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’Islam will invade Europe and America’
2004-02-04
(From WorldNet Daily - salt as necessary.)Story's based on the MEMRI article, below...
Responding to France’s ban on the Islamic veil, the new head of the Muslim Brotherhood asserted Islam ultimately will triumph over the United States and Europe. "I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America, because Islam has logic and a mission," said Muhammad Mahdi Othman ’Akef, who recently took over the Egyptian-based movement after the death of leader Mamoun Al-Hudhaybi. In an interview with the website alwihdah.com, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, ’Akef said he is convinced "the Europeans and the Americans will come into the bosom of Islam out of conviction... In 1993, I went to America and I published a book, ’Political Pluralism and the Woman,’ that was distributed in the mosque," he said. "Thirty [American] women converted immediately to Islam as soon as they read it. These are people who become convinced of the right path – but who will guide them there?"

Founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been banned in Egypt since 1954, although it renounced violence in the 1970s. The movement, which has thousands of supporters and branches in other Arab nations, seeks to establish a strict Islamic state in Egypt. ’Akef said he was among the first to express opposition to statements by French President Jacques Chirac, who "described the hijab [veil] as offensive in nature." A bill presented to France’s National Assembly yesterday by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin bars Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from public classrooms. ’Akef said he asked Chirac to understand the hijab is a "divine commandment."
"It's in the Koran someplace! You could look it up!"
"I know that among the brothers in France, or the so-called Union of Islamic Organizations, there are smart people who can stand against this vile stream in the war on the hijab, represented by the stream of Turkey and Tunisia," he said. "With Allah’s help, our brothers in France will be able to handle this matter however they see fit." In an interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Arabi, ’Akef called the U.S. a "Satan that abuses the region, lacking all morality and law." ’Akef criticized Washington’s claims that the U.S. is acting to spread democracy in the Arab world. "These are [futile] words and false propaganda," he said. "It is not logical that the U.S. – which destroyed Afghanistan, supports Israel’s daily ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people and occupies Iraq and steals its treasures – is acting to spread democracy in the Arab world."

The Muslim leader said he expects the U.S. to collapse in the near future. He told the independent Egyptian weekly Nahdhat Misr, "The matter of America’s attempt to take over the world is not new. What is new is that it appears with such a grim face, without morals, without principles, without law and without recognition of the need for the U.N. or the Security Council. ’Akef said he is certain that "without the betrayal in Iraq, the Iraqis would have tormented the Americans with all kinds of torments," and U.S. forces would have left. "I expect America to collapse soon," he said. "The elements of this collapse in America [already] exist, and Allah is the savior."
I posted the entire article, because what this guy says is believed by millions of Arabs. Whether he believes it or not is another question. It could go either way - this may be for local consumption, or he may be that deluded.

As I read this, a verse from the Bible popped into my mind: "He who lives by the sword, will die by the sword." I wonder if this will also apply to Islam, which was born by the sword, and which is spread mostly through "jihad", or "holy war".

I also don’t expect the US or Europe to fall to Islam. Islam as a force has spent itself. Its inability to exercise any form of creativity will limit it to what others create. It can be starved into submission, or just plain left in the dust. If it weren’t for oil, that’s where the entire Middle East would be anyway.
Posted by:Old Patriot

#16  Let's do a little PR for ourselves so that the world of Islam doesn't continue to think we are going to collapse. Next year, don't let MTV stage a crotch-grabbing gropefest for the Super Bowl halftime show. Stick with Charlie Daniels and Toby Keith. That sends a better message to the people that hate us.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-2-4 7:39:23 PM  

#15  I must say, his logic and intellectual rigor are excruciating.

without the betrayal in Iraq, the Iraqis would have tormented the Americans with all kinds of torments

if, if, if. if they hadn't done it, things would be different. sheesh. but they DID betray. that's what they do. and for good reason, might I add.

The matter of America’s attempt to take over the world is not new

it can't be old, cuz America ain't been around that long.

besides, in one breath he's getting all red in the face about how America is trying to take over the world. Seems to believe world domination is a BAD thing. Yet, in another breath he's huffing and puffing about how Islam will take over the world.

if he wasn't so dangerous (well, if his followers weren't so dangerous because of their sheer numbers and lemming qualities), I wouldn't be able to stop laughing.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2004-2-4 5:21:40 PM  

#14   oh wait! that's one of those jewish thingies isn't it. i saw one in yentl.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-2-4 3:43:50 PM  

#13   what's a burqa?
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-2-4 3:42:25 PM  

#12  "In 1993, I went to America and I published a book, ’Political Pluralism and the Woman,’ that was distributed in the mosque," he said. "Thirty [American] women converted immediately to Islam as soon as they read it."

Those 30 must be real prize packages to be willingly burkaed up.
Posted by: Tibor   2004-2-4 3:39:58 PM  

#11  Closet neo-con, thanks for the data.
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-2-4 3:21:01 PM  

#10  "The matter of America’s attempt to take over the world is not new."

What's new is that I can say, ""I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America, because Islam has logic and a mission" and have the pc people who claim to be against everything I stand for, cheer me on. Only in America.
Posted by: De3pthoughts   2004-2-4 3:18:39 PM  

#9  appears with such a grim face, without morals, without principles, without law But with the New Model Army
Good heavens it ain't Bush=Hitler it's Bush=Cromwell!

Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-4 3:15:06 PM  

#8   Sounds like he hired Baghdad Bob's speechwriter.
Posted by: Lil Dhimmi(JC)   2004-2-4 3:14:18 PM  

#7  "’Akef said he is certain that "without the betrayal in Iraq, the Iraqis would have tormented the Americans with all kinds of torments," and U.S. forces would have left."

I guess this means fleas, lice and eating goats.
Posted by: XMAN   2004-2-4 3:05:52 PM  

#6  "I expect America to collapse soon," he said. "The elements of this collapse in America [already] exist, and Allah is the savior."

The only collapse that's going to happen here is a self-inflicted one if the PC brigade continues their work. It won't have anything to do with the wishes of Islamic clerics.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-2-4 3:03:47 PM  

#5  I think this qoute by Bernard Lewis fits this guy to a T -> 'At times this hatred goes beyond hostility to specific interests or actions or policies or even countries and becomes a rejection of Western civilization as such, not only what it does but what it is, and the principles and values that it practices and professes. These are indeed seen as innately evil, and those who promote or accept them as the "enemies of God." ' - from The Roots of Muslim Rage
Posted by: ZoGg   2004-2-4 2:16:57 PM  

#4  Ruprecht -- Islam (under Arab and Berber leadership) conquered Spain in the 700s. Greece remained untouched until the 1300s and 1400s, when the Turks took it over. Sub-Saharan Africa was distant, almost unreachable before Berbers organized camel caravans in the 800s. Also, it tended to be deadly to outsiders (due mainly to malaria). Islam did spread into the zone from Senegal to Chad (the Sahel) about a thousand years ago, but it was mostly through trade. Jihad didn't come here until the early 1800s, led by Fulani herders -- not Arabs. The East African coast was also Islamified by about 1000, by way of trade and military contacts with Arabia.

Spain and Portugal did try to conquer North Africa -- Spain controlled Tunis and a number of other areas for many years (it still has Ceuta). But a series of military disaster here under Phillip II destroyed these ambitions. Portugal's attempt in Morocco in 1580 was so disastrous that the kingdom ceased to exist for 60 years (Spain took it over).

Europe had no real military advantages over Islam until the mid-1600s. The Turks still had no idea that they had fallen behind -- until their ill-fated attempt to take Vienna in 1683.
Posted by: closet neo-con   2004-2-4 1:59:59 PM  

#3  Damn Matt! Now I have to clean my monitor! LOL!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-2-4 1:57:48 PM  

#2  "What is new is that [the US] appears with such a grim face, without morals, without principles, without law and without recognition of the need for the U.N. or the Security Council."

Great, the message is getting across. I'd rather this guy describe us as "The Shining City on the Hill" or something like that, but I'll settle for "The Country That Can Put a 2,000 Pound Bomb Through My Bathroom Window."
Posted by: Matt   2004-2-4 1:46:38 PM  

#1  Question about Islam. Back in the day when they were conquering everything and rolling up through Spain and Greece... Why didn't they make a serious thrust into subsahara Africa?

Was it racism? Difficult terrain? Or pride at being stopped by the Christians?

On a similar front I always wondered why the Spanish flush with gold from the new world harrassed fellow Christians in constant wars (heretics, I know) instead of rolling Islam out of North Africa.
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-2-4 1:30:33 PM  

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