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Who are the "experts" who tell congress not to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group?
Many of the "experts" come from "think tanks" who pass themselves off as educational and research organizations. Often, the “trustworthy” sources that we rely on, take their “background” information from these think tanks, and this is why we often hear the same repeated lies. |
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Brookings Institute
Brookings is considered to be one of the most trusted think tanks in the world. Its “experts” are some of the most quoted on TV, in newspapers, and, its members often give testimony at Congressional Hearings and send recommendations to the President and his staff.
Qatar donates enormous amounts of money to Brookings every year: $14.8 million in 2013 (Brookings has since stopped disclosing its donors).(1)
Brookings holds its annual conferences in Qatar, where global leaders, including our own heads of state, top members in our armed forces, and influential politicians, schmooze and listen to various Islamists and in many cases, with terrorists -- such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
On his weekly al-Jazeera TV show, Sharia and Life, Qaradawi has instructed Palestinian women to conduct suicide bombings on Israelis, encouraged suicide bombings on U.S. soldiers, and has promoted the crucifixion of Christians.
Qaradawi has been intrinsically involved in several of Qatar's “charities”, including Qatar’s top two: Qatar Charity and the Qatar Foundation.
Qatar Charity belongs to Qaradawi's Union of Good, which is a coalition of 57 Islamic charities in 21 different countries. The 57 charities can make financial transfers between coalition members between the 21 different countries.
Ties between Qatar Charity and al-Qaeda date back to a 1995 assassination attempt on former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarek.(1)
Qatar Charitable Society played a major role in financing the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.(1)
Qatar funded the Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade in Syria, which worked with Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria). Qatar did the same in Libya when it openly funded and armed jihadists tied to al-Qaeda there.(1)
Qatar is a primary funder of Brookings Institute.
Brookings “experts” Will McCants, Michael Doran and Clint Watts have urged against classifying Ahrar al-Sham a terrorist group, even though the group has fought alongside ISIS and with al-Qaeda. Ahrar al-Sham is an Islamist mercenary army financially backed by Qatar and Turkey and its founder was a senior al-Qaeda operative.(1)
The Brookings “experts” argue that U.S. policymakers should be flexible with Ahrar al-Sham because they say it is a “lesser of two evils” when compared to ISIS. But if these “experts” were indeed experts, then they'd know that Ahrar al-Sham not only has fought with ISIS, but behaves exactly as ISIS, and has the exact same ideology and desires of implementing Islamic Law and a Caliphate.
Long before the "Arab Spring" the “experts” have been promoting the idea that violent Islamist groups must be included in the “democratic” process of new governments in the Middle East and North Africa.
Peter W. Singer, co-coordinator of a Brookings Institute conference, wrote in a conference papers that "moderate" Islamist parties must be included in the political systems of Muslim countries. He wrote: "In dealing with burgeoning democracies, a general finding is that outside parties should support integration of Islamist parties into [the] political system rather than exclusion."(1)
Tamara Wittes, Brookings “Director” for Middle East Policy in 2008, stated that she believes that Islamists, including Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Moroccan Muslim Brotherhood are different from Hamas or al-Qaeda. She says they [the Muslim Brotherhood] want to transform society and government into something that is more Islamic, but aim to do so below the radar rather than through revolutionary change.(1)(2)
If Singer and Wittes are "experts," then they are well aware that the primary goals of the Muslim Brotherhood have always been Islamic Law and a caliphate. "Burgeoning democracies" would be destroyed by the insertion of the Muslim Brotherhood into the political system.
Islamists do not believe in “government” because governments create laws and constitutions that give rights to and protects all citizens. The Muslim Brotherhood believe only in the laws of the Quran (which does not give rights to all people). And they believe in jihad to accomplish this goal. That is why the Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly, throughout their history, tried to take down governments (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria and so forth).
Wittes had suggested that some Islamists are different that others, inferring that the Muslim Brotherhood are non-violent. But this is untrue. In 2011, Muslim Brotherhood in every one of the “Arab Spring” countries conducted acts of violence and terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood have had a long history of terrorism.
During the January 2011 "revolution" in Egypt, the kick off to the violence was when Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian affiliate, crossed the border into Egypt in armored vehicles, broke into prisons, killed guards, and released terrorists.
Syria’s “moderate” rebels (who consisted of Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda armies) kicked off their "revolution" with attacks on Christian towns, slaughtering civilians in order to “take territory” for Islam.
Wittes either made a bad judgement call when she wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood are different than Hamas or al-Qaeda, or was purposefully spreading the pro-Islamist agenda, which is to make the Brotherhood out to be “moderate” and “peaceful.”
But did she learn anything after the intense violence and terrorism that occurred from 2011-2013? No, she did not.
On January 10, 2014, Wittes co-authored an article for the Washington Post with Daniel Byman. Byman was a professor in the "Security Studies" program at Georgetown University and the "Research Director" of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. They wrote:
“Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is declared a terrorist group [in Egypt], it just might become one [a terrorist group] …Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not a terrorist movement, at least not currently. But the move ... to ban it from politics and declare it a terrorist organization may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”(3)
In Wittes and Byman's 2014 article, they totally dismissed the fact that starting in June 2012, and for eighteen months straight, the Egyptian people suffered from non-stop Muslim Brotherhood violence and terrorism.
August 2013 saw horrific attacks on both civilians and police (police stations were attacked and police were disemboweled). Also in August of 2013, the Brotherhood torched more than 80 churches. At their rallies, Muslim Brotherhood leaders told their followers to kill and 'burn' all Christians.
Then, in December 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood conducted hundreds of small scale bombings, culminating in a large bombing of the police headquarters in Mansoura. It was then that the Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organization by the Judicial System and the Egyptian Parliament.
The decision to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization was made because the Brotherhood were conducting ongoing terrorist attacks.
Wittes and Byman ignored all of these facts. And like so many other "experts" from the think tanks, they promoted the rhetoric that declaring the Brotherhood a terrorist group would make them terrorists. How absurd!
Two weeks after that article, Byman and Wittes published another article, originally posted on their “education/research” page at their .edu website (these people teach our youth!). The article was addressed to Obama, and was picked up by the Boston Globe and several other major newspapers to send their propaganda message to the American public.
Byman and Wittes wrote:
“By declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, Egypt risks radicalizing the group’s members and destabilizing the region … the Obama administration should engage with peaceful Islamists, push Egypt to allow Brotherhood supporters to participate in legitimate political and social activity ...”(4)
Peaceful Islamists? They had been conducting ongoing violence and massacres for years!
They also wrote: “The Brotherhood so far has not called its members to arms, but this could change as the government implements its effort to criminalize the group. In the past, the Brotherhood weathered its exclusion from political power by concentrating on social change.”
The entire article was filled with lies, but their words: “The Brotherhood so far has not called its members to arms” was a horrific lie.
The Brotherhood began arming themselves in enclaves in southern Egypt decades earlier, but starting in early 2012, they began openly calling on members to join their armed militia. They posted videos of their militia that was forming in the Sinai in coordination with Hamas. By mid-2012, they were calling on Muslims from other countries to come join their militia in the Sinai.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Like Brookings, Carnegie “experts” often testify at hearings to sway opinions of Congress.
Marwan Muasher is vice president “for studies” at Carnegie, where he “oversees research”. In other words, he decides what information will be passed on to the media and other "researchers" at various think tanks. From 2007 to 2010, he was also senior vice president of "external affairs" at the World Bank.
When the various Arab Spring “revolutions” (i.e. Islamist takeovers) began in January 2011, most all mainstream media quoted Marwan Muasher or had him on their show, spouting him as a Mid-East “expert”. Muasher emphasized that all "Arab Spring" countries must include Islamist groups in a new “democratic” government.
Regarding Syria, Muasher tried to eliminate fears about the Muslim Brotherhood, repeatedly stating that the Brotherhood gave a “very strong message that they want a secular, pluralistic Syria in which religion plays no role.”(6)
This was a lie. The Muslim Brotherhood is all about religion. They do not believe in man-made “governments” that protect a secular society. A secular society is exactly what the Brotherhood in Syria and Egypt wanted to oust and replace with Islam.
During the peak of "Arab Spring" transition of power to Muslim Brotherhood throughout the region and the rise of the militant “rebel” groups in Libya and Syria, George Soros hired a new spokesperson: none other than Marwan Muasher of Carnegie. Soros funded the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which Muasher was in charge of.(5)
A George Soros organization called the International Crisis Group (ICG) says it’s a non-profit, non-government organization (NGO) dedicated to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. But ICG was actually promoting protests, opposition parties, and violent unrest. Soros had a hand in creating "crisis." Soros and Muasher would identify a “crisis”, demand government intervention, and then the government handed out contracts to Soros' groups.
Terrorist groups such as the White Helmets were recipients of enormous amounts of money via this NGO system. The U.S. State Department, Dept. of Defense, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors all funded various NGOs that went under the façades of being "human rights groups." Some of these NGO’s were set up as intelligence gathering, and others to promote violent protests and anti-government activities.(6)
When Egypt discovered the truth behind the NGOs in Egypt, laws were passed curbing their access. "Experts" from Carnegie called this "censorship," but it was survival. The NGOs disguised as Human Rights groups were aiding terrorism.
Nathan Brown is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie’s “Middle East Program” and a professor at George Washington University. He has an enormous number of publications, books, articles, NPR and TV spots. He is against the U.S. designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. He is introduced as an “expert” on TV and gives “expert” testimony at Congressional Hearings.
On April 13, 2011, Nathan Brown gave testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Terrorism. But before I give excerpts of his testimony, you should know some facts.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto is: Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
The Muslim Brotherhood emblem, the double swords and the Quran, has the word: “prepare” under the two swords. The word “prepare” refers to "prepare your swords (your weapons)" for jihad. The primary doctrine of the Quran is that it is the duty of all Muslims to enforce Islamic Law throughout the world -- via jihad.
Hassan al-Banna, the creator of the Muslim Brotherhood considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran as the only acceptable Constitution and source for laws. His manifesto specifically outlined the creation of Youth Groups for jihad and the implementation of Islamic Law. He advocated for a strengthening of the bonds between all Muslim majority countries in order to pave the way for a return to the Caliphate.
Banna wanted to diffuse Islam throughout the existing governments, so that all government employees would feel responsible to adhere to Islamic Law.
The following are excerpts from the Testimony to Congress by Dr. Nathan Brown:
“In describing the Muslim Brotherhood, it is perhaps best to start with the movement’s motto imprinted on its emblem: “Be Prepared.” The resemblance with the Boy Scouts is far from coincidental. The movement’s founder, Hasan al-Banna, was aware of Scouting and wished to found an organization that was similarly devoted to fostering the personal development of the rising generation.”
“Al-Banna’s genius lay in inspiration and organization rather than in systematic thought. Indeed, from the beginning, it was clear that the Brotherhood model was based less on abstract ideas as on forging tight personal bonds around dedication to a common, but very general, vision of personal and social reform. To this day, the organization is so strong that schisms are rare; yet it is also so flexible that almost nobody is dismissed from the Brotherhood for anything he, or, in the case of associated women’s organizations, she, says or thinks."
Brown lied about the emblem saying "be prepared." The emblem says "prepare," as in prepare to fight (jihad). Brown intentionally lied to Congress to portray the Muslim Brotherhood as something it is not.
Congress votes whether to designate the Brotherhood a terror group based on the testimonies of people like Nathan Brown.
Additionally, the Muslim Brotherhood believe in the Quran’s version of women’s rights, which means there is no “flexibility” as Brown tries to suggest. Women are to obey their husbands (or their male family members if unmarried), no matter what women think or feel. The Muslim Brotherhood, like all Islamists, believe in child marriages and female circumcising. There is no "flexibility" in regards to women's rights.
More from Brown’s testimony:
“In the 1940s, as other Egyptian movements created youth wings that took on a paramilitary aspect, modeled in part on European movements of the left and right during the same period, the Brotherhood formed its own.”
Here we see that Brown tried to brush off the Youth military wing as if it was a trend of the period. The Youth Militia is a primary element of Brotherhood Doctrine in order to implement Islamic Law.
More from Brown:
“In the late 1940s, it constructed a “special apparatus” that engaged in some violent activity. While that body was disbanded over half a century ago, the damage to the Brotherhood’s reputation has been ongoing. The Muslim Brotherhood has had some radical ideas develop within its ranks. It has largely rooted those out.”
Brown lied. The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Special Apparatus” did not disband. If Brown is indeed an "expert" he knows this. The Secret Apparatus was used in Syria in the 1960’s and then again in the 1980’s when the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood conducted massacres on the Syrian Army.(7)
Brown says the Brotherhood engaged in “some violent activity.” No, the Brotherhood has engaged in ongoing violent activity and massacres throughout their history in several different countries.
As far as his statement that the Brotherhood has had some radical ideas that have been “rooted out,” that is another blatant lie. Remember the Muslim Brotherhood's motto: the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
Regarding the Secret Apparatus, a 1982 U.S. Intel report states that the Muslim Brotherhood “…began to expand their covert arm for political violence, the Secret Apparatus, in about 1964. This covert arm…was known as The Youth of Mohammad [and] Faithful Youth. The major setback in 1980 led to the removal of Issam Attar as Supreme Guide of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood … The new leadership consisted of Adman Said al Din as the new Supreme Guide … and Adnan Uqlah, Commander of the Secret Apparatus.(7)
Now let’s jump to the current bill to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Michelle Dunne, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who often testifies at Congressional hearings, and who is against declaring the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, said this:
“Designating all Muslim Brotherhood groups ... to be terrorists based on the actions of a few might well push the [Brotherhood's] debate over using violence in the wrong direction… it could actually increase the threat of terrorism...”(8)
Did she say, "Actions of a few" ?
Algeria fought a ten-year civil war with the Algerian Brotherhood who were trying to impose Islamic Law.
Syria has battled the Syrian Brotherhood since the 1960’s, with an enormous wave of violence and massacres done by them in the 1980’s, and then, starting in 2011, ongoing terrorism by the Muslim Brotherhood via their creation of the ‘Free Syrian Army.’
Egypt has battled Brotherhood violence since 1928, but terror attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood intensified and have been ongoing without relief since 2011.
Like Brookings, Carnegie is filled with pro-Islamist propagandists who are constantly used in mainstream media as “experts.” These liars and propagandists feed the brains of mainstream media, but also our Congress.
In April 2012, Carnegie had an annual conference in which top U.S. officials and media attended. Two of the panel discussions were held by members of the Muslim Brotherhood: Abdul Mawgoud Dardery (Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood); Nahil Alkofahi (Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood); Sahbi Atig (Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood); Khaled Al-Qazzaz (Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood); Osama Al-Saghir (Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood); and, Mohamed Gaair (Libyan Muslim Brotherhood).
Hardcore Islamists were influencing the press and U.S. officials.
Carnegie’s Marina Ottaway said the Islamists were "separate entities," not one large, unified bloc. She said that Islamists in various different countries have “little contact with one another.”(9)
Ah, we have another (expert) liar.
Brown had said in his testimony against declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group that the “International Brotherhood” is a “group of loosely linked, ideologically similar movements” that resemble a “group of college fraternities.”(9)(10)
Brown further testified: “At a global level ... [the Brotherhood] most closely resembles today’s alliances among various like-minded organizations like socialist or Christian Democratic parties. These are tame frameworks for a group of loosely linked, ideologically similar movements… there is no reason to fear it ...(10)
Contrary to what Brown wanted Congress to believe, the International Muslim Brotherhood is unified, well structured, and definitely a force to fear. And when Carnegie’s Marina Ottaway said the Islamist parties are separate entities and have “little contact with one another,” she lied.
The Global Muslim Brotherhood
It has been shown via the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2009 that there is a highly sophisticated organizational structure for the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Likewise, the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe have banded together to form the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE). The leaders at the top of the structure of all of these Muslim Brotherhood Organizations has always been the Egyptian Supreme Guide. Leaders under him and who head other branches are called Secretary Generals.
From the beginning of its formation in 1928, the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood and their ideology have been purposefully planted in universities. First in Cairo, at al-Azhar University, but rapidly placed in others. Secretly, Muslim Brotherhood members became faculty members, department chairs, deans, administration management and so forth, all the way to top positions that fully control the university. This same format was later used in universities in Europe and America (see: Muslim Brotherhood in America).
The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Communications Bureau with the Islamic World” was created in 1945. This was the Foreign Affairs section of the Brotherhood. When Gammal Abdul al-Nasser, president of Egypt, banned the Brotherhood in Egypt in 1954, many of the Brotherhood’s leaders left and began a massive endeavor to spread the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide.
A Brotherhood leader, Mustafa Machhour, began working to create the International Muslim Brotherhood. With help from another leader, Muhammad Akef (who later moved to Germany in 1981, and who became Supreme Guide in 2004), they coordinated an alliance with Jamaat Islamiya in Pakistan and Refah in Turkey (terrorist groups).
A Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Hassan Howeidi, was sent to Europe in the 1980's to help coordinate other members and spread the organization inside universities in Europe.
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood was expunged from Iraq. The Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood was one of the major sources of funding for the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. After being banned from Iraq, many leaders of the Iraqi Brotherhood went next door to Syria where they continued their subversive activities.
By 2004, with Muhammad Akef now the Supreme Guide, the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood had become well established in many countries (in 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's website boasted that they were organized in 80 countries).
Though led by the Supreme Guide and other leaders in Egypt, called the “Guidance Bureau”, many other members ran the International Organization, including the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Huwaidi; leader of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, Faisal Mawlawi; controller-general of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, Abd-Majid-Dhunaybat, and Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Rashid al-Ghannushi.
In 2004, an Egyptian Brotherhood member based in London, Ibrahim Munir, coordinated meetings. The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood held their meetings with Egyptian leaders in different European countries because the Brotherhood was still banned in Egypt and was watched by security. There was no way to have meetings in Egypt.
In 2006, after the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections and the consolidation of the regime’s control of Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan, Istanbul became a center for Muslim Brotherhood meetings. From 2006 until the Gaza flotilla, Turkey hosted at least ten International Conferences of the Muslim Brotherhood. An Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader living in Qatar, Youssef Qaradawi, began to visit Turkey frequently, to coordinate funding for the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Remember Qaradawi from the annual Brookings Conferences in Qatar? And his relationship to various Islamic charities, in 21 different countries?
All of the conferences in Turkey were well attended by Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.(10)
In a 2009 interview with al-Quds al-Arabi, the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, Muhammad Akef, gave some information about the International Organization. He said the International "Shura Council" consisted of 90 members from inside Egypt and 40 outside of Egypt. Those outside of Egypt were from Jordan, Syria, the Gulf, Malaysia, Indonesia and Europe. The “Guidance Bureau” consisted of eight Egyptians and five non-Egyptians.(11)
In 2011, when the Muslim Brotherhood wanted the Syrian government taken out and replaced with Islamic Law, as was being done in Egypt, they called on Muslim Brotherhood members worldwide. By 2015, Muslims from at least 80 different countries had gone to Syria to fight for Islamic takeover.(12) Though many joined ISIS, because of their belief in a Caliphate, the call to jihad was originally made by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The doors had previously been shut to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, where they had been banned for good reasons. Many other countries had banned them from forming political parties because of their past attempts at violent overthrow of governments via these "political parties". But with the help of “expert” (liars) from alleged "research-based" educational think tanks, the doors were re-opened via U.S. intervention.
Brookings is considered to be one of the most trusted think tanks in the world. Its “experts” are some of the most quoted on TV, in newspapers, and, its members often give testimony at Congressional Hearings and send recommendations to the President and his staff.
Qatar donates enormous amounts of money to Brookings every year: $14.8 million in 2013 (Brookings has since stopped disclosing its donors).(1)
Brookings holds its annual conferences in Qatar, where global leaders, including our own heads of state, top members in our armed forces, and influential politicians, schmooze and listen to various Islamists and in many cases, with terrorists -- such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
On his weekly al-Jazeera TV show, Sharia and Life, Qaradawi has instructed Palestinian women to conduct suicide bombings on Israelis, encouraged suicide bombings on U.S. soldiers, and has promoted the crucifixion of Christians.
Qaradawi has been intrinsically involved in several of Qatar's “charities”, including Qatar’s top two: Qatar Charity and the Qatar Foundation.
Qatar Charity belongs to Qaradawi's Union of Good, which is a coalition of 57 Islamic charities in 21 different countries. The 57 charities can make financial transfers between coalition members between the 21 different countries.
Ties between Qatar Charity and al-Qaeda date back to a 1995 assassination attempt on former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarek.(1)
Qatar Charitable Society played a major role in financing the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.(1)
Qatar funded the Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade in Syria, which worked with Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria). Qatar did the same in Libya when it openly funded and armed jihadists tied to al-Qaeda there.(1)
Qatar is a primary funder of Brookings Institute.
Brookings “experts” Will McCants, Michael Doran and Clint Watts have urged against classifying Ahrar al-Sham a terrorist group, even though the group has fought alongside ISIS and with al-Qaeda. Ahrar al-Sham is an Islamist mercenary army financially backed by Qatar and Turkey and its founder was a senior al-Qaeda operative.(1)
The Brookings “experts” argue that U.S. policymakers should be flexible with Ahrar al-Sham because they say it is a “lesser of two evils” when compared to ISIS. But if these “experts” were indeed experts, then they'd know that Ahrar al-Sham not only has fought with ISIS, but behaves exactly as ISIS, and has the exact same ideology and desires of implementing Islamic Law and a Caliphate.
Long before the "Arab Spring" the “experts” have been promoting the idea that violent Islamist groups must be included in the “democratic” process of new governments in the Middle East and North Africa.
Peter W. Singer, co-coordinator of a Brookings Institute conference, wrote in a conference papers that "moderate" Islamist parties must be included in the political systems of Muslim countries. He wrote: "In dealing with burgeoning democracies, a general finding is that outside parties should support integration of Islamist parties into [the] political system rather than exclusion."(1)
Tamara Wittes, Brookings “Director” for Middle East Policy in 2008, stated that she believes that Islamists, including Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Moroccan Muslim Brotherhood are different from Hamas or al-Qaeda. She says they [the Muslim Brotherhood] want to transform society and government into something that is more Islamic, but aim to do so below the radar rather than through revolutionary change.(1)(2)
If Singer and Wittes are "experts," then they are well aware that the primary goals of the Muslim Brotherhood have always been Islamic Law and a caliphate. "Burgeoning democracies" would be destroyed by the insertion of the Muslim Brotherhood into the political system.
Islamists do not believe in “government” because governments create laws and constitutions that give rights to and protects all citizens. The Muslim Brotherhood believe only in the laws of the Quran (which does not give rights to all people). And they believe in jihad to accomplish this goal. That is why the Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly, throughout their history, tried to take down governments (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria and so forth).
Wittes had suggested that some Islamists are different that others, inferring that the Muslim Brotherhood are non-violent. But this is untrue. In 2011, Muslim Brotherhood in every one of the “Arab Spring” countries conducted acts of violence and terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood have had a long history of terrorism.
During the January 2011 "revolution" in Egypt, the kick off to the violence was when Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian affiliate, crossed the border into Egypt in armored vehicles, broke into prisons, killed guards, and released terrorists.
Syria’s “moderate” rebels (who consisted of Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda armies) kicked off their "revolution" with attacks on Christian towns, slaughtering civilians in order to “take territory” for Islam.
Wittes either made a bad judgement call when she wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood are different than Hamas or al-Qaeda, or was purposefully spreading the pro-Islamist agenda, which is to make the Brotherhood out to be “moderate” and “peaceful.”
But did she learn anything after the intense violence and terrorism that occurred from 2011-2013? No, she did not.
On January 10, 2014, Wittes co-authored an article for the Washington Post with Daniel Byman. Byman was a professor in the "Security Studies" program at Georgetown University and the "Research Director" of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. They wrote:
“Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is declared a terrorist group [in Egypt], it just might become one [a terrorist group] …Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not a terrorist movement, at least not currently. But the move ... to ban it from politics and declare it a terrorist organization may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”(3)
In Wittes and Byman's 2014 article, they totally dismissed the fact that starting in June 2012, and for eighteen months straight, the Egyptian people suffered from non-stop Muslim Brotherhood violence and terrorism.
August 2013 saw horrific attacks on both civilians and police (police stations were attacked and police were disemboweled). Also in August of 2013, the Brotherhood torched more than 80 churches. At their rallies, Muslim Brotherhood leaders told their followers to kill and 'burn' all Christians.
Then, in December 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood conducted hundreds of small scale bombings, culminating in a large bombing of the police headquarters in Mansoura. It was then that the Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organization by the Judicial System and the Egyptian Parliament.
The decision to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization was made because the Brotherhood were conducting ongoing terrorist attacks.
Wittes and Byman ignored all of these facts. And like so many other "experts" from the think tanks, they promoted the rhetoric that declaring the Brotherhood a terrorist group would make them terrorists. How absurd!
Two weeks after that article, Byman and Wittes published another article, originally posted on their “education/research” page at their .edu website (these people teach our youth!). The article was addressed to Obama, and was picked up by the Boston Globe and several other major newspapers to send their propaganda message to the American public.
Byman and Wittes wrote:
“By declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, Egypt risks radicalizing the group’s members and destabilizing the region … the Obama administration should engage with peaceful Islamists, push Egypt to allow Brotherhood supporters to participate in legitimate political and social activity ...”(4)
Peaceful Islamists? They had been conducting ongoing violence and massacres for years!
They also wrote: “The Brotherhood so far has not called its members to arms, but this could change as the government implements its effort to criminalize the group. In the past, the Brotherhood weathered its exclusion from political power by concentrating on social change.”
The entire article was filled with lies, but their words: “The Brotherhood so far has not called its members to arms” was a horrific lie.
The Brotherhood began arming themselves in enclaves in southern Egypt decades earlier, but starting in early 2012, they began openly calling on members to join their armed militia. They posted videos of their militia that was forming in the Sinai in coordination with Hamas. By mid-2012, they were calling on Muslims from other countries to come join their militia in the Sinai.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Like Brookings, Carnegie “experts” often testify at hearings to sway opinions of Congress.
Marwan Muasher is vice president “for studies” at Carnegie, where he “oversees research”. In other words, he decides what information will be passed on to the media and other "researchers" at various think tanks. From 2007 to 2010, he was also senior vice president of "external affairs" at the World Bank.
When the various Arab Spring “revolutions” (i.e. Islamist takeovers) began in January 2011, most all mainstream media quoted Marwan Muasher or had him on their show, spouting him as a Mid-East “expert”. Muasher emphasized that all "Arab Spring" countries must include Islamist groups in a new “democratic” government.
Regarding Syria, Muasher tried to eliminate fears about the Muslim Brotherhood, repeatedly stating that the Brotherhood gave a “very strong message that they want a secular, pluralistic Syria in which religion plays no role.”(6)
This was a lie. The Muslim Brotherhood is all about religion. They do not believe in man-made “governments” that protect a secular society. A secular society is exactly what the Brotherhood in Syria and Egypt wanted to oust and replace with Islam.
During the peak of "Arab Spring" transition of power to Muslim Brotherhood throughout the region and the rise of the militant “rebel” groups in Libya and Syria, George Soros hired a new spokesperson: none other than Marwan Muasher of Carnegie. Soros funded the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which Muasher was in charge of.(5)
A George Soros organization called the International Crisis Group (ICG) says it’s a non-profit, non-government organization (NGO) dedicated to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. But ICG was actually promoting protests, opposition parties, and violent unrest. Soros had a hand in creating "crisis." Soros and Muasher would identify a “crisis”, demand government intervention, and then the government handed out contracts to Soros' groups.
Terrorist groups such as the White Helmets were recipients of enormous amounts of money via this NGO system. The U.S. State Department, Dept. of Defense, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors all funded various NGOs that went under the façades of being "human rights groups." Some of these NGO’s were set up as intelligence gathering, and others to promote violent protests and anti-government activities.(6)
When Egypt discovered the truth behind the NGOs in Egypt, laws were passed curbing their access. "Experts" from Carnegie called this "censorship," but it was survival. The NGOs disguised as Human Rights groups were aiding terrorism.
Nathan Brown is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie’s “Middle East Program” and a professor at George Washington University. He has an enormous number of publications, books, articles, NPR and TV spots. He is against the U.S. designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. He is introduced as an “expert” on TV and gives “expert” testimony at Congressional Hearings.
On April 13, 2011, Nathan Brown gave testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Terrorism. But before I give excerpts of his testimony, you should know some facts.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto is: Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
The Muslim Brotherhood emblem, the double swords and the Quran, has the word: “prepare” under the two swords. The word “prepare” refers to "prepare your swords (your weapons)" for jihad. The primary doctrine of the Quran is that it is the duty of all Muslims to enforce Islamic Law throughout the world -- via jihad.
Hassan al-Banna, the creator of the Muslim Brotherhood considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran as the only acceptable Constitution and source for laws. His manifesto specifically outlined the creation of Youth Groups for jihad and the implementation of Islamic Law. He advocated for a strengthening of the bonds between all Muslim majority countries in order to pave the way for a return to the Caliphate.
Banna wanted to diffuse Islam throughout the existing governments, so that all government employees would feel responsible to adhere to Islamic Law.
The following are excerpts from the Testimony to Congress by Dr. Nathan Brown:
“In describing the Muslim Brotherhood, it is perhaps best to start with the movement’s motto imprinted on its emblem: “Be Prepared.” The resemblance with the Boy Scouts is far from coincidental. The movement’s founder, Hasan al-Banna, was aware of Scouting and wished to found an organization that was similarly devoted to fostering the personal development of the rising generation.”
“Al-Banna’s genius lay in inspiration and organization rather than in systematic thought. Indeed, from the beginning, it was clear that the Brotherhood model was based less on abstract ideas as on forging tight personal bonds around dedication to a common, but very general, vision of personal and social reform. To this day, the organization is so strong that schisms are rare; yet it is also so flexible that almost nobody is dismissed from the Brotherhood for anything he, or, in the case of associated women’s organizations, she, says or thinks."
Brown lied about the emblem saying "be prepared." The emblem says "prepare," as in prepare to fight (jihad). Brown intentionally lied to Congress to portray the Muslim Brotherhood as something it is not.
Congress votes whether to designate the Brotherhood a terror group based on the testimonies of people like Nathan Brown.
Additionally, the Muslim Brotherhood believe in the Quran’s version of women’s rights, which means there is no “flexibility” as Brown tries to suggest. Women are to obey their husbands (or their male family members if unmarried), no matter what women think or feel. The Muslim Brotherhood, like all Islamists, believe in child marriages and female circumcising. There is no "flexibility" in regards to women's rights.
More from Brown’s testimony:
“In the 1940s, as other Egyptian movements created youth wings that took on a paramilitary aspect, modeled in part on European movements of the left and right during the same period, the Brotherhood formed its own.”
Here we see that Brown tried to brush off the Youth military wing as if it was a trend of the period. The Youth Militia is a primary element of Brotherhood Doctrine in order to implement Islamic Law.
More from Brown:
“In the late 1940s, it constructed a “special apparatus” that engaged in some violent activity. While that body was disbanded over half a century ago, the damage to the Brotherhood’s reputation has been ongoing. The Muslim Brotherhood has had some radical ideas develop within its ranks. It has largely rooted those out.”
Brown lied. The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Special Apparatus” did not disband. If Brown is indeed an "expert" he knows this. The Secret Apparatus was used in Syria in the 1960’s and then again in the 1980’s when the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood conducted massacres on the Syrian Army.(7)
Brown says the Brotherhood engaged in “some violent activity.” No, the Brotherhood has engaged in ongoing violent activity and massacres throughout their history in several different countries.
As far as his statement that the Brotherhood has had some radical ideas that have been “rooted out,” that is another blatant lie. Remember the Muslim Brotherhood's motto: the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
Regarding the Secret Apparatus, a 1982 U.S. Intel report states that the Muslim Brotherhood “…began to expand their covert arm for political violence, the Secret Apparatus, in about 1964. This covert arm…was known as The Youth of Mohammad [and] Faithful Youth. The major setback in 1980 led to the removal of Issam Attar as Supreme Guide of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood … The new leadership consisted of Adman Said al Din as the new Supreme Guide … and Adnan Uqlah, Commander of the Secret Apparatus.(7)
Now let’s jump to the current bill to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Michelle Dunne, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who often testifies at Congressional hearings, and who is against declaring the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, said this:
“Designating all Muslim Brotherhood groups ... to be terrorists based on the actions of a few might well push the [Brotherhood's] debate over using violence in the wrong direction… it could actually increase the threat of terrorism...”(8)
Did she say, "Actions of a few" ?
Algeria fought a ten-year civil war with the Algerian Brotherhood who were trying to impose Islamic Law.
Syria has battled the Syrian Brotherhood since the 1960’s, with an enormous wave of violence and massacres done by them in the 1980’s, and then, starting in 2011, ongoing terrorism by the Muslim Brotherhood via their creation of the ‘Free Syrian Army.’
Egypt has battled Brotherhood violence since 1928, but terror attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood intensified and have been ongoing without relief since 2011.
Like Brookings, Carnegie is filled with pro-Islamist propagandists who are constantly used in mainstream media as “experts.” These liars and propagandists feed the brains of mainstream media, but also our Congress.
In April 2012, Carnegie had an annual conference in which top U.S. officials and media attended. Two of the panel discussions were held by members of the Muslim Brotherhood: Abdul Mawgoud Dardery (Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood); Nahil Alkofahi (Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood); Sahbi Atig (Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood); Khaled Al-Qazzaz (Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood); Osama Al-Saghir (Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood); and, Mohamed Gaair (Libyan Muslim Brotherhood).
Hardcore Islamists were influencing the press and U.S. officials.
Carnegie’s Marina Ottaway said the Islamists were "separate entities," not one large, unified bloc. She said that Islamists in various different countries have “little contact with one another.”(9)
Ah, we have another (expert) liar.
Brown had said in his testimony against declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group that the “International Brotherhood” is a “group of loosely linked, ideologically similar movements” that resemble a “group of college fraternities.”(9)(10)
Brown further testified: “At a global level ... [the Brotherhood] most closely resembles today’s alliances among various like-minded organizations like socialist or Christian Democratic parties. These are tame frameworks for a group of loosely linked, ideologically similar movements… there is no reason to fear it ...(10)
Contrary to what Brown wanted Congress to believe, the International Muslim Brotherhood is unified, well structured, and definitely a force to fear. And when Carnegie’s Marina Ottaway said the Islamist parties are separate entities and have “little contact with one another,” she lied.
The Global Muslim Brotherhood
It has been shown via the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2009 that there is a highly sophisticated organizational structure for the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Likewise, the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe have banded together to form the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE). The leaders at the top of the structure of all of these Muslim Brotherhood Organizations has always been the Egyptian Supreme Guide. Leaders under him and who head other branches are called Secretary Generals.
From the beginning of its formation in 1928, the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood and their ideology have been purposefully planted in universities. First in Cairo, at al-Azhar University, but rapidly placed in others. Secretly, Muslim Brotherhood members became faculty members, department chairs, deans, administration management and so forth, all the way to top positions that fully control the university. This same format was later used in universities in Europe and America (see: Muslim Brotherhood in America).
The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Communications Bureau with the Islamic World” was created in 1945. This was the Foreign Affairs section of the Brotherhood. When Gammal Abdul al-Nasser, president of Egypt, banned the Brotherhood in Egypt in 1954, many of the Brotherhood’s leaders left and began a massive endeavor to spread the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide.
A Brotherhood leader, Mustafa Machhour, began working to create the International Muslim Brotherhood. With help from another leader, Muhammad Akef (who later moved to Germany in 1981, and who became Supreme Guide in 2004), they coordinated an alliance with Jamaat Islamiya in Pakistan and Refah in Turkey (terrorist groups).
A Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Hassan Howeidi, was sent to Europe in the 1980's to help coordinate other members and spread the organization inside universities in Europe.
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood was expunged from Iraq. The Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood was one of the major sources of funding for the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. After being banned from Iraq, many leaders of the Iraqi Brotherhood went next door to Syria where they continued their subversive activities.
By 2004, with Muhammad Akef now the Supreme Guide, the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood had become well established in many countries (in 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's website boasted that they were organized in 80 countries).
Though led by the Supreme Guide and other leaders in Egypt, called the “Guidance Bureau”, many other members ran the International Organization, including the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Huwaidi; leader of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, Faisal Mawlawi; controller-general of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, Abd-Majid-Dhunaybat, and Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Rashid al-Ghannushi.
In 2004, an Egyptian Brotherhood member based in London, Ibrahim Munir, coordinated meetings. The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood held their meetings with Egyptian leaders in different European countries because the Brotherhood was still banned in Egypt and was watched by security. There was no way to have meetings in Egypt.
In 2006, after the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections and the consolidation of the regime’s control of Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan, Istanbul became a center for Muslim Brotherhood meetings. From 2006 until the Gaza flotilla, Turkey hosted at least ten International Conferences of the Muslim Brotherhood. An Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader living in Qatar, Youssef Qaradawi, began to visit Turkey frequently, to coordinate funding for the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Remember Qaradawi from the annual Brookings Conferences in Qatar? And his relationship to various Islamic charities, in 21 different countries?
All of the conferences in Turkey were well attended by Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.(10)
In a 2009 interview with al-Quds al-Arabi, the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, Muhammad Akef, gave some information about the International Organization. He said the International "Shura Council" consisted of 90 members from inside Egypt and 40 outside of Egypt. Those outside of Egypt were from Jordan, Syria, the Gulf, Malaysia, Indonesia and Europe. The “Guidance Bureau” consisted of eight Egyptians and five non-Egyptians.(11)
In 2011, when the Muslim Brotherhood wanted the Syrian government taken out and replaced with Islamic Law, as was being done in Egypt, they called on Muslim Brotherhood members worldwide. By 2015, Muslims from at least 80 different countries had gone to Syria to fight for Islamic takeover.(12) Though many joined ISIS, because of their belief in a Caliphate, the call to jihad was originally made by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The doors had previously been shut to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, where they had been banned for good reasons. Many other countries had banned them from forming political parties because of their past attempts at violent overthrow of governments via these "political parties". But with the help of “expert” (liars) from alleged "research-based" educational think tanks, the doors were re-opened via U.S. intervention.
Sources
(1) https://www.investigativeproject.org/4630/ipt-exclusive-qatar-insidious-influence-on#
(2) http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=17484
(3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/now-that-the-muslim-brotherhood-is-declared-a-terrorist-group-it-just-might-become-one/2014/01/10/268977d2-77d6-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html?utm_term=.dda4a1f8d352
(4) https://www.brookings.edu/research/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizes/
(5) https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood and https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board
(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905716_pf.html
White Helmets/George Soros: http://www.cheriberens.net/white-helmetsnbspan-islamist-propagandist-group-and-funded-arm-of-us-government.html
Soros frontman pushing for Muslim Brotherhood: http://www.wnd.com/2011/06/311053/#Rd6HJtylrluiowOj.99
Is George Soros forging a closer alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2011/06/30/is-george-soros-forging-a-closer-alliance-with-the-muslim-brotherhood/
George Soros allies with the Muslim Brotherhood: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood
(7) http://www.cheriberens.net/us-intel-report-describes-how-the-muslim-brotherhood-began-controlling-western-media.html
(8) https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/middle-east/designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorists-complicated-1089
(9) https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2012/04/09/analysis-does-the-carnegie-endowment-have-a-clue/
(10) https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2011/04/20/carnegie-analyst-says-international-muslim-brotherhood-operates-like-college-fraternity/
(11) Al-Shami, Khalid. Statements by Muslim Brotherhood Leaders on Succession to Murshid General. Al-Quds al-Arabi. London: April 8, 2009.
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2009/05/06/egyptian-muslim-brotherhood-leader-details-international-organization/
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/international-organization-of-the-muslim-brotherhood/
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/ and personal sources.
(12) http://www.cheriberens.net/who-are-the-refugees-that-are-coming-to-america.html
Additional Reading
For more information on Brookings annual conferences in Doha, see: IPT Exclusive: Terror Enablers Join Global Elite at Brookings: https://counterjihadreport.com/tag/mouaz-al-khatib/
U.S. government's "National Endowment for the Humanities" Supports U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Organization: https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2013/10/28/national-endowment-humanities-supporting-iiit/
(1) https://www.investigativeproject.org/4630/ipt-exclusive-qatar-insidious-influence-on#
(2) http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=17484
(3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/now-that-the-muslim-brotherhood-is-declared-a-terrorist-group-it-just-might-become-one/2014/01/10/268977d2-77d6-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html?utm_term=.dda4a1f8d352
(4) https://www.brookings.edu/research/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizes/
(5) https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood and https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board
(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905716_pf.html
White Helmets/George Soros: http://www.cheriberens.net/white-helmetsnbspan-islamist-propagandist-group-and-funded-arm-of-us-government.html
Soros frontman pushing for Muslim Brotherhood: http://www.wnd.com/2011/06/311053/#Rd6HJtylrluiowOj.99
Is George Soros forging a closer alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2011/06/30/is-george-soros-forging-a-closer-alliance-with-the-muslim-brotherhood/
George Soros allies with the Muslim Brotherhood: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood
(7) http://www.cheriberens.net/us-intel-report-describes-how-the-muslim-brotherhood-began-controlling-western-media.html
(8) https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/middle-east/designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorists-complicated-1089
(9) https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2012/04/09/analysis-does-the-carnegie-endowment-have-a-clue/
(10) https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2011/04/20/carnegie-analyst-says-international-muslim-brotherhood-operates-like-college-fraternity/
(11) Al-Shami, Khalid. Statements by Muslim Brotherhood Leaders on Succession to Murshid General. Al-Quds al-Arabi. London: April 8, 2009.
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2009/05/06/egyptian-muslim-brotherhood-leader-details-international-organization/
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/international-organization-of-the-muslim-brotherhood/
https://www.globalmbwatch.com/ and personal sources.
(12) http://www.cheriberens.net/who-are-the-refugees-that-are-coming-to-america.html
Additional Reading
For more information on Brookings annual conferences in Doha, see: IPT Exclusive: Terror Enablers Join Global Elite at Brookings: https://counterjihadreport.com/tag/mouaz-al-khatib/
U.S. government's "National Endowment for the Humanities" Supports U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Organization: https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2013/10/28/national-endowment-humanities-supporting-iiit/