GENEVA : The Muslim Brotherhood,Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism


GENEVA : The Muslim Brotherhood,Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism

This is the best reading I ever came across I Repost it here.

There Are Many missing part but.. it should be enough to understand quiet a few thing.

But I hope that one day the SHAME of Geneva will Come to Light and as We Say « Post Tenebras Lux »

The phrase Light After Darkness was adopted as the Calvinist motto, and was subsequently adopted as the motto of the entire Protestant Reformation,and also of John Calvin’s adopted city of Geneva, Switzerland. As a mark of its role in the Calvinist movement, the motto is engraved on the Reformation Wall, in Geneva

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nationsand the Red Cross. It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.

List of international organizations based in Geneva

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If You Understand The Where, You Might Understand The Who, And when you understand the who, you might.., you might STOP THE DO !!! 

(S.H.M.G.)

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by
committing an immorality so great as saying to a
billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams
of freedom because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your
slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to
danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Now let’s set the record
straight. There’s no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there’s
only one guaranteed way you can have peace—and you can have it in the next
second—surrender.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not
pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.” And this—this is
the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston
Churchill said, “The destiny of man is not measured by material computations.
When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not
animals.” And he said, “There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond
time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

Is It Really The Voice In The Desert…

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Exclusive: The Muslim Brotherhood: Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism  (Part One )

by ADRIAN  MORGANDecember 9, 2009

On November 29, 2009, news broke that  Switzerland’s controversial referendum on banning minarets had been passed.  Against all the expectations of psephologists, 57 percent of the vote had gone  to changing the Swiss constitution to ban further construction of minarets. Only  four minarets exist in the country, which has a population of more than 300,000  Muslims. This news was roundly condemned within Europe and beyond. The charge of  racism was brought, and indeed, some of the posters used by the Swiss People’s  Party (SVP) were decidedly xenophobic. This party had started the campaign  against minarets. They had been gathering names to a petition for three years.  Under Swiss law, when a petition gains 100,000 names, a national referendum can  be called.
The Vatican complained that the vote limited  religious freedom. Iran, a country which automatically represses religious  freedom, also joined the condemnation. Col. Gaddafi of Libya also declared that the vote would encourage  terrorism. Over the last year Gaddafi himself has used a terrorist tactic, kidnapping two Swiss businessmen and holding  them as hostages for more than a year. On September  23rd this year, Gaddafi even addressed the United Nations and  demanded that Switzerland be abolished.
In Europe,  opinions on the validity of the minaret ban appeared split between the left, who  condemned the move as an Islamophobic and even racist attack upon Muslims’  religious freedom, and the right who approved the ban as many perceive Islam’s  presence in Europe as a cultural “invasion.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali has declared that the referendum was a vote “for  inclusion and tolerance.”
While taking  part in online discussions about the Swiss ban, I wanted to  look behind the headlines to see what additional factors may have engendered  such resentments against Islamic expression in Switzerland.
The Gaddafi  issue may have contributed to a climate of resentment. This involved a year-long vendetta that began on July 15, 2008 when  Hannibal Gaddafi, the dictator’s son, was arrested in Geneva with his pregnant  wife Aline. The pair were charged with abuse of their servants and left the  country shortly afterwards.
The Libyan  affair involved the humiliating spectacle of the Swiss President Hans-Rudolf  Merz going to Tripoli in August 2009 and apologizing. Even his public  abasement did not bring the freedom of the Swiss hostages.
The oldest  mosque in Switzerland is the Geneva Islamic Center in the region of Les  Eaux-Vives. This was founded in 1965 by Said Ramadan, a leading figure in the  Muslim Brotherhood. The center houses a mosque, bookshop and school (and  minaret), and was built with Saudi money. It receives the staggering figure of  $5 million (19 million Saudi Riyals) from the kingdom  annually. In the week leading up to the minaret referendum, the Geneva mosque  was twice vandalized with yellow paint.
The minaret  vote is important, both for the 350,000 Muslims living in Switzerland, and for  those who are concerned by social and political trends. The issue of the  referendum can, however, be seen as a distraction from other more important  events. Since October, it has been clear that the Islamist movement known as the  Muslim Brotherhood has been engaged in a crisis of leadership.
The  “Moderate” Muslim Brotherhood
Currently the  Muslim Brotherhood has followers in 70 countries, so any changes in its  leadership can have an effect upon the numerous societies and organizations  where it has representatives. The current leader, or “Supreme Guide” of the  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and consequently the global movement, is Muhammad  Mahdi Othman Akef. On October 27, 2009, the Egyptian Daily  News reported that Mahdi Akef had tried to promote Essam El-Erian to the  “Guidance Bureau,” the top rung of the group’s hierarchy.
The  56-year-old El-Erian  is not regarded as particularly contentious as an individual. However, Mahdi  Akef’s attempt to bypass protocol, coupled with rumors that he did not intend to  continue for much longer as the Supreme Guide, led to a crisis, related in part  to issues of succession. Akef’s deputy, Mohamed Habib, was briefly charged by  the Guidance Council to carry out some of the Supreme Guide’s powers. After the  rancor, Mahdi Akef has announced  on the MB’s official website that he will continue to be the Supreme Guide for  another year. This is a temporary measure. Over the next year there may be great  upheavals in the movement.
The Muslim  Brotherhood has made considerable inroads into Western societies, attempting to  present itself as moderate, even though it has a sinister agenda. For some  decades, Switzerland has been the base for the Muslim Brotherhood’s European  operations. Here too, the Muslim Brotherhood has been involved in Swiss banking  operations, which have been declared by the U.S. Treasury to raise funds for  terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood banking operations in Switzerland were closely  tied to the activities of former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.
Even though  the Muslim Brotherhood supports terrorism carried out against Israel, senior  political figures in the West have tried to make rapprochement with the group.  On April 5 2007, Democratic congressman Steny  Hoyer, the House Majority Leader, met with Mohammed Saad el-Katatni in Egypt.  Katatni leads the Muslim Brotherhood group in the Egyptian parliament. Though  banned from partaking in the 2005 elections, Muslim Brothers posed as  “independents” and gained 55 of the 454 seats in the parliament. May 2007, four U.S. congressmen also met with  Mohammed Saad el-Katatni in Egypt. The congressmen were headed by David Price,  Democrat, from North Carolina.
The Nixon  Center published a document (in PDF format here) entitled “The Moderate Muslim  Brotherhood.” Written by Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke, the essay bizarrely  used the example of certain events that occurred in Britain to suggest that  Brotherhood organizations would become more amenable to government compromise as  they grew. The authors appear not to fully understand the dynamics of British  Islamism and British politics of appeasement. Hamas only gets mentioned in one  paragraph, even though this terror group is directly influenced by the Muslim  Brotherhood.
Perhaps the  most contentious statement made by the authors is that “policy makers must learn  to differentiate the Muslim Brotherhood from radical Islam.” The Muslim  Brotherhood IS radical Islam, no matter how it presents itself.
The  Brotherhood in America
During the  Clinton administration one Muslim Brotherhood representative, Abdurahman Alamoudi, was a frequent quest at  White House iftar dinners. Alamoudi had founded influential  organizations in America such as the American Muslim Council, and he was a  president of the American Muslim Foundation. Alamoudi founded the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs  Council. This body evaluated the Muslim chaplains who were to serve  in the U.S. military.
Eritrean-born  Alamoudi, who also raised money for Hamas, attended the Dar-al Hijrah Islamic  Center mosque in Falls Church, Virginia when its imam was Anwar al-Awlaki. Hamas is the Palestinian  branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other members of the congregation were Hamas  fundraisers. Maj. Nidal Hasan who would murder 13 people at Fort Hood on  November 5th also attended the Dar-al Hijrah mosque. Alamoudi, who once stood in  Lafeyette Park outside the White House declaring his support for terror groups Hamas  and Hizbollah. In 2004, Alamoudi was jailed for 23 years after  admitting illicit financial dealings with Libya and plotting the assassination  of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz (now King Abdullah).
Anwar  Al-Awlaki himself also has links to the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, where he  now resides. He teaches at the Iman University in Sanaa, Yemen. This college has  5,000 students and is run by Abdul Majeed al-Zindani (Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani).  This fiery cleric, who uses prayer to “heal” AIDS victims, was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. Treasury  in February 2004. He worked closely with Osama bin Laden and also the Kurdish  terror group Ansar al-Islam, whose spiritual leader is Mullah Krekar (currently  residing in Norway). Zindani is also the head of a group called the Yemeni  Congregation for Reform (at-tajammu al-yemeni lil-islah). This is the  Yemeni wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 1997 and  1998 while in San Diego, Al-Awlaki was vice president of the “Charitable Society for  Social Welfare” (CSSW), the Yemeni branch of a charity founded by Zindani. The  CSSW was described as a front organization, used to  support al-Qaeda.
In 2003,  Al-Awlaki was invited to address the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). This  group was founded in November 1997 by a leading Muslim Brotherhood member, Kemal  el-Helbawy. One of the leading figures in the MAB is Mohammed Kassem Sawalha  who, according to the BBC used to be a Hamas operative, active on  the West Bank under the code-name Abu Abada. Sawalha has been a director of  Interpal, a charity that ostensibly raises money for Palestinians, but was  designated by the US for giving funds to Hamas.
The Muslim  Brotherhood is connected to many organizations that operate in the West. In  France, the UOIF (Union des Organisations Islamiques de France) is a  political grouping of Muslim clerics that is widely seen as a front organization  for the MB. In America, several front organizations for the Muslim Brotherhood  have been identified.
Douglas Farah  and John Mintz, writing in the Washington Post, declared that MB members  were involved in founding the Muslim Students Association (MSA) in 1963, the  North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) a decade later (established as a corporation  in Indiana on May 23, 1971), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in  1981.
NAIT and ISNA  were both named as unindicted co-conspirators in the  U.S. government’s case against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF).  Federal prosecutors had written that “numerous exhibits were entered into  evidence establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s intimate relationship with the  Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this case.”  On November  24, 2008, HLF and five of its leaders were found guilty of providing  material support to Hamas.
Hamas, a wing  of the Muslim Brotherhood, supports terrorism. It was founded in 1987 by Sheikh  Ahmad Ismail Yassin and Dr Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi. After carrying out numerous  attacks against soldiers and suicide bombings against its civilians, Israel  assassinated Yassin on March 22, 2004, following that airstrike with another  that killed Rantissi on April 7, 2004. Rantissi had come under the spell of the  Muslim Brotherhood while studying to be a doctor in Egypt.
The original list (pdf document) of unindicted  co-conspirators connected with the HLF trial identifies Alamoudi (see above),  Gaddor Ibrahim Saidi, Nizar Minshar, Raed Awad, Tareq Suwaidan as current or  former Muslim Brotherhood members, along with ISNA, NAIT and also MAYA (the  Muslim Arab Youth Association).
Two other  organizations that have been influential in the United States have also been described in court documents as having links  to the Muslim Brotherhood. In December 2007 (pdf document here) CAIR, the Council of American Islamic  Relations, was listed as “having conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim  Brotherhood to support terrorists.” Additionally, the Muslim American Society (MAS) was described in  this document as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in  the United States.”
MAS was  founded in 1993 in Alexandria in Virginia. Its leaders are Esam S. Omeish  (above) and Souheil Ghannouchi. As pointed out by Patrick Poole, Mahdi Bray (who heads the MAS Freedom Foundation) had attended a rally  in Egypt in February 2008. This rally was to support  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhod members. Among the other Americans attending this MB  rally were “peace activist” Cindy Sheehan and her campaign manager Tiffany  Burns, and also former congressman Walter E Fauntry.
In September 2007, Esam S. Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia state commission on  immigration. His resignation happened after videos emerged in which he was heard  supporting jihad in the Middle East. MAS gained some notoriety in 2007 when it appeared to support  Muslim taxi drivers at Minneapolis/St Paul airport, who did not want to take  passengers who had alcohol in their baggage. Further information on MAS,  compiled by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, can be found in a PDF  document here.
The front  groups for the Muslim Brotherhood in America do not readily declare their  associations with the Ikhwan.
An article  from the Chicago Tribune from February 8, 2004 declared  that the Indiana-based NAIT (which has Muslim Brotherhood associations) “would  eventually hold the deeds to about 300 mosques.” This figure would represent one in four of all mosques in America.
At the end of the same article (subscription  required), the authors wrote of the Muslim American Society (MAS) as a “group  with strong ties to the Brotherhood.” The authors stated: “In an interview  in Cairo, Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef said he and other Brotherhood  members helped create the society and that it follows Brotherhood philosophy.  The society said it is independent but influenced by the Brotherhood and other  groups.“
The Islamic  Society of Boston was founded in 1982. One of its eight founding members was  Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was jailed for 23 years in 2004. The Boston Globe reported in October 2004 that the  ISB had finally distanced itself from one of its trustees, Dr. Walid Fitaihi.  This individual wrote in an Arabic-language publication that Jews were  “murderers of prophets.” Fitaihi had also declared that Jews committed  “oppression, murder, and rape of the worshippers of Allah,” and for this, they  should be punished.
In March  2004, the Boston Herald had requested a response from the group, and on September 10, 2004 a response had been  published. This had stopped short of being a full apology. When media bodies and  individuals started to discuss the potential extremist links of some of the  ISB’s senior figures, the group responded with lawsuits. Fox Channel 25, the Boston  Herald newspaper and 14 civilians were named in lawsuits filed by ISB.  Eventually these were all dropped.
According to  his 1998 to 2000 tax returns, one member of the Islamic Society of Boston’s  board of directors was Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim  Brotherhood. Qadawi appeared in printed literature and a video, promoting the  ISB, in 2002 and 2003.
The ADL,  writing in July 2009, state that Qaradawi is also a chairman of the Islamic American University, even though he  has been banned from entering the USA since 1999. This university, based in  Southfield in Michigan, provides online courses and correspondence courses, as  well as match-making facilities. Islamic American  University grew from a MAS project.
The founder  of the Islamic American University was Dr. Salah El-Deen Soltan who also founded the American Center for Islamic  Research at Columbus, Ohio.
One of the  fruits of Dr Soltan’s research was the “discovery” that the 9/11 attacks were planned  by Americans, using the movie “The Siege” as inspiration (Memri clip here – registration required). In this video,  Soltan claims that Dr Al-Zindani, (the head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood) is  “known worldwide for his refinement, virtue, and broad horizons.”
From 1984  until 1994, an Egyptian-born surgeon called Dr Ahmed Elkadi was the head of  America’s Muslim Brotherhood. This individual had once been a personal physician  to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. He was also a president of NAIT. A decade after  he stopped being a leader of the U.S. Brotherhood, Elkadi gave a candid account  of the MB’s activities to the Chicago Tribune of September 19, 2004  (subscription/purchase required).
Elkadi’s  departure from his position was abrupt and beyond his control. The head of the  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Mahdi Othman Akef, said of the activities  of Elkadi and his associates: “They have succeeded in saving the younger  generations from melting into the American lifestyle without faith.” Elkadi died  of a massive stroke at Panama City in Florida on April 11, 2009. He was 69. His  obituary in Islam Online, a website closely connected to  Yusus al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A recent PDF document from the Hudson Institute, authored  by Steven Merley, describes the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the  United States. The activities of Elkadi are described in detail up until his  being removed from power in 1995. Merley states (p 41) that many of the US  Muslim Brotherhood members who were active from 1988 to 1991 are still active in  Brotherhood organizations.
Jamal Badawi  is on the Executive  Council of the Fiqh  Council of North America (FCNA). This organization, which Merley  claims is a MB group, grew originally from the Muslim Students’ Association  (MSA). In 1980, this organization was called the Fiqh Council of the Islamic  Society of North America, and became “The Figh Council of North America” in  1986. Shaikh Muhammad Hanooti is a FCNA council member. Patrick Poole states that Salah Soltan was in the FCNA in  2008.
Youssef  Nada and “The Project”
One  Egyptian-born Muslim Brotherhood member is mentioned in some detail in the  Hudson Institute report by Merley. This man is Youssef Nada. He spent time in  America in the 1980s, and fathered some of his children there. In September  2004, Douglas Farah and John Mintz wrote that during the 1980s, the Muslim  Students Association “using $21 million raised in part from Qaradawi, banker  Nada and the emir of Qatar, opened a headquarters complex built on former  farmland in suburban Indianapolis.”
Youssef Nada  would form important relationships with Muslim Brotherhood members in  Switzerland. He also would also work with Nazi sympathizers to create a Muslim  Brotherhood Bank. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, his bank would draw the  attention of the authorities, as it was believed to have channeled funds to al  Qaeda. Youssef Nada lived in Campione d’Italia near Lake Lugano. Campione is  entirely surrounded by the Swiss canton of Ticino yet is an Italian territory  and tax haven. Though officially part of the Province of Como, Campione is under  the jurisdiction of Swiss police.
Youssef  Nada’s villa was searched, and on November 7, 2001, manuscripts were retrieved.  Among these documents, fourteen pages of scattered notes were found. These were  typed in Arabic and bore the date December 1, 1982. No signature was given to  the notes. Nada claimed not to know anything about them. The pages were placed  in a police evidence archive along with other documents connected with Nada’s  bank dealings.
When the  pages were translated, they revealed a succinct 12-point plan for world  domination. The first page bore the heading “Towards a global strategy for  Islamic politicization.” It is now believed that the document was written by  Said Ramadan, founder of the Geneva Islamic Center. Ramadan was a son-in-law of  the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and had lived in Switzerland from the  1950s until his death in 1995. The 14 sheets of paper are now known as “The  Project.” The intense activities of the Brotherhood in Europe and America,  extending MB influence even into the White House (with Alamoudi) show that the  strategies of the Project are being followed assiduously.
In Part  Two, I will describe how the Muslim Brotherhood began, and how Switzerland came  to be chosen as a base from which to enact the organization’s policies of  expansionism into the West.

Exclusive: The Muslim Brotherhood: Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism  (Part Two )

by ADRIAN  MORGANDecember 11, 2009

Youssef  Nada and the Al-Taqwa Bank
In Part One, I briefly mentioned veteran Muslim  Brotherhood member Youssef Nada and the essay entitled “The Project.” The  document was discovered in Nada’s villa in Campione d’Italia while it was being  searched on November 7, 2001. On the same day, Nada was designated as a terrorist under US Executive  Order 13224. Nada’s home was being searched because the Al-Taqwa bank, which he   co-founded in 1988, was said to have been used to finance terrorism.
While Swiss  police were examining the items in Youssef Nada’s home, President George W. Bush declared: “Al-Taqwa is an association of  offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift  money around the world.” Two days later, Youssef Nada would also be designated  as a terrorist by the UN.
Subsequently,  the Al-Taqwa bank was similarly designated, along with its numerous branches. A  constellation of related companies were also designated by the U.S. Treasury  Department. Records (PDF) list these as Al-Taqwa Bank  (Nassau, Bahamas), Al-Taqwa Management Organization (Lugano, Switzerland),  Al-Taqwa Trade Property and Industry (Lichenstein, Italy), Al-Taqwa Trade  Property and Industry Company Ltd (Lichenstein, Italy), Al-Taqwa Trade Property  and Industry (Lichenstein, Italy), Nada International Anstalt (Lichenstein),  Youssef M. Nada & Co. Gesellschaft MBH (Vienna, Austria).
On August 29, 2002 (PDF) the Nada Management  Organization SA (Switzerland) was added to the list, along with assets connected  to another figure within the Al-Taqwa Bank, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, who was  designated as a terrorist by the G7 nations on April 17, 2002 and by the United  Nations on April 24, 2002. These additional companies included: Akida Bank  Private Ltd, Akida Investment Co Ltd, Nasredin Group International Holding Ltd,  Nasco Nasreddin Holding AS, Nascotex SA, Nasreddin Foundation, and BA Taqwa for  Commerce and Real Estate Company Ltd and others. Three years after being  designated, Nasreddin continued to trade in Nigeria.
The Treasury  stated: “They (Youssef Nada and Ahmed Nasreddin) have been involved in financing  radical groups such as the Palestinian Hamas, Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front  and Armed Islamic Group, Tunisia’s An-Nahda, and Usama bin Laden and his Al  Qaida organization.”
Tunisian  An-Nahda, also called Hizb al-Nahda, Ennahda, has since renamed itself as the Renaissance  Party. Nasreddin was removed from U.S. and UN lists of terror  financiers on November 17, 2007.
The  Project
Nada denied  knowledge of the 14 pages that comprised the “Project”. Swiss journalist Sylvain  Besson, who worked for Le Temp newspaper, wrote of the Project in his  book “La Conquete de l’Occident” (The Conquest of  the West), published in 2005. Within this book is a translation from the  original Arabic into French (pp 192 – 205). Scott Burgess made an English  translation from the French, which can be found here. My translation of the first pages of  Besson’s text, concerning the 12 “points of departure” is below. I will be  presenting the rest in a supplemental account later.
In the  name of Allah the forgiving, the merciful
Report  S/5/100
1/12/1982
Towards  a global strategy for Islamic politicization (Points of departure, elements,  methods and missions)
This  report presents a global vision of an international strategy for Islamic  politicization. On the authority of the guidelines*, and in agreement with them  the local Islamist politics are elaborated within different regions. It serves,  above all, to define the points of departure of his political ethos, then to  posit the component features of each point of departure, by which the most  important procedures are bound by each point of departure; finally we suggest  certain missions, for example only, may Allah protect us.
Listed  below, the chief points of departure of this politics:
Point  of departure 1:
To  understand the terrain and to adopt a scientific methodology for planning and  implementation.
Point  of departure 2:
To act  seriously in this work
Point  of departure 3:
At a  local level, to reconcile international engagement with flexibility
Point  of departure 4:
To  reconcile political engagement with the need to avoid isolation on one hand,  permanent education of generations and institutional work on the  other.
Point  of departure 5:
Working  to establish the Islamic state, simultaneously making progressive efforts to  take control of local centers of power by the expedient of institutional  work.
Point  of departure 6:
To work  with loyalty on the side of Islamic groups and institutions in diverse fields,  agreeing on common ground to “co-operate on points of convergence and to lay  aside the points of divergence.”
Point  of departure 7:
To  accept the principle of temporary cooperation between nationalist and Islamic  movements in general areas and sure of the points of agreement such as the fight  against colonization, preaching and the Jewish State without forming alliances.  This requires, on the other hand, limited contacts with certain leaders, case by  case, so that these contacts do not contravene the law.* However, one must not  swear allegiance with them or take them into one’s trust, aware that the Islamic  movement must be the origin of initiatives and of directions taken.
Point  of departure 8:
To  master the art of the possible, in a provisional perspective, without neglecting  basic principles, knowing that the rules of Allah are all applicable. One must  order that which is suitable and forbid that which is wrong, while providing a  documented** opinion. But one must not seek a confrontation with our  adversaries, on a local or global scale, which would be disproportionate and  could lead to attacks against the dawa (Islamic missionary activity) or  its disciples.
Point  of departure 9:
To  continually build the strength of Islamic dawa and support the  movements in the Islamic world who are engaged in jihad, to various  degrees and as much as possible
Point  of departure 10:
Assist  diverse and varied surveillance systems, in several places, to gather  information to adopt an informed and effective communication, able to serve the  Global Islamic Movement. Indeed, surveillance, policy decisions and effective  communications complement each other.
Point  of departure 11:
Place  the Palestinian cause within a global Islamic map, a map that is political and  from the perspective of jihad, because this is the keystone of the renaissance  of the Arab world today.
Point  of departure 12:
Learn  to cover self-criticism and permanent evaluation of global Islamic politics and  its objectives, content and development procedures. It is a duty and a necessity  according to the precepts of sharia.
**  backed up by scripture
* the  word “loi” (law) here is ambiguous. Burgess took it to mean sharia
Each point of  departure would be fleshed out with “procedures” and “missions.” Two of the six  “missions” suggested for Point of Departure 11 are undoubtedly anti-Semitic.
The first is  this: “Fight against the sentiment of capitulation among the Ummah, to  refuse defeatist solutions, and show that conciliation with Jews would undermine  our movement and its history.”
The second  has no ambiguity: “To nurture a feeling of rancor in regard to the Jews, and to  refuse all coexistence.”
This  uncompromising approach to Jews is also reflected in the Hamas Charter, written in 1988, six years  after the “Project” was typed out. Even though the “Project” was found in his  home, its exhortations to exploit anti-Semitism as a policy do not explain why  Nada should be openly connected to Nazis in his business dealings.
The  Nazis and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Swiss Bank
When Nada  founded the Al-Taqwa bank with the full approval of the Muslim Brotherhood, two  Swiss individuals were involved who were more than sympathetic to Nazis. One of  these was Francois Genoud (1915 – 1996), a prominent Swiss Nazi who met Hitler  in 1932 and later said of the dictator: “I personally have the  highest regard and admiration for Hitler. He was a great man.” In 1958 Genoud  had set up the Arab Commercial Bank in Geneva, so his experience was useful in  establishing the Muslim Brotherhood’s bank in 1988. The Al-Taqwa (“piety”) bank  was originally incorporated in Lugano in Switzerland.
It has even  been suggested that Genoud’s suicide on May 30, 1996 may have been  connected with an inquiry into Swiss wartime involvement with Nazi loot, and his  accumulation of wealth may have been derived from brokering sales of stolen Nazi  gold. Some of this legendary “Nazi gold” did not come from banks, but was  extracted from the teeth of murdered Jews.
Genoud  remained closely linked with Nazis long after the end of WWII. He would fund the  defense case in the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Israel in 1961, as well as  paying the legal fees of Gestapo war criminal Klaus Barbie (the “butcher of  Lyons), who was found guilty in 1987 of committing crimes against humanity.
Genoud  claimed to own the copyright on the diaries of Goebbels, and for a period in the 1980s  exchanged friendly correspondence with David Irving, a man famous for minimizing the scale of the Holocaust. Genoud  also funded the defense fees of “Carlos the Jackal” in his trial in Paris in  1997. Before being kidnapped to go to trial, the “Jackal” had been sheltering in  Sudan, with the official approval of Hassan al-Turabi, who led the Sudanese  Muslim Brotherhood. The Jackal would become a convert to Islam.
As well as  claiming to own copyright on the Goebbels diaries, on behalf of Goebbels family,  Genoud also held certain notes that were penned by Hitler. He gained these after  signing a contract with the dictator’s sister Paula in 1952. Genoud additionally  claimed to own the rights to autobiographical material by Martin Bormann.  Genoud’s works that were apparently penned by Hitler were published in 1959, but  a row with Irving ensued when the latter discovered that certain passages had  been written by Genoud himself.
When he was  asked in 1990 by a journalist for the Independent on Sunday newspaper  whether he was a Nazi, Genoud had replied: “I was Swiss. I was never a member.  But, like millions of people I had sympathies with the ideology.” On publishing  Hitler’s “Last Testament,” Genoud said: “I did it for Hitler. I think he’s a  very great man. All those who say he was not will soon be forgotten. Stalin will  be forgotten. Churchill will be forgotten, but Hitler will never be forgotten. I  met him once, in 1932, before he came to power. I was very impressed. He spoke a  few words to me, telling me my generation would have to construct a new  Europe.”
Ahmed Huber  (1927 – 2008), another Swiss Nazi sympathizer, also assisted in the setting up  and running of the Al-Taqwa bank. Born in the canton of Fribourg in 1927 Huber  worked as a journalist. Until the 1950s, Huber had been a socialist. In an  interview given to French newspaper Le Monde in 2002, Huber described his conversion. He stated that he  had given sanctuary to three members of the Algerian National Liberation Front  (FLN) in November 1959. These were on the run from police for purchasing  weapons. Huber said: “It was an order of the party. These three brilliant men  enlightened me. From their mouth, I heard for the first time about the Muslim  Brotherhood.”
The armed  wing of the FLN had been fighting the French since 1954. The Arab Commercial  Bank in Geneva was set up in 1958 by Genoud to channel funds to the Algerian  rebels. Ahmed Huber apparently gained most of his wealth from selling weaponry,  and it is almost certain that the involvement of Genoud, Huber and Youssef Nada  in the formation of a “Muslim Brotherhood bank” was to channel money and  weaponry to jihadist factions around the globe – a practical implementation of  the Project’s “Point of departure 9.” U.S. Treasury reports maintain that the  Al-Taqwa bank was never a bank in a true sense, but only a shell, by which money  could be shifted and dispensed under a quasi-legal cover.
In 1962 Huber  became a convert to Islam at the Islamic Centre of Geneva, run by Said Ramadan  (who is generally assumed to have written the “Project” document). The present  mosque had not been built at that time. Huber’s to Islam did not stop his Nazi  activities. Piotr Smiolar of Le Monde noted that 74-year-old Huber had  in his car audio tapes of Third Reich chanting amongst lectures of Khomeini and  the music of Richard Clayderman. Huber had met Youssef Nada for the first time  in 1988 in Iran.
Ahmed Huber  proudly told his interviewer of the time in 1965 when he had met Johannes von  Leers in Cairo, Egypt. Leers had been Goebbels’ deputy, and he also had been a  convert to Islam (renamed Omar Amin von Leers) after fleeing from Germany.  Leers’ writings against Jews are visceral in their contempt. An essay Leers  wrote in 1942  entitled “Judaism and Islam as Opposites” showed his approval of Islam’s  “eternal service to the world: it prevented the threatened conquest of Arabia by  the Jews…”
Though  nowadays exponents of Islam appear to have strong alliances with left-wingers,  the links with Nazism should never be forgotten. Egypt, the birthplace of the  Muslim Brotherhood, was a place where such unions would become strong. Even when  the Muslim Brotherhood had lost the support of Gamel el-Nasser, many Nazis would  still be made welcome in Egypt. Many, like Leers, would  become converts.
Alois Brunner was an assistant to Eichmann. He  worked as an arms dealer in the country from 1954, before moving on to Syria. Dr. Hans Eisel, an SS doctor, arrived in Egypt  in 1958. Joachim Daumling, former Gestapo chief in Dusseldorf, became an adviser to the Egyptian ministry of the  interior.
Leopold Gleim had been a leading SS figure in  Warsaw who became head of Gestapo in Poland and fled to Egypt, where he served  as head of secret police using the name Ali al-Nasher, apparently a convert to Islam.  Historian Kurt Tauber claims that the Egyptian ministries of defense  and information employed former SA and SS officers, such as Louis Heiden, Walter  Bollmann and Wilhelm Bocker.
The most  recent revelation involving Nazi refugees to Egypt concerned the fate of Aribert  Heim, known as the “Butcher of Mauthausen.” As noted by Dr. Andrew Bostom, Heim ran the  Mauthausen camp in Austria. Josef Kohl, an inmate, reported in 1946 that Heim  would examine teeth of new arrivals. If the teeth were perfect, the inmate would  be killed, decapitated, the head cooked until the flesh could be removed, and  the skull would be made into desk decorations. Heim died in 1992, but his death  was only reported in February 2009. In Egypt, Heim was a Muslim who  attended the Al-Azhar mosque and was fondly remembered as “Uncle  Tarek.”
The founder  of the Muslim Brotherhood acknowledged that fascism appeared to have “answers”  to society’s ills. In an essay entitled “The Way of Jihad,” Hassan al-Banna wrote that  “Nazism came to power in Germany, Fascism in Italy and both Hitler and Mussolini  began to force their people to conform to what they thought; unity, order,  development and power. Certainly, this system led the two countries to stability  and a vital international role. This cultivated much hope, reawakened aspiration  and united the whole country under one leader.”
Banna  subsequently pointed out the failings of these ideologies (they were not based  upon Sharia), but in order to understand why Pan-Arabists (such as Nasser) and  leading figures within the Muslim Brotherhood seemed to embrace Nazism, it is  important to examine the terrain from which both movements grew.
Origins
The  establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) happened four  years after the secular Turkish government of Kemal Ataturk had caused the  Ottoman Caliphate to be officially disbanded. The demise of centuries of Ottoman  rule took place on March 3, 1924.
The Caliphate  of the Ottomans had become corrupt in its last decades. There were two responses  to the fading moral influence of the Caliphate, and both of these were to play  an important part in the history of the Middle East through much of the 20th  century, particularly in Egypt. Both of these movements would inform the  ideological outlook of Hassan al-Banna and his associates. One was Salafism,  from which Hassan al-Banna drew his main influences, and the other was  pan-Arabism. Sometimes these ideologies would work in harmony, sometimes in  conflict.
In an essay  originally written in 1978 called “Pan-Arabism” (published in “From Babel to Dragomans”) Bernard Lewis wrote  (pp 198 – 201) that Pan-Arabism was conceived by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (c.1849-1902), who  wished for an Arab Caliphate to supercede that of the Turkish Ottomans. Another  early ideologue of Pan-Arabism was an anti-Semitic Syrian Christian, Negib Azoury (d. 1916), but Lewis claims that Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865 – 1935) would be  less obsessed with Arab resurgence and focused on an Islamic renaissance. All  three were Syrian-born, but lived and wrote in Egypt.
Salafism for  its part derived its inspiration from the early years of Islam (“first  principles”) and the examples of the prophet Mohammed’s companions (salaf). The  two early ideologues of Salafism rejected Western materialism and colonialism,  but did not reject modernity. These were Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (c. 1838 – 1897) and  the Egyptian-born Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849 – 1905). Abduh objected  to the complacent and unquestioning attitudes of many clerics (ulema). The two  men met at Al Azhar university in Cairo in 1872, and a few years later in Paris  they collaborated on a periodical called The Firmest Bond (al-Urwah  al-Wuthqa). This publication was aimed against the British. Their  relationship had foundered during the 1880s, but their writings were to prove  inspirational to an emerging pan-Islamic movement.
From 1898 onwards Muhammad ‘Abduh worked together  with Rashid Rida (pictured) on a periodical called “Al-Manar” (The  Beacon). Rida continued to produce this publication until his death in August  1935.
In October  1906, Hassan al-Banna was born into the family of a devoutly religious  watch-repairer in al-Mahmudiyya in southern Egypt. Hassan would be the eldest of  five sons. In 1923, aged 16, Hassan al-Banna went to the Dar al-Ulum (House of Knowledge) teacher  training college in Cairo. This had been set up in 1872 by Ali Pasha Mubarak. At  this time, al-Banna would assiduously read copies of Rida’s “Al-Manar” journal.  Hassan al-Banna graduated, becoming a teacher in 1927, aged 21. The following  year, accompanied by six associates, al-Banna declared a lifelong commitment to  Islam. This shared vow, which took place in a private house in Ismailiya, would  mark the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood.
At first the  movement existed mainly as a social enterprise, attempting to prevent young  Muslims from becoming secularized or falling prey to Western decadence. Soccer  activities were balanced by Islamic study. In 1932, Al-Banna was offered a  teaching job in Cairo. Relocated in a busy city, the ideology of the Muslim  Brotherhood spread quickly, and it adopted a more political agenda. The  ideologies of fascism, which were challenging the colonial Western states,  seemed appealing to many.
In his Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist  groups, Stephen E. Atkins wrote: “Al Banna was always vague about his  political goals, but he expressed his admiration for Benito Mussolini and Adolf  Hitler and their war against the British.”
Hassan  al-Banna supported actions against the British. These had occupied Egypt but  even after independence in 1926, they retained their troops in the nation. Under  the terms of the Palestine Mandate, the British were seen to be  “colonizing” the Transjordan/Palestine. The British had also assisted Abdul Aziz  ibn Saud to take control of Arabia, and the new “Saudi” monarch and his  Wahhabist followers had not ingratiated themselves with Egyptians. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, which promised  the restoration of lands to Jewish people, had already been ratified by the  League of Nations in 1922.
Within this  climate, the forces of nationalism, pan-Arabism and a new Islamism, would  flourish. During the 1930s, the Muslim Brotherhood dramatically expanded its  numbers and spread its influence.
In Part  Three I will describe how these forces would all assist the Muslim Brotherhood  to grow as a religious and political entity. Some Muslim Brotherhood members  would take the concepts of anti-Zionism that were abounding in the region, and  translate them into an ideology of hatred against Jews. This hatred would even  lead to alliances with Hitler and the Nazi party.
(Never Seen This Part Three !)
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Adrian Morgan is a British-born writer and artist. He has previously  contributed to various publications, including the Guardian and New Scientist  and is a former Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society. Since June 2010, he  has been the Editor of Family Security Matters.

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By Wil., on August 3, 2012 at 4:23 pm, under "Swiss Infidels Army", "U.N. WATCH", "World Wide Front !", Muslim Brotherhood, SwissFront. 2 Comments
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