The Muslim Brotherhood's Global Threat Linked to Qatar's

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"The Muslim Brotherhood is a militant Islamist organization with affiliates in over 70 countries, including groups designated a terrorist organizations by the U.S."

"[Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, said in 1928 that] Jihad is an obligation from Allah [for every Muslim] and cannot be ignored or evaded."

"The Way of Jihad [he wrote]: Jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their place of worship, and smashing their idols."

"This belief was put into action in t he decades that followed as the Muslim Brotherhood's members committed numerous acts of terrorism, including the assassination of Egypt's Prime Minister in 1948."

"This jihadist ideology continues to fuel the Muslim Brotherhood today. The Brotherhood mourned the death of Osama bin Laden and its leaders developed teachings justifying revolutionary violence under sharia law."

"The Brotherhood has preached hatred towards Jews, denied the Holocaust, and called for Israel's destruction."

The Brotherhood has incited violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt amidst a wave of church bombings and other attacks by terrorist groups, including ISIS."

"Yusuf al-Qaradawi, perhaps the Brotherhood's preeminent cleric, issued a fatwa legitimizing  terrorist attacks against American troops in Iraq. And he's also deemed the Holocaust to be a, quote, 'punishment for Jews', and expressed hope that another Holocaust would someday be carried out by his fellow Islamists."  

U.S. House Reform Committee, 2018 ... The Muslim Brotherhood's Global Threat

The US has urged Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to act against terrorism  Reuters

 

Not only are some governments in the West recognizing finally the dire threat to Western civilization posed by the ideological fascism of Islamist fundamentalism espoused by the Muslim Brotherhood, they are now joined by a handful of Muslim countries as well whose governments have taken steps to outlaw their activities on their  soil. Among them is the United Arab Emirates which has been in the vanguard of issuing warnings to the West of the threat posed by this almost 100-year-old totalitarian Islamist group.

 

When President Donald Trump's government made it known it intended to "counter violence and destabilizing activities carried out by terrorist Muslim Brotherhood branches wherever they operate", a few branches of the Brotherhood were named as proscribed targets. A partial, and incomplete decision which should logically have outlawed the entire ideological/religio apparatus. Even that move, however, inspired the UAE to welcome the U.S. designation of several branches as terrorist organizations.

 

Unfortunately Mr. Trump's attention was to focus only on branches of the Muslim Brotherhood located in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, where it originated and from which the government of Egypt itself outlawed the group, which didn't stop it from continuing operations in Egypt. During the Arab Spring, when mobs of Egyptian dissenters called for Hosni Mubarak to step away from the presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood had huge support from the population. As it did from the U.S. Obama administration which chose to abandon its support for President Mubarak, and welcome the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in his stead.

 

The Muslim Brotherhood is not alone in its "resources that enable them to engage in, support, or justify acts of extremism, hatred and terrorism" as the UAE put it. There is another source of all that the Brotherhood is recognized for, as a threat to Western values, heritage, society, culture and laws, that works studiously to accomplish the very same goal that motivates the Brotherhood. And that is the monarchy of Qatar whose vast riches from oil resources has enabled it to literally buy its way into the United States, furnishing tens of millions to American universities, while inserting itself into the political fabric of the U.S

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Qatar's then-Emir, Sheikh Hamad, visited the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip in 2012   Reuters

 

Qatar is the Muslim Brotherhood financier, just as it plowed millions upon millions into terrorist group activities, most notably Hamas, in Gaza. The US. State Department itself has recognized Qatar as a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood for decades. That acknowledgment has come to nothing, despite knowing Qatar finances Islamist jihad and terrorist outfits that exemplify jihadist terrorism.

 

All of this is well known, and recognized, and it cannot have slipped the attention of the U.S. president who nonetheless views Qatar as a U.S. protectorate. Mr. Trump went so far as to issue an order stating the U.S. "shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty or critical infrastructure of the state of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States". This, despite the Qatar funding of terrorism, including al-Qaeda which carried out the 9-11 attacks in New York, Washington/Pentagon and Pennsylvania. The 'art of the deal' enters the picture, with Qatari/U.S. business interests.

 

The Qataris are shrewd enough to know that even American presidents can be 'bought' with extravagantly expensive gifts. Qatar's strategy to undermine the West while funding the Muslim Brotherhood is known, yet its vast wealth and 'investments' abroad have gained it respectability and admiration. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney stated his intention to meet with "the Amir of Qatar, His Highness sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to deepen the relationship between Canada and Qatar".

 

Underlining the fault lines between intelligence and caution in that the West has chosen to blind itself to the reality of extremism that the Muslim Brotherhood and its sponsors represent as a dire threat to all the West holds dear.

 

The Growing Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on Politics, Academia, and Civil Society in Canada

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This research report provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization and impact of the Muslim Brotherhood network in Canada. Over a period of decades, Brotherhood-affiliated organizations have managed to develop legitimate ties and wield considerable influence within Canada’s civil, academic, and political spheres. Branches of organizations that have previously been found to be supporting terror organizations such as Hamas continue to operate with impunity, often after rebranding themselves. The report also assesses the impact that these developments have had on Canadian university campuses, with a particular focus on McGill University, Concordia University, the University of Toronto, and York University.

"The ongoing diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours, which centres mainly on the country's alleged support for terrorism, represents one of the biggest challenges to the UK’s foreign policy to the Middle East since the Arab Spring. Qatar has been accused by its neighbours of supporting terrorism and there is substantial evidence that the country has long been supporting the Al Nusra Front, designated by the US in 2012 as a foreign terrorist organization and the Al Qaeda branch in Syria. The support has included coordination between Al Nusra commanders and senior Qatari military officials and financiers, financial assistance, and help in creating a new opposition coalition in which Al Nusra was a leading member. Qatar has also found other means to support Al Nusra in the face of the US designation including the facilitation or direct payment of ransom to the group for the released of kidnapped victims and the toleration of private, designated terrorist financiers within the country. The most significant of these financiers is an individual described by the US as a Qatar-based terrorist financier and facilitator who is also the President of an anti-Western political coalition comprised of prominent Salafi and Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders. This coalition includes at least seven leading figures and/or their organizations designated as terrorists by the United States, the EU, and/or the United Nations for their support of Al-Qaeda and related groups. Some of these figures and/or the organization itself have suggested direct attacks on the US and the UK military and the Qatari GAAC President himself has bragged about the close cooperation between GAAC and the violent Iraqi "resistance" against coalition forces."

Committees, Parliament, U.K. 

The Latest American Hit-and-Run Escapade

"Everybody’s worried about a repeat of the Saigon images."

"But this could change. If you have a parade of horribles continue to unfold in Afghanistan, it could seep into the public consciousness the way Iraq did in 2013 and 2014."

Brian Katulis, foreign policy expert, Center for American Progress

 

"If Trump is the Republican nominee again, I think it would be hard for him to criticize Biden for executing a plan that Trump put into motion,"

"Trump didn’t just open the door [to a withdrawal], what he did was force the issue in a way that it hadn’t been forced before."

"Polls show that a majority of Americans want to leave Afghanistan. But they also show that if you ask Americans about their foreign policy or national security objectives, they will almost always rank preventing terrorist attacks on the United States as number one or two, and they will rank extracting America from military operations overseas far below that."

Richard Fontaine, chief executive, Center for a New American Security

Displaced Afghans at a makeshift camp on Tuesday in Kabul, the capital. The threat of a Taliban conquest and new risks to U.S. personnel and allies in the country could cause Americans to reconsider their views.   Credit...Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Actually, what President Donald Trump did in pursuing an escape for the United States from the protracted war in Afghanistan against religious fundamentalists who had no trouble recruiting from the local population by force of persuasion or force of arms, was to legitimize the Taliban as a returning potential government. By bringing them to a series of bargaining sessions and treating them like a government-in-exile, meetings that excluded the elected and Western-supported government of Afghanistan under President Ashraf Ghani at the insistence of the Taliban, was to give them an imprimatur of U.S. recognition.

 

It wouldn't have taken too much of a cerebral exercise to gain the insight that the Taliban had no interest whatever in peace talks with the Afghan government. At the same time, it was more than eager to demonstrate on the world stage that it could hold its own in talks with the U.S. administration's representative to Afghanistan, Special Envoy for Afghan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad at a conference centre in Doha, Qatar. A grand title for a pathetic betrayal of the Afghan people. 

 

The primitive, savagely Islamist Taliban demonstrating their political, diplomatic bona fides. So that they could boast afterward that they had achieved their goal; persuading the U.S. and other foreign NATO troops to leave Afghanistan. Sneering that they had the great United States of America on the run. That would make an impression on al-Qaeda and Islamic State comfortably ensconced in northern Afghanistan.

With the pretense that the United States would be safe from any possible future attacks reminiscent of the horrors of 9/11 when the Taliban solemnly pledged that terrorist groups stationed in Afghanistan with which the Taliban shared a common goal would not be permitted to launch attacks against the U.S., the Biden administration could assure its public that it had extracted American troops from an unending conflict, one whose consequences would never come back to bite the U.S. again. A risibly false premise.

Negotiating with terrorists results in no assurances that can be relied upon for anything. Other than that they will do whatever it takes to gain their upper hand and since they failed to suspend attacks throughout the negotiating period it could readily be taken as an assurance that their promises were conditioned on the need to deceive, to assure a muddle-headed administration that it was perfectly 'safe' for Afghanistan and the Afghan people for the Americans to decamp without so much as a by-your-leave advance notice to the Afghan military and its government.

"We are closely watching the deteriorating security conditions in parts of the country, but no particular outcome, in our view, is inevitable."

"[The Afghans] need to determine ... if they have the political will to fight back and if they have the ability to unite as leaders to fight back ... [their own fate]."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki

A crowd in Kabul this week applying for a special immigrant visa program that resettles thousands of Afghans and their family members.   Credit...Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

 So far, the battles are being won by the Taliban. Afghan forces have a habit of melting away into the night when the going gets tough, and it does get tough. They are well aware that if any members of the Afghan national police or the military are taken prisoner, their tenure as prisoners will be extremely short. As long as it takes for the Taliban to butcher them, a prospect that fails to appeal to the defenders of the country and the nation. 

Outsiders looking in foresee that Kabul may last another 30 days in the hands of its government. An American defence official speaking anonymously talks of a new assessment on how long it would take for Kabul to capitulate to Taliban rule given its rapid gains. "But this is not a foregone conclusion", he states; Afghan security forces could conceivably reverse the Taliban momentum with greater resistance on their part. The U.S. military can provide the Afghan military with resources like arms, but not backbone. Though not for lack of trying.

Inflamed by the fervour of religious fundamentalism and fired by the prospect of conquest the Taliban inspire fear in the minds of those they target; their own countrymen who are prepared to counter them but are unable to muster the same level of ferocity in barbaric slaughter that seems to come so naturally to the Taliban. Now in control of 65 percent of the country with one provincial capital after another falling to them, including border gateways, the Taliban appear unstoppable. And as they advance the populace heads for exits.

The international community is aghast and mindful of the dire need to evacuate their diplomatic missions before the inevitable occurs. With internal refugees streaming into Kabul, among them are most certainly Taliban, indistinguishable from the terrorized civilian population, yet intent on their mission among which most surely are attacks not only on civil arms of the Afghan government but foreign diplomats still ensconced in their embassies.

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, which the armed group captured on Thursday [Gulabuddin Amiri/AP Photo]