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December 23, 2005
Muslim Brotherhood leader says Holocaust is a myth
Topics: Understanding Islam
Now it's the Muslim Brotherhood claiming that the Holocaust is a myth. Similar comments by Iran's President Ahmadinejad earlier this month sparked an international outcry, but of course nothing was heard from Arab governments or media. So please, lets have no more talk about the Muslim Brotherhood being a moderate Islamic group, from Arab studies programs.
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's main Islamic opposition group, said Thursday that the Nazi Holocaust was a myth and slammed Western governments for criticizing disclaimers of the Jewish genocide.From The Middle East Quarterly, we learn that Since its founding in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) has profoundly influenced the political life of the Middle East. Its motto is telling: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."The comments by Mohammed Mahdi Akef _ made on the heels of his group's strong showing in Egyptian parliament elections _ echoed remarks made recently by Iran's ultra-conservative president, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which sparked international outrage.
"Western democracies have slammed all those who don't see eye to eye with the Zionists regarding the myth of the Holocaust," Akef wrote in a weekly article meant as a directive to the group's followers on its official Web site.
Akef's hard-line rhetoric was in contrast to the moderate tone the Brotherhood took in November and December's parliament elections, during which it played down its calls for implementing Shariah, or Islamic law, in Egypt and instead touted itself as a pro-democracy movement.
While the Brotherhood's radical ideas have shaped the beliefs of generations of Islamists, over the past two decades, it has lost some of its power and appeal in the Middle East, crushed by harsh repression from local regimes and snubbed by the younger generations of Islamists who often prefer more radical organizations.On 9/11 of 2004, Graham E. Fuller, a former CIA official specializing in the Middle East, said that "It (Muslim Brotherhood) is the preeminent movement in the Muslim world - It's something we can work with." Demonizing the Brotherhood "would be foolhardy in the extreme," he warned.But the Middle East is only one part of the Muslim world. Europe has become an incubator for Islamist thought and political development. Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organizations. Unlike the larger Islamic community, the Muslim Brotherhood's ultimate goal may not be simply "to help Muslims be the best citizens they can be," but rather to extend Islamic law throughout Europe and the United States
Is he nuts? Unfortunately, many politicians and the media follow the same line of dhimmitude, and like sheep to the slaughter, are led by their noses, along with the rest of America, down the yellow brick road to the destruction of Western civilization and the institution of sharia law.
Posted by Richard at December 23, 2005 12:01 AM
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