The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
Alright, go ahead and Google. Then take a few minutes to read this 1991 document: An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America. The translation begins on page 16. Make sure you read page 4, clause 4, and the last pages carefully.
Then we can have a discussion, later today, of Andrew McCarthy's broadside, How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda. I've been thinking about it for a few days.
McCarthy uses the broadside to advance the key argument of a study recently conducted by a group of analysts who call themselves Team B-II:
The name is an homage to the original “Team B.” Over a generation ago, that array of skeptics took issue with détente – the regnant early Seventies view that the world was plenty big enough for both sides of the Iron Curtain to coexist and even cooperate in countless areas of mutual interest. That Team B profoundly influenced a certain California governor who would go on, as president, to defeat the Evil Empire and win the Cold War. Its conclusion was straightforward yet, at the time, bracing: the Soviet Union was wedded to a totalitarian ideology, Communism, that sought global hegemony and would relentlessly work – by means violent and nonviolent – to secure the defeat of the United States and its allies in order to obtain it.
Team B-II analogously concludes that there is, today, a global Islamist movement just as determined as were the Soviets to achieve worldwide dominion, and just as fully committed to use all means at its disposal – not just terrorism, not by a long shot – to destroy America and the West. By myopically focusing on jihadist violence, today’s equivalent of the détente solons repeat their predecessors’ perilous minimization of the threat to our way of life.
I have differences with McCarthy's approach and with the Team B-II approach. I think the key words they should be using are neither Islam nor Islamic law--for reasons I'll explain--but Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi financing.
But they are definitely on to something urgent.
I'll let you read that through and think about it before I say more.
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Jul '10
Re: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
The McCarthy book will not be released onto Kindle until tomorrow.
Jul '10
Re: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
What is the provenance of this first document?
Re: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
USA v. HLF. If you Google the title you'll find the full story. It's absolutely real.
Jul '10
Re: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
I know it's real, I ran across it before 9/11, but my memory of how and why is fuzzy.
Edited on Dec 6, 2010 at 11:50amAug '10
Re: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Google Ban is Lifted
I'm a bit late to the party but didn't google,yet. As it happens last week I did google the MB and the name of a particular journalist whom I perceive to be shamelessly biased and whose coverage of the Egyptian elections is plainly sympathetic to the MB- referred to by her as "the Brotherhood" which I already knew was banned from running candidates but I think could support them. Wasn't Nobel Peace Prize winner El Baredei cosying up to them at one point. I was interested to find that the MB has a glossy English language website with an apparently moderate ( by MidEast standards) content.I'm not fooled for a minute- am I right in thinking they had an influence on the Turkish charity that ran the Mavi Marmara?
Edited on Dec 6, 2010 at 2:16pm