The Muslim Big Brotherhood

By Jim Fletcher
Prophecy Matters
February 7, 2011
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Does anyone really believe that Barack Obama doesn t understand exactly what the M
uslim Brotherhood is?
In his drive to push Hosni Mubarak s political wheelchair down a flight of stairs,
Obama is pushing a White House-led plan to remove Mubarak from office. Of cours
e, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state is tasked with carrying this plan to Mu
barak.
No one is also naïve in thinking that Mubarak is anything but a strongman, a dicta
tor who values self above all. His three decades of ruling Egypt with an iron fi
st (like Syria s Hafez Assad and Jordan s King Hussein) has left Egypt with a shiny
new American-equipped army, and a Third World economy.
But I don t believe for a minute that the revolt in Egypt is driven by disaffected
youth. It is the most radical form of Muslim jihadist mentality that is driving
the car now.
The Muslim Brotherhood
The Brotherhood is a radical strain of Islam, born in Egypt in 1928, and the for
erunner of both the PLO (formed in 1964) and Al Qaida. Needless to say, this ban
d of true believers in Allah hated Israel from the beginning.
In the early years of Israel s existence, one of the worst problems the Jews dealt
with was cross-border raids from the Egyptian mujahideen, or freedom fighters. Th
ey continuously struck civilian targets in Israel, crossing through the Sinai an
d elsewhere. For years, Israel sent its own commandos back in retaliation.
And, in one of those odd, ironic twists of history, the Brotherhood engaged an o
pportunity just after World War II that is still having ramifications for our wo
rld today.
In the late 40 s, a young Yasser Arafat was agitating to fight the Jews and the Br
itish in Palestine. Incredibly, when he visited the former Mufti of Jerusalem in
Lebanon, the radical cleric advised him instead to pursue university studies in
the U.S.!
Arafat equally incredibly applied for a visa. Had the process not dragged-on, th
e future terrorist chieftain might have been engulfed in Marilyn Monroe films an
d Buicks. Instead, he teamed-up with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was now encou
raged subtly by Egypt s King Farouk to engage in terror activities.
From there, one can trace Arafat s involvement with the Brotherhood, and in 1964 t
hree years before Israel took territories in the Six Day War the PLO was formed.
By 1968, Arafat was named chairman.
When Arafat was organizing his terror activities early on, his para-military gro
up, Fatah (today the official political party of Palestinian Authority Chairman
Abu Mazen), was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. At the time, the Saudis also c
laimed that the groups were tied to international communism.
This stew of revolutionary thought and terror activity has ensured that the Musl
im Brotherhood has not only not advanced in its thinking since 1928, but in fact
it hearkens back to the darkest radicalism that swept through the Arabian deser
t in the seventh century.
After the Six Day War, the infiltration of Gaza by terrorist entities from Egypt
made it necessary for Israel to send Ariel Sharon into the area and clean it up
. The PLO and Muslim Brotherhood groups were copying the tactics of the Viet Con
g in villages and urban areas murdering and brutalizing the population. A total
of 846 terrorists were either killed or captured.
Sadly, the relentless nature of terrorism though eventually gave way to the polit
ical process and that is how we find ourselves in the position of watching an Ame
rican president further endanger Israel by proposing a transition of power in Eg
ypt that will include ... the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ridiculous.