The Muslim Brotherhood In America: Part II: MB History & Their Arrival In America

In the autumn of 1914, the nearly 700 year old Islamic state (Caliphate), known as the Ottoman Empire, entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers (Germany et al), having already signed a secret agreement with Germany a few months earlier to do so.  Following the defeat of the Imperial German Army and the end of the war, the Allies partitioned the Turkish country which led to the Turkish War of Independence.  National hero and leader Mustafa Kemal created the secular nation-state of Turkey, and became its first President.  Mustafa Kemal “Ataturk” (father of Turks) dissolved the Islamic Caliphate, did away of the position of “Sultan” in the system, banned overt Islamic signs such as the growing of beards, wearing of head coverings, and the public call to prayer by the muzzeins, and replaced Arabic script with Latin.  The legal, business and social systems were turned on their heads in favor of those fashioned closer to a Western-style than an Islamic one.  Ataturk built a secular military to protect Turkey.

The 700 year old Islamic Caliphate was dissolved.  Across the Muslim world, this was not well-received.

A few years later (1928) outside of Cairo, Egypt, Hassan al Banna and his colleagues formed the Society of Muslim Brothers.  Their purpose:  to re-establish the Caliphate under which Shariah (Islamic Law) is the law of the land, and liberate the Islamic nation from the yolk of foreign rule.  The Creed of the Brotherhood was, and is today:  “Allah is our goal; the Messenger our Guide; the Koran our law; Jihad is our Way; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.”

Over the next decade, the “Muslim Brotherhood” built a multi-tiered system in furtherance of achieving its objectives – the same objectives they maintain today.  Spreading throughout Egypt, the Brotherhood – or “MB” – strongly opposed the presence of British military troops and influence in Egypt.  Under Islamic Law, the presence of non-Muslim forces in Muslim lands is a “weighty matter which cannot be ignored.”  The Brotherhood used violence against the British troops and their families.  They also fought against the system in Egypt which was not adhering to Islamic Law, targeting judges and others in the government.  The Egyptian government sought to identify, capture, and/or kill members of the Brotherhood.  In 1948, the Muslim Brotherhood killed the Prime Minister of Egypt, and in 1949, the Egyptian security service gunned down MB founder Hassan al Banna on the streets of Cairo.

This is not surprising, since violence is inherent to the MB’s structure.  The “Special Section” is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood and conducts “special work”  - ”military work” or violence and warfare.  These are the guys who conduct assassinations, bombings, and other similar operations within the MB.  The Special Section still exists today – several of the International leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood or “Supreme Guides” have come from the Special Section – a hint the MB doesn’t eschew violence as they say they do.

Following the MB’s assassination attempt on the life of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, Nasser cracked down, outlawed the Brotherhood, and went after its leadership.  Many of the key MB leaders fled Egypt and moved into Europe and elsewhere.  In many European countries, the Brotherhood established the first Islamic organizations there, many of which are the most prominent Islamic organizations in Europe today.

According the MB By-Laws:  “The Muslim Brotherhood in achieving these objectives (creation of the Islamic state under which Islamic Law is the law of the land) depends on the following means…make every effort for the establishment of educational, social, economic, and scientific institutions and the establishment of mosques, schools, clinics, shelters, clubs, as well as the formation of committees to regulate zakat affairs and alms.”

In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood uses the subversion of a society via the creation of many front groups to gain influence and power within a society in furtherance of its stated objectives.  Did they execute on this doctrine when they came to the United States and create these kinds of organizations? 

Lets take a look at the history...