Solomonia Archive: The Brotherhood's Agenda

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Hat tip to Yael in the comments to this post for pointing out today's Washington Post column by CAIR conference keynote speaker, Geneive Abdo: A More Islamic Islam. Abdo is none too pleased with the Secular Islam Summit, preferring instead the CAIR vision of the future of Islam and the West. That vision is chilling:

...The self-proclaimed secularists represent only a small minority of Muslims. The views among religious Muslims from CAIR more closely reflect the views of the majority, not only in the United States but worldwide. Yet Western media, governments and neoconservative pundits pay more attention to the secular minority...

She's right about that at least, CAIR does reflect more closely the views of the majority of Muslims worldwide, at least the vocal majority. If only the Western media took that more seriously. Blame the pundits for trying to do their part to empower the enlightened. Damn neocons!

But wait, that's not the chilling part...

...Consider the facts: Islamic revivalism has spread across the globe in the past 30 years from the Middle East to parts of Africa. In Egypt, it is hard to find a woman on the street who does not wear a headscarf. Islamic political groups and movements are on the rise -- from Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Hamas in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Even in the United States, more and more American Muslims, particularly the young, are embracing Islam and religious symbolism in ways their more secular, immigrant parents did not.

I traveled to Florida to serve as the keynote speaker at an annual convention hosted by CAIR. On my way to the event, I spoke with Imam Siraj Wahaj, a charismatic intellectual from the Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brooklyn who has thousands of followers here and abroad. His words summarized the aspirations of mainstream Muslims in the United States and around the globe: "What we need to do is borrow those attributes from the West that we admire and reject those that we don't. That is the wave of the future."

Already, signs support Imam Wahaj's words...

She doesn't mean any of that as a bad thing. Of course, all these groups are doing -- the Brotherhood, Hamas (part of the Brotherhood), Hizballah -- all they are doing is taking parts of the West they can use -- our technology, our weapons, our institutions they can subvert...and corrupting them to empower their own wicked vision for the world. Interesting company CAIR's people keep.

In fact, Siraj Wahaj is an unindicted co-conspirator of the first World Trade Center bombing, a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the blind Sheik), a man who dreams: "if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional govt. with a caliphate"... See this post for much more on Wahaj. Wahaj is a regular speaker at Mosques around the US, including here in the Boston area.

There is CAIR's agenda, Geneive Abdo's agenda...the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda.

Update: Doug Ross does a riff on this, as well as LGF.

Posted by Solomon at 9:09 PM on Saturday, Mar 17, 2007
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