Surprise! Columnist On Muslim Brotherhood Website: "Most Of The World's Muslims Want An Islamic Caliphate"

Surprise! Columnist On Muslim Brotherhood Website: "Most Of The World's Muslims Want An Islamic Caliphate" HT: MEMRI.

In an article posted November 24, 2014 on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) website, columnist Hilmi Al-Qa'oud, who is a lecturer at Egypt's Tanta University, praised the notion of the Islamic caliphate, and criticized the Arab regimes, especially the Egyptian regime, for "demonizing" this notion since the Islamic State's (ISIS's) declaration of a caliphate in June 2014.

He accused the regimes of waging a campaign, by means of their clerics and educators, to present the caliphate as a sin and as the embodiment of murderousness, tyranny and backwardness, and said that the goal of this campaign is to serve the West and the Jews by keeping the Muslims weak and divided.

Al-Qa'oud argued that the West has a kind of caliphate – the "imperialist Crusader" European Union – but nobody condemns or disparages it, and added that most Muslims yearn for the establishment of a large-scale caliphate of their own that would defend them against the "Crusader-Jewish conspiracy." 

He mourned the fact that it is currently impossible to establish such a caliphate, due to the opposition of the regimes. He refrained from condemning ISIS itself, saying that, according to some reports, it promotes social justice and people welcome it.

It should be noted that the MB has so far refrained from taking an official position on ISIS, but has come out firmly against the international coalition that has been formed to fight this organization.

In a statement it issued, the MB said that the term "war on terror" is a cover for a war against Islam and the Muslims, and that the only terror that needs fighting in Egypt is the terror of the Al-Sisi regime against the MB. [1]

An article on the MB website stated that the real goal of the international coalition is a new imperialistic takeover and the division of the entire region, so that no country in it would retain its territorial integrity, except the "Zionist entity." [2]

It should be noted further that some reports in the Egyptian media spoke of an affiliation between the MB and ISIS, including a report that MB supporters waved ISIS flags at a November 21, 2014 MB demonstration against the regime.[3]

Furthermore, the Egyptian regime associates the MB with the Sinai-based terrorist organization Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, which recently joined ISIS.[4]

The following are excerpts from Al-Qa'oud's article.[5] 

The enemies of Islam from among the communists, liberals, and the servants of the West and the Jews rely on deception, forgery, and misdirection to undermine the Islamic perceptions that the [Islamic] ummah agrees upon unanimously. 

They often rely on a book attributed to [the late Al-Azhar scholar and jurist] 'Ali 'Abd Al-Raziq, [titled] Islam and the Foundations of Governance– whose author has renounced it and has refused to issue new editions of it – in order to demonstrate that an Al-Azhar cleric opposes the existence of a caliphate in Islam and that the caliphate is not one of the percepts of Islam."

"In the media arena, [these enemies of Islam] do not stop hollering that the caliphate is a myth and an emblem of tyranny, oppression and backwardness, confusing the [behavior of individual] caliphs with [the values of] Islam, and repeating claims made by orientalists steeped with hatred for Islam.

"[Egypt's] murderous fascist coup [regime], in its war against Islam, is bent on severing Muslims from what anchors them to their past and consolidates their future, their unity and their power. 

This, because the larger concern [of this regime] is to satisfy the desires of the imperialist West and of the invading Jews, which support it and stand beside it. 

"The caliphate is a beautiful notion that for 14 centuries protected the Muslims against the cruelty of Crusader barbarism. Would that this notion rematerialize [in the form of] a cleverly-[administered] caliphate." Read the full story here.