The Muslim Brotherhood’s plans to seize the US become trial evidence
posted at 10:01 am on September 18, 2007 by Bryan
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If you’ve been reading Jihad Watch or listening to Robert Spencer, you’ve been learning about these plans for years now. But I’d venture to say that most people are just now learning of the Muslim Brotherhood’s long term goals in the US, which include replacing the Constitution with sharia law. The plans have been introduced as evidence in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation trial, in which the Council on American Islamic Relations has been named an unindicted co-conspirator.
Amid the mountain of evidence released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, the most provocative has turned out to be a handful of previously classified evidence detailing Islamist extremists’ ambitious plans for a U.S. takeover…
The documents – introduced in recent weeks as part of the prosecution’s case in the trial of the now defunct Holy Land Foundation and five of its organizers – lay out the Brotherhood’s plans in chillingly stark terms.
A 1991 strategy paper for the Brotherhood, often referred to as the Ikhwan in Arabic, found in the Virginia home of an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, describes the group’s U.S. goals, referred to as a “civilization-jihadist process.”
“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,” it states. This process requires a “mastery of the art of ‘coalitions,’ the art of ‘absorption’ and the principles of ‘cooperation.’ ”
Success in the U.S. “in establishing an observant Islamic base with power and effectiveness will be the best support and aid to the global movement,” it states.
A transcript of a Brotherhood orientation meeting recorded in the early 1980s includes discussions of the need for “securing the group” from infiltration by “Zionism, Masonry … the CIA, FBI, etc. so that we find out if they are monitoring us” and “how can we get rid of them.” Discussions later turn to “weapons training at the Ikhwan’s camps” in Oklahoma and Missouri.
It would be nice to know whose Virginia home held those documents.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of Hamas, formed in 1987 in the Palestinian territories to combat Israeli occupation. The Brotherhood remains active in many parts of the world, dedicated to increasing fundamentalist Islamic influence. A key goal is to place nations under Shariah.
The Muslim Brotherhood is also the organization that attracted Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri to the jihad, and is the ideological fountainhead of al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is the more militant of the two — the Brotherhood participates in Egyptian elections, for instance, while al Qaeda prefers threatening the Iraqi elections — but their goals are the same. They want to re-establish the caliphate and usher in an Islam-dominated world.
Hopefully as this information emerges in the Holy Land trial, it’ll wake up a few people in Washington.
Back to the article, for some useful history on the Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt in the 1920s by Islamists seeking to install a fundamentalist government there. Islamist radicals today still idolize the martyr Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood’s most influential thinker.
While attending college in the U.S. in the late 1940s, Mr. Qutb was appalled by what he perceived as the nation’s lack of piousness and morality.
In the early 1950s, he was jailed in Egypt, where he had worked to overthrow the secular government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Before he was executed in 1966, he penned a scathing indictment of American culture that called for worldwide rejection of Western values.
His writings are still credited with radicalizing countless young Muslims, including Ayman al-Zawahiri. He became al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader and the spiritual guide to Osama bin Laden.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt says that it broke from its violent past in the 1970s and now favors backing Islamist candidates in the more than 70 countries where it has branches. However, the branches operate as independent groups with differing views on the role of violence, and experts say they frequently squabble over strategy, ideology and direction.
“Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are working toward the same goal, but the Brotherhood is willing to work through it politically and take their time,” said Mr. Farah, the counterterrorism consultant. “They want an Islamic state. Does that mean they’re going to pick up a gun and start shooting at the [U.S.] president? No. They’re going to work the system.”
The U.S. is among the countries where the Brotherhood has sought to spread its message, according to Department of Justice prosecutors in the Holy Land case.
Prosecutors say that the Brotherhood was behind the Palestinian Committee, formed in the U.S. in the 1980s.
The Palestinian Committee was led by was Mousa Abu Marzook, former head of Hamas and now its No. 2 political chief. He has been designated as a terrorist by the U.S., and was closely tied to the Holy Land Foundation, according to evidence presented at the trial.
Mr. Marzook provided tens of thousands of dollars to the foundation, which also gave money back to charities that the government alleges are controlled by Hamas.
Mr. Marzook is also related by marriage to former Holy Land board chairman Ghassan Elashi, who along with his brothers has been convicted in prior trials of engaging in illegal business with Mr. Marzook.
The goal of the Palestinian Committee, which trial documents indicate existed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was to raise money in the U.S. to fund Hamas.
This was to be accomplished by forming a complex network of seemingly benign Muslim organizations whose real job, according to the government, was to spread militant propaganda and raise money.
The Muslim Brotherhood created some American Muslim groups and sought influence in others, many of which are listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case.
On the list are several prominent groups, including the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. All have protested their inclusion on the list.
Emphasis added. I just didn’t want anyone to miss it.
More: See also this great, incisive look at the Brotherhood campaign plan documents at American Thinker.
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We hope so.
Keep them accountable Bryan, and never let them forget.
Great job on this blog.
Mcguyver on September 18, 2007 at 10:16 AM
“Hopefully as this information emerges in the Holy Land trial, it’ll wake up a few people in Washington.”
I doubt it. I have absolutely no faith in our government, especially democrats. Anything to gain power and make a buck … even selling out your own country to muslims and illegal invaders. I’m more confident of my ability to protect myself and my family than I am of the government to do anything. Crooked bastards … always self before country for them.
darwin on September 18, 2007 at 10:18 AM
earth to Ron Paul…
jp on September 18, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Warning: this is a rant!!! “…absolutly no faith in our government…” Neither do I, and it has little to do with right or left. Many, if not most, of them are not of, by and for the people anymore, they are of by and for nothing at all!!!! The Senate is mostly a little club of those that have been there too long and for the wrong reasons. The House is made up of people who only want to retain their seat by pandering to the Party and special interests in their own districts. All and all an unprincipled lot. Above all, there is no wise leadership worthy of the respect of most of us and them. “No faith..” is a huge understatement.(how’s that for cynicism? and being off subject LOL)
jeanie on September 18, 2007 at 10:46 AM
These Dhimmicrats don’t realize once they keep appeasing and appeasing they will soon find themselves replaced by islamic politicians and judges(if the jihadis get their way) and they won’t know what hit them.
They are so busy trying to retain power and pass their socialist crap they don’t see the bigger threat coming at all, or are foolishly thinking they can control it.
Islamofacists won’t keep Dhimmicrats (or anyone else) in power if they can take control with true, die hard, Sharia loving “pure” Islamists. They will use Dems now but if they ever succeed in getting large muslim populations in our cities and then vote as a block no amount of appeasing, a@@kissing or converting is going to stop them from loosing their power.
FireFly on September 18, 2007 at 10:46 AM
So we we’re immoral, and Qutb ran around overthrowing governments.
Fits perfectly, to this day. We are the evil and immoral infidel and they run around chopping heads off.
We are dealing with sick people who look at the world through blood-stained glasses. We’d better wake up soon. We’d better start profiling. Our enemies are setting up shop in our back yard, posing as doctors and scholars - while America twiddles it’s thumbs.
(And I guess our immorality back in the 1940s included driving the Nazis out of Arab countries in North Africa?)
fogw on September 18, 2007 at 10:51 AM
The Muslim Brotherhood wants sharia to replace liberal democracy. I’m shocked! /sarc
Seriously though, I hope the story gets out to people who are tempted to think they are in any way a moderate organization. I just about had a stroke when that rumor was going around about MB members meeting with Congress in the Capitol.
forest on September 18, 2007 at 10:55 AM
What worries me is 6 years after 9/11, this isn’t common knowledge on the Right/conservative side. And now we have some of our voters wanting to appease the islamist and blame ourselves for the problem.
jp on September 18, 2007 at 10:55 AM
Probably, because most of the Arabs were on the Nazis’ side. Google the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his recruitment for a Muslim SS unit some time.
Bryan on September 18, 2007 at 11:00 AM
I’m waiting for Congressmuslim Ellison to demand a footbath.
darwin on September 18, 2007 at 11:07 AM
How many times are we told that we’re imagining a threat?
drjohn on September 18, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Good point Bryan. Morality is in the soul of the beholder.
fogw on September 18, 2007 at 11:13 AM
It would be nice if our State Department would stop viewing the Muslim Brotherhood as an acceptable political faction in Egypt.
CP on September 18, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Kinda bathes the 2nd Amendment in a fresh, and all-too-relevant, light…
Ochlan on September 18, 2007 at 11:18 AM
If this was 1942 all these bastards on trial would have been tried and convicted of treason and executed as spies. But we are not our grandfathers’ generation and have lost the ability to deal in those terms. Sad. Instead, if convicted, these SOBs will get medical care in prison where they can spread their hate protected by the First Amendment.
Thomas the Wraith on September 18, 2007 at 11:19 AM
It’s good to be reminded of how long the Jihad has been going on, how pervasive the Jihad is and just how serious the threat is that Sharia Islam presents to a doors thrown open society.
So far as Democrats are concerned. the weasel is in the chicken coop.
I guess if Sayyid Qutb couldn’t handle the morality of 1940s America, he’d really blow a gasket now huh?
Speakup on September 18, 2007 at 11:19 AM
Yes it would.
I’m sending this on to my brother in VA. The last time I talked to him, he mentioned that he had Muslim acquaintances who had told him CAIR was a good organization. His comment halted our conversation. I got the impression he preferred to believe his acquaintances.
Connie on September 18, 2007 at 11:43 AM
I had to laugh when I read that. Yeah, the morals of our young people were really being corrupted by that drunken reprobate, Glenn Miller! Abbott and Costello? Pottymouths!! And don’t even get me started on that slut Julie Andrews!
/sarc
CurtZHP on September 18, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Write your Senators and representatives to have these people and organizations kicked out of the US.
Ok … I know that’ll probably never happen, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.
darwin on September 18, 2007 at 12:08 PM
I have been monitoring the trial here in Texas, got to attend in Dallas 6 days in August and this month(viewed from aux.courtroom on 2 days). The case has been very interesting but so much of it relies on the testimony from Israeli intelligence officers who testified under false names. I don’t know how the jury reacted to their testimony, seems difficult to judge if witnesses who have such a strong agenda are not allowed to be questioned on their own background (something about facing ones on accusers). My legal buddies had only one comment on it “automatic appeal to the big court”.
Many times the jury seemed bored, and I will admit viewing video or listening to taped speeches of Hamas when you don’t understand the language tends to make me wish i had a pillow and a teddy bear (stuffed with a pint of scotch). Much of the Muslim Brotherhood information came from very old documents (20-50 yrs old). Seems I’ve read much more on the topic from several sources (”The Looming Tower” is a good source for basic background).
I really couldn’t get a grasp of how the jury would react overall…The question appears to come down to if charitable contributions to a political organization (listed as a terrorist organization by US), used for charitable purposes only, contributes to terrorism….These guys were under investigation in Richardson TX. forever… I get the feeling the Feds rushed this one and have resorted to throwing everything but they the have at them….. I’ll have to wait and see.
scooter on September 18, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Just a thought…what happens when they run out of virgins…???
areseaoh on September 18, 2007 at 12:39 PM
The West is good at massive existential threats, because our personal bravery and innovative strategies work very well. Very, very well.
We’re not so good at “creeping horrors, because we have more choices of how to spend our time (and no incentive to focus if the threat isn’t immediate), and the attention span of a three-year-old boy.
Mind you, so far the three-year-old boy is winning.
Merovign on September 18, 2007 at 12:48 PM
I firmly believe that two generations of feelings- and diversity-based public education have led us to a dangerous point. Even after domestic attacks begin happening on a fairly regular basis, the millions and millions who firmly believe that being liked is the most important national goal, and have been Zinn-ed into the idea that America is the world’s worst force for evil, are going to continue to to think negotiation and accomodation (actually appeasement) will solve the problem. Unfortunately, the State Dept, the CIA, the FBI, and even Congress have many careerists in this camp.
So I think our reaction to this imminent danger is impossible to predict.
eeyore on September 18, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Well. Let’s see. What part of Virginia is really, really close to a center of national power???
Hmm. That’s a stumper.
Miss_Anthrope on September 18, 2007 at 3:36 PM
This trial has the potential of destroying Islam in America.
I don’t think our Constitution will fall to Shiara. I think that Islam will become a “prohibited” religion first. Yes, I know what the First Amendment says, and it doesn’t say that a religion can trample on the rights of others in the name of their religion or force others to “either believe or die” as a tenant of their belief.
There are faiths and cults that require animal or human sacrifice. They have become illegal in this country and the Supreme Court has upheld it.
There are faiths and cults that require the use of potent drugs to achieve oneness or whatever with their god. They possession and use of those drugs do not get an exemption from prosecution. The Supreme Court upheld that as well.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. And Americans, no matter what some think, are not sheep. Push Americans into groveling 5 times a day at the orders of some stupid “holy man” and following their silly dietary laws and/or customs concerning women, children, and pets, and Americans will push back. And there are 85 million gun owners in America. Any person contemplating taking over America has to include in his calculations what an insurgency of one quarter of the population might be like.
All it takes is for American to start pushing back. With law suits, with protests, and with the removing of sympathizers who knuckle under to their demands for “foot washing basins” and “islamic studies” in schools and universities, whatever. The sooner we push back against CAIR and the Brotherhood, the fewer lives will be lost and the better things will become for all of us.
The longer this goes on, the greater the liklihood of a violent backlash, the main victims of which will be innocent men, women, and children.
This trial has the potential of outlawing CAIR and the other Islamic radicals in America, and putting America on notice.
What’s funny is the uproar Ann Coulter (a not-so-favored conservative of this site) received for her remarks right after 9/11/01.
She wrote, in case you forgot:
You all remember the furor over this, don’t you?
What’s so funny is this is EXACTLY what the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH intend to do to *US*!
georgej on September 18, 2007 at 3:46 PM