Khairat al-Shater on "The Nahda Project" (Complete Translation) » Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. "The Project" One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of “cultural invasion” and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages and above the fold of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Le Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica. If that’s what you might think, you would be wrong. In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11.
Now FrontPage readers will be the first to be able to read the complete English translation of The Project. What makes The Project so different from the standard “Death of America! The Muslim Brotherhood's "General Strategic Goal" for North America. In July 2007, seven key leaders of an Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) went on trial for charges that they had: (a) provided "material support and resources" to a foreign terrorist organization (namely Hamas); (b) engaged in money laundering; and (c) breached the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which prohibits transactions that threaten American national security.
Along with the seven named defendants, the U.S. government released a list of approximately 300 "unindicted co-conspirators" and "joint venturers. " During the course of the HLF trial, many incriminating documents were entered into evidence. Perhaps the most significant of these was "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," by the Muslim Brotherhood operative Mohamed Akram. Akram was well aware that in the U.S., it would be extremely difficult to promote Islam by means of terror attacks. Symposium: The “Moderate” Muslim Brotherhood?
Just recently, the Muslim Brotherhood released its political platform, part of which would establish an Iranian-style mullah council overseeing Egypt's democratic institutions. It also prohibits Christians and women from serving as President. What does this particular development signify? What does it highlight in regards to what U.S. policy should be toward the Muslim Brotherhood? A heated debate among policymakers and analysts is in progress at the moment about how the U.S. should deal with the group. Today we have assembled a distinguished panel to discuss these and other questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. Douglas Farah, a former Washington Post correspondent, now an author and consultant on terror finance issues. Jeff Breinholt, a terrorism expert and former prosecutor.
And Patrick Poole, a researcher who has written and lectured on the Muslim Brotherhood. FP: Douglas Farah, Jeff Breinholt, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Patrick Poole, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Holy Land Foundation trail (Feb 2008) "GENERAL STRATEGIC GOAL" FOR NORTH AMERICA. Pamphlets al-Hudeibi. Reform initiative aimed at addressing the foreign intervention. Declares Initiative (Brotherhood) for reform at the Press Syndicate. The Brotherhood’s Reform Initiative—A Reading of the Realities and the Implications | March 2004. Liberalizing the Muslim Brotherhood - Can it be Done? The Muslim Brotherhood's Initiative as a Reform Program: A Critical Review. Dry Run for Legitimacy: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Political Party Platform. Nathan J. Brown on the Draft. The production of a political platform by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a sign that real developments—some encouraging, some worrying—are occurring in Egyptian politics.
While the Muslim Brotherhood is prevented by Egypt’s government from forming a political party—a ban unlikely to be overturned in the near future—the release of a platform signaled what sort of party they would found if allowed to do so, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. In The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray Into Political Integration or Retreat Into Old Positions? , Senior Associates Nathan Brown and Amr Hamzawy analyze the draft platform’s mixed signals—surprising progressive reforms; regressive, controversial stances; and the chances of achieving a consensus on the anticipated final document. Encouragingly, the platform advances notions of freedom of religion and expression, pluralistic politics, property rights, women’s enfranchisement, and state sovereignty.
Stilt73.pdf. Egypt: Women and Christians cannot be president, say Muslim Brotherhood - Adnkronos Politics. Cairo, 8 Nov. (AKI) - The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest opposition group, has said that women and Christians cannot become president in Egypt. "Women and Christians are not allowed to have access to the position of president of the republic," said a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in a report carried by local newspaper, al-Masri al-Yom. The highly influential Islamist movement, banned in several Arab countries such as Syria, Jordan and even Egypt, expressed this view as part of a draft of a new political programme revealed on Wednesday. Women and Coptic issues have been impediments to the group's party platform being accepted by Egyptians as a whole. Scholars and intellectuals have asked the group to modify its views on this matter, but this latest statement shows that the group has refused to change its previous stance, which is based on an Islamic fatwa or edict.
The group will be circulating the decision among the militants of the Muslim Brotherhood. Public Debate on the Political Platform of the Planned Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt. Platform of the Planned Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt | Free Muslims Coalition. Public Debate on the Political Platform of the Planned Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt In January 2007, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Mahdi 'Akef declared that, for the first time in its history, the Muslim Brotherhood movement would publicize its political platform.
Since then, the official platform has not been released,(1) but a draft of the platform sent by the movement to some 50 Egyptian intellectuals for review has been leaked to the media.(2) Several aspects of the leaked draft proposal have evoked intense public criticism. First, the 180-page draft proposes the reestablishment of the Supreme Council of Clerics, to whose decision the president and the legislative branch must defer on issues of Islamic shari'a. Most of the platform's critics in the government and non-government press characterized the draft as promoting the establishment of an Iran-style Islamic state in Egypt. The Controversial Clauses of the Draft Platform Criticism of the Draft Platform. Www.pomed.org/docs/CEIP_11_15_07.pdf. Translation of its Draft Political Platform. Links to the MB Party Platform. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is reportedly about to release the long-awaited platform for its political party.
Drafts have been leaking to various newspapers for a while, along with stories about internal disagreements and debates, but al-Masry al-Youm seems to think that it has acquired a copy of the final version and has published it in two parts. The contents of the platform won't suprise close observers of the Egyptian scene, since most of its contents have been aired by various MB leaders in interviews and articles over the last few months, and many of its key ideas date back to the Brotherhood's March 2004 position paper on reform. But others might find it more surprising. The platform's most notable feature is an explicit, blanket affirmation of the equality of all citizens before the law and rejection of any discrimination between them regardless of religion, race, or ethnic origin.
IOL. Forums: News. مع فتح باب الترشح لانتخابات التجديد الثلثي لمجلس الشوري المصري (الغرفة الثانية للبرلمان) اليوم الأربعاء 16-5-2007، طرحت جماعة الإخوان المسلمين برنامجها للانتخابات المقررة في 11 يونيو المقبل، مؤكدة تمسكها بشعار "الإسلام هو الحل"، "لعدم تناقضه مع الدستور المصري". وشهدت الساحة السياسية المصرية جدلاً كبيرًا حول ما إذ كانت الجماعة ستخوض انتخابات الشورى بهذا الشعار أم ستستبدل آخر به؛ لتفادي الاصطدام مع السلطة. وحسم برنامج الجماعة الانتخابي هذا الجدل بقوله: "إن محكمة القضاء الإداري أصدرت أكثر من حكم قضائي نهائي يؤكد أن هذا الشعار يتفق مع أحكام المادة الثانية من الدستور الحالي، فضلاً عن أنه يُعبِّر عن هوية الدولة والأمة، ولا يتعارض مع مبدأ المواطنة التي تعني التساوي في الحقوق والواجبات وعدم التفرقة بين المواطنين على أساس الاعتقاد أو اللون أو الجنس".
وأردف يقول: "من المعلوم أن التعديلات الدستورية الأخيرة لم تمس هذه المادة (الثانية)، ومن ثَم يبقى الشعار كما هو لبقاء السند الدستوري له كما هو؛ لذلك قررت (الجماعة) خوض هذه الانتخابات بنفس الشعار". أزمة الشعار ملامح البرنامج المؤسسات الدينية. Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood RSS Feed. Ideology. Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; or Yusuf al-Qardawi; born 9 September 1926) is an Egyptian Islamic theologian. He is best known for his programme, al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh ("Shariah and Life"), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 60 million worldwide.[1][2] He is also well known for IslamOnline, a popular website he helped found in 1997 and for which he now serves as chief religious scholar.[3] Al-Qaradawi has published more than 120 books,[2] including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization.
Some of al-Qaradawi's views have been controversial in the West:[9] he was refused an entry visa to the United Kingdom in 2008,[10] and barred from entering France in 2012.[11] Biography[edit] Al-Qaradawi, during his days at Azhari Institute at Tanta Al-Qaradawi was born in 1926 in Safat Turab village in the Nile Delta, Egypt, in a poor family of devout Muslim peasants. 2011 return to Egypt[edit] Muslims sects[edit] Introducing Sharia Law. Islamic Law Gradually Implemented In Egypt. Gradualism in Applying the Shari`ah - Judiciary & Police Systems - counsels. Answer In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. Dear questioner, we commend your pursuit of knowledge and your eagerness to seek what is lawful and avoid what is not. We earnestly implore Allah to bless your efforts in this honorable way. Gradualism is one of the laws of nature that Allah Almighty has created.
The opposite of gradualism is to enact and enforce the rulings of Shari`ah immediately. Responding to the question, the prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, states the following: Gradualism in applying the Shari`ah is a wise requirement to follow. The most telling example in that regard is prohibiting alcohol; the stages taken in that respect are well known by anyone studying the Shari`ah. Being a divine law, gradualism is to be followed on the political level nowadays. Gradualism is the means through which such an end can be fulfilled. Allah Almighty knows best. Head of Muslim State must be Muslim. Qaradawi’s Tahrir Square Sermon. On February 18, 2011, one week after the fall of the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, some two millions Egyptians assembled once again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for the Friday prayer.[1] The day had been proclaimed Yawm al-Fath “the Day of Victory”. The intention was to celebrate the beginning of a new era, to commemorate the martyrs of the revolution and to maintain pressure on the military council temporarily governing the country.
The sermon (khutbah) was not going to be preached by one of the highest ranking official Muslim clerics – the Sheikh of al-Azhar University, for example, or the Mufti of the Republic – but by the most emblematic figure of the religious opposition to the former regime, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 84, who had just come back from Qatar the day before. Sheikh Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi is one of the most influential of Sunni ulama (scholars) today. But what precisely did Sheikh al-Qaradawi say last Friday, during the prayer in Tahrir Square? Three final remarks: Comments on Qaradawi Tahrir Speach. On March 20, Egypt held a referendum vote, and it is the common consensus that the results indicate the degree of support and power for the Muslim Brotherhood. In this special preview of an article from Commentary’s April issue, written several weeks before, Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby consider the political program of the this venerable Islamist movement. On February 18, crowds gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate the ouster of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak—but also to pray, since it was a Friday, and Friday is the Muslim Sabbath.
As it had on every Friday since the uprising began the month before, the Muslim Brotherhood took a leading role. But on this Friday, the subject was no longer Mubarak but rather Egypt’s future and the place the Brotherhood—the venerable Islamist organization—would have in it. Would the Muslim Brotherhood ultimately support a turn toward democratic governance, or would it revert to its oft-cited goal of installing a theocracy? He would not. Islam conquests Europe through da’wa. Qatari sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, generally regarded as the leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, has made statements on Qatari TV indicating his desire to see Europe conquered peaceably by Islam via “Dawa” (preaching) and described Europe as “miserable with materialism.”
The following is an excerpt from a TV clip translated by MEMRI, an Israel-operated website that features translated Arabic media with fundamentalist, anti-Semitic, and jihadist content: The peaceful conquest has foundations in this religion, and therefore, I expect that Islam will conquer Europe without resorting to the sword or fighting. It will do so by means of da’wa and ideology. Europe is miserable with materialism, with the philosophy of promiscuity, and with the immoral considerations that rule the world ‘“ considerations of self-interest and self-indulgence.
It is high time Europe woke up and found a way out from this. This is not the first time Qaradawi has expressed such sentiments. “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” In article titled “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” scholar Nina Wiedl explores global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi’s views on the role of Muslims in Europe. For a short description of Qaradawi’s background she describes Qaradawi’s position that Muslim settlement in the West is necessary for the conduct of “dawa”: For Qaradawi, Muslim settlement in the West isn’t simply religiously permissible. It is, he argues, a religious necessity and an obligation for the worldwide Islamic revival movement. The author continues by explaining that Qaradawi views Jihad in Europe as suspended “under present circumstances” and that Islam can be spread there currently by peaceful means: Like Murad, he rejects offensive jihad as a legitimate method for the establishment of Islam in Europe. This juristic reasoning clears the way for new methods of dawa and dialogue and for influencing the society from within.
Same article (Ramdan's view) A previous post discussed an article titled “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” by scholar Nina Wiedl in which she explores the views of global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. In the same article, the author explores the work of global Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan. Of particular interest is her focus on Ramadan’s attempt to make common cause with the European Left.
The author notes that Ramadan frequently cites ” the principle of ‘social justice’ as one of these shared values between Europeans and Muslims”: In his apologetic writings for a non-Muslim audience, Ramadan attempts to demonstrate this reconciliation between Islamic and European values by developing a Europeanized version of Islamic concepts. This appears to be a modern interpretation of Surat al-Imran, verse 64, extending the meaning of “common between us and you” from the religious sphere to the realm of general values. Another example is his disapproval of the idea of an Islamic state.
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