Muslim Brotherhood Fronts Fail to Capture Muslim-American Loyalty
The picture isn’t entirely rosy. A small minority can do horrible things if radicalized and indeed, the Obama administration agrees that homegrown terrorism is on the rise. The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, said in September 2010 that the number of plots against the American homeland “have surpassed the number and pace of attacks during any year since 9/11.” Likewise, Attorney General Eric Holder said, “You didn’t have to worry about this [homegrown terrorism] two years ago — about individuals, about Americans — to the extent that we now do.”
In the 2007 Pew survey, five percent of Muslim-American respondents had a favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of al-Qaeda, with another 10 percent viewing it “somewhat unfavorably.” One-fourth did not give an opinion. Of those below 30 years old, one-fourth felt that suicide bombings can sometimes be justified. Seven percent viewed al-Qaeda favorably, and another 16 percent saw them “somewhat unfavorably.” This is a minority, but it is a dangerous minority, and the homegrown extremism trend indicates it is becoming increasingly radicalized.
Keep in mind that al-Qaeda viciously attacked the U.S. on 9/11 and has killed many Muslims. Furthermore, only 40 percent of Muslim-Americans believe that Arabs carried out the attacks, indicating support for conspiracy theories claiming the terrorist group is a Mossad and/or CIA front. It is disturbing to think of how high support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood must be, given their more careful political strategy and relative restraint when compared to al-Qaeda.
The survey finds that a strong obstacle to Islamism in the Muslim-American community is the 65 percent of adults who came from other countries. It states, “Native-born Muslims express overwhelming support for the notion that mosques should express their views on social and political matters. By contrast, a large majority of foreign-born Muslims — many of whom are from countries where religion and politics are often closely intertwined — say that mosques should be kept out of political matters.”
Nearly half of Muslim-Americans oppose mixing the mosque and politics, and this is largely due to Muslims who have experienced Sharia-based governance and know what it entails. This same dynamic is likely why the Muslim Brotherhood fronts have failed to get the Muslim-American community behind them.
It is encouraging to know that Muslim foreigners can act as a bulwark against extremism among Muslims born in the country, but what will happen as more and more Muslims are born in America and less are from overseas? The Muslim Brotherhood fronts may have failed among the current generation, but that doesn’t mean they’ll also lose the next one.
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?