Part I: Understanding the Threat
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Does anyone wonder how it is the U.S. military is crushing the enemy on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere) daily, yet not winning the strategic war?
The United States continues to view the wars (the establishment sees this as several conflicts, not as one global conflict) as kinetic engagements where guns, air power, drones, bombs, and other weapon of war are brought to bear on “Al Qaeda terrorists” and others with whom we are engaged on the many battlefields around the world. At the FBI, the focus is on preventing the next attack. While this is important, “attacks” are not the main focus of effort for this enemy. Local and State Police are also focused on preventing attacks, the physical security of office buildings, critical infrastructure, and the safety of important public figures. When the subject of an investigation is found NOT to be involved in a plot to cause “violence” that case is closed and the investigator goes on to the next one in the stack. This is where we are losing the war. While preventing a school bus bombing or the take-over of a bank by Jihadis should be taken seriously by our law enforcement officers, from the enemy’s perspective, these are tactical engagements, not strategic.
Every brand new intelligence officer in the United States military knows that when the United States evaluates a threat, our doctrine drives us to begin our process with WHO the enemy says he is and with WHAT the enemy says are HIS reasons for acting. That is where the U.S. analytical process begins – per our own doctrine. If we had done this after 9/11, we would not have so much confusion about the enemy we are engaging.
One hundred percent of the enemy we are fighting states he is fighting “Jihad” in the “Cause of Allah” in order to implement Islamic Law (Shariah). Therefore, U.S. analysts must begin here. Does Islamic Law exist? If so, what does it say about “Jihad” and the requirements for Jihad? In fact, authoritative Islamic Law does exist. There are not “a thousand interpretations” as the Muslim Brotherhood advisors tell our leadership. Islamic Law does define “Jihad” and the requirements for Jihad. Islamic Law as defined by those using it to kill us and overthrow our government necessarily becomes the “Stated Enemy Threat Doctrine.” As a 4-star general told me a few months ago when I asked him what he thought about the fact that when Al Qaeda quotes Islamic Law they are always accurately quoting Islamic Law: “Well, if that’s true, it completely changes the nature of the way we are fighting this war.” Exactly.
Our entire national security apparatus is focused (fixed) on the threat of the violent Jihadis – Al Qaeda and the hundreds of other jihadi groups throughout the world engaging U.S and allied troops on the ground around the world.
Our enemy has no intention of defeating us on the battlefield. The kinetic war being waged by organizations like Al Qaeda, Hamas, and the many other jihadi groups is meant to bleed us, fix us in place, and create a strategic distraction while the real war they are fighting is won in the information battlespace. While AQ fixes us in place, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) presses the U.S. – and the West at large – into a corner with a stated foreign policy mirroring that of Al Qaeda. Who is the OIC? The OIC is the umbrella organization for every Muslim nation in the world – 57 states (they count Palestine as a state). At the Head of State and King level the OIC seeks to re-establish the global Islamic State (Caliphate) and implement Islamic Law. They have a 10-Year Plan in English on their website that may begin shedding light on who they are and what they intend for the West. In 1993, the OIC served an official treaty to the United Nations called the “Cairo Declaration” stating the OIC defines “Human Rights” as Shariah (Islamic Law) – this is significantly different from the International Declaration of Human Rights. In fact, the reason the International Muslim Brotherhood is calling for the death of Qaddafi is because he is “killing Muslims without right,” a capital crime under Islamic Law, and an act defined as “terrorism” by the OIC – that means the Head of State and King of every Muslim nation in the world has a parallel foreign policy from the one they are discussing with our State Department, and our State Department does not have clue one about it.
The International Muslim Brotherhood, the “vanguard” of the global Islamic Movement, is the leading edge of the enemy’s assault on the United States and the West. The Muslim Brotherhood, like the OIC and Al Qaeda, seeks to re-establish the global Islamic State (Caliphate) and implement Islamic Law (Shariah). You do not need a SCIF or a “secure space” to pull this information up on a classified government system. All of the enemy doctrine can be found on the worldwide web, in books, in speeches, in their training curricula, and coming out of their mouths on a daily basis. We just need to listen. The Muslim Brotherhood’s creed includes the the phrase “…Jihad is our Way, and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.” The MB assassinated the Egyptian Prime Minister in 1948, and the Egyptian security service killed MB founder Hassan al Banna on the streets of Cairo in 1949. Violence is inherent to MB operations, manifested in the “Special Section.” The “Special work” of the MB is “Military work” – violence and warfare. Hamas was created out of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood as the result of international MB meetings. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. Recordings obtained by the FBI of MB meetings in the U.S. reveal they have had weapons training camps here as early as the mid-1980’s. When the MB says they have “renounced violence” they are – hold onto your hats – lying.
From several major terrorism trials in the United States, and other information, we now know nearly every major Muslim organization in North America is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) or a derivative group. We know many are support entities for Hamas, and all of the Islamic organizations working with the U.S. government are controlled by the MB. These include: the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Hamas support entity; the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas organization; the Muslim Students Associations (MSA); the Muslim American Society (MAS); the Interntional Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT); the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a Hamas support entity; and many other. We also know that the objectives of the MB mirror those of Al Qaeda.
The MB’s doctrine is crystal clear on their objectives. The means for achieving these objectives is to wage a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” – a “grand jihad” – to destroy us from within. They seek to co-opt our leadership in all areas of our society – political, military, intelligence/law enforcement, media, religious. Civilization jihad by our hands. When we see that the Islamic advisor to President Clinton was a Muslim Brother and an Al Qaeda operative currently in federal prison, or that the MB runs the Shariah Compliant Financial programs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, or that senior policy advisors to Secretary Napolitano are Muslim Brothers, or that the Assistant Director for the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate is an Iranian-born
Muslim, we see that there are catastrophic security issues within the U.S. government and that - just maybe – the MB means what they say.
During this series, we will go into painful detail to identify and describe the primary Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States, especially those working with U.S. law enforcement, intelligence, and national security organizations. We will also detail some of the individual within the U.S. system who are aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood, or at least unwittingly assisting them. The utter and complete catastrophic failure of the very agencies charged with protecting us will be detailed over the next several weeks. If facts are upsetting to you, please don’t read.
Part II: MB History & Their Arrival in America
In the autumn of 1914, the nearly 700 year old Islamic state (Caliphate), known as the Ottoman Empire, entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers (Germany et al), having already signed a secret agreement with Germany a few months earlier to do so. Following the defeat of the Imperial German Army and the end of the war, the Allies partitioned the Turkish country which led to the Turkish War of Independence. National hero and leader Mustafa Kemal created the secular nation-state of Turkey, and became its first President. Mustafa Kemal “Ataturk” (father of Turks) dissolved the Islamic Caliphate, did away of the position of “Sultan” in the system, banned overt Islamic signs such as the growing of beards, wearing of head coverings, and the public call to prayer by the muzzeins, and replaced Arabic script with Latin. The legal, business and social systems were turned on their heads in favor of those fashioned closer to a Western-style than an Islamic one. Ataturk built a secular military to protect Turkey.
The 700 year old Islamic Caliphate was dissolved. Across the Muslim world, this was not well-received.
A few years later (1928) outside of Cairo, Egypt, Hassan al Banna and his colleagues formed the Society of Muslim Brothers. Their purpose: to re-establish the Caliphate under which Shariah (Islamic Law) is the law of the land, and liberate the Islamic nation from the yolk of foreign rule. The Creed of the Brotherhood was, and is today: “Allah is our goal; the Messenger our Guide; the Koran our law; Jihad is our Way; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.”
Over the next decade, the “Muslim Brotherhood” built a multi-tiered system in furtherance of achieving its objectives – the same objectives they maintain today. Spreading throughout Egypt, the Brotherhood – or “MB” – strongly opposed the presence of British military troops and influence in Egypt. Under Islamic Law, the presence of non-Muslim forces in Muslim lands is a “weighty matter which cannot be ignored.” The Brotherhood used violence against the British troops and their families. They also fought against the system in Egypt which was not adhering to Islamic Law, targeting judges and others in the government. The Egyptian government sought to identify, capture, and/or kill members of the Brotherhood. In 1948, the Muslim Brotherhood killed the Prime Minister of Egypt, and in 1949, the Egyptian security service gunned down MB founder Hassan al Banna on the streets of Cairo.
This is not surprising, since violence is inherent to the MB’s structure. The “Special Section” is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood and conducts “special work” - ”military work” or violence and warfare. These are the guys who conduct assassinations, bombings, and other similar operations within the MB. The Special Section still exists today – several of the International leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood or “Supreme Guides” have come from the Special Section – a hint the MB doesn’t eschew violence as they say they do.
The Muslim Brotherhood worked with the Nazi’s during World War II, as Hassan al Banna was fond of Hitler. Under the guidance of Muslim Brother Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti (senior Islamic Jurist) of Jerusalem, the MB created an all Muslim SS Division within the Nazi’s Third Reich.
Following the MB’s assassination attempt on the life of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, Nasser cracked down, outlawed the Brotherhood, and went after its leadership. Many of the key MB leaders fled Egypt and moved into Europe and elsewhere. In many European countries, the Brotherhood established the first Islamic organizations there, many of which are the most prominent Islamic organizations in Europe today.
According the MB By-Laws: “The Muslim Brotherhood in achieving these objectives (creation of the Islamic state under which Islamic Law is the law of the land) depends on the following means…make every effort for the establishment of educational, social, economic, and scientific institutions and the establishment of mosques, schools, clinics, shelters, clubs, as well as the formation of committees to regulate zakat affairs and alms.”
In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood uses the subversion of a society via the creation of many front groups to gain influence and power within a society in furtherance of its stated objectives. Did they execute on this doctrine when they came to the United States and create these kinds of organizations? Lets take a look at the history.
Key Brotherhood leaders came to the United States in the 1950’s after fleeing Egypt. The Brotherhood primarily settled in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. Their mission statement had not changed. They were here to re-establish the global Islamic State (Caliphate) and implement Islamic Law (Shariah).
In 1962-63, Muslim Brothers Ahmed Totanji, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al Talib, and others established the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The purpose of the MSA was to give new young Muslims a place around which they could organize, train, and begin executing their strategy here in North America.
Today, the MSA can be found on hundreds of college campuses around the U.S. and serves as a point of recruitment for the Muslim Brotherhood and for jihadis. There is no effort on the part of the U.S. government to restrict or dismantle the MSA’s activities here. Out of the MSA came nearly every Muslim organization in America today.
After creating the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the MB created a host of organizations through the mid-1970’s here in the United States. [Remember the MB By-Laws quoted above] These include the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE), the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Muslim Communities Association (MCA), the Muslim Arab Youth Assembly (MAYA), the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA), and others. Additionally, in 1973, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), funded by Saudi Arabia, became the financial center or “bank” of the Muslim Brotherhood activities in the United States. Today, NAIT holds the titles/deeds to many of the mosques, Islamic organizations, and Islamic schools in America today.
In the late 1960’s a group of Muslims, primarily of South Asian decent, organized in North America to form what formally became the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in 1977. ICNA’s stated goals, to include in their 2010 Handbook, is to establish the Al Jama’ah or Islamic State which, according to the handbook, “Has the authority to enforce Sharia’s political, educational, criminal Justice System…” ICNA is now partnered with the Muslim American Society (MAS) formed in 1993, another Muslim Brotherhood front group. Both of these organizations have many local offices all over the United States working in furtherance of the Islamic Movement.
The 1980’s proved to be the beginning of massive growth for the Brotherhood in North America. In the early part of the decade, the MB created the organization they say is the “nucleus” of the Islamic Movement in North America – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). ISNA was created to be an umbrella organization for many of the original MB groups. During the first couple years of standing up ISNA, hundreds of “Islamic Societies” were created all over cities in the U.S. All of these are MB fronts answering to ISNA HQ. ISNA was and is primarily a Dawah organization. Dawah is the “Call to Islam” and is a requirement under Islamic Law before Jihad can be waged. As we will discuss later in this series, Dawah is an important stepping stone for the Muslim Brotherhood before reaching “The Final Stage” (Jihad to overthrow the government as defined in their doctrine) in any nation it seeks to subordinate to Islamic Law.
In the late 1980’s, the Brotherhood created the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) out of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood as an answer to the issue of Palestine. This is an issue the International Muslim Brotherhood made a part of their global strategy written in the early 1980’s. In the early 1990’s, the International MB then created the Palestine Committees in all Arab and Western nations to be focal points to support Hamas. In the United States, three MB/Hamas fronts were created. They were the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), and the Occupied Land Fund (OLF), which later became the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was the fourth Hamas front in the United States. With the exception of CAIR, these Hamas fronts no longer operate here, and the HLF was convicted in November 2008 in Dallas, Texas in the largest successful terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history.
As documented in the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic doctrine for North America, “An Explanatory Memorandum” dated 1991, the MB needed to create a vast number of new organizations to handle the requirements for the accelerating Movement here in the U.S. and in North America generally. According to the memorandum, new organizations were need to support the Movement in the following areas: political, cultural, financial, social, security, youth, women, media, intellectual, professional, administrative, legal, scientific, and others. In approximately 1993, the MB begins establishing between 80 and 120 new non-profit organizations annually.
Today, there are over 2,000 Islamic non-profit [501(c)(3)] organizations in the United States. Not all are controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, but many are. The number of total Islamic organizations here is multiplied significantly when the MB lobbying organizations, for profit organizations, and the many covert organizations they have established off the radar are all factored in. This is a staggering number, and is one more significant piece of evidence clearly identifying the Muslim Brotherhood’s hostile and well-organized Movement within the United States.
When the MSA was created in the early 1960’s, it created the “Religious Affairs Committee” which evolved into the Fiqh Committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Today, the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is a powerful MB entity which overseas the Movement in North America and ensures it operates in accordance with Islamic Law.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is a multi-faceted lobbying organization, which is involved in outreach to the religious, law enforcement, Hollywood, and political communities. MPAC continues to gain credibility as CAIR becomes more widely known as the Hamas entity it is.
If we keep in mind that from the enemy’s perspective (ie the MB perspective), this is an "influence operation," not a “terrorist” operation, their operation here might begin to make a little more sense. While it may be shocking to imagine these organizations have any ability to operate in the U.S., what is more disturbing is that the very individuals advising the senior leadership of the U.S. government today are from these hostile entities.
In Part III, we will take a deeper look into the MB’s doctrine and methodology here in the U.S., and discuss, in detail, a few of the key MB organizations already mentioned above.
The 700 year old Islamic Caliphate was dissolved. Across the Muslim world, this was not well-received.
A few years later (1928) outside of Cairo, Egypt, Hassan al Banna and his colleagues formed the Society of Muslim Brothers. Their purpose: to re-establish the Caliphate under which Shariah (Islamic Law) is the law of the land, and liberate the Islamic nation from the yolk of foreign rule. The Creed of the Brotherhood was, and is today: “Allah is our goal; the Messenger our Guide; the Koran our law; Jihad is our Way; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.”
Over the next decade, the “Muslim Brotherhood” built a multi-tiered system in furtherance of achieving its objectives – the same objectives they maintain today. Spreading throughout Egypt, the Brotherhood – or “MB” – strongly opposed the presence of British military troops and influence in Egypt. Under Islamic Law, the presence of non-Muslim forces in Muslim lands is a “weighty matter which cannot be ignored.” The Brotherhood used violence against the British troops and their families. They also fought against the system in Egypt which was not adhering to Islamic Law, targeting judges and others in the government. The Egyptian government sought to identify, capture, and/or kill members of the Brotherhood. In 1948, the Muslim Brotherhood killed the Prime Minister of Egypt, and in 1949, the Egyptian security service gunned down MB founder Hassan al Banna on the streets of Cairo.
This is not surprising, since violence is inherent to the MB’s structure. The “Special Section” is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood and conducts “special work” - ”military work” or violence and warfare. These are the guys who conduct assassinations, bombings, and other similar operations within the MB. The Special Section still exists today – several of the International leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood or “Supreme Guides” have come from the Special Section – a hint the MB doesn’t eschew violence as they say they do.
The Muslim Brotherhood worked with the Nazi’s during World War II, as Hassan al Banna was fond of Hitler. Under the guidance of Muslim Brother Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti (senior Islamic Jurist) of Jerusalem, the MB created an all Muslim SS Division within the Nazi’s Third Reich.
Following the MB’s assassination attempt on the life of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, Nasser cracked down, outlawed the Brotherhood, and went after its leadership. Many of the key MB leaders fled Egypt and moved into Europe and elsewhere. In many European countries, the Brotherhood established the first Islamic organizations there, many of which are the most prominent Islamic organizations in Europe today.
According the MB By-Laws: “The Muslim Brotherhood in achieving these objectives (creation of the Islamic state under which Islamic Law is the law of the land) depends on the following means…make every effort for the establishment of educational, social, economic, and scientific institutions and the establishment of mosques, schools, clinics, shelters, clubs, as well as the formation of committees to regulate zakat affairs and alms.”
In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood uses the subversion of a society via the creation of many front groups to gain influence and power within a society in furtherance of its stated objectives. Did they execute on this doctrine when they came to the United States and create these kinds of organizations? Lets take a look at the history.
Key Brotherhood leaders came to the United States in the 1950’s after fleeing Egypt. The Brotherhood primarily settled in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. Their mission statement had not changed. They were here to re-establish the global Islamic State (Caliphate) and implement Islamic Law (Shariah).
In 1962-63, Muslim Brothers Ahmed Totanji, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al Talib, and others established the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The purpose of the MSA was to give new young Muslims a place around which they could organize, train, and begin executing their strategy here in North America.
Today, the MSA can be found on hundreds of college campuses around the U.S. and serves as a point of recruitment for the Muslim Brotherhood and for jihadis. There is no effort on the part of the U.S. government to restrict or dismantle the MSA’s activities here. Out of the MSA came nearly every Muslim organization in America today.
After creating the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the MB created a host of organizations through the mid-1970’s here in the United States. [Remember the MB By-Laws quoted above] These include the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE), the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Muslim Communities Association (MCA), the Muslim Arab Youth Assembly (MAYA), the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA), and others. Additionally, in 1973, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), funded by Saudi Arabia, became the financial center or “bank” of the Muslim Brotherhood activities in the United States. Today, NAIT holds the titles/deeds to many of the mosques, Islamic organizations, and Islamic schools in America today.
In the late 1960’s a group of Muslims, primarily of South Asian decent, organized in North America to form what formally became the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in 1977. ICNA’s stated goals, to include in their 2010 Handbook, is to establish the Al Jama’ah or Islamic State which, according to the handbook, “Has the authority to enforce Sharia’s political, educational, criminal Justice System…” ICNA is now partnered with the Muslim American Society (MAS) formed in 1993, another Muslim Brotherhood front group. Both of these organizations have many local offices all over the United States working in furtherance of the Islamic Movement.
The 1980’s proved to be the beginning of massive growth for the Brotherhood in North America. In the early part of the decade, the MB created the organization they say is the “nucleus” of the Islamic Movement in North America – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). ISNA was created to be an umbrella organization for many of the original MB groups. During the first couple years of standing up ISNA, hundreds of “Islamic Societies” were created all over cities in the U.S. All of these are MB fronts answering to ISNA HQ. ISNA was and is primarily a Dawah organization. Dawah is the “Call to Islam” and is a requirement under Islamic Law before Jihad can be waged. As we will discuss later in this series, Dawah is an important stepping stone for the Muslim Brotherhood before reaching “The Final Stage” (Jihad to overthrow the government as defined in their doctrine) in any nation it seeks to subordinate to Islamic Law.
In the late 1980’s, the Brotherhood created the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) out of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood as an answer to the issue of Palestine. This is an issue the International Muslim Brotherhood made a part of their global strategy written in the early 1980’s. In the early 1990’s, the International MB then created the Palestine Committees in all Arab and Western nations to be focal points to support Hamas. In the United States, three MB/Hamas fronts were created. They were the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), and the Occupied Land Fund (OLF), which later became the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was the fourth Hamas front in the United States. With the exception of CAIR, these Hamas fronts no longer operate here, and the HLF was convicted in November 2008 in Dallas, Texas in the largest successful terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history.
As documented in the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic doctrine for North America, “An Explanatory Memorandum” dated 1991, the MB needed to create a vast number of new organizations to handle the requirements for the accelerating Movement here in the U.S. and in North America generally. According to the memorandum, new organizations were need to support the Movement in the following areas: political, cultural, financial, social, security, youth, women, media, intellectual, professional, administrative, legal, scientific, and others. In approximately 1993, the MB begins establishing between 80 and 120 new non-profit organizations annually.
Today, there are over 2,000 Islamic non-profit [501(c)(3)] organizations in the United States. Not all are controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, but many are. The number of total Islamic organizations here is multiplied significantly when the MB lobbying organizations, for profit organizations, and the many covert organizations they have established off the radar are all factored in. This is a staggering number, and is one more significant piece of evidence clearly identifying the Muslim Brotherhood’s hostile and well-organized Movement within the United States.
When the MSA was created in the early 1960’s, it created the “Religious Affairs Committee” which evolved into the Fiqh Committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Today, the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is a powerful MB entity which overseas the Movement in North America and ensures it operates in accordance with Islamic Law.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is a multi-faceted lobbying organization, which is involved in outreach to the religious, law enforcement, Hollywood, and political communities. MPAC continues to gain credibility as CAIR becomes more widely known as the Hamas entity it is.
If we keep in mind that from the enemy’s perspective (ie the MB perspective), this is an "influence operation," not a “terrorist” operation, their operation here might begin to make a little more sense. While it may be shocking to imagine these organizations have any ability to operate in the U.S., what is more disturbing is that the very individuals advising the senior leadership of the U.S. government today are from these hostile entities.
In Part III, we will take a deeper look into the MB’s doctrine and methodology here in the U.S., and discuss, in detail, a few of the key MB organizations already mentioned above.
Part III: 'The Settlement Process'
But how did the Brotherhood actually insinuate itself into the fabric of America? How is it possible that today the most prominent Islamic organizations in North America are controlled by the Brotherhood and actually seek to subordinate the individual liberties of Americans (and Canadians) to the slavery of Shariah (Islamic Law)? In Part III of this series, we set out to help clarify the way the MB “settled” here in America. Please note the MB did so with their objectives clearly at the forefront of their minds – (1) re-establish the global Islamic state (Caliphate) and (2) implement Shariah (Islamic Law).
For this exercise I will use two extremely useful Muslim Brotherhood documents. The first is a speech given by Zaid Naman (aka Zeid al Noman), a member of the MB’s Board of Directors and the “Masul” (Leader) of the MB’s Executive Office in the United States. Naman was speaking in the early-1980’s to a group of Muslim Brothers in the U.S. A recording of this speech was discovered in the 2004 FBI raid of the Annandale, Virginia residence of Hamas/MB official Ismail Elbarasse, where the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. were found. The English transcript of this speech was entered into evidence at the US v HLF trial in Dallas 2008 – the largest successfully prosecuted terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history. This speech is so powerful because this group of Muslim Brothers shared the history and strategy of the Brotherhood here in the U.S. with the expectation their comments would never see the light of day.
The second source is the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic document – An Explanatory Memorandum – dated 1991 and also seized during the Elbarasse raid in 2004. This document was written by Mohamed Akram, a senior Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood official in the U.S. at the time, and approved by the MB’s Shura Council and Organizational Conference – the two governing bodies within the MB structure here. (The third part of the MB structure is the “General Masul” or Leader of the MB for the entire U.S.)
Both of these documents were entered into evidence at the HLF trial and stipulated to by the defense, which means they are legally what they purport to be.
As you read this, consider the MB’s entire effort as a massive Influence Operation – or for the professionals, a massive counter-intelligence operations – not “terrorism.”
Naman acknowledges that after the formation of the MSA in the U.S. in the early 1960’s, there was not a lot of organization, and he describes this period as a “Gathering or a grouping for Islam activists without an organizational affiliation.” But the MSA was the center of the activity:
“As for Recruitment in the ranks of this Movement, its main condition was that a brother…must be active in the general activism in the MSA.” As Muslim Brothers came from various countries, they settled in small groups or “usras” (families), sometimes hundreds of miles apart. They were called to recruit other arriving Muslims into the Brotherhood, and do what they could with what they had. The object was to grow these usras into large groups of Muslim Brothers so, eventually, the growing concentric circles of influence covered large areas.
As Naman puts it: “The first generation of Muslim Ikhwans in North America composed of a team which included he who was Ikhwan in his country or he who was a member of the Worshipers of the Merciful Group or he who doesn’t have a direction but who is active in Islamic activism. This was the first point or group which gave or planted the Muslim Brotherhood seed in America.”
By the 1970’s, arriving Brotherhood members were upset with the lack of activism and recruitment in the U.S. by the MB already here. Saudi Muslim Brothers and others came to America and joined the ranks. They demanded clearer commitments and “Ikhwan formulas” of how to accept Muslims into the MB ranks of “this Dawa’a and to make work secret.”
The MB established 5-year plans, the first of which, from 1975-1980 was the period of “General work and dedication to general work organizations.” During this time the Brotherhood went through infighting and turmoil as it sought to organize and agree on strategies and tactics.
By 1980, the Brotherhood emerged with strong leadership and a more focused commitment to the long-term strategy. 1981-1985 was a period of “Regional Planning and Growth.” Over time, the Brotherhood organized regionally in the U.S. and formed “Coordination Councils” which had leadership and committees to begin better organizing their efforts. Plans were developed, and the Brotherhood came up with primary and secondary goals for the Movement at that time.
“The main goals which were approved by the executive office were five…First of all: Strengthening the internal structure; second, administrative discipline; third, recruitment and settlement of the Dawa’a; four, energizing the organizations’ work; five, energizing political work fronts. Also, it adopted eight of the secondary goals on top of which were: finance and investment; second, foreign relations; third, reviving women’s activities; four, political awareness to members of the Group; five, securing the Group; six, special activity; seven, media; eight, taking advantage of human potentials.” (emphasis added)
Later in the Q & A session, Naman is asked about the aforementioned statement. An unidentified Muslim Brother asks, “By ‘Securing the Group’ do you mean military securing?” Naman responds with: “No, Military Work is listed under ‘Special Work.’ Special work means military work. ‘Securing the Group’ is the groups security, the Group’s security against outside dangers. For instance, to monitor the suspicious movements…which exist on the American front such as Zionism and Masonry…etc. Monitoring the suspicious movements or the sides, the government bodies such as CIA, FBI, etc, so that we find out if they are monitoring us, are we not being monitored, how can we get rid of them. That’s what is meant by ‘Securing the Group.’”
The aforementioned comment needs little reinforcement, except to add that inherent to the MB structure is the “Special Section” which conducts “special activity” or activity more commonly known to us as “terrorism.” This includes assassinations, bombings, kidnappings, etc. And that’s what makes it “Special Work.”
Additionally, during the speech Naman mentions the differences between Muslim Brothers coming to the U.S. from various nations, and how difficult it is in those nations to partake in certain activities. He offers one pertinent example for us: “…if the asking brother is from Jordan, for instance, he would know that it is not possible to have military training in Jordan, for instance, while here in America, there is weapons training at many of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) camps…”
When later asked by an apparently irritated Brother as to why some Brothers in the U.S. get weapons training and others do not, Naman responds with, “By God, the first thing is that you thank God and praise him because you found a camp to meet in. You know that, for instance, Oklahoma has become a blocked area for you. You cannot meet in it in the first place right? …My brothers, according to what I learned in Oklahoma they started to be strict about letting Muslims use the camps. They would ask them, for instance, to submit their name and would ask you to bring and ID or something to prove your name…In some of the regions when they go to a camp, they take two things, they would request a camp that has a range, a shooting range and one which has a range to shoot, one which has a range which they use for shooting. You would find that in some of the camps.”
These comments by Naman are in line with the MB’s “Phases of the World Underground Movement Plan,” a five phase plan to overthrow the United States which includes the comment under Phase IV: “Training on the use of weapons domestically and overseas in anticipation of zero hour. It has noticeable activities in this regard.”
Interestingly, Naman assesses that the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts in the U.S. – and the West – are more cohesive than elsewhere in the world. “Except in America and in Europe, we do not find unified movements which work in that way, to be able to try to melt all of the Ikhwans (Muslim Brothers’) experiences into one pot…under one umbrella…Here in America we find the practical application for this…idea which is the Group’s unity in one movement.”
Just prior to this speech, in early 1981, the MB created the Shura Council here in the United States whose role is “planning and monitoring executive (MB) leadership.” “The current Shura Council came on board to finish what its brothers started on the span of the past seven years to lead this Group to new horizons, God willing, keeping its eyes on huge goals among which is the settlement of this Group.”
“By ‘settlement of the Dawa’a’, the Muslim Brotherhood Dawa’a is meant.”
Dawa’a is the “call to Islam.” In Muslim Brotherhood doctrine, this Dawa’a is the process by which the MB works to achieve its primary objectives. It is the foundation for the “Settlement Process.”
Per their strategic document, the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Movement in North America are: (1) Establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood; (2) Adopting Muslim causes domestically and globally; (3) Expanding the observant Muslim base; (4) Unifying and directing Muslim efforts; (5) Presenting Islam as a civilization alternative; (6) Supporting the establishment of the Islamic State wherever it is.
Furthermore, this strategic document states: “It must be stressed that it has become clear and emphatically known that all is in agreement that we must “settle” or “enable” Islam and its Movement in this part of the world. Therefore, a joint understanding of the meaning of the word settlement or enablement must be adopted.”
“The Concept of Settlement…Settlement: That Islam and its Movement become a part of the homeland it lives in.”
“The Process of Settlement: In order for Islam to become ‘a part of the homeland’ in which it lives…the Movement must plan and struggle to obtain ‘the keys’ and the tools of this process in carry (sic) out this grand mission as a “Civilization Jihadist” responsibility which lies on the shoulders of the Muslims and – on top of them – the Muslim Brotherhood in this country.”
Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan 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. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack.
Putting It Into Practice
The above paragraph IS the MB strategy. Civilization-Jihad “by their hands” – OUR hands. The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy for destroying the United States is to get us, specifically our leadership, to do the bidding of the MB for them. The Muslim Brotherhood intends to conduct Civilization Jihad by co-opting our leadership into believing a counterfactual understanding of Islam and the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, thereby coercing these leaders to enforce the MB narrative on their subordinates. Be assured they are doing this with great success.
Political, military, law enforcement, media, and religious leaders are being duped across America by the MB leadership. The approach tactics differ depending on the targeted organization – ie for media the approach may be a “civil rights” basis, while for Christian leaders it will be based on the Muslims’ claiming they are “also followers of Jesus” without the explanation that to the Muslims, Jesus was a Muslim prophet.
Here is how it works: a leader of an MB front, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) for
instance, who has been a Muslim Brother for 40 years, is a classically trained intelligence officer from a foreign nation, has been in the U.S. for 20+ years, and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, approaches a senior government official (usually with zero counterintelligence training). The Muslim Brother says he is from the largest and “most prominent Muslim organization in America” or words to that effect. He explains he has come to help the official discern fact from fiction about Islam and help deter “radicalization” as well as “Islamaphobia” in the local community. The Brother says he has experience in “building bridges” between the U.S. government and the Muslim community, and even produces photographs with other senior government officials and community leaders. The official, unaware ISNA is a MB and Hamas support entity, an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest successfully prosecuted Hamas case in U.S. history, and the “nucleus” for the Islamic Movement here, begins working with this Muslim Brotherhood leader. They have discussions in the government office building where the senior official works, and the Muslim Brother tells the official ISNA is “moderate” (because he says so) but if he or any of the Muslims at ISNA hear of any “radicals” in the area, they will be sure to let the official know. They also talk about the Brother’s concern about how “aggressive” the U.S. government is perceived in the local Muslim community, and the “fear of backlash” against them. “We want to help you,” the Hamas/MB leader will say, “but we need assurances from you that you will not unnecessarily target Muslims for investigation or go into our Mosques unannounced. In exchange, we will be sure to tell you if there is anything nefarious going on in the Muslim community.” The government official buys off on this and, in the interest of deepening the relationship with the Muslim and the community-at-large, the government official complies with the MB’s request and eases off. The two men have lunch weekly and develop a relationship – the government official thinks the Muslim Brother actually likes him. The Muslim Brother is actually quite likeable. He was trained to be “likeable” during his counterintelligence training in his home country, which he has perfected during his last 40 years of operating for many of those years in hostile countries before coming to the U.S.
Over time, the government official establishes policies and procedures based the advice given to him by the Muslim Brother, which the official has never backstopped to determine if it is factually accurate. A year later, evidence comes to light identifying the Muslim Brother and the true nature of his intentions. The government official must now make a choice. Does he cut off his relationship with his “Muslim friend” and, therefore, admit he was duped and created policies and procedures for his agency based on disinformation fed to him by a Muslim Brother? Or does he silence his subordinates who have brought facts forward clearly identifying the enemy? Sad to say, around the country today, the latter is occurring at a exponentially higher rate than the former.
This is Civilization-Jihad “by their hands,” and evidence of it can be seen in: our universities – many of which have MSA chapters and host Hamas and MB speakers on a regular basis with the support of university Presidents and Boards who silence students challenging the school or Hamas; our intelligence and national security apparatus where analysts and agents on the ground who understand the Muslim Brotherhood threat are disciplined, subject to internal investigations, and threatened with termination for doing their jobs, going after the MB, and speaking up about this threat; our war colleges – at which Muslim Brothers serve as Distinguished Professors or Chairs of Middle Eastern studies programs and pollute the dialogue and suppress any attempt to speak truth into the threats from the Islamic Movement; our financial institutions – many of which are “Shariah Compliant” per the MB’s request and at the direction of the U.S. Treasury Department; our churches and synagogues – which only seem to outreach to Muslim Brotherhood front groups (note: ISNA is the certifying authority for all Muslim Chaplains in DoD and in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons) and which join the MB in protests against government investigations of anything “Muslim” or “Islamic” (e.g. Congressman King hearings); and the list goes on.
The MB Settled in America to subordinate the Constitution to Shariah. The “Process” by which they did it is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process.” Their methodology is to subvert the primary/foundational institutions in our nation and co-opt our leadership. At a quick glance it appears the score at halftime of this football game is 200-0 in their favor. Time for us to take off the baseball uniforms and engage the MB on the football field.
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