Islam & America’s Useful Idiots

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Muslims in Britain are the most patriotic in Europe according to a new study. The report, funded by George Soros found that on average 78% of Muslims identified themselves as British. This compares with 49% of Muslims who consider themselves French and just 23% who feel German. Times>>

Well, if the study is funded by Soros it must be true. Just like “Global Worming” invented by the Goracle and financed by KRudd. Who are we to doubt?

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Leading the NYTimes website this morning is a “news analysis” about how the theory that American Muslims aren’t subject to radicalization like their European counterparts are is being tested now, with these recent arrests. Notice these excerpts; the emphases in boldface are mine:

At a news conference Friday at the small Virginia mosque where the men had been youth group regulars, mosque officials expressed bewilderment at claims that the men wanted to join the jihad against American troops in Afghanistan.

“I never observed any extreme behavior from them,” said Mustafa Maryam, who runs the youth group and said he had known the young men since 2006. “They were fun-loving, career-focused children. They had a bright future before them.”

More:

Also at the press briefing, asked about reports that the five men had contacted a Pakistani militant via the Web, Mahdi Bray, the head of the Freedom Foundation of the Muslim American Society, told reporters that YouTube and social networking sites had become a dangerous recruiting tool for militants.

“We are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of our children through this slick, seductive propaganda on the Internet,” said Mr. Bray, who is organizing a youth meeting later this month in Chicago to address the issue.

“Silence in cyberspace is not an option for us,” he said.

I don’t believe either of these men.

I believe that they are eager for the public to think tha tthey’re shocked, shocked by Islamic radicalism going on in their communities. I believe the ICNA mosque youth minister wants the public to think that the mosque is completely in the dark about this — even though ICNA has distributed Sayyid Qutb’s highly influential exhortation to worldwide Islamic jihad to American Muslim youth. I believe that Mahdi Bray wants the public to believe that MAS is eager to fight the radicalization of American Muslim youth — even though is organization is a Muslim Brotherhood group. Read this analysis, substantially built from MAS’s own documents, showing how the group believes in building an Islamic state in the US, and takes its marching orders from the work of Sayyid Qutb. Read this analysis of MAS — again, from its own documents — which certainly puts Mahdi Bray’s propaganda here into a certain context. Go here for information, including a link to the full original, about the 1991 planning memo seized by the FBI in a raid on a Virginia Islamist’s home, and which was introduced into the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas. it lays out, chapter and verse, plans for the Brotherhood and its front groups to establish themselves in American civil society, with the long-term goal of waging a “civilizational-jihadist process” against the United States.

If you read nothing else, check out this long, fantastic investigative story from 2004, published in the Chicago Tribune, which tells the story of how the radical Brotherhood established itself in America, and how it operates. Excerpts;

“They have this idea that Muslims come first, not that humans come first,” says Mustafa Saied, 32, a Floridian who left the U.S. Brotherhood in 1998.

While separation of church and state is a bedrock principle of American democracy, the international Brotherhood preaches that religion and politics cannot be separated and that governments eventually should be Islamic. The group also champions martyrdom and jihad, or holy war, as a means of self-defense and has provided the philosophical underpinnings for Muslim militants worldwide.

Many moderate Muslims in America are uncomfortable with the views preached at mosques influenced by the Brotherhood, scholars say. Those experts point to a 2001 study sponsored by four Muslim advocacy and religious groups that found that only a third of U.S. Muslims attend mosques.

In suburban Bridgeview, Ill., some moderates say they quit attending the Mosque Foundation because the leadership became too conservative and dominated by Brotherhood members.

Documents obtained by the Tribune and translated from Arabic show that the U.S. Brotherhood has been careful to obscure its beliefs from outsiders. One document tells leaders to be cautious when screening potential recruits. If the recruit asks whether the leader is a Brotherhood member, the leader should respond, “You may deduce the answer to that with your own intelligence.”

And:

Groups that the Brotherhood helped form printed Islamic books, many of which were distributed at mosques and on college campuses. They included Sayyid Qutb’s “In the Shade of the Koran” and “Milestones,” which urge jihad, martyrdom and the creation of Islamic states. Scholars came to view his writings as manifestos for Islamic militants.

“These books had questionable paradigms, especially a dichotomous division between `us’ and `them,’” says Umar Faruq Abdallah, a noted Islamic scholar who heads a Muslim educational group in suburban Chicago. “It was very harmful. It helped to create a countercultural attitude in our community.”

Inamul Haq, professor of religion at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., says the U.S. Brotherhood pushed Islam in a conservative direction. “They were in a position to define American Islam. Since they were well-connected in the Middle East, they were able to bring money to build various institutions.”

Without the Brotherhood, he says, “We would have seen a more American Islamic culture rather than a foreign community living in the United States.”

More:

In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation’s major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.

Some wanted the Brotherhood to remain underground, while others thought a more public face would make the group more influential. Members from across the country drove to regional meeting sites to discuss the issue.

Former member Mustafa Saied recalls how he gathered with 40 others at a Days Inn on the Alabama-Tennessee border. Many members, he says, preferred secrecy, particularly in case U.S. authorities cracked down on Hamas supporters, including many Brotherhood members.

“They were looking at doomsday scenarios,” he says.

When the leaders voted, it was decided that Brotherhood members would call themselves the Muslim American Society, or MAS, according to documents and interviews.

Finally:

At a summer camp last year in Wisconsin run by the Chicago chapter of MAS, teens received a 2-inch-thick packet of material that included a discussion of the Brotherhood’s philosophy and detailed instructions on how to win converts.

Part of the Chicago chapter’s Web site is devoted to teens. It includes reading materials that say Muslims have a duty to help form Islamic governments worldwide and should be prepared to take up arms to do so.

One passage states that “until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful.” Another one says that Western secularism and materialism are evil and that Muslims should “pursue this evil force to its own lands” and “invade its Western heartland.”

In suburban Rosemont, Ill., several thousand people attended MAS’ annual conference in 2002 at the village’s convention center. One speaker said, “We may all feel emotionally attached to the goal of an Islamic state” in America, but it would have to wait because of the modest Muslim population. “We mustn’t cross hurdles we can’t jump yet.”

See? The idea is not outright jihad, but working to be seen as moderate, helpful, part of the American fabric — but with an ulterior long-term motive. Of course these would-be johadists put that plan in danger, and must be condemned by officials of these groups.

Connect the dots. It’s not hard — unless you’re relying on the MSM (the Chicago Tribune being an honorable exception, at least in 2004) to do it for you. And for that matter, the U.S. Government, which idiotically brought in an official with the radical ISNA to lecture at Fort Hood on Islam after the Hasan shootings. This would be the same U.S. Government that named ISNA an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the HLF terror financing trial, because of its Muslim Brotherhood ties. But ISNA can come to Fort Hood and give a lecture to soldiers about Islam. Incredible.

What useful idiots we Americans are.

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