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The Muslim Brotherhood views its political and organizational development to be carried out in distinct stages, described below. Violence Historically, the Muslim Brotherhood has a lengthy record of using terrorism, political assassination and other forms of violence to achieve its goals. Other movements of the early 20th century sought to emulate the Comintern in terms of its structure and function.

The Muslim Brotherhood achieved its international networks without the benefit of direct state sponsorship, though the Brotherhood has received substantial funding from the rulers of sovereign states as varied as Libya, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, even though the support did not come in the form of state control.

Rahman is serving a life sentence for his plots in the s to bomb the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and United Nations headquarters in New York, and for his role in the bombing of the World Trade Center in which six people were killed and more than a thousand injured. Whether the EIJ is a breakaway group, as the Brotherhood and its sympathizers claim in English — and as many credible independent experts also conclude — or remains part of the Brotherhood enterprise, remains unclear.

Initially, both Morsi and the Ikhwan were reticent to condemn the violence. Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood had publicly endorsed the violent protests and sought to expand the expressions of anti-American outrage by calling for Egypt-wide protests for the following Friday. The President of the United States had to intervene personally in a 20 minute phone conversation with Morsi before Morsi would issue a statement of unequivocal denunciation of the 6 David D.

Waller violence. In its English-language statements — including a letter in the New York Times, tweets on Twitter, and statements on its official website, Ikhwanweb. By contrast, its Arabic-language statements to its own audiences remained firm.

I hope you know we read those too. Therefore, one must presume that the most authoritative Brotherhood statements are those that it issues to its own audiences in Arabic, and that its English-language statements are designed for deceptive purposes against the United States and others.

This presumption is validated both by Muslim Brotherhood doctrine and operational practice. Boykin USA Ret. We will recognize the source of any message which comes out of us. I mean, if a message is publicized, we will know. High-profile cases exist of the same Muslim Brotherhood operatives in cooperative relationship with the U. Seldom, if ever, is the cooperation with U. Discussion of Brotherhood support for extremists and terrorists is discouraged, and usually dismissed as ignorant conspiracy theories or motivated by racism and bigotry — a conversation-killer in present American society that discourages professional independent inquiry and enforces groupthink.

Army, even though he was actively engaged in assisting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a federal court identified his organization as a material supporter of terrorists. Waller vehicle in the world for Islam in general. There will still be battles, but this particular war is over in the great majority of Middle Eastern states. The generally not-violent Islamist alternative to terrorism therefore became a more popular way of expressing discontent, aiding a global expansion of the Muslim Brotherhood that blossomed in the s.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood as we shall see below, avoided being challenged into irrelevance by broadening its appeal and superficially moderating its appearance, without altering its strategic goals. Voll, in foreword to Richard P. Waller Since its beginnings, the religion of Islam has manifested itself as a political ideology for temporal purposes.

It is only when its ethical and social rules come into conflict with the political structure of the state that the impact becomes significant and begins to affect political conduct. It may therefore be asserted that primarily Islam is not a revolution in Political Theory, but has always had an influence on the political conduct of state.

Where, however, Religion and Politics clash, it appears that in the hands of the statesman religion is made subservient to political ends. After the death of the Prophet [sic], it was necessary to create machinery for the enforcement of the laws of Islam, and a direct result was the creation of the Caliph. He was the successor to the Prophet; he was to be an independent ruler and not a mere satrap; it was he who maintained the unity of Islam and enforced obedience to Islam.

It changed the character of the Turkish State; it decapitated the body politic of Islam and rendered it headless; and it ushered in a new phase of Islamic law unknown to previous doctrine and ancient practice. Waller Applicability of Distinctions Doctrinally, the Brotherhood makes no distinctions between religion and politics. The United States and other secular societies are the ones stymied by such distinctions, particular the U.

Egyptian President Morsi explained the distinctions — and overlap — in a September interview with the New York Times. I learned how to love my country with the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned politics with the Muslim Brotherhood. I was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, the U. At present, the U. It does not treat individuals as enemies if they have not yet refused to submit, reasoning that they can be converted, or at least, persuaded or pressured to submit.

Waller Means of Warfare: Violent A survey of its more than 80 year history shows the Muslim Brotherhood as flexible with its use of violence, using it when repressed or for specific tactical purposes toward its strategic goal. Oftentimes the Brotherhood would wage violence in one area through controlled sections under different names, while its networks in other area would publicly frown on terrorism or make excuses for it as they worked within civil society through charities, mosques, Islamic centers, the legal stem, and the political process.

Use of political violence is a pragmatic matter, not a philosophical one. In its first decades of existence, the Brotherhood conducted political assassinations in Egypt, permitting the authorities to repress it and imprison and even execute its members. The Brotherhood assassinated or attempted to murder a series of Egyptian leaders, although there is debate about whether the assassination of Anwar Sadat, conceived and sometimes carried out by known Brotherhood members, were centrally authorized or controlled, or were carried out by splinter groups.

The fact that the Brotherhood failed to condemn the attacks and discipline the Islamist extremist movement through its own brutal enforcement methods indicates that the assassinations were indeed supported, if not directed, by the Brotherhood leadership. Over the past 25 to 30 years or so, the Brotherhood became more refined and sophisticated, learning from the successes and failures of other revolutionary movements, as well as from their own.

A well-documented contemporary case study of Muslim Brotherhood organized violence can be seen in the Islamic Resistance Movement, better known as the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Hamas is an armed Palestinian unit of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was formed by the Brotherhood, is led by Brotherhood members, and receives political, doctrinal, financial, material, and propaganda support from the Brotherhood and its known front organizations.

Hamas is not a splinter group; rather, it is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, but with an explicitly violent agenda. It was one organization with different names. Despite its divergence from the priorities of the Brotherhood, Hamas has always existed as a dependent of the Brotherhood hierarchy. As a result, it became proficient at operating clandestinely yet out in the open at the same time. Its trademark techniques were to create front organizations through which its operators could work publicly while not appearing to be with the Brotherhood, and to infiltrate and take over independent organizations.

Brotherhood operatives participated in other social institutions that they could not dominate or control, in order to network and to gain influence.

These fronts and controlled organizations, as well as independent organizations in which Brotherhood operatives participated, spanned the breadth and depth of Egyptian civil society: business, organized labor, culture, religious charities and social clubs.

Such activity also helped the group expand its outreach networks, through which it gained popular support by providing social services and increasing its recruitment efforts.

Waller time-tested circle in which decisions are made makes this highly unlikely. As a result, the Brotherhood maintains a unity of purpose that other Egyptian political groups have yet to achieve. In June , Brotherhood leader Morsi was elected president. Morsi quickly took control of the most powerful Egyptian government ministries by appointing Ikhwan members to key posts, purged the senior officer corps of the military, decreed total executive and legislative powers, and took control of the authorship of the new constitution.

He also began a campaign of intimidation and repression of news organizations that criticized his leadership or the Brotherhood in general. Techniques from within: Civilization jihad From its decades of experience as an underground organization in Egypt, and its negative image in the Western democracies, the Gulf states and elsewhere, the Muslim Brotherhood placed great emphasis on stealth, as its use of front organizations indicates.

However, the practice in the United States exposed the Brotherhood and its fronts to unprecedented scrutiny and exposure. The court identified more than two dozen U. Waller The Muslim Brotherhood nevertheless views its generally legal activities through front groups and proxies as a type of ideological warfare.

Another officer pulled over the SUV, driven by Ismail Selim Elbarasse, and saw his wife attempting to hide the video camera. A routine computer check revealed that Elbarasse was wanted in Chicago on a federal material witness warrant relating to his involvement in funding a terrorist organization. Waller Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times.

Waller viewpoints for the purpose of expanding a movement toward its own strategic goals. The Brotherhood would change its own way of thinking to be more inclusive of others again, both Muslim and non-Muslim for the purpose of absorbing them under its vanguard. Civilization Jihad would use American institutions as instruments of their own self-destruction. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet.

But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal. Waller do its work alone, and recognized the need to build coalitions for it to lead and control. As for the role of the Ikhwan, it is the initiative, planning, leadership, raising the banner and pushing people in that direction.

To the contrary, he argued, the plan was crucial for creation of a new caliphate. We believe that the reply is in two segments: One — The success of the Movement in America in establishing an observant Islamic base with power and effectiveness will be the best support and aid to the global Movement project. The day this happens, the children of the American Ikhwani branch will have far-reaching impact and positions that make their ancestors proud.

Targets would not merely be non-Muslim critics, but fellow Muslims, including and especially Muslims with distinguished academic, theological or cultural authority.

Waller The first and most important Brotherhood instrument to gather Muslims from the United States and Canada, and to influence and assess them as the vanguard of the civilizational jihad, is a front called the Islamic Society of North America ISNA , now based in Plainfield, Indiana. Listed first among the 29 groups that Akram informed the Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council were either fronts of, or dominated by, the Ikwhan in North America, ISNA sponsored annual conventions in the s to begin unification of the Islamist movement under Brotherhood control.

ISNA encouraged Muslims of different ideological persuasions to debate and discuss the issues. In the end, ISNA would expel and ban the non-compliant. Other Brotherhood front groups would then take the lead in marginalizing and rendering those Muslims resistant to Brotherhood domination, through a campaign of public denunciation, ostracism and humiliation.

Marginalization of independent Muslims and domination of the narrative. Where it cannot succeed in unifying a Muslim leader of faction under its umbrella, either through persuasion or enforced obedience, the Brotherhood opts — in democratic societies, at least — to silence the non-subservient through political and social means.

It employs its superior political organization and ideological discipline to marginalize and diminish its targets public ostracism, intimidation, and humiliation. Even in democratic societies, the Muslim Brotherhood operates in a similar clandestine fashion. To obscure its own presence while magnifying an illusion that mainstream Muslims from all walks of life share its views, the Brotherhood works through networks of front organizations and groups under its financial or political dominance or control.

Those organizations claim to represent large Muslim constituencies, when in reality few have any significant membership at all — although they managed to expand their bases of support over the years by serving as public advocates and providing fraternal organizations, charitable services, and doctrinal and political training. The groups, in turn, form ad hoc coalitions to project the image of a large, broad-based, diverse coalition of independent organizations representative of the Muslim mainstream, much as non-Muslim radical groups and clandestine organizations did during the Cold War to inflate the appearance of their small numbers.

It does not matter, for the moment, if that target has allies. If he is to be neutralized in the public eye, he can be conceded no redeeming qualities. This becomes political idiocy. The key is to project political authority and strength for oneself, while diminishing the most credible of critics. For an operational example of the Muslim Brotherhood at work in this fashion, we need not rely on foreign occurrences translated from other languages, but can view the tradecraft close to home.

By the s, the Muslim Brotherhood — generally not free to operate politically in most Muslim-majority countries — had established a network of U.

The network provided a myriad of seemingly independent voices sharing the same message, a manufactured echo chamber effect that made its individual targets seem that much smaller.

Waller communities, Muslim social scientists, Muslim scientists and engineers, Muslim physicians, Muslim teachers, Muslim businessmen, Muslim youth and Muslim attorneys. Until that point, more mainstream Muslim figures would refer to extremism behind closed doors and seldom with specifics, both out of deference to fellow Muslims in the presence of non-Muslims, and out of fear of retaliation from extremists. Shaykh Kabbani knew how the extremists, including the Muslim Brotherhood, operated in his native Lebanon, where his family dominated the muftiate for more than a century.

A theologian who was non-political and by nature non-confrontational, Shaykh Kabbani spoke in general terms whose meaning was unmistakable to certain Islamists in the audience. He told the gathering that some Muslim groups in the U. The shaykh warned of penetration of American universities by Islamist extremists — a reference to the Muslim Students Association MSA , which the Muslim Brotherhood considers as its own appendage.

Richard H. Curtiss wrote an account of the incident at the State Department, in which he appeared critical of Shaykh Kabbani and un-critical of the Muslim Brotherhood fronts he quoted in his story. See Richard H.

Waller better understands Islam and builds bridges between the U. As a theologian, naming personalities was not his way. He was not a politician. After the event, an ostensibly ad hoc group of Muslim organizations sent, out a joint news release to attack and anathematize the cleric.

They claimed to represent a majority of American Muslims. Kabbani has put the entire American Muslim community under unjustified suspicion. In effect, Mr. Kabbani is telling government officials that the majority of American Muslims pose a danger to our society. Additionally, Islamophobic individuals and groups may use these statements as an excuse to commit hate crimes against Muslims.

Kabbani to promptly and publicly retract his statements, to apologize to the American Muslim community, and to exert his utmost effort to undo the damage these statements have done. The issue is not that of a mere difference of opinion within an American religious community, but involves the irresponsible act of providing false information to government officials.

This false information can jeopardize the safety and well-being of our community and hurt America itself by damaging its values of inclusiveness, fairness and liberty. Waller None of the signatories of the news release expressed any concern about any Muslim in the United States who might be aiding and abetting terrorism of Islamist extremism. They were concerned only with de-legitimizing the sole Muslim of stature who dared raise the issue to others, and defending themselves against possible investigation or harassment.

Federal investigations and terrorism trials would later prove that Shaykh Kabbani was correct. But that would not happen for several years. Shaykh Kabbani had been frozen, isolated and vilified in front of scores of U. Muslim leaders to agree on a comprehensive political platform to start speaking for themselves. Those groups that were not under the sway of the Muslim Brotherhood felt compelled to sign on.

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Between your hands is an "Explanatory Memorandum" which I put effort in writing down so that it is not locked in the chest and the mind, and so that I can share with you a portion of the responsibility in leading the Group in this country.

The papers which are between your hands are not abundant extravagance, imaginations or hallucinations which passed in the mind of one of your brothers, but they are rather hopes, ambitions and challenges that I hope that you share some or most of which with me.

I do not claim their infallibility or absolute correctness, but they are an attempt which requires study, outlook, detailing and rooting from you. All what I'm asking of you is to read them and to comment on them hoping that we might continue together the project of our plan and our Islamic work in this part of the world. Should you do that, I would be mankful and grateful to you. The question we are facing is: "How do you like to see the Islam Movement in North America in ten years?

They are: [1- Establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood. We believe that the understanding of the essence is the same and we will attempt here to give the word and its "meanings" a practical explanation with a practical Movement tone, and not a philosophical linguistic explanation, while stressing that this explanation of ours is not complete until our explanation of "the process" of settlement itself is understood which is mentioned in the following paragraph.

We briefly say the following: 9- Settlement: "That Islam and its Movement become a part of the homeland it lives in". Establishment: "That Islam turns into firmly-rooted organizations on whose bases civilization, structure and testimony are built". Stability: "That Islam is stable in the land on which its people move". Enablement: "That Islam is enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country in which it moves".

Rooting: "That Islam is resident and not a passing thing, or rooted "entrenched" in the soil of the spot where it moves and not a strange plant to it". We believe that any transforming response begins with the method of thinking and its center, the brain, first. In order to clarify what is meant with the shift as a key to qualify us to enter the field of settlement, we say very briefly that the following must be accomplished: - A shift from the partial thinking mentality to the comprehensive thinking mentality.

We will suffice here with mentioning the title for each of these stages [The title expresses the prevalent characteristic of the stage] [Details maybe mentioned in another future study]. Most likely, the stages are: A- The stage of searching for self and determining the identity. B- The stage of inner build-up and tightening the organization. C- The stage of mosques and the Islamic centers. D- The stage of building the Islamic organizations - the first phase. E- The stage of building the Islamic schools - the first phase.

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. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet.

It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal. With their capabilities, human, financial and scientific resources, the Ikhwan will not be able to carry out this mission alone or away from people and he who believes that is wrong, and God knows best.