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Britain's report on Muslim Brotherhood contradicts U.S. views on group

2015-12-29

[Wash Times] The British government has issued a blistering report on the secretive Muslim Brotherhood, with findings that contradict some favorable U.S. views -- including the Obama administration's -- of the Islamic fundamentalist fraternity.

The investigative paper says the Brotherhood promotes (and sometimes takes a role in) violence; seeks world domination of Shariah, or Islamic, law; and views other religions as illegitimate. Its senior leaders "routinely use virulent anti-Semitic language" and have justified the killings of American and other coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To this day, Brotherhood leaders say the U.S. government fabricated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that the war on groups such as al Qaeda "is a pretext to attack Muslims," the British report says.

The report, simply titled the "Muslim Brotherhood Review," appears to be unprecedented in these politically correct times in that a Western government is confronting a Muslim group that is an ideological organizing force but not overtly a transnational terrorist organization.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the investigation was conducted to determine whether the Brotherhood is contributing to violence in his country and elsewhere by creating an environment for extremists to act.

"The movement is deliberately opaque and habitually secretive," Mr. Cameron said.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 Also a glimpse of why Al-Sisi put them to the torch

Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-12-29 21:14

#3 A useful reminder of what the Muslim Brotherhood has done -- kudos to the Washington Times reporter for that. But I see no mention of what Prime Minister Cameron plans to do about those dreadful people.

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-29 12:28

#2 Indeed I am drunk, but come morning I will be sober, but you will continue to be ugly.

/don't get me started

Posted by: Shipman 2015-12-29 09:02

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-12-29 08:49

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