By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 27, 2005 [Terri Wonder is the third author for this article]

The recent electoral victory of the outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), which won 88 seats up from 15 in the 454 member Parliament, should not be celebrated as an indication of liberalization, democracy and freedom. Neither should the 62 seat win predicted for Hamas – the MB’s progeny – in the Palestinian territories. Both the MB and Hamas are exploiting the U.S. call for democratization in the Middle East, using free elections to gain legitimate political power. However, neither organization has changed its charter; both seek to create a global Islamic state, where life would be dictated by the Shari’a.

On October 28, 2005, President George W. Bush denounced IslamoFascist movements which call for a “violent and political vision: the establishment, by terrorism, subversion and insurgency, of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom.”

The violent version of this vision is the heart of the MB’s ideology and was promoted publicly until 9/11. But true to its strategy, the MB, the parent of all Sunni terrorist groups, is using its “flexibility” to deflect attention.

Egypt served as the laboratory for the MB’s strategy. In the decades since it was established in 1928, it worked under the doctrine of “concealment” (kitman) towards the “Islamization” of the country’s institutions and populace. During that time, it periodically engaged in direct action. In the 1930s and 1940s, the MB collaborated with the Nazis. Later they engaged in many forms of civil disturbance, from rioting to the takeover of a police station, to an attempted coup d’etat, as with the October 1981 assassination of the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. More recently, MB splinter groups, such as Gama’a al-Islamiya and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, using suicide bombings, have focused attacks on Western tourists, killing hundreds of innocent visitors and Egyptian bystanders over the last decade alone. Continue reading “Ban the Brotherhood” →

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By Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 21, 2005

On Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005, I attended an emergency conference at the United Nations’ New York Headquarters to discuss “Protection of Religious Sites and Prevention of the Use of Violence to Incite Terrorism/Violence.” It was called by the Ethics Initiatives Consortium (EIC) and the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP).

EIC co-chairs Prof. Amir al Islam and Shoshana Bekerman wrote in their invitation that they hoped “to prevent future tragedies such as the desecration of the Gush Katif synagogues.” Unfortunately, the conference suggested that the United Nations will do nothing to stop murder or desecration of holy sites in the name of religion–for it seems that no one is willing to confront Muslim denial that fanatics use Islam to incite religious hatred and destruction–much less stop the fanatics.

After reading a statement by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, I listened with dismay to the other presenters–and the responses.

Dr. Ehrenfeld listed many contemporary and historical crimes committed by Muslim states against non-Muslims and their holy sites. She noted: “According to the Dictionary of Islam: conquered by jihad, subjugated people are given three choices: 1) convert, 2) pay a head tax, or 3) die.” She quoted the thirteenth century jurist, Ibn Taymiya, often cited by Osama bin Laden, who wrote that spoils of war “received the name of fay since Allah had taken them away from the infidels in order to restore (afa’a, radda) them to the Muslims…. [The] infidels forfeit their persons and their belongings which they do not use in Allah’s service to the faithful believers who serve Allah and unto whom Allah restitutes what is theirs….” [1]

She added that only when infidels surrendered–and only if a clause specifically allowed–could they preserve religious buildings, but modifications and improvements were prohibited. Furthermore, 11^th Century jurist Abu Al-Hasan Al Mawardi wrote that non-Muslim dhimmis “are not allowed to erect new synagogues or churches in the territory of Islam and any built are to be demolished without compensation.” [2]

Dr. Ehrenfeld’s statement provoked a rebuke from Amir al-Islam (also WCRP Secretary General and a history professor at Medgar Evers College). All religious traditions have committed “atrocities,” he said, hoping to blunt Dr. Ehrenfeld’s focus on documented Islamic tradition. He cited the crusades and the Spanish inquisition, for example, and added suggested that we not recall the past but look forward to future reconciliation. Continue reading “Another Useless U.N. Conference” →

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By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 8, 2005

When the State and Treasury departments manage to cooperate with each other to halt terrorist financing, they should consider putting Hizb ut Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) and its splinter organization, Al-Mujahiroun, on the U.S.-designated terrorist list and freeze their assets.

Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) and Al-Mujahiroun, like al Qaeda and Hizbollah, describe the USA, the United Kingdom and Israel as “the work of the devil” and European democracy as “a farce.” The group’s goal is to establish a global caliphate and force all non-Muslim states to pay a tax or face military attacks. Its graduates join al-Qaeda, according to the director of international security and energy programs at the Nixon Centre in Washington, DC, Zeyno Baran. More ominously, HT and Al-Mujahiroun call for a jihad against the U.S, its allies, and moderate Muslim states in order to “find and kill the Kufar (non-believers).” The groups, together with the Muslim Brotherhood, were reportedly behind last month’s riots in France. Continue reading “Terror Rising” →

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