Dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood
An article from September entitled "Washington's Schizophrenic Approach Toward the Muslim Brotherhood" describes the treatment of Muslim Brotherhood groups by both the Bush and Obama administrations (problematic in both cases) and notes:One tactic the Muslim Brotherhood uses in countries where Muslims are a minority is to "subvert" Muslim communities "so they become their de facto spokesmen," said former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs J. Scott Carpenter.
Having senior officials like Brennan and Napolitano meeting publicly with Mattson and others involved in Brotherhood-affiliate groups sent the wrong message to non-Islamist Muslims, according to Carpenter, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The government is accepting the Brotherhood as representatives of the larger Muslim community.
There are lots of details and lots of links.
And lots of concerns. Like this excerpt from a Muslim Brotherhood document introduced in the recent terrorism trial:"The process of settlement in America is a Civilization-Jihadist process with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
It also mentions a book that came out recently: The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West.
ChipUni is reading this now, and I expect that he will comment with his impressions. I have not yet read it.
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Having senior officials like Brennan and Napolitano meeting publicly with Mattson and others involved in Brotherhood-affiliate groups sent the wrong message to non-Islamist Muslims, according to Carpenter, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The government is accepting the Brotherhood as representatives of the larger Muslim community.
There are lots of details and lots of links.
And lots of concerns. Like this excerpt from a Muslim Brotherhood document introduced in the recent terrorism trial:"The process of settlement in America is a Civilization-Jihadist process with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
It also mentions a book that came out recently: The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West.
ChipUni is reading this now, and I expect that he will comment with his impressions. I have not yet read it.
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