but its vast, American-supplied arsenal. It is no less reckless to allow the Brotherhood’s operatives to enjoy continued access to and influence over our perceptions of their true purposes, and the policies adopted pursuant thereto.

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