RECOMMENDED READING: “TV show On Muslim Brotherhood Stirs Outrage”
GlobalMB @ August 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Middle Eastern media is reporting on a controversial television serial depicting the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that is aring on Egyptian TV during Ramadan. According to a report in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masy Al-Youm:
The suspect recites Quranic verses as he walks down a long corridor, held by the arms by two plainclothes police who are marching him to the state security prosecutor’s office. “I am willing to listen to… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “The Islamic Movement in Israel: Switching Focus from Jerusalem to the Palestinian Cause”
GlobalMB @ August 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
MEMRI has published an article titled ” “The Islamic Movement in Israel: Switching Focus from Jerusalem to the Palestinian Cause” which details a shift focus on the part of the Israeli Muslim Brotherhood, otherwise known as the Islamic Movement in Israel. From the introduction:
The northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, has long been considered an organization that puts the issues of… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi Calls for Jihad of Self-Sacrifice and for Rejecting the Political Process”
GlobalMB @ July 14, 2010 # No Comment Yet
MEMRI has published a translation of Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi’s recent statements on political issues. From the introduction to the report:
Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), has recently voiced his opinion on various political issues, especially the Palestinian cause, claiming that the only way to liberate the occupied lands is through resistance. He called on Muslims to wage jihad of self-sacrifice… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Fighting the Ideological Battle, The Missing Link in U.S. Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism”
GlobalMB @ July 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Washington Institute has published a new report titled “Fighting the Ideological Battle, The Missing Link in U.S. Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism” which recommends that the US move beyond countering violent extremism to preventing and deterring the spread of the Islamist ideology that his behind the violence. From the introduction to the report:
At the same time, the administration remains uncomfortable with the core strategic recommendation of the… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “ICNA’s Rhetoric Doesn’t Match its Books”
GlobalMB @ July 9, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Investigative Project has released a report on reading material available at the Islamic Circle of North America’s (ICNA) 2010 South Central Regional Conference. The report begins:
The Islamic Circle of North America’s (ICNA) 2010 South Central Regional Conference last month at the University of Houston was more than just the local edition of ICNA’s yearly theme, “Save Family – Save Society.” Sessions like “Peer Pressure: Good or Bad”… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Egypt Islamic Finance Sector Faces Uphill Struggle”
GlobalMB @ June 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Reuters is reporting that Egyptian government fears that the Muslim Brotherhood will take advantage of Islamic finance are holding the sector back in that country. According to the report:
DUBAI/CAIRO, June 30 (Reuters) – Egypt is likely to remain an Islamic finance laggard, hit by bad press from corruption scandals and a government keen to buttress its secular credentials and stymie Islamists ahead of elections next year. The birthplace of… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “The Rise of Raed Salah”
GlobalMB @ June 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Jerusalem Post is carrying an articled titled “The Rise of Raed Salah” which profiles the leader of the Northern branch of the Islamic Movement, essentially the Israeli Muslim Brotherhood. The article begins:
Umm el-Fahm – the heartland of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch – was on the verge of full scale rioting in the hours after the Gaza flotilla incident. False rumors saying that its head, Sheikh Raed Salah… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Mosque, Paediatrician and Radical Islamists”
GlobalMB @ June 8, 2010 # No Comment Yet
GMBDR has obtained a translation of a major Polish newspaper report detailing the Global Muslim Brotherhood connections of the Liga Muzułmańska RP (Muslim League in Poland) which is the sponsor of a new mosque planned for central Warsaw. An excerpt from the translation centers on Samir Ismail, the head of the Muslim League:
During the interview with Gazeta Wyborcza’s journalist, Ismail talked about his involvement in the international organisations… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Mosque In Munich”
GlobalMB @ May 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Publisher’s Weekly has reviewed journalist Ian Johnson’s new book titled “Mosque in Munich” which details how the global Muslim Brotherhood established its early presence in Europe. According to the review:
In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “The Crossroads of Muslim Brothers in Jordan”
GlobalMB @ May 5, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Spanish diplomat and academic Juan José Escobar Stemmann has written an article titled “The Crossroads of Muslim Brothers in Jordan” which discusses the basis for what the author calls a change of attitude by the Jordanian government toward the organization. According to the article synopsis:
As former allies of the monarchy, the Muslim Brothers have played a key role in Jordanian political life at times when the regime has… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “ICNA’S RADICAL READING LIST”
GlobalMB @ April 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has called attention to the recommended list for the Islamic Circle of North America’s (ICNA) youth organization for boys, called “Young Muslims.” As the IPT report observes,
….the recommended reading list for ICNA’s youth organization for boys, called “Young Muslims,” shows the opposite. The book list includes numerous works by authors such as the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna, current spiritual leader Yusuf… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Dalia Mogahed: A Muslim George Gallup or Islamist Ideologue?”
GlobalMB @ April 18, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Investigative Project has published a report analyzing the support for US Muslim Brotherhood organizations and their positions given by Obama Administration Faith Adviser Dalia Mogahed. According to the report introduction:
Few American Islamists receive the kind of glowing media coverage given to Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, who is sometimes described as the “most influential person” shaping the Obama Administration’s Middle East… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: “Introduction to the Islamic Shura Council”
GlobalMB @ April 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A video has been posted to the Internet which features numerous law enforcement and community leaders in Southern California paying tribute to an organization known as the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California (ISCSC), a part of the US Muslim Brotherhood. The ISCSC website describes itself as follows:
The Islamic Shura Council is an umbrella organization of Mosques & Muslim organizations serving the Muslims of Southern California. Since… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Qaradawi Video Compilation
GlobalMB @ March 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet
MEMRI has produced two video compilations of some of the extremist statements of Youssef Qaradawi. The first collection contains Qaradawi’s statements about Europe and the US as well as about Israel and Jews. Some of these statements have been discussed in previous posts including Qaradawi stating:
- Islam will conquer Europe through peaceful means.
- Hitler was divine punishment for the misdeeds of the Jews and that the Holocaust
RECOMMENDED READING: “Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi and Qatar’s Education City”
GlobalMB @ March 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
MEMRI has published a report on the relationship between Youssef Qaradawi and Qatar’s Education City. According to the report preface:
On February 15, 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in an official Al-Jazeera town hall interview at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) branch campus in Qatar’s Education City. Secretary Clinton was introduced by Sheikh Abdallah Aal-Thani, whose opening statements on behalf of Education City praised the… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “HAMAS U”
GlobalMB @ March 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Boston Globe has profiled the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), closely tied Hamas. According to the report:
… the Islamic University is no fringe institution: It’s the top university in Gaza. The majority of students here study secular topics; not all of them are even religious. If you want to get a degree in Gaza, a territory that is home to more than a million people, it’s simply… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Why Are So Many Would-Be Terrorists Engineers?”
GlobalMB @ February 12, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Israeli scholar Emmanuel Sivan has published an article titled “Why are so many would-be terrorists engineers?” which, as many analysts have noticed, applies to much of the global Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas leaderships as well as to people such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (who also says he joined the Brotherhood at an early age). According to the article:
What links the following people: the Nigerian who wanted to blow… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” (Part 2)
GlobalMB @ December 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A previous post discussed an article titled “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” by scholar Nina Wiedl in which she explores the views of global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. In the same article, the author explores the work of global Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan. Of particular interest is her focus on Ramadan’s attempt to make common cause with the European Left. The author notes that… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West”
GlobalMB @ December 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In article titled “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” scholar Nina Wiedl explores global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi’s views on the role of Muslims in Europe. For a short description of Qaradawi’s background she describes Qaradawi’s position that Muslim settlement in the West is necessary for the conduct of “dawa”:
For Qaradawi, Muslim settlement in the West isn’t simply religiously permissible. It is, he argues, a… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “The Brotherhood and the Shiite Question”
GlobalMB @ November 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Israel academic Israel Altman has written an article discussing the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and Shiite Islam. From the introduction:
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is a transnational movement that shares a common Ikhwani doctrine of Islamic reform and revival that was originally formulated by the movement’s founder, Shaykh Hasan al-Banna. Despite this common doctrine, however, the Brotherhood’s assorted local organizations and affiliated offshoots have interacted with the specific… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Hamas’s Ideological Crisis”
GlobalMB @ November 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Former FBI analyst and Treasury Department official Matt Leavitt has authored a new article titled “Hamas’s Ideological Crisis.” From the introduction
Despite its success as the first Muslim Brotherhood organization to control and govern territory, and in part because of that success, Hamas today is under significant stress. In the West Bank, Hamas faces a severe security crackdown that has driven the movement underground. And in Gaza, Hamas has… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Jewish Leaders, Israel at Odds Over Ties With Muslim Group”
GlobalMB @ October 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
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RECOMMENDED READING: “Contextualising Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspectives”
GlobalMB @ October 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A Cambridge Islamic Studies Center founded by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has issued a report titled “Contextualising Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspectives.” The conclusions of the report appear to closely following the global Muslim Brotherhood doctrine on interpretation of Islamic concepts such as Jihad. As a previous post discussed, deceiving the public about the nature of Jihad is an important component of Brotherhood rhetorical tactics
2. DECEPTION- In… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Politics, Terrorism, and the Sunni Divide”
GlobalMB @ September 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Samuel Helfont, a Princeton University graduate student and U.S. military intelligence officer, has written an analysis of what he describes as the “Sunni divide” between Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood which he views as the impost important conflict within the Muslim world. The article opens with an explanation of the difference between these two movements:
Wahhabism stems from the theological teachings of Muhammad ibn abd al-Wahhab, the eighteenth century… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya
GlobalMB @ September 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
New Humanist magazine has published a new expose on Adan Oktar, a Turkish “creationist” writing under his pen name Harun Yahya and best known for his Islamic theories on evolution. The New Humanist piece describes Mr. Oktar as follows
Operating from Istanbul, Yahya is the founder of the Science Research Foundation, an impressive publishing empire that boasts more… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING” “Time To Move On”
GlobalMB @ August 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Egyptian current affairs magazine Egypt today has a length article about the pending retirement of Mohamed Mahdi Akef, the Supreme Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. From the introduction to the article:
Think what you like of Mohamed Mahdi Akef, but he does know how to make an exit. The Supreme Guide of the banned Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) turned his group’s tradition on its ear by announcing… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: “Is Al Jazeera Part Of The Muslim Brothers’ Program?”
GlobalMB @ June 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Jerusalem Post has run an article which explores the role of the Muslim Brotherhood at Al Jazeera. According to the article:
The meteoric rise of the network and its increasing popularity have led many political and media commentators in the Arab world to wonder exactly who or what was behind what appears to be its main purpose: encouraging opposition and promoting incitement against Arab regimes, exposing the corruption… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: Muslim Brotherhood Falters as Egypt Outflanks Islamists
GlobalMB @ May 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Wall Street Journal has done a featured story titled “Muslim Brotherhood Falters as Egypt Outflanks Islamists” which reports that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has suffered a reversal of fortune of late. According to the introduction:
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is on the defensive, its struggles reverberating throughout Islamist movements that the secretive organization has spawned world-wide. Just recently, the Brothers’ political rise seemed unstoppable. Candidates linked with the group… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: ” Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers’ Dark Empire?”
GlobalMB @ May 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has issued a report titled “Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers’ Dark Empire?” discussing the Al Jazeera satellite channel and its relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the report synopsis:
- There has been a significant presence of the Muslim Brothers (also known as the Muslim Brotherhood) in Qatar since the second half of the twentieth century. The first wave came from
RECOMMENDED READING: “Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, Rapprochement between Sunnis and Shiites?”
GlobalMB @ April 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In a piece titled “Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, Rapprochement between Sunnis and Shiites?”, Washington Institute for Near East Policy scholar Mehdi Khalaji looks at the relationship between the Egyptian government, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. According to the report:
During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a further indication of the strengthening… Continue reading