THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S COVER UP [Excerpts]
Al-Qaeda does its enemy a favor with its honesty. The Muslim Brotherhood does not make the same mistake. It is more politically savvy and aware of how it can manipulate the minds of Westerners with soft language. The Islamist group is trying to clean up its image, most recently by deleting its objectives from its English-language website.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism discovered that the English version of the Muslim Brotherhood's official website no longer includes its bylaws and it makes sense why.
One of them is "the need to work on establishing the Islamic State, which seeks to effectively implement the provisions of Islam and its teachings" and "defend the [Islamic] nation against its internal enemies." Another is to "insist to liberate the Islamic nation from the yoke of foreign rule, help safeguard the rights of Muslims everywhere and unite Muslims around the world."
"The sincere support for a global cooperation in accordance with the provisions of the Islamic Sharia, which would safeguard the personal rights, freedom of speech for active and constructive participation towards building a new basis of human civilization as is ensured by the overall teachings of Islam," another one reads.
There are other telling differences between the Arabic and English websites as well. The home page of the English site mentions "freedom." The home page of the Arabic site has the official Muslim Brotherhood logo of two crossed swords and a Quran and an Arabic word that means "make ready." Christine Brim writes that this phrase is taken from Quran 8:60 that states, "Make ready for an encounter against them, all the forces and well-readied horses you can muster, that you may overawe the enemies of Allah and your own enemies and others besides them of whom you are unaware but of whom Allah is aware."
David Rusin, the director of Islamist Watch [writes], "By scrubbing its English-language site, the Brotherhood aims to make it as easy as possible for those Westerners predisposed to willful blindness-a trait rather common in the Obama White House-to continue fooling themselves about the Brotherhood's ultimate intentions," he said.
The Muslim Brotherhood
Al-Qaeda does its enemy a favor with its honesty. The Muslim Brotherhood does not make the same mistake. It is more politically savvy and aware of how it can manipulate the minds of Westerners with soft language. The Islamist group is trying to clean up its image, most recently by deleting its objectives from its English-language website.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism discovered that the English version of the Muslim Brotherhood's official website no longer includes its bylaws and it makes sense why.
One of them is "the need to work on establishing the Islamic State, which seeks to effectively implement the provisions of Islam and its teachings" and "defend the [Islamic] nation against its internal enemies." Another is to "insist to liberate the Islamic nation from the yoke of foreign rule, help safeguard the rights of Muslims everywhere and unite Muslims around the world."
"The sincere support for a global cooperation in accordance with the provisions of the Islamic Sharia, which would safeguard the personal rights, freedom of speech for active and constructive participation towards building a new basis of human civilization as is ensured by the overall teachings of Islam," another one reads.
There are other telling differences between the Arabic and English websites as well. The home page of the English site mentions "freedom." The home page of the Arabic site has the official Muslim Brotherhood logo of two crossed swords and a Quran and an Arabic word that means "make ready." Christine Brim writes that this phrase is taken from Quran 8:60 that states, "Make ready for an encounter against them, all the forces and well-readied horses you can muster, that you may overawe the enemies of Allah and your own enemies and others besides them of whom you are unaware but of whom Allah is aware."
David Rusin, the director of Islamist Watch [writes], "By scrubbing its English-language site, the Brotherhood aims to make it as easy as possible for those Westerners predisposed to willful blindness-a trait rather common in the Obama White House-to continue fooling themselves about the Brotherhood's ultimate intentions," he said.
The Muslim Brotherhood
