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December 2010: The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in encouraging Muslims to "conquer the world via the halal movement"

By Point de Bascule | 21 March 2012 |

The objective of the Islamists involved in the halal is to control all stages ranging from the production, transportation, marketing. This is what leads to advocate Mustafa Ceric conquer the world via the halal. Contrary to what many Quebec commentators argue, halal goes far beyond the issue of blessing chickens Olymel.

In a speech in Islamabad (Pakistan) in December 2010 to delegates at a conference on halal (Global Halal Congress), the Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mustafa Ceric urged Muslims to "conquer the world via the halal movement."

At the time the statement was reported by the Daily Mail Islamabad (archived on GMBDR): "The Grand Mufti of Bosnia Herzegovina, Dr. Mustafa Ceric urged the Muslim Ummah to conquer the world through Halal movement".

Mustafa Ceric (Ciric) is part of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an organization that brings together leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is led by their spiritual leader Youssef Qaradawi. Jamal (Gamal) Badawi, another leader of the network based in Nova Scotia, is also part of the Council. Badawi was one of the directors of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), the main organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country from 2002 to 2006. Always been involved in the management of several other organizations in the Islamic Brotherhood in America North.

The exhortation to conquer launched by Mustafa Ceric is in addition to many other supremacist Islamist leaders from different eras statements. Point de Bascule has reported several in an article entitled The proposed Islamic conquest.

In July 2011, before his supporters of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) meeting in Dallas (TX), Tariq Ramadan said: "It should be us, with our understanding of Islam, our principles colonize positively the United States of America. "Transcription of the main excerpts of the speech is available on Point de Bascule.

In January 2012, Tariq Ramadan was appointed director of a new research center on sharia based in Qatar. At the official announcement, he was accompanied by Mustafa Ceric and Youssef Qaradawi.

In an article written in 1991 and produced in evidence in terrorism trial of leaders of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) in the United States in 2007 and 2008 memorandum, the Muslim Brotherhood encouraged the use of institutions and principles in force in societies Western to destroy them from within:

(Translation PDEB) "The Muslim Brotherhood must understand their work site in America as a kind of grand jihad to eliminate, to destroy Western civilization within and sabotaging its miserable abode to the religion of Allah victorious over all other religions. (...) It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and that wherever it is, and until his last breath. "

Investigative Project on Terrorism: Presentation of memorandum

Investigative Project on Terrorism: Understanding in Arabic and English translation

GMBDR (25 November 2008): Leaders of the Holy Land Foundation convicted of all charges (Holy Land Foundation Leaders Found Guilty On All Charges)
When the Muslim Brotherhood talk about "wage jihad", they do not necessarily speak from resorting to terrorism but do everything in their power to undermine Western society from within. Thus, Youssef Qaradawi, the spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, told his supporters in a 2009 fatwa that they should participate in interfaith dialogue to convert Christians and Jews. In a 1990 speech, he told them they had to do to discourage Christians to support other Christians involved in conflicts with Muslim leaders. At the time, Qaradawi had mentioned specific cases of Sudan and the Philippines.

Point de Bascule (9 September 2011): What the Muslim Brotherhood look when they participate in interreligious dialogue

Point de Bascule (31 August 2011): The Montreal Interfaith Conference: a call for censorship

Islam Muslim Brotherhood is a doctrine of war, disinformation and sedition. The current use of halal is part of this strategy

"Destroying within Western civilization and sabotaging its miserable abode" is what is on the agenda.

Gradual application of sharia

In his column of March 15, 2012 with the issuance of Paul Houde (audio 1:21) Jean Lapierre spoke of a "light halal" to describe the fact that all the rules of halal found in textbooks Sharia is not applied to Olymel today. It would make our Islamists pushing for halal Quebec moderate while those who apply 100% of procedures were radical. Is to misunderstand how to apply Islamic sharia proceed.

The rules of Sharia manuals are ideal. These are the objectives of the Islamists. They work to implement some of these methods in the short term and others long term. The rate at which they apply the terms of their halal program is based on the balance of power they get to settle in a given region. Writing in December 2011, Youssef Qaradawi encourages precisely "to use gradualism in the implementation of Sharia."

To understand the implications of halal certification programs, it is important to consider the reports that organizations that provide accreditation to maintain the infrastructure of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations that use the blessing of chickens or other symbolic operations as a lever to the prohibition of non-halal products in the societies where they operate.

More halal movement is gaining momentum in a given society, the more coercion is exerted against Islamists who refuse to comply with their requirements. It is the prohibition of ham sandwiches in Malaysia threats that Muslim cab drivers pose to the economic viability of companies that hire when they refuse to carry alcohol.

The first example refers to a school of Kuala Lumpur director who wrote to parents of non-Muslim students to advise them that their children could not bring non-halal lunches to school "out of respect for Islam which is the official religion of the country and respect for the operator of the cafeteria. " (JihadWatch - July 26, 2004)

At the airport in Minneapolis, Muslim taxi drivers directly threaten the economic survival of the company they work for refusing to pick up passengers carrying alcohol. In a society based on respect for individual rights, a taxi driver should be able to refuse clients. By cons, in return, his boss should be able to dispose of his services because he has violated his contract. Islamists have understood that several clauses of our charters give precedence to so-called collective rights interest groups at the expense of individual rights and they exploit fully this vein. The smallest minority, remember, it is the individual and not an interest group. Freedom of religion is to be able to take its own resources to develop its own institutions. It does not mean to force other people to conform to the precepts they refuse. Taxi drivers who do not want to carry alcohol have always the option of starting their own company and appear openly halal. Nobody should have to accommodate their commitment to halal and their refusal to carry alcohol. (JihadWatch - 28 February 2007)

Anything that leads to haram (non-halal) is haram and will be opposed by Islamist
By accepting the moral authority of Islamist organizations that give them the green light to sell their products, companies pass halal establish a precedent that these organizations will not fail to invoke later when new conditions arise for grant certification.

The spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Youssef Qaradawi, devotes a specific passage from his book The licit and illicit in Islam (The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam) to the appearance of halal including:

(Translation PDEB) Another Islamic principle is that if something is forbidden, all that leads to it is also prohibited. Thus, Islam aims to block all avenues leading to haram (non-halal).

(...) The Muslim jurists have established that anything that helps or leads to haram is haram also.

(...) Thus, in the case of alcoholic beverages, the Prophet cursed the one who not only drinks but also one that produces drinks, one who serves, to whom they are paid, who gets paid for them, etc. . (Page 22)

The objective of the Islamists involved in the halal is to control all stages ranging from the production, transportation, marketing. Therefore Mustafa Ceric can reasonably speak of "conquering the world via the halal movement." If it was just a blessing chickens Olymel as many Quebec commentators try to present the issue, the Muslim Brotherhood would not have the ambition to conquer their leader Ceric expressed.

As as Islamist organizations increase their requirements for granting Halal certification, they will organize targeted actions against companies that refuse to comply. In 2000, when the Muslim Brotherhood of Justice and Development Party in Morocco tried to block the favorable status of women that the king wanted to bring to the Family Code reforms, they resorted to what Dominique Lagarde Express called him a landing technique (inzal). In this case, Islamist militants arrived in many meetings that discussed the reform of the Family Code, they monopolized the floor, etc..

In the case of campaigns against companies that refuse to go to halal, we should expect similar to the Islamists and their allies against the store carrying the Walker Montreal to force it to close its doors because it sells pressures shoes made in Israel. Besiege companies that sell products of Israel, as it is halal.

The legitimacy of the use of force to enforce Sharia and impose halal
How far will the Islamists to impose halal? In Chapter 4 of his book Priorities of the Islamic Movement (Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase), Youssef Qaradawi says Islam permits the use of force to eliminate what is bad whenever c ' possible ("changing wrong by strength whenever will be").

In a text published on IslamOnline in 2011, Qaradawi wished to recall that offensive jihad (attack non-Muslims on their territory) is indeed part of what he stands for. The decision of the Muslim Brotherhood to use force depends only on tactical considerations, the support they receive in a given region, etc. level.

Rebates certification and zakat funds the program Islamist conquest

When reporting on the halal aired during the show Dumont noon on 13 March, the representative of Olymel acknowledged that his company paid "several thousand dollars" per year for halal certification. (Audio 5:52)

Muslim merchants who sell halal products must also give a portion of their profits in the form of zakat (obligatory Muslim rule contribution). The h8.7-h8.18 manual sections of Sharia al-Salik Umdat (Reliance of the Traveller - The dependence of the traveler) state that zakat can be used to pay three broad categories of people: those who collect zakat, the people in need and those who lead the jihad. This manual Sharia is endorsed by the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization of the Muslim Brotherhood based in the United States near Mustafa Ceric.

Insist that are properly identified halal products is far from being an eccentric request. This is nothing less than a national security issue. In other countries, civil libertarians have taken a proactive approach and set up agencies to ensure that they certify meat comes from animals that have been rendered insensible before being slaughtered and any profit arising the sale of products they certify will be paid to the financing of Islamic jihad.

Alain Laprise June 20, 2014

Muslim Brotherhood in USA

1. Muslim Brotherhood in USA
1. -- Motto of the Muslim Brotherhood
2. The upheavals of 2011-2012 across the Middle East and North Africa swept aside secular rulers and the established political order with startling speed, and continue to focus world attention on the revolutionary forces driving these far-reaching events. Poverty, oppression, inequality, and lack of individual freedom are all hallmarks of the societal stagnation that has gripped the Islamic world for the better part of fourteen centuries, but the driving force of the so-called "Arab Spring" is a resurgent Islam, dominated by the forces of al-Qa'eda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Energized as Islam may be at this time, however, without the active involvement of the United States to help arm, fund, support, and train the region's Islamic rebels, it is questionable whether they could have gotten this far, this fast.
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4. This report describes how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated and suborned the U.S. government to actively assist, whether knowingly or not, the mission of its grand jihad. Its hard-won position at the forefront of the 21st century Islamic Awakening is possible only because of decades of patient infiltration and political indoctrination (Da'wa) in the West, and especially the United States of America, even as the grassroots work of building an organizational structure advanced steadily in the land of its origin as well. It is important to recognize the sophistication of the Brotherhood's international strategy and how the takedown of U.S. national security defenses from within was critical to the current Middle East-North Africa (MENA) campaign to re-establish the Caliphate and enforce Islamic Law (shariah).
1. U.S. Government in the Bull's-Eye

Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic but the values of Western civilization.

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration."

To reach this level of influence, the Muslim Brotherhood had moved gradually, in the classical stepped process patterned after Muhammad and his early followers, and that Sayyed Qutb outlined in his seminal monograph, "Milestones." The establishment of Islamic centers, mosques, communities, and front group organizations was the first step in the "civilization jihad." The mainstreaming of their existence—and ultimately their messaging—in American society formed the foundation of a Brotherhood campaign to target U.S. government circles in all three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative) at the federal, state, and local levels. The national security and intelligence communities were top priority, but law enforcement, military and penal institutions, the media, think tanks and policy groups, academia, and non-Muslim religious communities were also part of the overall strategy. The remainder of this paper will focus in more closely on Muslim Brotherhood penetration of U.S. government agencies, especially at the senior executive level.

The careful insinuation of Muslim Brothers into positions from which they can exercise influence on U.S. policy began long before the attacks of 9/11, although their success has accelerated dramatically under the administration of President Barack Obama. The massive Muslim Brotherhood organizational network in the U.S., so patiently built up over the decades since that first Oval Office meeting in 1953, eventually gave it a prominence and (false) reputation of credibility that was unmatched by any other Islamic groups, moderate or otherwise.

Using a combination of taqiyya (deceit, dissimulation) and intimidation, the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded not only in making itself the "go-to" authority on all things related to Islam, but in suppressing those who would speak truth about Islam—again, often by persuading the U.S.'s own senior officials to do the job for them: "by their hands". When Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, publicly excoriated, then fired, US Army LTC Matthew Dooley, an instructor at National Defense University, in April 2012 over an earlier-approved course on Islam, and then ordered Dooley's career-ending Negative Officer Evaluation Report, the lesson was meant to serve as a stark warning to anyone else in the DoD who might be tempted to become accurately educated about Islam.

The horrific violence of terror attacks such as 9/11 also played a role by softening up the intended target: Western society. As Pakistani Brigadier S.K. Malik wrote in 1979, "Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent's heart is obtained, hardly anything is left to be achieved." By contrast with jihadis, who would fly airplanes into skyscrapers and send suicide bombers into pizza parlors full of women and children, the Muslim Brotherhood looked tame. That its ideology and ultimate objectives — re-establishment of the Caliphate and universal enforcement of Islamic Law — were identical to those of al-Qa'eda was part of the Ikhwan's Information Operation to control what U.S. officials are allowed to know.

The first task was to maneuver Muslim Brothers into positions of trust with key U.S. government officials. One of the most successful Brotherhood placement and influence operations discovered to date involved Abdurahman Alamoudi, who penetrated the upper echelons of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. A naturalized American citizen who emigrated from Eritrea in 1979, Alamoudi parlayed his leadership roles with dozens of Muslim organizations all the way to the White House. Despite being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who openly had declared his support for HAMAS, he was accepted as a "moderate Muslim" and became an advisor to President Bill Clinton and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. He was permitted to establish the Muslim Chaplain Program for the Department of Defense and then served as its nominating and certifying authority from 1993-98.

Deciding to hedge his bets by 1998, Alamoudi provided at least $20,000 in start-up funds to Republican activist Grover Norquist "to establish what would become a Muslim Brotherhood front organization" called the Islamic Free Market Institute, which aimed to penetrate Republican Party circles and the campaign of future President George W. Bush. Along the way, Alamoudi inserted his long-time deputy, Khaled Saffuri, and eventually another prominent Ikhwan operative, Sami al-Arian, into the Bush presidential campaign. Alamoudi's moves paid off: after Bush's victory, another Alamoudi protégé with vast Brotherhood connections, Suhail Khan, was appointed to the White House Office of Public Liaison, from which key position he was able to manage the access of the U.S. Muslim community to the White House. This position gave the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood unprecedented opportunities to influence operations at the top levels of U.S. policymaking. Grover Norquist himself escaped scrutiny for years thereafter as he continued operating within the conservative movement.

Despite Alamoudi's eventual fall from grace, arrest and imprisonment following conviction on terrorism-related charges as a senior al-Qa'eda financier, the damage was done. Even the eventual unmasking of Sami al-Arian as a senior operative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) did not seem to jolt the counterintelligence instincts of the U.S. intelligence community. The U.S. executive branch, from the president to the NSC and key Cabinet Departments, had been effectively neutered at the very start of the Global War on Terror. This is how President Bush could stand on 17 September 2001 inside the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., flanked by Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR (the U.S. branch of HAMAS), and in all sincerity, declare that "Islam is peace."

The George W. Bush administration was targeted with a multifaceted, sophisticated information operation designed to deceive national security officials about the true nature of the Islamic jihadist enemy that attacked the homeland on 9/11. Surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood voices which told him true Islam had been "hijacked" by a "tiny minority of extremists," President Bush responded by flinging U.S. military might against those who had physically carried out those attacks. Far more importantly, however, is that he was successfully deterred from investigating the belief system that inspired those hijackers by a blanket of Muslim Brotherhood taqiyya that successfully smothered inquiry about the very Islamic doctrine that al-Qa'eda and the hijackers themselves declared to be their motivation. Although few realize it to this day, the crippling of the Bush administration's GWOT response marked a crucial turning point in the U.S. ability to defend itself against Islamic jihad.

Hesham Islam was a senior advisor for international affairs who worked for Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England in the George W. Bush administration. A native of Cairo, Egypt, Islam, who is a Muslim, acted as point man for Pentagon outreach program to the Muslim community. Among the groups with which Islam brokered contacts for the Defense Department was ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), an acknowledged affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood that was named by the Justice Department in the summer of 2008 an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation's HAMAS terror-funding trial. Thanks to Islam's efforts, England forged close ties with ISNA, attended its conventions and hosted ISNA delegations at Pentagon events, even inside England's own office.

Also serving in the Bush administration, in the intelligence section of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), was Army Reserve Major Stephen Coughlin, a lawyer by training, who had become the Pentagon's top expert in Islamic law and jihad. His 2007 master's thesis, "'To Our Great Detriment': Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad," accepted at the National Defense Intelligence College, has become the standard classic on the subject of what Islamic law teaches about jihad. Coughlin conducted countless briefings on his findings for senior Defense Department officials, and in 2007 prepared an analysis on the evidence being submitted by Justice Department prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation case.

That evidence, based on the Brotherhood's own documents, demonstrated that U.S. Islamic organizations established as front groups by the Muslim Brotherhood were waging a "civilization jihad" to "destroy the Western civilization from within," to use its own words. Among the organizations actively involved in channeling illicit funding to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, HAMAS, was ISNA, one of the largest and most prominent of such front groups — and, thanks to Mr. Islam, a Pentagon outreach partner. Hesham Islam moved swiftly to defend his own position, ISNA, and the Brotherhood. In March 2008, as a result of Hesham Islam's campaign to have him removed, Coughlin's contract with the JCS was not renewed.

Louay Safi is a Syrian-American Muslim who has held official positions with the Brotherhood-affiliated ISNA and the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT). As ISNA's Executive Director of Leadership Development, Safi served for a number of years in the mid-2000s as an endorsing agent for the Pentagon's Muslim military chaplain program. He also served as IIIT's executive director (1995-97), and director of research (1999-2003); IIIT is another listed Muslim Brotherhood organization. Safi was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2003 trial of Sami al-Arian, who was convicted as a fundraiser for the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Despite this documented resume, Safi was hired by the Pentagon under a Naval Postgraduate School contract to teach Islam to U.S. troops about to depart on deployments to Afghanistan. Safi was at Ft. Bliss, TX on the day in November 2007 when Army Major Nidal Hassan gunned down thirteen service members and civilian employees at Ft. Hood, TX. The Army Criminal Investigations Division subsequently opened an investigation into the Army's use of Safi to provide seminars on Islam -- and those seminars were ended. Grieving family members were outraged in early December 2011 when Safi was permitted access to Ft. Hood in an attempt to present a check to them on behalf of ISNA; called "blood money" by at least one military source, the check was refused.

Later, Safi's 2011 book, "Peace and the Limits of War" (published by IIIT), openly justified violence against apostates from Islam as well as "preemptive strikes" against troops preparing to attack Muslims. Apparently in search of new employment for his skills, in August 2011, Safi reappeared as a founding member and director of the political office of the Syrian National Council (SNC), a Syrian rebel group dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. His photo and profile appear on the SNC website

As bad as these developments were, things became immeasurably worse for American national security under the administration of Barack Obama. Whereas President Bush and most of his administration insiders remained largely unaware that they had been manipulated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama and his close advisors proactively chose to reach out to the Brotherhood, its affiliates, and supporters for advice, training, and even administration appointments.

Another senior affiliate, Rashad Hussain, is the Obama administration's envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Hussain's background is replete with Muslim Brotherhood associations, including the American Muslim Council (founded by al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood operative, Abdurahman Alamoudi); the IIIT (which is on the Brotherhood's own list of "our friends and the organizations of our friends"); and the Muslim Students Association (MSA, the original Brotherhood front group in the U.S.). In his official capacity, Hussain is responsible for providing advice on national security and Muslim outreach.

He assisted in writing the President's June 2009 Cairo speech, in which Obama announced a new approach to the Muslim world and essentially declared war on his host, then-President Hosni Mubarak, by publicly signaling his recognition of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Hussain also acts as point man for the Obama administration's cooperation with the Istanbul Process, the OIC effort to criminalize internationally any criticism of Islam. The current administration's weeks-long duplicity in the aftermath of the 11 September 2012 terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it repeatedly and mendaciously claimed that an Internet video trailer sparked a protest there that got out of hand, appears to have been carefully scripted not just with the OIC but Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S., as well.

Eboo Patel, Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at a Muslim Students Association and ISNA convention, appearing on a panel alongside Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder, and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has defended the convicted WTC bombers. Wahhaj allegedly advocates the Islamic takeover of America.

Huma Abedin, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff, has served her in various capacities since first coming to the White House as an intern in 1996, while a student at George Washington University in Washington DC (where she was a member of the MSA Executive Board). For decades, she and members of her immediate family — mother, father, brother, and sister — have been closely associated with individuals among the top ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qa'eda financial support organizations, and the Saudi royal family. Given Abedin's security clearance and responsibilities to advise the Secretary on Middle East policy and politics, these affiliations must raise serious questions about her suitability for this post.

To begin, Abedin's mother, Dr. Saleha Abedin is a senior member of the Muslim Sisterhood (the distaff side of the Muslim Brotherhood) and is on record publicly supporting female genital mutilation, child marriage, marital rape, as well as stoning and lashing for adultery because they are consistent with Islamic shariah. A co-founder with Dr. Abedin of the Dar el-Hekma Women's College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Yaseen Abdullah Kadi, is a Treasury Department "specially designated global terrorist." In February 2010, at the behest of Huma Abedin, Secretary Clinton visited and spoke at Dar el-Hekma.

The most troubling associate of the Abedin family, however, is Abdullah Omar Nasseef, a senior Muslim Brotherhood leadership figure and Saudi royal family insider with direct connections to financial entities implicated in pre-9/11 funding of al-Qa'eda. During his long career, Nasseef has been the President of the Muslim World Congress, Vice President of the Saudi Shura Council, President of King Abdul Azziz University, and Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL, co-founded by al-Banna son-in-law Ramadan and the parent organization of International Islamic Relief Organization [IIRO], an al-Qa'eda front tied to the 1993 World Trade Center and 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings). Nasseef and his financial organizations were listed as defendants in post-9/11 legal cases based on his involvement with Al-Baraka Investment and the Rabita Trust (which Nasseef founded in 1988), a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, and a Special Designated Global Entity listed by the UN Security Council for financing al-Qa'eda.

Abdullah Omar Nasseef has been a close associate and benefactor of the Abedin family for well over 30 years. While President of King Abdul Azziz University in the 1970s, Nasseef named Huma Abedin's father, Zainul Abedin (who was a visiting professor) the head of his newly-established Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) and editor of its journal (JMMA). From then through at least 2012, the Abedin family — both parents, Huma, her brother Hassan, and sister Heba A. Khalid — has been responsible for editorial production of the IMMA journal. For twelve years, from 1996-2008, Huma Abedin and Nasseef, the al-Qa'eda financier, served together on the JMMA's editorial board. This included the time when Huma Abedin was serving as a White House intern, then as assistant during and after Clinton's Senate campaigns, and finally as Clinton's traveling chief of staff during her 2008 presidential campaign.

During the years that Huma Abedin has been a close to Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, like the U.S. government as a whole, has undergone a drastic shift in policy direction. Free speech issues and US government support for the al-Qa'eda/Muslim Brotherhood role in the MENA region revolts certainly top the list of concerns. While no outsider can know what advice Abedin provides behind closed doors, she has given no indication that her own world view or allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood differs in any major respect from that of her family or life-long family associates.

2. Conclusion

As we can see, as early as the George W. Bush administration period, the Muslim Brotherhood already had achieved an information dominance that, in coming years, would only intensify. Not only did figures associated and identified with the Muslim Brotherhood achieve broad penetration at senior levels of U.S. policymaking, but voices that warned of their true agenda (such as Stephen Coughlin's) were actively excluded. That information dominance has contributed to startling consequences, most evident in the U.S. policy towards the al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood-dominated revolutions that many call the "Arab Spring," but which in fact are more accurately termed an "Islamic Awakening." Under the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Obama administration, U.S. policy has undergone such a drastic shift in the direction of outright support for these jihadist movements — from al-Qa'eda militias in Libya, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked rebels in Syria — that it is scarcely recognizable as American any more. The infiltration of individuals such as Magid, Hussain, and Abedin, to name just a few, with such close Muslim Brotherhood identifications, to positions of influence at the highest levels of U.S. policymaking must be considered, at a minimum, a contributing factor.

In June 2012, five courageous U.S. Congressional representatives (Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney, and Lynn Westmoreland) sent letters to the Inspectors General of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State as well as the Office of the Director of National Security, requesting an investigation of Muslim Brotherhood influence within those agencies. That their patriotic initiative in defense of the security of U.S. policymaking should have been met only with an overwhelming barrage of criticism is tragic testament to the extent of success the Muslim Brotherhood has achieved in suppressing even the duty to counterintelligence awareness that is the first defense of a free people. Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic but the values of Western civilization.

Alain Laprise June 20, 2014

Ideological differences between Shiites and Sunnis tribes

War of the Arab tribes Shiites and Sunnis

When the Near and Middle East is evoked, these words keep coming back. The Arab League is composed mainly of Sunni countries, Iran is the great power Shiite clan Assad is Alawite minority in Syria ... What are the differences between these branches of Islam? A brief overview.
Shia-Sunni schism in year 632

As the Prophet Muhammad is alive, Islam as a single stream. In 632, his death, differences of opinion arise.

1 Shiites and Sunnis do not recognize him the same successor. Those who choose Ali, son of the prophet, become Shiites, while those, the majority, who prefer to follow Abu Bakr, Muhammad's companion, become Sunnis.

2 A very different organization of the clergy

Shiites recognize 12 imams deemed infallible in interpreting the Qur'an. Among these 12 imams are the two son of Ali. Shiites believe that the Twelfth Imam will return to the end of time to judge men.

For Shiites, the Koran is a human work, whereas the Sunnis he has a divine nature.

The expectation of a Mahdi

For Sunnis, the cycle of prophecy is closed. In contrast, the Shia expect and preparing for the arrival of the "Mahdi", a sort of Messiah who "fill the earth with justice and equity as it is now filled with injustice and tyranny." This expectation, which often involves among Shiites rejection of the existing order and the preparation of the arrival of the Mahdi, is a destabilizing factor.

Imamat Caliphate against

To Shiism, the existence depends on the presence of an imam living intercessor between the spiritual and temporal world, between the Prophet and the believers. The imam has, as part of the exegesis of the Qur'an "knowledge" and "infallibility". The Koran has a clear direction and a "hidden" to be studied, and the imams are responsible for transmitting to the most deserving faithful. This emphasis on the imam has no equivalent in the Sunni and explains the organization, prioritization and authority of the Shiite clergy (eg, Iran).

Action against predetermination

Shia practice the method Kalam (deductive reasoning), which emphasizes reasoning, argumentation, free will and character set of the Koran, unlike the Sunnis. Shiites believe in the freedom of the individual will. Sunni has indeed Sunnah, that is to say, the Tradition of the Prophet, including his words, his actions and practices. Be Sunni Muslim returns to perpetuate more mimetically Tradition of the Prophet. Sunnis believe that the Quran (God's word) was not created, and that the universe and history are predetermined.

Beyond the Qur'an, Sunnis are also faithful to the "sunna", the actions of Muhammad. Through the Sunnah, Sunni try to imitate the Prophet. They believe that history is predetermined, while Shiites place more emphasis on individual freedom.

Fidelity to the sunna

So Sunnism is the whole Muslim communities are characterized by an emphasis on fidelity to the Sunnah (Tradition of the Prophet) which, relating teaching, statements, facts and actions of Muhammad, is legislation , an example and a model for Sunnis. Recorded in the hadith, the Sunnah is the second source of Sunni Islam after the revealed word of the Quran.

Through the Sunnah, the Prophet is for believers a source of imitation, a pattern of behavior, both in terms of personal ethics than that of Community law.

This submission to the divine order and tradition, regardless of the historical situation was sometimes wipe blame fatalism. In fact, the Sunnis have great force of adaptation and assimilation for the Conservatives, which prohibit innovation (bid'ah), as the Liberals, who permitted by analogical reasoning, the orthodoxy of Sunni is defined by the principle of consensus (idjmaa). In this sense, an innovation at its beginning may be considered wrong (Kufr), but if in the long run, this practice is beneficial recognized unanimously by the doctors, then it becomes impossible to make historical criticism or seek to show that it has no basis in the Qur'an without getting in the position of heterodoxy. Thus, one can not separate all of the ideas of the community of his time without separating from the community.

Shia also differs from Sunnism by the existence of a very hierarchical clergy. While the Sunnis accept that the political and religious authority is melted in one person (as in Morocco, where the king is Commander of the Faithful), in Shia political power to reckon with the power, separate, religious authorities (the ayatollahs in Iran, for example).

3 ultra-Sunni majority

Sunnis constitute the mainstream, and even very large majority, Islam. In the world, Muslims are divided between about 85% Sunni against Shia 15%.

However, the Shiites are the majority in Iran, Iraq (few) and Bahrain.

In Lebanon, the Shiites have also recently become the majority community (they are now outnumber Christians and Sunni Muslims).

With about 20% Shiite, Pakistan also has a large number of followers of Ali.

4 kharidjites, Alawite, Druze: twigs dissident

The kharidjisme is a sect that was formed in 660. As Shiism, she appeared at the time of succession disputes after the death of Muhammad. The Kharijites were criticized Ali rely on a human and not divine decision to decide who would lead the community. This is also a kharidjite who murdered Ali. This tradition is present in the Berbers of the Maghreb.

Alawites are a dissident branch of Shiism, Alawite meaning "in favor of Ali." They consider it as the incarnation of God on earth. Much less legalistic than Kharijites, they pray at home and drink alcohol. Very few, they are in power in Syria, through the Assad clan.

Alawis share with another community, the Druze, the habit of keeping their secret rites. Divided between Lebanon, northern Israel and Syria, the 500,000 Druze practice a non-proselytizing religion: if one is not born in a Druze family, you can become Druze. Forming a "heretic" branch of Shiism, highly esoteric dimension, Druze believe that God manifested in human form periodically.

Alain Laprise June 20, 2014