A Movement Of Brotherly Hate

Islamofascism: If the Muslim Brotherhood had a slogan, it might be "Today Egypt, tomorrow the world." Yet the Obama administration is intent on seeing this global jihadist group in a good light.

If you think the political upheavals in Egypt are frightening, read the self-proclaimed objectives of the opposition group that President Obama says should have representation in the next government.

The Israel-based media watchdog Palestinian Media Watch on Tuesday released an English translation of "Jihad is the Way," the final volume of "The Laws of Da'wa" by Mustafa Mashhur, who ran Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood from 1996 to 2002.

The Jerusalem Post says Mashhur wrote the Brotherhood's goal is "realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state and strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world." His book states "the banner of Jihad ... shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, and the State of Islam established."

Palestinian Media Watch founder Itamar Marcus warned the Israeli newspaper of the dangers of downplaying the organization's ideology, or expecting it to moderate once it gets power, because it differs from terrorist groups like al-Qaida only as to tactics, not goals.

The objectives of this organization have never really been a big secret. In 2007, PBS ran a documentary by Newsweek investigative reporters Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff on the Muslim Brotherhood.

At the time, Isikoff said "their publicly proclaimed goal is the creation of a worldwide Islamic caliphate that would govern according to Shariah, Koranic law." The terror group Hamas is "the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood," he also said.

Chillingly, Isikoff also noted that in covering the global war on terror since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, "in every step of the way we kept running into the Muslim Brotherhood."  He pointed out that "many of the most prominent figures in international terrorism — Osama bin Laden,—(bin Laden right-hand man Ayman) Zawahiri himself — grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood."

A comparison might be made with Ireland's Sinn Fein. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, it was founded in the first half of the 20th century, gained great popularity as a broad-based political organization in the aftermath of an armed uprising, went dormant for decades and then re-emerged as the political arm of terrorists before formally gaining political power at the ballot box.

Yet President Obama has been courting the Brotherhood from his first day in power. As Jihad Watch founder Robert Spencer said Tuesday in Human Events, the president "chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies."

That leader, Ingrid Mattson, was at the time president of the Islamic Society of North America, a group that has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood. Spencer, unrivaled as a scholar of Islamism, notes that the president also sent senior adviser and Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett to be keynote speaker at the ISNA's 2009 national convention.

He also appointed as assistant secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security one Arif Alikhan, who as Spencer reports had just before his nomination "participated in a fundraiser for the Muslim Public Affairs Council," another group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

As deputy mayor of Los Angeles, Alikhan blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to gather data about mosques in the Los Angeles area charging that it constituted "Islamaphobia," according to renowned terrorism researcher Steven Emerson.

Obama's Muslim adviser on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, moreover, is the Egyptian scholar Dalia Mogahed, "a pro-Shariah Muslim," according to Spencer.

The White House apparently believes this massive transnational Islamist organization, with a stated objective of world domination, can be tamed if we help it come into power in the country in which it was founded over 80 years ago.  Wasn't that Jimmy Carter's thinking about Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini over three decades ago?