Exclusive: Sister Of German Muslim Brotherhood Leader In Charge Of Training Austrian Islamic Religious Teachers

GlobalMB @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Amena Shakir

German language media are reporting that the Amena Shakir, the sister of German Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim El-Zayat, is the director of the Akademie für Islamische Religionspädagogik (IRPA) in Vienna, the educational institution responsible for training Austrian Islamic religious teachers. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung made the identification in a report

EXCLUSIVE: Proposed Chicago Suburb Mosque Has Likely US Muslim Brotherhood Leader On Executive Committee

GlobalMB @ August 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Local media is reporting on neighborhood opposition to a proposed new mosque in the southwest suburbs of Chicago to be constructed by the Muslim Educational Center of America (MECCA). According to one report:

Dr. Talal Sunbulli, an executive committee member of the Muslim Educational Cultural Center of America, said Thursday night the religious group would be good neighbors if it is allowed to open a mosque near Willowbrook. But… Continue reading

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Establishes 2nd Front Website

GlobalMB @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet

It appears that the Muslim Brotherhood has established a second front website and coined a new term in the process. According to a description of itself, the Ikhwanophobia website explains:
Ikhwanophobia is a new term meaning the fear and or hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood members and their ideologies. It also refers to the unjustified intimidation by the people of the Muslim Brotherhood members. Ikhwanophobes are the factions who… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Reading List Ties Sponsor Of Proposed Large Tennesee Islamic Facility To Global Muslim Brotherhood

GlobalMB @ June 22, 2010 # One Comment

National media is reporting on a controversial plan to build a  52,000-sq. ft. Islamic facility in rural Tennessee. According to an ABC News report:
A plan to build an Islamic community center in the middle-Tennessee town of Murfreesboro sparked an eruption of ugly criticism on Thursday from some residents who don’t want a mosque built in their backyard. More than 600 people turned out for a meeting of the Rutherford… Continue reading | 1 Comment

EXCLUSIVE: New Muslim Council Of Britain Chairman Trustee Of Organization Supporting Hamas

GlobalMB @ June 21, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Global media is reporting that the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), a UK umbrella group dominated by the UK Muslim Brotherhood, has elected Farooq Murad as the new Secretary-General of the organization. According to an AP report:
LONDON, June 21 (APP)-The UK’s largest Muslim organisation-The Muslim Council of Britain-has elected a new leadership comprising Secretary-General Farooq Murad, Deputy Secretary-General Dr.Shuja Shafi and Treasurer Haroon Rashid Khan. The new officials… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian Newspaper Provides Details On Alleged Muslim Brotherhood Money-Laundering Ring

GlobalMB @ May 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet

The GMBDR has obtained a translated summary of an Egyptian newspaper report providing further details regarding the Egyptian government’s investigation into an alleged Muslim Brotherhood money-laundering ring. According to a document which Al-Masry al-Youm claims to have obtained:
Ibrahim Munir is identified as the Secretary-General of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian government claims that he took advantage of several institutions and conferences held in the… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Dutch Muslim Brotherhood To Co-Sponsor Conference With Global Muslim Brotherhood Organization

GlobalMB @ April 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet

The Federation of Islamic Organizations In Europe (FIOE) has announced that its Dutch member organization is co-sponsoring a conference in May together with an organization with extensive ties to the global Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Salafi scholars. According to the announcement:

The International Support Organization in collaboration with the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Holland is organizing a conference in the capital city of Amsterdam in the period from… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Associated Press Cairo Correspondent Former CAIR Canada Spokesperson

GlobalMB @ April 4, 2010 # One Comment

Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Throughout the recent strike by IslamOnline (IOL) employees, the only major US news coverage appeared to be by an Associated Press (AP) correspondent in Cairo who is a former spokesperson for the Canadian chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Canada. In one of her reports on the strike, Hadeel… Continue reading | 1 Comment

EXCLUSIVE: US State Department Adviser Visits UK Islamic Center Headed By Saudi Islamist Leader

GlobalMB @ March 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet

According to her Twitter feed, US State Department Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith has received a tour of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in the UK where she had lunch with whom she described as “Fellows at Oxford Centre.” The Oxford Centre describes itself on its website as:
…a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford. It was established in 1985 to encourage the scholarly… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Further Muslim Brotherhood Connections Of The IIRO

GlobalMB @ March 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Investigative research has determined that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), a Saudi charity whose Indonesian and Philippine offices have been designated by the US Treasury in connection with the financing of Al Qaeda, had further ties to the brother of an important US Muslim Brotherhood leader. A post from earlier today discussed the newly opened Florida office of IIRO. As that post discussed, IIRO had ties to… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Charity Designated As Terrorist Reopens Office In U.S.

GlobalMB @ March 14, 2010 # One Comment

IIRO USA Office

The International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), a Saudi charity whose Indonesian and Philippine offices have been designated by the US. Treasury in connection with the financing of Al Qaeda, has registered a new office in the United States. According to Florida State records, the IIRO (U.S.A.) Inc. was registered as a non-profit… Continue reading | 1 Comment

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Speaks At Saudi College Founded By U.S. Designated Terrorist

GlobalMB @ February 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Global media are reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has addressed students at the Dar El-Hekma women’s college in Saudi Arabia, known to have been co-founded and patronized by an individual designated as a terrorist by the U.S as well as by important Saudi bankers and members of the Bin Laden family. The college website describes itself currently as follows:
Dar Al-Hekma College as a learning community… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: New Obama Envoy Has History Of Engagement With U.S. Muslim Brotherhood; Called Al-Arian Case “Politically Motivated Persecution”

GlobalMB @ February 14, 2010 # 2 Comments

Rashad Hussein, White House official and President Obama’s newly appointed Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, has a history of participation in events connected with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood as well as support for Brotherhood causes, once having called prosecution of the U.S. leader of a Palestinian terrorist organization one of many “politically motivated persecutions.” Mr. Hussain’s… Continue reading | 2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: University of Exeter Muslim Research Center Funded By U.K. Muslim Brotherhood

GlobalMB @ February 2, 2010 # 2 Comments

The European Muslim Research Center (EMRC) at the University of Exeter in the U.K. was launched with funds provided by the U.K Muslim Brotherhood who also funded it’s recently released report on anti-Muslim hate crimes in the U.K. According to the Acknowledgements section of that report:
We also wish to thank the trustees of Islam Expo and the Cordoba Foundation who have provided the funding to launch the… Continue reading | 2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Muslim Brotherhood Resource Website Likely New Front Organization

GlobalMB @ January 31, 2010 # 2 Comments

Ikhwanscope, a new website purporting to be “an independent Muslim Progressive and moderate non-profit site” , appears to be a new front organization of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. According to the “About Us” section of the site:

  • “Ikhwanscope is an independent Muslim Progressive and moderate non-profit site, concentrating mainly on the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement founded by the Imam Hassan Albana.”
  • “Ikhwanscope