Al-Timimi even cheered the Columbia space shuttle disaster, calling it a “good omen” for Muslims because it was a blow to their “greatest enemy.” He also said the U.S. “should be destroyed.”
This high-profile “moderate” is also now behind bars for soliciting terror and treason.
LIE AND DENY
When confronted with tough questions, the Brothers are trained to lie and deny. Case in point: the Muslim American Society, or MAS, a key Brotherhood front based just outside Washington.
After the Chicago Tribune ran an exposé linking MAS to the Muslim Brotherhood, MAS spokesman Mahdi Bray issued a denial: “MAS is not the Muslim Brotherhood.”9
Never mind that the Tribune got an exclusive interview with Ahmed Elkadi, who confirmed that he is not only the founding godfather of the U.S. Brotherhood but one of the founding incorporators of MAS.
Bray suggested Elkadi had lost his marbles. “In addition to the reporter’s inaccuracies, the primary source used for the article was Dr. Ahmed Elkadi,” he said in a column. “Dr. Elkadi suffers from dementia and his cognitive faculties were seriously impaired when the Chicago Tribune interviewed him.”10
Nice try. A magazine published by MAS has praised Elkadi as a great Muslim in the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founding fathers in Egypt.
And one of the secret Brotherhood documents the FBI recently declassified confirms that MAS is controlled by the Brotherhood. It tasks MAS, as well as CAIR (which has also denied Brotherhood links), with defeating “Zionist infiltration” and raising the banner of Palestinian jihad.
“Confrontation work plan: The activation of the role of (MAS) to educate the Brothers in all work centers, mosques, and organizations on the necessity of stopping any contacts with the Zionist organizations and the rejection of any future contacts,” says the five-page memo issued by the Palestine Committee of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.11
The second-in-command of the Cairo-based Muslim Brotherhood hesitated when asked by the media about the mother group’s ties to MAS. “I don’t want to say MAS is an Ikhwan [Brotherhood] entity,” Mohammed Habib says. “This causes some security inconveniences for them in a post-September 11 world.”12
Why? What does it have to hide? Could it be that, despite claiming to be moderate and patriotic, MAS is preaching anti-American insurrection?
Look no further than its training materials, which assert Muslims have a duty to help form Islamic governments worldwide and should be prepared to take up arms to carry that out.
‘INVADE WESTERN HEARTLAND’
Investigators say this “revolution ideology” is taught to Muslim teens by MAS’s tarbiya department. Tarbiya is the process of indoctrinating young or new Muslims.
One passage in its tarbiya guide states that Western materialism and secularism are evil and that Muslims should “pursue this evil force to its own lands” and “invade its Western heartland,” until all the infidels shout “Allahu Akbar!”—Allah is great.13
It exhorts the faithful to “wage war,” investigators say, so that the United States is “wiped out” and only the law of Allah—Shariah—operates in the land.
The syllabus for the MAS training course, which runs nine months, includes works by radical founding fathers of the Brotherhood movement such as the late Egyptian “martyrs” Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, both of whom preached violent jihad, martyrdom, and world Islamic domination. (See Figure 15.1.) On its Web site, MAS describes al-Banna as “the founder and leader of a great Islamic movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.”14
MAS, which has fifty chapters across the country, also runs a Detroit-based correspondence college called Islamic American University, whose former chairman is Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Egypt-born spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar-based al-Qaradawi is barred from entering the U.S. due to his praise for suicide bombers, fatwahs authorizing attacks on U.S. soldiers, and ties to charitable fronts for terrorism. He vows that the Brotherhood will “conquer America,” and he says his dream is to die a martyr killing Jews.
No wonder MAS has decided to conceal its Muslim Brotherhood affiliation.
An undated internal memo instructs MAS leaders to be evasive when asked about the Brotherhood by outsiders. And if the topic of terrorism is raised, they’re told to say that while they’re against “terrorism,” they believe jihad is among a Muslim’s “divine legal rights” to be used to defend himself and his brothers and to spread Islam.15
WHO IS ESAM OMEISH?
MAS had been run by Esam Omeish before he stepped down as president this year to run for the Virginia state assembly. Just two years earlier, Omeish was forced to resign from a state immigration commission after a video surfaced showing him championing violent jihad and martyrdom before a crowd of Washington-area Muslims.16
Omeish officed right next door to convicted al-Qaida financier Alamoudi in a nondescript professional building in Alexandria, Virginia. His brother Mohamed Omeish and Alamoudi were partners; the two shared the same office.17
As a board member of 9/11 mosque Dar al-Hijrah, Esam Omeish personally hired the imam—Anwar Aulaqi—who helped some of the Saudi hijackers prepare for their “martyrdom” attack on the Pentagon.18
The $5 million mosque was built with financial help from the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi embassy in Washington.19 It opened its doors one year before MAS opened its doors just a few miles away.
According to court records first revealed in the 2005 book Infiltration, Omeish put up his home as bond collateral to help spring from jail terrorist suspect Elbarasse after he was arrested allegedly casing the Chesapeake Bridge for attack.20 It was Elbarasse’s home that FBI agents raided, uncovering the secret Brotherhood archives.
Elbarasse, a founding member of Dar al-Hijrah, also attended the infamous secret Hamas meeting with Brotherhood bosses in Philadelphia. He had opened a joint bank account with Hamas leader Abu Marzook around that time.
Both Elbarasse and Omeish, a surgeon, show up on CAIR’s internal list of financial “supporters.” In another document, CAIR lists Omeish among its “Recommended Community Leaders.”
Omeish, who lives in a home not far from MAS, has counted as a neighbor the former bookkeeper for Brotherhood banker and terror financier Soliman Biheiri.
But “MAS has no ties to the Muslim Brotherhood,” Omeish insists. “The Brotherhood does not exist as far as we know in the United States.”21 Uh-huh. And Omeish is, as he calls himself on his campaign Web site, just a “community organizer” like Obama.
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MUSLIM MAFIA HALL OF SHAME
“The Noble Quran appoints the Muslims as guardians over humanity and grants them the right of dominion over the world in order to carry out this sublime commission. It is their duty to establish sovereignty over the world.”
—late Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, heralded by Ikhwans as an “Islamic martyr” after his assassination in Egypt
“Islam wishes to do away with all states and governments anywhere which are opposed to this ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth—not just a portion, but the entire planet.”
—Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, late Pakistani disciple of al-Banna
“No political system or material power should put hindrances in the way of preaching Islam. If someone does this, then it is the duty of Islam to fight him until either he is killed or until he declares his submission…. Bringing about the enforcement of the Divine Law (Shariah) and the abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching. When the above-mentioned obstacles and practical difficulties are put in its way, it has no recourse but to remove them by force.…Islam has the right to take the initiative. It has the right to destroy all obstacles in the form of institutions and traditions. It is the duty of Islam to annihilate all such systems.…Jihad in Islam is simply a name for striving to make this system of life dominant in the world. Wherever an Islamic community exists which is a co
ncrete example of the Divinely ordained system of life, it has a God-given right to step forward and take control of the political authority so that it may establish the Divine system on earth.”
—late Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb of Egypt, bin Laden’s spiritual father (Milestones)
“We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not through the sword but through dawah [Islamic proselytizing].”
—current Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric, 1995.
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE PLAN
“If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time.”
—American Muslim cleric Zaid Shakir1
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PROPAGANDISTS like imam Zaid Shakir preach to the Muslim community in America about waging a cultural jihad now, and a violent jihad later—once the proper “infrastructure” is in place.
“The work we should be doing is laying the infrastructure—the administrative, logistical infrastructure—putting that into place, so that if Allah put us in a situation where we did have to fight, physically, we could translate that fighting into tangible political gains,” Shakir advised Muslims during a lecture in the San Francisco Bay area, the contents of which are being revealed publicly here for the first time.2
This fits with the strategic plan outlined in the Brotherhood’s secret manifesto. It calls for achieving domination in the host country of America in stages, following the strategy of their prophet when he fled to Medina.
In the initial stages, when the Brotherhood is weak, the plan is to accumulate power here through peaceful means. Then in the final stages, when the Brotherhood is strong, the plan is to use coercive power—including violence if necessary—to take over the government and enforce discriminatory Shariah. The Brotherhood’s plan to Islamize America, investigators say, essentially consists of five phases:
Phase I: Establishment of an elite Muslim leadership, while raising taqwa, or Islamic consciousness, in the Muslim community.
Phase II: Creation of Islamic institutions the leadership can control, along with the formation of autonomous Muslim enclaves.
Phase III: Infiltration and Islamization of America’s political, social, economic, and educational systems, forming a shadow state within the state. Escalation of religious conversions to Islam. Manipulation of mass media, and sanitization of language offensive to Islam.
Phase IV: Openly hostile public confrontation over U.S. policies, including rioting, and militant demands for special rights and accommodations for Muslims.
Phase V: Final conflict and overthrow (jihad).3
The Brotherhood is now in Phase III, but patience is key to their strategy. They are willing to wait “a hundred years” to achieve their subversive goal, as Alamoudi put it.
Shakir, mistakenly considered mainstream and moderate by the media, warns that the faithful should be patient and avoid repeating the mistakes of Muslims in other kaffir nations who raised their swords too soon and died in vain.
“In many places where Muslims are doing jihad and killing kaffirs, this infrastructural work hasn’t been done,” he said. “As a result, Muslims are fighting and dying, but there’s very little tangible political benefit as a result of that fighting and dying.”
Be smarter than that—“think strategically”—he advises Muslim Americans, and hold off on the violent phase until it can “translate into political gains.”4
For now, he says, wage informational and financial jihad, using words and money to defeat the infidels. When the Muslim community’s numbers are large enough and its political “infrastructure” is strong enough, then use bombs.
First infiltrate and convert, then wage jihad, he reiterates. Use deception and propaganda—putting on a friendly face—until the time is right. Then drive the sword into the backs of the enemy.
“We have to start doing the real tough, nitty-gritty, unglamorous, boring work of developing our organizational and institutional strength in this country,” Shakir said. “If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time.”5
‘BRICK IN THE WALL’
For now, however, the faithful still “have a lot of foundational work to do,” he added.
Shakir used the metaphor of a wall to illustrate his point. Right now, he told Muslims, “you’re a brick in the wall of the kaffir,” or the infidel. But once Muslim numbers and political clout grows, the American ummah, or Muslim community, will become its own united wall—a “unified front”—strong enough to strike the kaffir, Arabic for heathen.
“Patiently persevere,” he advised.
It’s plain that the Muslim mafia views America as the big prize. If Muslims can conquer her, Shakir says, they can conquer the world for Allah.
“If the American people accept Islam, the implications for the world are obvious. This is the most powerful and influential nation on earth, without any argument,” he said. “So if the people here become Muslim, then the implications of that for the world are quite obvious.”
He gleefully remarked that this is only made possible thanks to America’s blind religious tolerance: “We’re safe and free to practice and advance our religion here.”
Like CAIR’s leaders, he respects American democracy insofar as it can be exploited to help the Brotherhood one day assume power here. And the only thing that could stop the Islamization of America, he notes, is if its people rose up and denied the movement the unbridled freedom it has heretofore enjoyed. (But if Americans did that, Muslims would then be obligated to exercise their supposedly “divine legal right” to wage jihad.)
“What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Muslims,” rejoiced Shakir, who is a regular speaker at CAIR functions. For now, he said, following the Muslim Brotherhood playbook, Muslims must continue to “create a state within a state.”6
Indeed, theirs is a highly organized and self-contained world, or underworld—a parallel secret society:
The Brothers have their own AFL-CIO; it’s called ISNA.
They have their own American Bar Association; it’s called the Fiqh Council, which advises members on the application of Shariah law. (The Brotherhood charter also calls for the creation one day of a “Central Islamic Court” in America.)7
They have their own VFW; it’s called the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council.
They have their own NAACP; it’s called CAIR.
Their FCA, moreover, is the MSA, or Muslim Students Association.
Their United Way is (or was) the Holy Land Foundation.
Their NEA is the Council on Islamic Education, or CIE.
And their YMCA is WAMY—except, instead of holding basketball camps, it holds jihad camps.
They also have their own investment bank in the North American Islamic Trust, which holds the title to hundreds of radical Muslim Brotherhood mosques and manages the bank accounts of the Brotherhood’s fronts using Islamic financing principles (more on that in a forthcoming chapter).
They have their own think tank—the International Institute of Islamic Thought—and their own colleges—the Islamic American University and the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (aka Cordoba University), which has trained most of the U.S. military’s Muslim chaplains.
They also operate their own travel agency—Dar el-Eiman USA, Inc.—which enjoys an exclusive deal with the Saudi embassy to arrange travel for Muslim Americans to hajj. (Brochures and itinerary show the agency has booked Anwar Aulaqi, the 9/11 imam, as a tour guide and lecturer for the holy trips to Saudi Arabia.)8
The Brothers even have their own consigliere in Washington defense attorney Ashraf Nubani, a militant Palestinian activist who has defended some of the most notorious terrorists in America.
But there’s more you should know about t
heir secret society.
The Brothers maintain their own media as well. The following publications are propaganda organs for the Muslim Brotherhood: Islamic Horizons, The American Muslim, The Muslim Link, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and its sister publication, The Link, and Islamonline. net. Brotherhood printer Amana Publishing, meanwhile, churns out copies of the Quran and other Islamic materials used to convert Americans.
They also operate their own broadcasting network—Bridges TV—and Hollywood-style production company—SoundVision.
‘PARALLEL SOCIETY’
The Brotherhood’s “object is to establish, initially, a separate society for Muslims within that of their host nations in which non-Muslims are the majority,” says former Pentagon official Frank Gaffney, now head of the Center for Security Policy in Washington. “This is accomplished by insinuating preferential arrangements for Muslims—religious accommodations, their own legal code and courts (that is, Shariah), territorial “no-go” zones, and assorted political benefits.9
“Initially,” he adds, “these seem modest and unthreatening. Separate rules governing dress codes. Accommodations in public spaces for the practice of a single religion. Latitude to deny service or handling of certain products in deference to religious sensibilities. Organized labor contracts that substitute Muslim holy days for Labor Day, etcetera.”
But once the Brotherhood gains such toeholds, Gaffney warns, it will keep the pressure on to secure greater and greater concessions, expanding toeholds into footholds and, eventually, beachheads.
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