1. The Brotherhood has changed and might change more – a kinder, gentler Brotherhood.
“In the last few decades, the Brotherhood has moved decisively away from violence, and toward a more social, albeit nonpolitical, religious role…It’s not far-fetched to imagine that the Brotherhood may calculate in the coming months and years that it is more productive for them to concentrate on serving as a minority in Parliament—not aiming to win power. The Brotherhood may want to become the moral consciousness of society (again, as they define moral consciousness): running institutions, clinics, social services and the like, preaching and spreading its idea of Islam, without getting too tangled up in politics.” – Moghul
I have actually already debunked this argument with number 3. Allow me to quote myself and then say a little more:
The Brotherhood is following the same tactics as terrorist organizations all over the Muslim world. Organizations provide aid to the hurting, provide work, and help anyway they can as a route to gain the unyielding support of the people. It worked for Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine, and many other nations. And now that plan appears to be working in Egypt. I recently reported how some young Egyptian-American students were praising the MB on Geraldo for being the primary reason “why people in Egypt have jobs”.
The truth is that the Brotherhood yields massive power because of all the so-called good they do. Their services have been a quid pro quo and a new government offers them their first real chance to cash in on all their favors. The MB is already flexing their muscle as just this past weekend they called for a purge of corrupt businessmen and media figures who backed the former government.
Honestly, Moghul must be a fool or in on it with the MB if he thinks the MB does good works because they don’t want power but just want to help people. What they are doing is nothing new in the Islamic world.
The MB is not about to refuse politics for charity as so many in the MSM seem to want to believe. You want proof? The organization applied to become a political party only 3 days after Mubarak stepped down. They passionately want power. They have given aid to get it, and now they are promoting democracy to get that power. They have studied Hezbollah and Hamas well.
“The main demand of our revolution was for democracy, and this cannot be put this on hold across the region because of the fears of six million Israelis.” – Dr Issam al-Arian, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spokesman.
The goal of the MB is to claim they merely want democracy, which of course, is their pathway to an Islamic State. They saw it work for Hamas in Palestine, and now they want to help Palestine get rid of Israel. Dr. Arian tips his hand a bit when he basically says, ‘who cares what those Jews think?’
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Every reason Haroon Moghul offers to think the Brotherhood won’t turn on Israel has been clearly debunked. The MB has learned to use social services and democracy to gain power and they have full resolve to accomplish the goals they’ve set out, which include the destruction of Israel. The military will not stop them for tourism or for U.S. support; so far the military has stood with the MB.
Our press, our people, and our president need to wake up. We must be clear that we will stand against the Muslim Brotherhood in every way.
