From Osama Bin Laden To ISIS, The Jihadists Are All Graduates Of The Muslim Brotherhood
By Ed Husain
10 November
2020
As the
COVID-19 vaccine arrives and European leaders turn their focus again to the
national security and future prosperity of our peoples, a fracture is
appearing. Europe has suffered two Islamist militant attacks over the past ten
days. France and Austria are responding with vigour, but where is the European
Union? Where is Britain?
Policemen stand in front of a
residential building in Linz, Austria, where a man was detained on November 3,
2020 in connection with the Vienna shooting one day before. (AFP)
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President
Emmanuel Macron’s speech and interventions for upholding the values of the
French Republic were second to none. His government followed up with action by
closing mosques and organizations with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and many
of its affiliates and offshoots.
Austria has
followed in a similar move against the Brotherhood and others.
Again and
again, France and Austria have made clear that political Islamism is not Islam.
The danger is not from the elderly Muslim gentleman with a beautiful beard, nor
the lady who wishes to cover her hair out of religious observation.
French
police officers on the Champs-Elysee avenue in Paris, on October 30, 2020.
(AFP)
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Religious
conservatism is not a national security concern. The threat can come from a
clean-shaven, suit-wearing, smart-talking Islamist activist. This danger of
political Islamism is not about appearance, but a sophisticated and suave
ideological enemy who hides behind false claims of representing ‘the
community.’
To target
Islamists and their narrative, as France and Austria have done, is not racist
or Islamophobic. Just as targeting Nazis is not anti-German, identifying
Islamists and their support for terrorism, is not anti-Muslim.
From this
basic conviction, we build policies to advance the interests of Europe. For we
must learn to put Europe’s Enlightenment values ahead of any project, Islamist
or otherwise, that seeks to undo the progress of our forefathers. In this, we
must remember that millions of Muslims gave their support and lives from
Algeria, Morocco, India, Arabia, Egypt, to protect civilization in two world
wars.
Why are
Islamists a danger to Europe today? Because the very foundations of European
society and prosperity are under direct assault from an ideology and a
narrative that only becomes violent because it seeks to end the nation state,
remove secular governments, deprive women of their rights, destroy Israel and
kill Jews, execute gay people, and force innocent Muslims to live under
Islamist rule.
From Osama
bin Laden to ISIS, the violent jihadists are all graduates of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Police and fire authorities
at the scene of the stabbing in Nice, France, October 29, 2020. (AFP)
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From Osama
bin Laden to ISIS, the violent jihadists are all graduates of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
As these
extremists flee the Middle East, they now find shelter and asylum, finances and
television platforms, across European capitals. Muslims in the Middle East are
not Islamophobic or racist when identifying Islamists as a national security
concern. Europe does not tolerate Nazis or fascists: it should now stop
appeasing Islamists.
Why is open
support for Hamas and Hezbollah allowed in European cities? Why were there vast
crowds in London gathering to mourn the elimination of Iran’s top terror
mastermind, Qassem Soleimani?
A poster of Qassem Soleimani
hangs in Rome, Italy. (Twitter)
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If Europe’s
politicians do not respond with unison and success, far-right political parties
will. Across the continent, neo-Nazism is on the rise in reaction to Islamist
terrorism. If our political leaders are too timid to defend civilization, let
them at least work hard to keep the political parties and majorities in tact
for government.
There is,
however, some good news. Charles Michel, who heads up the European Council, has
vowed to ‘fight the ideology of hatred’ by training imams. That is a welcome
development, but Monsieur Michel and his 27 heads of state on the Council
should not forget that most Islamist terrorists are recruited from or are
active on websites, prisons, and educational establishments with links to the
Muslim Brotherhood and its anti-West narrative.
Turning off
the Islamist mood music played by the Muslim Brotherhood will stop the dance
that is jihadist terrorism.
Original Headline: Europe must stand united
against all extremism: Hamas, Hezbollah & Muslim Brotherhood
Source: The English Al-Arabiya
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