RECOMMENDED READING: Sheikh Alwani And The Ideologue Of American Islam
GlobalMB @ November 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Israeli Scholar Shammai Fishman has published a short but useful biography of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader Taha J. Al-Alwani whom he describes as “the most senior Muslim Cleric in America:
Alwani is not only a man of great deeds, but also an ideologue. The question is why Alwani is worthy of the title of the most senior Muslim cleric in America? The answer is that there are not many… Continue reading
Rabbi and Congressman Are Keynote Speakers At CAIR Annual Dinner
GlobalMB @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The first U.S. Muslim Congressman and the leader of the “Jewish Renewal” movement were two of the keynote speakers at the recent 13th annual banquet of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). According to the CAIR website, the banquet was held in Arlington Virginia on november 19 and was attended by over 1000 people. Keynote speakers included Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center, and… Continue reading
Tariq Ramadan Turns Down Chair At Dutch University
GlobalMB @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Citing “professional reasons”, Muslim Brotherhood figure Tariq Ramadan has turned down the offer of an Islamology Chair at Leiden University in Holland which was to have been financed by the Sultan of Oman at a cost of 2.5 million Euros. In his statement, Ramadan took the opportunity to attack his critics which he called “unscrupulous politicians and journalists”:
I take this opportunity to salute the University of Leiden… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: The History And Unwritten Future Of Salafism
GlobalMB @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Hudson scholar Hillel Fradkin has published his opening remarks at Hudson Institute’s recent conference on the Muslim Brotherhood. He opens his presentation by asking why the study of the Muslim Brotherhood has been relatively neglected, particularly in comparison to the so-called “jihadist movements”:
This conference is on a most important subject—the subject of the organization, or group of organizations, known as the Muslim Brotherhood. The importance of this subject… Continue reading
CAIR Attacks Anti-Terror Prosecutions Once Again
GlobalMB @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, continues its long history of attacking almost all anti-terror efforts conducted by the U.S. government by protesting the recent 11-year sentence of a former professor for his refusal to testify before a 2003 grand jury investigating Hamas networks in the U.S. As an earlier post reported, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, a former associate professor of business at… Continue reading
Muslim American Society Joins MPAC In Condemning Saudi Court Decision
GlobalMB @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Muslim American Society, a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has joined the Muslim Public Affair Council (MPAC) in condemning the ruling issued by a court in Saudi Arabia which punished the victim of a gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail. According to a statement issued by MAS leader Mahdi Bray:
MAS Freedom views the sentencing in this case as an unspeakably cruel and… Continue reading
Association of Muslim Social Scientists Elects New President With Ties To the Muslim Brotherhood
GlobalMB @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A U.S. based scholar with many connections to the Muslim Brotherhood has been elected President of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS). According to the website of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Dr. Ali A. Mazrui has been elected the new AMSS President at the recent annual conference that also elected eight other officers to the AMSS Executive Board for a two-year term. According to… Continue reading
IIIT To Advise University In Yemen
GlobalMB @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The website of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has announced an agreement between IIIT and a university in Yemen. According to the notice, IIIT will advise the faculty and administration of the University of Science and Technology (UST) on curriculum and new program development. UST was described as a private, nonprofit institution in Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, with a… Continue reading
IIIT Helps To Launch Florida University Islamic Studies Chair
GlobalMB @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The website of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has announced that is has made a “substantial contribution” to the effort to establish an Islamic Studies Chair at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This effort was first reported by IIIT in 2005:
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) will match donations to an endowment for a chair in… Continue reading
U.K. Muslim Brotherhood Will Benefit From Split In Respect Coalition
GlobalMB @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
U.K media has reported that the Respect Party, a coalition of far-left groups and the U.K Muslim Brotherhood, has split with rival party conferences being held in different parts of London. A previous post has discussed what appears to have been a falling out between maverick politician George Galloway and the Socialist Workers Party, both important players in the so-called Respect Unity Coalition, a U.K. political party whose… Continue reading
MPAC Condemns Saudi Punishments For Rape Victim
GlobalMB @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Muslim Public Affairs Council, part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has issued a public condemnation of a ruling issued by a court in Saudi Arabia which punished the victim of a gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, calling the decision and the Saudi law used as a basis “an egregious miscarriage of the spirit and letter of Islam.” According to MPAC:
Punishing the victim of… Continue reading
Court Sentences Former Professor To 11 Years For Refusal To Testify In Hamas Financing Investigation
GlobalMB @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
U.S. media has reported that a former professor accused of being part of a Hamas support network was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Wednesday for refusing to testify before a U.S. grand jury in 2003 that was investigating Hamas. Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, a former associate professor of business at Washington’s Howard University, was convicted earlier this year on criminal contempt and obstruction of justice charges for… Continue reading
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed By Leader Of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Think-Tank
GlobalMB @ November 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Media reports indicate that a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the government’s tactics in an investigation into the so-called “SAAR Network”, a group of interrelated charities linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Northern Virginia thought by the government to be supporting terrorism abroad. The case was set for trial this month but shortly before the trial was to begin, the judge granted the government’s motion to dismiss… Continue reading
Youssef Nada Video Testimony Now Online
GlobalMB @ November 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A recent news report indicated that Swiss Senator Dick Marty, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur, was expected to present his highly critical report on the United Nations Security Council and European Union blacklists of groups and individuals linked to terrorism. The report indicated that Youssef Nada, the Muslim Brotherhood leader best known for his role in the defunct Al Taqwa Bank, was to give video testimony of… Continue reading
Interfaith Partnership Against Terrorism Includes U.S. Muslim Brotherhood
GlobalMB @ November 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A press release has announced the launch of an interfaith partnership against terrorism that apparently includes at least one group from the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The “Uniting to Protect” campaign which will be “formalized” at a Washington, D.C. lunch on November 30 where the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) will present its 2007 fatwa against terrorism in what the press released called ” the first public partnership of… Continue reading
CAIR Wants U.S. Congressman To Help Get Organization Off List
GlobalMB @ November 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Council On American Islamic Relations is seeking assistance from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. in order to persuade the Justice Department to remove the organization from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land terrorism financing case. As a noted in a previous post, CAIR recently filed a brief asking the court to remove CAIR and several hundred other Muslim individuals and institutions from the… Continue reading
Muslim Brotherhood Loses Badly In Jordanian Elections
GlobalMB @ November 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The media is widely reporting that supporters of Jordan’s King Abdullah II easily defeated the country’s Islamist opposition in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, reducing their parliamentary seats by almost two-thirds. The final results indicated that the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the country’s largest opposition group and generally considered to be the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, won only six seats, down from 17 in the outgoing parliament. Also defeated were… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: Muslim Brotherhood: Moderate Or Jihadist?
GlobalMB @ November 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Israeli analyst Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi has written a useful analysis of the recent controversy sparked by Robert Leiken who argued in an article for Foreign Affairs that the U.S. shoud change it’s policy and “enrage” with the Muslim Brotherhood. At the end of his analysis, Halevi sums up the differences and similarities between the Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda arguing that the distinction is one of tactics but… Continue reading
Malaysian Opposition Leader Linked to Muslim Brotherhood Organized Large Political Protest
GlobalMB @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Various media reports indicate that Muslim Brotherhood figure and Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim played a leading role in what was described as Malaysia’s biggest anti-government protest in a decade. The protests, broken up by the use of tear gas and “chemically laced water cannons”, were said to be Malysia’s largest since September 1998 when supporters of then deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim protested his dismissal from the Cabinet and… Continue reading
CORRECTION: November 16 Post On Jafar Sheikh Idris
GlobalMB @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A posting on November 16 identified Jafar Sheikh Idris as a member of the board of the “Meeting of Muslim Scholars and Thinkers” and stated that he was not known to be associated with the Muslin Brotherhood. However, an Islamic source from 1996 states that Idris had appeared at functions of the American Muslim Council, a now defunct Muslim Brotherhood organization.… Continue reading
Tariq Ramadan Says Muslim Brotherhood Not Al Qaeda
GlobalMB @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
According the report of an Islamic news website, Muslim Brotherhood figure Tariq Ramadan gave a lecture in Qatar calling for a distinction to be made between Islamist groups such as the Brotherhood and Al Qaeda:
After 9/11 and 7/7, terminologies like radicalism, Islamism and political Islam have been widely used in West. The so called terrorism experts tend to put all “Islamists” in one category…The Muslim Brotherhood is not… Continue reading
RECOMMENDED READING: Should Muslims Integrate Into The West?
GlobalMB @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Writing in the Middle East Quarterly, Israeli scholar Uriya Shavit provides insight into the role of the Muslim Brotherhood plays in hindering the integration of European Muslims. He explains first how Islamic jurists have concluded that for Muslims residing in the West, adherence to Islamic identity and law are the overriding priority:
As Muslim Arabs established themselves in Europe, Islamic jurists developed a legal framework to accommodate them. However… Continue reading
VOA Praises Islamic School Operated By Imam With Ties To The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Voice of America (VOA) has published a news report praising a MIchigan Islamic primary school which is part of an Islamic center run by a Shiite imam with ties to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The report discusses the Muslim American Youth Academy located in Dearborn MIchigan and which is operated by the Islamic Center of America led by Imam Hassan Qawinzi, originally from Iraq. Qawinzi is a member… Continue reading
Southern California Muslim Brotherhood Group Helps To End LAPD Muslim Community Mapping Project
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Various media reports indicate that the Los Angeles Police Department, responding to companies by Muslim and civil liberties groups, has canceled plans to map Muslim communities in an effort to facilitate counter-terrorism efforts. According to the Associated Press:
A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday. The LAPD planned… Continue reading
Istanbul Hosts “Anti-Zionist” Conference On Jerusalem
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
According to a variety of sources, an event titled the “Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Forum Meeting” was held in Istanbul from November 15-17 with the participation of 5,000 guests from 60 countries. The event was organized by Turkey’s Waqf for Volunteering Organizations (TGTV), described as an umbrella organization for dozens of Islamic foundations in Turkey and which has close ties to the ruling AKP, in cooperation with the Al-Quds… Continue reading
CAIR Distributes Guide For Journalists
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has announced a campaign to distribute a guide for journalists prepared by the organization to challenge “misperceptions” about Islam. According to a Islam Online:
Realizing that deep-seated misconceptions are propagated through ill-informed media, a leading US Muslims group is launching a nationwide campaign to help the media with accurate information about Islam and Muslims. “It is… Continue reading
Muslim American Society Pushes For Muslim Voting Block
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Islam Online has reported that the North Carolina chapter of the Muslim American Society Freedom National (MASFN), described as the civic and human rights advocacy entity of MAS, recently held a Civic Townhall meeting in Cary, NC. Attending were representatives from the Presidential Campaign of Congressman Ron Paul, Former Congressman Walter Fauntroy, Senator Larry Shaw (D-NC), NC President of the League of Women Voters, Judy Burke, and state party… Continue reading
U.S. Resumes Contact With The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
GlobalMB @ November 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Washington Times has reported that the U.S. has resumed contacts with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s 2005 promise not to “engage” with the group. According to the report:
U.S. Embassy officials said they are acting in conformity with a worldwide policy of dealing with political parties that are represented in their national parliaments. Muslim Brotherhood members can only run for Egypt’s parliament as independents… Continue reading
ISNA Imam Travels To London To Express Concerns About Shariah-Compliant Investment Fund
GlobalMB @ November 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A U.K. news portal has reported that an Imam associated with the Islamic Society of North America was expected to travel to London to express concerns about the business practices of an Indianapolis-based international real estate company which plans to launch the first-ever publicly traded Shariah-compliant investment fund next year. According to the report:
A U.S. Imam, a Christian minister, and a low-wage janitor from Indiana are coming to London… Continue reading
Muslim Brotherhood Group Announces Construction Of Saudi-Financed Mosque In Sweden’s Second Largest City
GlobalMB @ November 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A Swedish news portal has announced the final approval by a Muslim Brotherhood associated group for construction of a Saudi-funded mosque in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. The building will include a 25-metre minaret and is expected to be completed in 2009,. According to the report, the government of Saudi Arabia contributed 44 million kronor of the 50 million kronor ($7.9 million) cost of building the mosque. The report… Continue reading