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For years, national security experts and freedom activists have sounded the alarm about Muslim Brotherhood activity in the United States, only to be tarred and dismissed as hysterical “hatemongers” and “Islamophobes.” Now, however, an internationally prominent former Brotherhood activist has confirmed the warnings. Is he, too, a “hatemonger” and “Islamophobe?”
In a June 6, 2024, interview, Sami al-Arian, a former Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizer, stated that “there was a Muslim Brotherhood movement in America… whose early beginnings were in the late 1960’s.” Asked if it was “registered officially,” al-Arian responded, “No, no. This turned into a problem later on.” Nevertheless, he said, “the Muslim Brotherhood movement existed in America. It consisted of people who were Muslim Brotherhood members in their countries and came to the U.S. to study, or people who studied there.”
Al-Arian was a part of it all: “I officially joined the movement… Ideologically, I considered myself part of this, but I officially joined in 1978.” He immediately encountered friction within the movement: “In 1978, there was a clear and major dispute in the organization, between people who settled in America and wanted to open the movement, and turn it into a local movement…They called it ‘localization of the dawa.’ They had a dispute with people who wanted to keep it clandestine.”
Remember: organizations that are engaging in entirely legal and above-board activities have no need to be clandestine. The Brotherhood was thus not engaged in legal and above-board activities. Al-Arian makes this even clearer when he explains that those who favored making the U.S. Brotherhood “a public movement with the ‘localization of the dawa’” were those who were not planning to return to their home countries, while those who were planning to return wanted to keep the group undercover, so that they would not encounter trouble for having belonged to it when they returned to Muslim countries where the governments opposed the Brotherhood’s efforts to impose Sharia.
Al-Arian states that those who favored “the localization” plotted a coup, but were foiled: “a Sudanese brother was coming [to America] and he was very familiar with professional unions. He foiled the coup and showed very impressive leadership skills so he was immediately elected to be the leader. He developed a major plan for the future. That was in 1979-1981. Under his leadership, the movement in America progressed significantly.”
All this comes from a man who was well situated to track the progress of the Brotherhood in the United States. Sami al-Arian was deeply involved in clandestine activities along with the Brotherhood: he was deported from the United States in 2015 after pleading guilty to a charge of “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds to or for the benefit of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Specially Designated Terrorist” organization. His description of the Brotherhood as initially a clandestine organization that developed a coherent program for the future in the late 1970s and early 1980s corresponds exactly to what counter-jihad organizations and individuals have been saying about it for decades.
The first indication of the activities of this clandestine Brotherhood organization came in September 2007, with the revelation during the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terrorism funding trial of a document dating from May 1991, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.” It stated that “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] 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” (p. 7).
The frankly subversive goals delineated in this document make it clear why many Brotherhood leaders wanted, as al-Arian explains, to keep the group “clandestine.” Also corresponding with al-Arian’s 2024 interview is the fact that this plan did not originate in 1991. In 2016, the Center for Security Policy published a “lecture by a top-level Muslim Brother before a closed Brotherhood audience [that] serves as an authoritative oral history of the Muslim Brotherhood and their efforts in the United States in their own words. The talk took place in Missouri in the early 1980s, yet it foreshadows issues mentioned in the Explanatory Memorandum almost a decade later – including references to the Brotherhood’s efforts to engage in ‘settlement,’ which the Memorandum will later come to define as a ‘Civilizational-jihadist’ process.”
The Explanatory Memorandum, in fact, is further confirmed by al-Arian’s recent interview in that it discusses efforts at what al-Arian called “localization of the dawa” as well as subversive activity, and thus appears to have represented an attempt to heal the split in the U.S. Brotherhood between those who wanted to focus on proselytizing (dawa) and those who wanted to maintain an underground organization dedicated to destroying the nation. The Memorandum states, “we would like for the Islamic center to become ‘The House of Dawa’ and ‘the general center’ in deeds first before name” (p. 11). This would involve Islamic centers becoming “a place for study, family, battalion, course, seminar, visit, sport, school, social club, women gathering, kindergarten for male and female youngsters, the office of the domestic political resolution, and the center for distributing our newspapers, magazines, books and our audio and visual tapes” (emphasis added).
Yet despite abundant evidence that the Explanatory Memorandum expressed the program of the Brotherhood, it became a new basis for wholesale defamation of foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression in the U.S. The Huffington Post sneered in 2018 that “the Islamophobia network unfailingly refers to the memorandum as an official declaration of Muslim Brotherhood strategy. Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy and perhaps the country’s most prominent Islamophobe, called it ‘the Muslim Brotherhood secret plan for taking down our country.’ Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two other leading voices in the anti-Muslim chorus, have written that ‘the Brotherhood lays out a plan [in the document] to do nothing less than conquer and Islamize the United States.’”
The Southern Poverty Law Center asserted that former FBI agent John Guandolo “claims that the foreign political group the Muslim Brotherhood is working to infiltrate and overthrow the U.S. government.” It likewise charged that Frank Gaffney was “gripped by paranoid fantasies of foreign entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating and supplanting the U.S. from within.” It states that I myself am “a frequent guest on Gaffney’s ‘Secure Freedom Radio’ and ‘Securing America TV.’ Spencer appears frequently to swap conspiracy theories with Gaffney ranging from the Biden administration’s alleged efforts to criminalize dissent to the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempts to implement Sharia law in America.” The ADL likewise claims that “Gaffney has promulgated a number of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories over the years. Chief among them is the allegation that the U.S. government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and that a number of political figures have actual ties to the group.”
Will the Huffington Post, the SPLC, and the ADL now take note of Sami al-Arian’s interview and apologize to those whom they smeared as “Islamophobes” for calling attention to the Muslim Brotherhood threat? It is much more likely that they will ignore what al-Arian has confirmed and continue their defamation. But al-Arian’s interview once again makes it clear, to any neutral observer, that these far-left entities have no credibility, and cannot be trusted.
Yep. I’ve had the Explanatory Memorandum in my possession for years. It is very blunt and matter-of-fact in the way it describes how they plan to destroy the United States of America and the Western world.
And they’re doing it. This is a very carefully, well thought out plan. A plan that is unfolding as I write this. Of course, they have all their commie, useful idiot enablers to help them along.
Now maybe the Human Rights wanks will see the Brotherhood for what it really is 100% Terrorists and will so something about it but dont hold your breath waiting
in response to my concerns with satanic islam…. Intrepid says: “… non-existent problem, made up… ”
* We have some serious issues with many Americans…
*******snooze********non-existent problem**********
I am a proud islamophobe. I have been since 9-11. And I enjoy being right. I am glad I am right.
Your whole satanic islam angle, which you apply to everything you don’t agree with, (the Catholic Church, the ELCA Lutheran Church, the Federal government, a role of toilet paper), is what fills up that empty space where your brain should be.
If you have some serious issues with so many of us what are you going to do about it, tough guy?
Your “satanic islam” meme is not exactly catching on.
Basically, you are good for a laugh or two.
You have no understanding of Biblical Prophecy…
You have no understanding of the problems coming to America and the West…
You have no understanding of what it means to worship the fake god allah, once called Baal.
Baal… which goes back to the the times of the Tower of Babel…
If you had any backbone… you would denounce your satanic ELCA fake church… which worships the fake god allah… and leave it.
All you’re interested in is… hooking up with women from your satanic fake church… <<< so despicable…
You are a laugh riot. I see you are still falling for the lie dropped on you all those years ago re: what I do in church. That’s fine. Please stay stupid. It basically makes you harmless and amusing. Why would I leave my church? I’m perfectly happy there.
As for biblical prophecy, meh. I’m not too concerned.
Since only you have a “unique understanding” of the problems coming to America and the west, and the rest of the entire western world doesn’t, what are you going to do about it, besides whine and moan.
I think you actually do worship your entirely made up god, whatever name you choose to give him. I’ll stick with Yahweh. I see you are off your meds again.
I assume most people don’t understand Bible prophesy but I don’t tell them they don’t understand – instead I site a particular passage or two and if that doesn’t inspire or make curious to look into, well, I did my part and conversation is over . I am not so sure I fully understand Bible prophesy, I only see patterns that seem to indicate this may be covered in Bible prophesy. To understand the Bible one needs a or needs to be a scholar of ancient texts and of course be inspired by YHVH’S Holy Spirit as well as calling on the spirits or test the spirits as in {1 John 4: 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,}
another Bible verse from the first book of the Old Testament: Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
That one ought to be pretty obvious to anyone with two working brain cells. But oh, it’s “islamaphobic”! We can’t have that, can we?
Yeah, I don’t know why he went after you. You’re not exactly a big fan of islam.
I assume this comment is meant for me. This guy is insane. He has been posting his satanic Catholic and Lutheran lunacy for years. All wrapped up in some blather about Baal, Allah and the satan. It’s hard to take seriously so I mess with him.
He thinks he is smarter than everyone else and he is in love with his tractor. No really. He is. He said as much 3-4 years ago. And he thinks I chase women at my church.
In many ways he is like THX blathering on endlessly about Objectivism. A completely one track mind.
Wow! This is a sadness. The lunatics have literally taken over the asylum and you just can’t see it?!?
What will it take?
There is and never has been a country called “Palestine.” Hence, there are no “Palestinians.” It is a concoction, a fabrication, a weapon of war.
Anyone who uses the term Palestine or Palestinians is an avowed enemy of Israel. When you use this word, the subtext is Palestine instead of Israel. It implies the extermination of the Jews. That’s what is understood when the enemies of Israel employ it.
From now on, let us all agree to call them what they are: ARABS.
When they say “Palestine”, they mean exterminate the Jews.
or as one of my Jewish buddies calls them – Sand N^gg^rs.
I emailed a Jewish talk show host – a lonsman – and said “Jews are the new niggaz’ the way antisemitism has spread faster than the pLandemic
kikeiggaaz – bwwwaaa haaaa haaaa —
Nothing like another stand up Jew –
Why are Jews and blacks the best standups – because we are the most hated in history – hated by misunderstanding which is ignorance which is stupid stupid lazy non-critical thinking minds –
Godfrey Cambridge said: “Blacks hate the Mexicans, Mexicans hate the blacks, and everyone hates the Jews” — that was in the 1960’s.
I call them Islamofascist colonists
They are NOT Arabs !!!
They are muslims… islamists… jihadists… terrorists… muhammadists… so call them what they really are…
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Arabs can be Christians…
And fools can be satanists. That means you, fool.
They aren’t even Arabs. They’re a mongrel breed of Arabs, Druzes, Circassians and other dirtbags. A motley crew if there ever was one.
Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Because of leftist false self defined moral superiority, that lot never admits error. They justify their cowardice in the face of evil by blaming anyone or anything but themselves.
Many people are puzzled by the alliance between the left & Islam. How could militant theists like Islamists share anything in common with militant atheists like leftists. Remember the enemy of my enemy is my friend is an Islamic phrase. They are a marriage of convenience that share a common hatred of western civilization. Once that goal is achieved they will turn on each other. Who will win if that occurs? Likely Islam because much of the Islamic world is non white which makes them saints who can do nothing wrong according to critical race theory. Also the hatred of homosexuals makes right wing homophobia look tolerant . They routinely throw homosexuals off of roofs.
Wake up and smell the Coffee Camel Jockey
Al-Arian’s son-in-law is Jonathan Brown, a full professor of Islamic something or other at Georgetown. He’s a real piece of work. Al-Arian’s daughter is a “journalist” for . . . Al Jazeera. She is a fire hose of jihadi propaganda.
Or invaders if you prefer.