GlobalMB @ March 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) has issued a series of press releases, the first known to be signed by Ahmed Al-Rawi the new President of the MAB and formerly the leader of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE). Both organizations are part of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. In one of the statements, Mr. Al-Rawi… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ph.D. candidate Ana B. Soage has written a portrait of global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi for an online magazine. The piece provides useful biographical details, some drawn from Arabic language sources, but significantly fails to identify Qaradawi’s role on the editorial board of Al-Dawa, a Muslim Brotherhood publication that was allowed to circulate for a… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a piece on the film Fitna, a documentary on Islam just released by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, ABC news relied upon an Islamic scholar linked to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. According to the report, ABC News spoke to Mohammad Al-Hayek, described only as a “Quran expert”, to investigate what the verses in Wilders’ film meant. A sample of Al-Hayek’s translations are as follows:
Verse from Fitna: (Chapter 8… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The website of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) has reported on a meeting of the “Northern Virginia Catholic-Muslim Dialog group” that included prominent members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. According to the announcement:
Members of the Northern Virginia Catholic-Muslim Dialog group were hosted for a review and planning meeting at IIIT earlier this month. The meeting was a follow-up… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
NBC news has reported that the former head of the Michigan office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been indicted by federal authorities for activities on behalf of Iraqi intelligence during the Saddam regime including arranging a trip to Iraq for three U.S. Congressmen. According to the report:
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The New York Sun has reported on a new legal strategy being pursued by government prosecutors in their ongoing investigation into the defunct SAAR Foundation, suspected of terrorist financing and strongly associated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The SAAR Foundation and related entities were raided in 2002. According to the latest article:
Federal prosecutors tracking a Saudi-backed American foundation accused of ties to terrorists are tightening the screws on their… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has issue a press release reporting that it was part of an interfaith delegation that me with with representatives from California Senator Barbara Boxer’s office to discuss Israeli actions in Gaza. According the CAIR press release:
Southern California Muslim and interfaith leaders met Wednesday with representatives from Senator Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) office to express their concerns… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A press release from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, indicates that an unidentified delegation of Chinese Muslims recently visited the organization. According to the release:
CAIR was honored yesterday to host a delegation of Muslims from the People’s Republic of China currently touring the United States to learn about the American Muslim experience and the role of religion in our society… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
MEMRI is reporting on a massive anti-American and anti-Israel demonstration held over the weekend and sponsored by a Turkish youth organization that is part of Milli Gorus, a Turkish Islamist group with strong connections to the global Muslim Brotherhood. According to the report:
The Turkish Islamist websites Velfecr.com and Kudusyolu.com reported on a massive demonstration held March 22, 2008 by… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), the body of Islamic scholars headed by Youssef Qaradawi, has announced a recent meeting that included both a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the representative of an Iranian religious organization. According to the IUMS website:
The celebration has been attended by a group of prominent scholars from various Muslim countries, mainly Professor Nasr Farid Wasil, former Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Muhammad… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi has said on Al Jazeera TV that the “idea of annihilation and extermination came from the Torah” also suggesting that the Bush Administration and supporters accepted this notion. Qaradawi was responding to the recent appearance, also on Al Jazeera, of Wafa Sultan who debated Egyptian Islamist Tal’™at Rmeih on a variety of subjects including… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A far-left U.K. news source has reported that the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) was one of the sponsors of a protest against the Iraq war that was held over the weekend. According to the report:
Thousands of peace protesters in Glasgow heard Scottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon call for troops to be withdrawn and the perpetrators of the… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, continued it’s long support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, currently imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), another part of the U.S. Brotherhood. According a CAIR press release:
The Council on… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Muslim Brotherhood figure Kemal Helbawy (aka Helbawi, al-Halabawi) has described Osama Bin Laden as a “man who is besieged” in a statement reacting to Bin Laden’s recent threats to Europe over the Danish cartoon controversy. According to a pan-Arabic newspaper:
Islamic activist Sheikh Dr. Kamal al-Halabawi, the adviser to the International Civilizations Studies Center in London, told Asharq Al-Awsat, “The… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The International Islamic News Agency is reporting that a Bahraini organization linked to the global Muslim Brotherhood raised over $370,000 at at event featuring British politician George Galloway who auctioned a signed copy of his book “The Fidel Castro Handbook”: According to the report :
A charity event in Bahrain raised around 140,000 Bahraini Dinar in a single night to… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that its executive director met in early March with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington, D.C. According to a press release:
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad today joined other American Muslim and Arab-American leaders in a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington, D.C. Meeting… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Muslim World League (MWL), a Saudi organization closely related to the global Muslim Brotherhood, has announced a meeting attended by U.S. and European individuals also tied to the Brotherhood. According to the MWL website, a meeting was recently held in preparation for the World Conference on Dialogue, sponsored by the League and to be held next month in Mecca. The reported stated that the meeting was chaired by… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), an Muslim Brotherhood umbrella group in Europe, has blamed the republication of the controversial Danish cartoons on unidentified “forces of extremism.” According to an article posted on the new FIOE website:
The insulting cartoons, which had previously caused embarrassment to Denmark internally and externally, were republished in Denmark, challenging the feelings of a billion and a half Muslims.When these drawings had… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
English language Arab media reported on an FBI community relations event in Columbus,Ohio sponsored by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. According to the report:
The FBI was interrogated for a change yesterday by members of the Muslim community at an event sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at the Sunrise Academy in Columbus. Officials engaged Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Islamic media is reporting that Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, putative leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, is member of a Saudi commission that includes important members of the Saudi royal family as well as others tied to the global Brotherhood. According to the report:
The Naif Bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Sunnah and Contemporary Islamic Studies was instituted in 2002 to encourage scientific research in the Sunnah of the… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An article by a Gulf journalist journalist on the attitude of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood towards the U.S. once again asserts the notion that the Brotherhood supports democracy and human rights. After a general review of various Islamist political parties in the region and a history of the Egyptian’s Brotherhood’s posture toward the U.S., the author takes note of recent contacts between the Egyptian group and U.S. Congressman:
There… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A recent Economist article displays the difficulty the media often has in understanding the complexity of the global Muslim Brotherhood. In an article about global Muslim Networks, the article makes the following statement about the European Brotherhood:
And it remains true that in every Western country (including the United States) where Muslims are politically active, the influence of the brotherhood’”or at least of movements that grew out it’”is palpable. Among… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a recent television appearance, global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi said that it has not been proven that Osama Bin Laden was resposible for the attacks of September 11, 2001. According to an Italian media summary of the program:
The Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is also a preacher on the Arab satellite television network Al Jazeera, has called on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to surrender. “I… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a statement posted on the website of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, the organization’s President makes a statement that some might see as anti-Semitic. As part of a discussion about Muslims in Europe, Ingrid Mattson stated:
Europe has seen this kind of ethnic hatred before in its history. Financially-successful Jews were for many centuries viewed with jealously and resentment by… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The website of the International Board of Educational Research and Resources (IBERR), linked to the global Muslim Brotherhood, has announced an international forum to be held in early April in Leicester, U.K. According to the announcement :
This highly anticipated form will bring together leadings experts involved in new and innovative action research projects from South Africa, USA, Nigeria, and UK and other countries to resource a variety of workshops… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A German newspaper has reported that a possible new spokesman for the recently created coordinating body for Muslims in Germany is also a member of a Turkish Islamist organization closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. After citing the liberal background and positions of Ali Kizilkaya, the report goes on to state:
Ali Kizilkaya is the chairman of the Islamic Council in Germany and a member of Milli Gorus, the organization… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An Italian media report indicates that an Italian Muslim umbrella group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has released a statement saying that the great majority of Muslims in the country are not involved in subversive activities. According to the report:
UCOII would like to reassure the community that the great majority of Muslims are not involved in any actitivies that are subversive and against public order and national security,”… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An Italian media report indicates that an Italian Muslim umbrella group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has released a statement saying that the great majority of Muslims in the country are not involved in subversive activities. According to the report:
UCOII would like to reassure the community that the great majority of Muslims are not involved in any actitivies that are subversive and against public order and national… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Various media reports indicate that Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, a British Muslim of Pakistani origins linked to the global Muslim Brotherhood, plays an important role in Sharia courts in the U.K. According to one report:
[Dr. Hassan] and a panel of seven to 10 Islamic scholars hear about 50 divorce cases a month at the Islamic Sharia Council, formed 25 years ago, sometimes settling disputes with couples as far afield… Continue reading
GlobalMB @ March 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An independent Jordanian newspaper has reported the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood organized a political protest against Israeli actions in Gaza in which mostly children participated. According to the report:
Hundreds of citizens, mainly children, took to the streets in Al Manarah on Wednesday to protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The demonstration, which was organised by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), started after Maghreb prayers at Hassan Basri Mosque. The marchers chanted… Continue reading