From The Center for Security Policy's A Plan for Victory Over The Global Jihad Movement
"...In fact, while violent Jihad groups like al-Qaeda or Islamic Jihad may appear to be more
violent and more obviously a threat, the Muslim Brotherhood is arguably far more dangerous.
The Egyptians understand this from their own democratic experiment, as do an increasing
number of other Arab states.
For example, in November 2014, the United Arab Emirates cabinet published a list of
terrorist organizations that makes no distinction between groups like the Islamic State, al-Qaeda,
Boko Haram, the Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Abu Sayyaf on the one hand and the
Muslim Brotherhood on the other. Importantly, the UAE included by name the Muslim
Brotherhood senior jurist Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS or
IUMS) and two U.S.-based organizations: the Muslim American Society (MAS) and a Hamas
front operating in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)34.
The U.S. Department of State asked the UAE for “clarifications” and European
governments expressed indignation at the UAE report.35 But other Arab countries added heft to
the Emirati document. The Egyptian government quickly endorsed it, as did the 22-member
Arab League. Thus the Arab League recognizes the Muslim Brotherhood as a common threat to
each of their member regimes. This action of collective self-interest still provides an opportunity
for U.S. agencies to work with the Emiratis and other Arab League members against the
Brotherhood – but only if we have professionals at the operational and political levels who
actually understand and stay focused on the threat.
We are on notice of the menace posed by the Muslim Brotherhood in America as well. As
made plain by internal documents seized from the Brotherhood’s U.S. arm and introduced into
evidence during 2007 and 2008 trials in the U.S. v. the Holy Land Foundation case36, the largest
HAMAS terrorism-financing trial in the United States, the Brotherhood has been shown to
have an explicit strategy to engage in “civilization-jihad” against the United States and the rest of
Western civilization. The evidence in this case revealed that there exists in the U.S. today a
massive jihad network which supports, finances, trains, and is raising a jihad generation right
here in America.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s stated purpose is sabotaging America and using America’s free
and open society to enable that sabotage, while operating as much as possible within the confines
of the law to avoid scrutiny and interference. Our failure to know the enemy is, in part, evidence
of the success of its civilization jihad operations."
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