Muslim Brotherhood Fronts Fail to Capture Muslim-American Loyalty
Muslim Brotherhood affiliates like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim American Society have cast themselves as the gatekeepers to the Muslim-American community. A new Gallup poll shows that the Brotherhood’s campaign to lead the Muslim-American community through these fronts has failed, as only a small minority feel represented by them.
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center asked Muslim-Americans which group represented them, if any. The Council on American-Islamic Relations had the highest level of support, with 12 percent of men and 11 percent of women choosing it. The Islamic Society of North America came in second, with four and seven percent of men and women choosing it, respectively. The Muslim Public Affairs Council came in third, with six percent of men and one percent of women. The Islamic Circle of North America came in last, with 2 percent of men choosing it and less than one percent of women choosing it.
Altogether, that means only 24 percent of Muslim-American men and 19 percent of Muslim-American women feel represented by one of the above five Muslim Brotherhood fronts. Of these, a significant portion are likely unaware of their favored organization’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The ability of these groups to jointly mobilize this minority of Muslim-Americans in order to influence the political process, as well as the rest of the Muslim-American community, is not to be overlooked. However, the survey shows that a majority of Muslim-Americans do not look to the Brotherhood network for leadership, and it is susceptible to a challenge from within the community if enough resources are available.
The Brotherhood network has taken a major hit since 9/11. Its support was further damaged when CAIR and ISNA were labeled “unindicted co-conspirators” in the Holy Land Foundation trial and tied to the Brotherhood and Hamas by the federal government. In 2007, the Washington Times reported that CAIR’s membership fell from 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006. This caused annual revenue from membership dues to also decline from nearly $734,000 to less than $59,000, forcing CAIR to rely upon about two dozen donors for most of its budget.
The Gallup poll also found that 81 percent of Muslim-Americans support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which violates a core tenet of the Islamist ideology. Only 10 percent say killing civilians can sometimes be justified, the lowest of the religious groups surveyed. In 2007, a Pew poll found that 78 percent of Muslim-Americans feel suicide bombings are never justified. Most interestingly, the survey found that only 50 percent of Muslim-Americans take the Koran entirely literally.
But remember, Big Sis says that middle aged white males are the true radical “terrorists” in the US.
Brings to mind when Obama went to the Middle East.
The pic of Obama bending over to the same people that support radical “terrorists”…….
Funny I did not see Obama bowing to the P.M. of Israel like that.
“The Brotherhood network has taken a major hit since 9/11. Its support was further damaged when CAIR and ISNA were labeled “unindicted co-conspirators” in the Holy Land Foundation trial and tied to the Brotherhood and Hamas by the federal government.”
Perhaps we should send e-mails to this local Florida television station that tried to smear Congressman Allen West because he refused (rightfully so) to even talk to CAIR. You can see a video about this outrage here:
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/08/17/cong-west-sends-one-word-letter-to-cair-nuts/
In this new video you can see how CAIR tries to blackmail people who refuse to have anything to do with them. Check it out and send the television station an e-mail to tell them what CAIR really is all about. And if you know a little bit of history too, you’ll understand why West said what he said, referring to the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
Thank you Libertyship46. I had not seen that story. When I saw the letter I spit coffee out of my nose, HA! Once again Allen West has made my day.
I instantly knew what Rep. West meant in his eloquent letter. I think one of the commenters on that site put it very succinctly – “EOD – Allen West is a uniquely American Politician, uniquely American in ways President Obama never will understand…. uniquely American in ways President Obama never will be.”
Method, principle, and strength of character are meaningless to a progressive; being a progressive means winning at all costs. Allen West appears to be everything progressives are not.
So what organization does represent the majority of Muslim perspectives here in the US ?
Is the CAIR the plurality winner at 11-12% ?
If so, it appears to be a fragmented belief system , loosely associated only under an apparently meaningless moniker of Muslim.
No wonder we don’t hear a more united American Muslim outcry against Islamism and all of its perverted justifications.
They aren’t united – just MINOs – and their label would make them targets for jihad if they stuck their necks out too far.
Sad.
What’s sad is that the MB advises the POTUS and influences a good many more things in the WH. Betrayal in the WH is a fact now…where in the hell are all the investigative journalists??? Afraid??
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What’s sad is that the MB advises the POTUS and influences a good many more things in the WH. Betrayal in the WH is a fact now…where in the hell are all the investigative journalists??? Afraid??
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Thanks! Husky!
I’ve posted this again here because it needs to be said ….sky-written all over the blue…..all over the place…large billboards on the Interstates….all of us know that Interstate Billboards aren’t allowed, so our Internet is an excellent venue, hopefully some inside the White House may escape their bubble from time to time and read this at home on their own time….?
There is a discussion here about which organisation represents American Muslims. The fact that this question is even asked shows how imbedded the concept of identity politics is in the current position. Surely the various State and Federal elected councils and parliaments represent all Americans regardless of race or religion. These various special interest lobby groups are only trying to separate the citizens along any sort of fault line they can so that they can increase their own personal power. Why are they given any support by any government discussion process or any media outlet?