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In 2005 I talked all this through with a British Brotherhood follower, Anas Altikriti, founder of a lobby and research group named after Cordoba, capital of the last Islamic Caliphate to have a toehold in Europe nearly 1,000 years ago. He admits to having been "extremely closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood" when he lived in the Arab Emirates, and today acknowledges that in London he also belongs to a "very similar school of thought". So I asked him if he thought that his spiritual leader's prophecy was perhaps a bit fantastical?

Altikriti: No, I believe in it because that is the prophecy of the Prophet. It's not an invention of Sheikh Qaradawi. The Prophet Muhammad, in a famous authentic Hadith, promised his companions that at a great time of strife —which was miraculous in itself — that Constantinople would be conquered and Rome . . .

Ware: So it's an aim to convert all those people . . .

Altikriti: Who said it was an aim? I said it was a prophecy.

Ware: I thought it was an imperative.

Altikriti: The only obligation that I have, the only obligation I have is what I call Da'wa.

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Christopher C.
July 2nd, 2013
4:07 AM
"Let me be clear: followers of the Brotherhood in Britain are not advocating violent jihad here. They condemned the beheading in May of Drummer Lee Rigby by two Muslims on a London street in broad daylight. Their organisations have civic-sounding names; they emphasise human rights, respect for democracy and integration." There is a good Islamic word for those public pronouncements. It is taqqiya - religiously-sanctioned misrepresentation (to say it most politely). But "ordinary" Muslims - are they representative of Islam? Here's a suggestion - what if Hassan al-Banna and others like him are the leaders of an Islamic Reformation. The original Reformation, after all, followed Gutenberg, and the much greater availability of the Bible. Luther and thousands of other Christians went to the source and made their own judgements about the Bible's meanings. So, is there a parallel between post-Gutenberg Europe and the Middle East of the early 20th C.? I suggest that Hassan al-Banna and those of his ilk were, for perhaps the first time, a critical mass for the study of the Koran and the adhadith. And they took the exhortations of both seriously. The language is plain. And it is aggressive. It demands the imposition (not the free acceptance) of sharia. In other words, it demands of Muslims that they be total in their acceptance of Islam, and to ensure that everybody else submit as well (after all, that is what Islam means - submission). The point? "Ordinary" Muslims, in the sense that such persons present no threat to post-Judeo Christians, do not really exist. Those who do not wish to compel others to follow Islam are not really Muslims. The West is in very great trouble that even writers such as Mr Ware can part-recognise the danger, but not travel the last, few necessary steps to describe what we are really faced with.

truthseeker
July 1st, 2013
12:07 PM
The article says the Muslim Brotherhood has made Islam political instead of only religious. In fact, Islam makes no distinction between the political and the religious, as sharia law demonstrates. There is no Islamism, there is only Islam.

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