Dear Leah,
It seems clear that the Obama Administration has decided to "work with" the virulently anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood at least in Egypt and probably throughout the Middle East. (We also believe that this includes the Brotherhood groups within the US. More on that very soon.)
Meanwhile
the point man for Obama's outreach to the Brotherhood seems to be our own
Massachusetts Senator, John Kerry.
What will Boston Jewish leaders do about this?
What will Boston Jewish leaders do about this?
In Freedom,


Charles Jacobs
February 17, 2012
Last June, President Barack Obama began to
openly court Egypt's anti- Semitic Muslim Brotherhood. Yet, with few exceptions,
American Jewish leaders are keeping quiet.
The Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Sheikh
Yusef Qaradawi, makes things perfectly clear:
"Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous
aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people.
... Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last
one."
The sheikh who - by the way - was a trustee
and fundraiser for the Boston mega-mosque - explains the Jews to his followers
around the world thusly: "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews
people who would punish them for their corruption. ... The last punishment was
carried out by Hitler. ... even though they exaggerated this issue. ... This was
divine punishment for them. ... Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand
of the believers."
Obama sees the situation more broadly: Not to
engage the Brotherhood, a senior administration official explained, "would be
impractical." Besides, he said, since winning the parliamentary election, the MB
has been "very specific about conveying a moderate message - on regional
security and domestic issues, and economic issues."
It's been a persistent fantasy of Western
diplomats that by governing - or even participating in elections - radicals are
transformed into pragmatists. Facts show otherwise: Radicals and Islamists
across the Middle East, as they vote or govern, have not lessened their virulent
hatred of Jews, their antipathy toward democracy, or their horrid treatment of
Christians, women and gays. As Professor Barry Rubin points out: The radical
nationalist PLO - given money, guns and power - has not moderated; Hamas won an
election in Gaza, yet still wants to commit genocide on Jews; Hezbollah won an
election in Lebanon and has not moderated; Turkey's Islamists, now in power,
adopted an anti-Western foreign policy that backs radical Islamists; and Egypt
itself seems set to violently return its Christian minority to pre-colonial
"dhimmi" serfdom. "Where," Rubin asks, "is the renunciation of past extremism,
the reinterpretation of Islamic texts to justify a totally different
worldview?"
The Muslim Brotherhood is unlikely to
moderate because its core doctrine is Islamic supremacy: Democracy is not in its
DNA. Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood's chief ideologue, saw the collapse of the
world's last Muslim empire in Turkey. He taught that Islamic civilization had
crumbled because it had strayed from its original path. His solution - and the
foundational principle of the MB - is a return to the flawless, unspoiled
beliefs and practices of the Prophet Muhammad.
Since its founding in 1928, the Brotherhood
has spawned practically all modern jihadist movements. Hamas is its branch in
Palestine. The Muslim American Society- the organization that runs the Boston
mega mosque - is said by federal authorities to be its front group in the United
States. The Brotherhood's spiritual guide, Qaradawi, says it must destroy Israel
and then conquer Europe and America. The Brotherhood's ultimate goal is to
impose Sharia law worldwide and create a global caliphate.
The Brotherhood is not "only" out to destroy
Israel: It has from the start expressed genocidal intention toward the Jewish
people. During World War II, the organization distributed Nazi-funded Arabic
copies of "Mein Kampf " ("My Struggle" is uncannily close to "my jihad")
throughout Palestine to inspire the Arab troops to slaughter Jewish
immigrants.
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first
defended working with the MB, she promised that in any contacts with them, "we
will continue to emphasize the importance of and support for democratic
principles and especially a commitment to non-violence, respect for minority
rights, and the full inclusion of women in any democracy."
Clinton's support for these principles went
unnoticed in Cairo on Oct. 9, 2011, when Christians were massacred by Islamist
thugs. And it goes unnoticed every time Qaradawi calls for killing the world's
Jews. Instead the Administration has recruited this would-be genocidaire to
mediate its negotiations with the Taliban.
Since the Obama Administration seems intent
on working with today's Hitlerites, it's not surprising that US aid continues to
flow to the Palestinian Authority after the PA announced a unity deal with the
Brotherhood's Hamas branch. Preventing American dollars from funding Hamas is
clearly a national Jewish issue. Yet so far, the only national Jewish
organization that has challenged Obama on this betrayal of the Jewish people has
been the valiant Zionist Organization of America.
But Obama's outreach to Muslim anti- Semites
is no less an issue right here, for Boston's Jews.
It is Massachusetts Senator John Kerry who
has become the point man for the president's push to build ties with the MB in
Egypt. In December, Kerry met with the top officials of the Brotherhood's
political party. The senator said he "welcomed the results of Egypt's first
democratic elections," which gave 40 percent of the vote to the MB and another
24 percent to the even-more radical Salafi al-Nour Party. Then he urged the
International Monetary Fund to fund the MB. US dollars ($55 billion) account for
nearly 20 percent of IMF's worth. So now, a Massachusetts senator is helping to
send US dollars to people religiously committed to killing Jews - yet I am not
aware of any Jewish leader here lodging a protest against
him.
And of course, there is that still simmering
issue of the Saudi-funded megamosque in Roxbury, built in part with funds raised
by Qaradawi, who - because he was banned from setting foot in America by
President Bill Clinton - had to raise money for the mosque among Boston Muslims
via video broadcast to a gathering at the downtown Sheraton. Since then,
thinking about his own end time, he's expressed this delightful wish: "I will
shoot Allah's enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I
will seal my life with martyrdom." Here too, there is silence from our local
Jewish community and religious leaders.
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