Pres Hussein Obama secretly backing Muslim Brotherhood.

Pres Hussein Obama secretly backing Muslim Brotherhood. (Wati). (June2015)

President Obama and his administration continue to support the global Islamist militant group known the Muslim Brotherhood. A White House strategy document regards the group as a moderate alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011 and outlines administration support for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, according to officials familiar with the classified study.

White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan declined to comment on PSD-11. “We have nothing for you on this,” she said.

The directive outlines why the administration has chosen the Muslim Brotherhood, which last year was labeled a terrorist organization by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates as a key vehicle of U.S. backing for so-called political reform in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia in recent months appears to be moderating its opposition to the Brotherhood in a bid to gain more regional support against pro-Iran rebels in Yemen.

The UAE government also has labeled two U.S. affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, as terrorist support groups. Both groups denied the UAE claims. Egypt is considering imposing a death sentence on Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed former president who was ousted in military coup in July 2013.

Critics of the administration’s strategy say the Brotherhood masks its goals and objectives despite advocating an extremist ideology similar to those espoused by al Qaeda and the Islamic State, but with less violence. The group’s motto includes the phrase “jihad is our way.” Jihad means holy war and is the Islamist battle cry.

Counterterrorism analyst Patrick Poole said the Brotherhood in recent weeks has stepped up its use of violent attacks in Egypt.

“The failed Obama Doctrine that so-called ‘moderate Islamists’ were going to usher in a glorious era of peace and democracy in the Middle East was adopted by the administration because that’s what the foreign policy establishment going back to the George W. Bush administration proclaimed as gospel,” Mr. Poole said.

“And now we see as a result Egypt fighting a terror campaign by the ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood; we have a failed state in Libya; and we see NATO ally Turkey turning from secular democracy to religious totalitarianism under Obama’s pal [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.

“This dangerous foreign policy was launched by PSD-11 and the administration’s open embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood, and now we can see its catastrophic effect,” Mr. Poole added.

Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, extensively documented Muslim Brotherhood subversion efforts, both in the United States and abroad.

Mr. Gaffney has said the Muslim Brotherhood is the most dangerous group promoting the totalitarian and Islamist supremacist doctrine of Shariah. Several Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been identified as key advisers to Mr. Obama, according to Mr. Gaffney.

Egyptian press reports after the ouster of Mr. Morsi have revealed extensive cooperation between the CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood during Mr. Morsi’s presidency. Hmmm.........'The Muslim Brotherhood White House'. 

This is exactly what #Qatar was promoting since months. With this clear statement, a green light is given. @thomasjoscelyn

— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) August 24, 2015

"What's your Jihad?" - Hassan al-Banna was described as a role model by three senior directors of the NCCM / CAIR-CAN.

"What's your Jihad?" - Hassan al-Banna was described as a role model by three senior directors of the NCCM / CAIR-CAN. HT: TundraTabloids.

When CAIR-CAN became the National Council of Canadian Muslims, it presented itself as “a leading voice that enriches Canadian society through Muslim civic engagement and the promotion of human rights.”

This description is misleading given the fact that many of the leaders of the NCCM / CAIR-CAN (past and present) have collaborated with organizations in Canada and abroad whose track records are incompatible with human rights. 

Although the NCCM / CAIR-CAN Executive Director Ihsaan Gardee claimed in a CBC interview that his organization has never had any relationship with the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), documents issued by his own organization prove otherwise.

In the context of the NCCM’s recent allegations of defamation against the Prime Minister’s Office for having linked the NCCM to Hamas, discussing the relationship between Washington-based CAIR and the NCCM / CAIR-CAN is all the more relevant given the fact that in a 2009 American case, a federal judge concluded that “The [U.S.] government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA [and other organizations] with Hamas.”

The NCCM / CAIR-CAN’s claim that it is committed to human rights can also be challenged by looking at the ideologues endorsed by the leaders of this organization over the years. 

Given the fact that important leaders of the NCCM / CAIR-CAN have openly endorsed ideologues whose goal is to establish a totalitarian society based on sharia, this organization must be considered a threat to human rights and definitely not a source of enrichment for Canadian society.Read the full story here.

Hassan al-Banna: Remembering a True Guide – The full article is archived on Point de Bascule

Brotherhood and Salafists: finally one Islamic movement?

Brotherhood and Salafists: finally one Islamic movement?(AA).By Jamal Khashoggi.

I will not resist my desire to write -I have said this before- while watching the dramatic transformations taking place within the Salafist movement in Egypt. Indeed, I have already said this in an article that was published here several months ago. Back then, I predicted that the Salafists would split into three groups, after practicing democracy and vice versa. A group of them will join the Muslim Brotherhood, which has become now the ruling party (some Salafists are vulnerable to the obedience temptation of the governor). A second group will be tired of politics and will go back to prayers and mosques. A third group, which is the smallest, will remain against the Brotherhood, insisting that it still has a political role.

Few members of the first group will fuse in the body of the Brotherhood as active members; they will have the Muslim Brotherhood’s benefits and duties. Most probably, they will not be numerous since the “Brotherhood” does not like enlisting elderly members in their group, even if they seemed to be willing to share the governance. It has happened in the past and it could happen again.

Most of those who moved to the Brotherhood will be supporters, but the Muslim Brotherhood movement will not mind putting these new members in charge of some leadership responsibilities in the Freedom and Justice party or some authority positions. They will be able to keep their own Salafist intellectual opinions since there are many Salafist activists inside the Brotherhood, but they are controlled with the Brotherhood organizationally, because the latter does not have any jurisprudential or ideological preference. 

Even more, when the founder of the movement, Hassan al-Banna asked the group’s scholar at that time, Sheikh Sayed Sabek to classify and simplify a jurisprudence book, he insisted that the book should be about the four schools and rely on the strongest evidences, and this represents a Salafist approach. He wrote the most famous and widespread jurisprudence book, the “Sunni Jurisprudence” book.

The second group will be tired of politics and its members will return to their natural environment where they succeeded, namely, prayers and mosques. Some of them will consider politics as a disgrace that scratches the Muslim’s devoutness and forces him to lie and to be vicious. Some others will return to the former Salafist approach, and will support the new leader. If they were able to contain Mubarak, they will surely be able to support their “brother” president Mohamed Mursi. All of them approve that it is important to return to prayers, refute the fads and spread the true faith, especially after demising the restrictions that were imposed on them. Moreover the new government is ready to grant them some advantages, positions and financial resources. It will also maintain their mosques, and will even take into account their advocates in al-Azhar missions to Muslim countries. All this will happen as long as they are cooperating with the new “tutor,” and as long as they do not contradict or raise problems against the Copts and the Americans for example.

The last group is the quarreling one. It believes that it should be playing a political role, therefore some of its members will participate in the elections and compete with the Brotherhood in their constituencies, and then argue and oppose their politics, and I believe that these members can be handled by the brotherhood. As for the rest whose existence is no longer justified for the Brotherhood, such as the Jihadist Salafism members, the government –the Brotherhood – will deal with them by the law and perhaps even by force. They are the result of a former period when the state was illegitimate, so they allowed themselves to violate it, while Jihad was the legitimate privilege for the ruler alone, and it was included in their worst ruling where they did not recognize the legitimacy of the state and they were ready for jihad, or - at least - burning down embassies and clashing with the police, as did the jihadist Salafist group in Sinai, or those who attacked the U.S. Embassy amid the anti-Islam film.Read the full story here.