WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Muslim Brotherhood Ties to Iran
The Obama administration believes that the Muslim Brotherhood is an acceptable player in forming a new government in Egypt despite the fact that about a dozen very public quotes from the former and current leaders of the Brotherhood, which I provided in a PJ Media article last week, reveal the Brotherhood’s Salafi-jihadi worldview and support for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
These quotes are readily available to anyone who wants to take the time to look for them, but the Obama team’s acceptance of the Brotherhood is all the more mystifying due to the fact that the government’s own classified State Department cables document that Iran, our arch-enemy in the region, has been clandestinely supporting it as a proxy in Egypt.
This information is contained in a classified June 29, 2010, cable from the American Embassy in Cairo titled “General Petraeus’ Meeting With EGIS Chief Soliman,” in which General Petraeus, then the commander of Central Command, and Omar Soliman, then the chief of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, discussed this specific threat.
During the conversation, Soliman complained to Petraeus that:
- “Egypt suffers from Iranian interference through its Hezbollah and Hamas proxies, and its support for…the Muslim Brotherhood….We hope Iran will stop supporting Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and other cells.”
It should be noted here that Hamas, listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. government, is not an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is simply a violent chapter of the organization as proven by Article 2 of its own charter which states:
- “The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.”
The Hamas charter and Iran’s use of the Brotherhood in Egypt as a proxy prove that it is a violent organization and that Iran is using it to destabilize Egypt. Given Iran’s operational style, it is only prudent to believe that our Middle Eastern nemesis is also providing clandestine support to Brotherhood chapters in Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, and elsewhere. Supplied with this information, it is difficult to grasp how President Obama thinks that the Brotherhood’s participation in forming a new Egyptian government is a good idea.
But our government’s own revelations about the dangers of the Brotherhood do not stop there. If the Obama administration needed any more proof that the Brotherhood poses a danger, it need look no further than a classified State Department cable titled “Scenesetter for Counterterrorism Coordinator Crumpton’s Visit to the UAE.” It written in 2006 by the American Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
In this cable, one of our most important allies in the region, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, felt it important enough to warn Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs C. David Welch of the “dangers of free elections in countries with a well-organized Muslim Brotherhood presence.”
Shedding light on how the Brotherhood threatens the security of the United Arab Emirates itself, the sheikh revealed just how precarious the situation is by stating that “if there were an election in Dubai tomorrow, the Muslim Brotherhood would take over.”
I’d launch a “jihad” against Israel too if they tried kicking me out of my home because of some book saying they’re the chosen ones.
Learn some history.
First…
Those so-called ‘Palestinians’, led by an Egyptian (Arafat, the nephew of the Nazi sympathising Mufti of Jerusalem) were not kicked out.
In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. The majority left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
By the way, they were relative newcomers to Israel. Most were Arabs who migrated to British Mandate Palestine from surrounding Arab countries to take advantage of the relative prosperity brought about by the Jewish immigrants and the British Mandate.
I wonder why those 8 million Hindu refugees that were driven from East Pakistan don’t demand Pakistan will be given back to them and start a jihad? What about those millions of Assyrian Christians, Armenians and Greeks that were driven out of the ME. Should they wage Jihad?
And what about those 1.46 million Jewish refugees forced or driven from Muslim countries?
Second….
The Jewish claim on Israel is based on historical fact.
Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., more than two thousand years before any Arab ever set foot in Israel.
Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
Third….
And Jihad against the Jews and other ‘non believers’ has been around since 627 AD when almost nine hundred Jews of a Medinan tribe named Banu Qurayza were massacred by Muslims in one day. And the violence has not stopped since.
Yes……Hello needs a history lesson.
Here’s an addition to Andy’s:
Jews are Israelites, aka Hebrews, and the semitic people who’s language, Aramaic/ Hebrew is a subfamily of the Canaanite language group which was spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites and Phoenicians. That is where we are orginally from. That land is known as Israel. We are indigenous to that land.
The Arabs speak Aarabic, they are from the Arabian penninsula. which is not Canaanite, but a semitic “cousin” of that language group. Modern Standard Arabic derives from Classical Arabic, the only surviving member of the Old North Arabian.
The term “Chosen People” is because we chose to take the “Yoke of Torah” to serve HaShem. We do this by the performance of the 613 Mitzvot to bring down “Orh”- HaShem’s Divine Light to the nations. (Non- Jews are only required to perform the 7 Noahide Laws.)
To perform the 613 Mitzvot we were given land sacred to HaShem. Israel is a Holy land. It is the place on the earth where the Shekkinah rests. Think of it as an energy path and channel, and you get the idea. Jews have a ” job” to do, and we are protected by HaShem so we can do it. Try to take away our land…..more darkness falls upon the earth. Try to persecute us or kill us…. and more darkness falls upon the earth.
Look at the miracles that surround our survival. No other group can say this. No other group, in human history, has survived all that we have. If you look at what the Jewish people have accomplished and given to this world, especially in relation to our tiny numbers, you will see there is something far greater going on.
No matter how hard you have all tried, throughout the many millenia, to wipe us out, you never could. And, you never will:
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“2.And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will aggrandize your name, and [you shall] be a blessing.
3. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses
you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you.”
How much greater and better this world be, had people like Hello and his Jihadist buddies left us alone and in peace. That is WHY the world is experiencing what it is. The writings of Our ancient prophets warned everyone of this …..heed it well.
The Jews have been a great asset to the world. OMG. Now, what can we do to rid the world of nastieslike obama et al?
Everytime the Jews have been persecuted they have come back in larger numbers. Think there is something to that book?
What rot! Witness the treatment of kuffar or infidels in Muslim countries based on “some book” called the Koran, and open your eyes.
Who was kicked out their homes in Israel? Jews have lived in what is now Israel for almost 4000.00 years, in greater or lesser numbers. The Mohammedans conquered in the 7th century A.D., but Jews remained. Incidentally, half a million Jews were kicked out of their homes in the Arab states after 1948, all their goods seized. There are Arabs (Mohammedans) in Israel, but no Jews where they had formerly lived for over 2000.00 years.
Goodbye, the holy land is not any “one’s” home, it is the home of different faiths and peoples. It is the Arabs/islamists who have killed wantonly to keep others from their rights to to a place which has st the least, the same historical, traditional, cultural, and religious meaning to them as to those who murder as habit and hobby, e.g., the lust for shedding blood.
“The new Egyptian government”
Let’s see first, if there actually will be an election shall we?
@ 1.Hello
The concept of the Jews as being “the Chosen ones” doesn’t mean what you think it means. It’s a common but crucial mistake. It doesn’t mean “chosen” to receive extra rewards, but rather chosen to fulfill extra obligations. It’s a call to work harder.
I’m not Jewish so anybody with a better understanding of this can correct me if they wish.
Quite accurate. Being Chosen by God is not a privilege. Sometimes it means you get to experience the very worse society has to offer so that you can teach others how to behave better.
But whatever “Hello” thinks, s/he had better be ready to admit that reliance upon a religious book is no better justification for the Muslim than it is for the Jew. The only thing one will find down that road is madness.
“Egypt suffers from Iranian interference through its Hezbollah and Hamas proxies, and its support for…the Muslim Brotherhood….We hope Iran will stop supporting Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and other cells.”
Fat chance. Iran is going for it all. It wants to be the dominant power in the region and Obama is doing nothing, nothing, to stop it. Events in Libya are chump change when compared to Iran. Iran is the key to the region. If you pull down Iran, you will eliminate the primary cause of evil and unrest in the Middle East. We should be doing everything in our power to help overthrow the mullahs in Iran. We should be supporting every anti-government group in Iran with money, weapons, and political support. Obama blew his best chance for regime change in the summer of 2009. Hopefully, he’s learned from that mistake and is doing something about it now. We can only hope.
We may not like the way WikiLeaks went about “leaking” information, but we are finding out a lot of dirt people have tried to cover up. So much crap behind backs.
Obama will not fight the muslim brotherhood.
I think he is on their side and will back them. Perhaps he is a member, nothing would surprise me with this adm and their tentacles.
We need to face reality, live in the present and plan what to do about the threats all around us. PC needs to go out the window, call a spade a spade.
I disagree that either Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood is any real proxy to Iran; a shi’ite state like Iran doesn’t care 2 cents for Sunnis. If however by proxy you simply mean financing, this is something we have all known for some time that Iran does.
Anything Iran can do to throw a wrench into the cauldron of Israel and Sunni Hamas and Egypt they will do simply because it causes chaos. Cairo is the center of Sunni culture in the muslim world and whether Egypt has strict sharia or an entirely secular gov’t is of little account to Iran; what Iran wants is trouble for Israel and Sunnis in general and whichever form of gov’t provides the least stability is the one Iran will stand behind. Chaos among Sunnis is the Iranian goal and it is taken on faith that lack of stability in the polities surrounding Israel will discomfit Israel and that is its own reasoning.
In point of fact nothing has yet changed in Egypt, not in real terms. People can march around in the streets and protest but only up to a point. Strikes are forbidden, a midnight curfew is in effect in Cairo and the emergency laws which were the number two goal of the anti-Mubarak protesters are still in place.
After midnight last night soldiers, some in masks, attacked protesters still in Tahrir Square, beating and carting many off. Mubarak sits in Sharm-El-Sheikh with perhaps a shadow gov’t still a quiet reality; that is a far cry from standing trial.
The Muslim Brotherhood has won precisely nothing in Egypt and the more Obama opens his mouth the more the real players in Egypt are taking note of how America has, at least up front, abandoned the old regime in Egypt. We do not know what the American gov’t is saying behind the scenes.
The entire middle east is in turmoil and with what result no one can say. You are seeing a battle for democracy as one part of it but with the place of religion within any democracy as an unknown quantity as yet. In another sector is maneuvering by shi’ites to thrown off Sunni minorities as its own battle. In yet another sector is maneuvering by conservative and even fundamentalist muslims to secure their own hegemony in circles that rule and make a difference.
President Obama is hopelessly out of his depth on this one and the more he takes sides the more harm he will do; thinking muslims are cool does not prepare one for an utterly complex interrelationship of power that is reforming itself in the middle east even as I write this.
Even in the countries involved no one knows what is really going on or what will happen. If Egyptians are in the dark about their own future then what chance does Obama have to sort it out? The Muslim Brotherhood is not writing any “Federalist Papers” or drawing up Magna Cartas but are opportunists who will take what they can and show what they can of themselves.
The goals of the MB within the United States are obvious to anyone with half a brain and anyone within the U.S. who has any relationship with the MB whatsoever should be deported immediately, regardless of where they were born and Obama too stupid to see or acknowledge that a demographic war is being waged in America and Europe.
The smartest thing Obama could do is to shut off immigration and all visas from any Islamic country or the Third World; in order to fight a disease one must sometimes isolate it. This is something even conservative Republicans are not willing to go to the wall on. But the more Reps wait the more afraid they will be since they are afraid of the very voters they want to see less of but which are increasing, making a future stand even less likely.
America is screwed on this one since no one is willing to stand up and fight the real source of weaponry that fuels the reverse racism against European Americans that is multiculturalism and that is immigration. We are committing slow suicide on this one and our razor is the U.S. Constitution which we worship as a god but which doesn’t serve the culture who created it but those cultures that have the least interest in it and who know how to use jurisprudence to smother us; at this point, the U.S. Constitution may as well be 40 hadiths. Even we ourselves ignore it at will as witness Wisconsin and the DOJ so why pretend it is important when it comes to immigration? Let’s start amending the Constitution and having it serve those who wrote it rather than Mayans or muslims.
If we were real Americans we’d be marching in the streets insisting on the removal and firing of teachers and legislators that don’t show up for work and the firing of Eric Holder and that’s just for starters. You want the rule of law – well, that’s hard to do with a lawless administration that is nothing more than a syndicate that has come to despise its own history and imports every moron in the Third World to make up for it by watering down white racism.
Go visit Kathmandu, Guatemala City, Mumbai and Djakarta and then contrast them with Memphis, Camden and Detroit and you’ll find that the contrast is heading for a gray middle.
With physical improvements as the only real activity in the U.S., looks as though O. is improving the infrastructure for the shiite caliphate(not just a caliphate, but we offer carte blanche to O. and he will take it.) This way, he doesn’t even have to fight the sunnis. We’ve made it all tooooooo easy. He is spending our tax dollars so that when he turns the U.S. over to the caliphate it will be in good condition.
How many times have we seen a US president shaking hands with the PLO and Israel in the latest peace treaty and the beginning of a Palestine State? The Arabs want Israel gone, not neighbors, gone off the face of the earth. Israel has more patients than any other Country in the world, how long would you let a neighboring country lob rockets into your towns and cities?
Strike now Israel strike hard and fast while the rest of the world, especially Obama land, picks its nose in indecision. The PLO was shipped out once now its time for the whole bloody lot, Libya’s nice. Hammer Syria into total submission with the added benefit of neutralizing Lebanon in the process. Being nice hasn’t worked for over 60 years and you won’t have to worry about Obama, he’ll still be looking someplace for his latest pick.
The State Department had long had employees who had different interests than the majority of the American people. Now we have a President that make some people in the State Department look conservative. Once you understand where they are coming from, nothing that they do should surprise you.
Was that said diplomatically enough?
We, as voter should ask the President and the Administration, what is President policy towards further radicalisation of the Mid East ?
Today, may be Muslim brotherhood, tomorrow be be Jihadist brotherhood & when is islamo-nazism coming into play ??
Will President O’burner of Amercian values brave enough stand up to the kafir killers ?
Will President O’burner of American values continue to allow Takiyya practioner to deceive the American and Western values, in the names of poliitical correctness and “islampobia ” ?
Will President O’burner stand up like a man, instead of “rhetorics ” & talk only, no action. ??
Will President O’burner stand up and declare, that Amercia is founded on the Christian belief of God & not on some half believe in some ‘moon’ god and pandering to the moon god believers ??
I would bet it all that somewhere in all of that Wiki-info is a whole lot of proof that Pharobama is in pretty much daily contact with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama, the Sorosian cabal, Trumka, Stern, Van Jones, all the rest of the Socialist traitor pantheon work hand-in-hand with the Brotherhood. Both groups want to conquer all of mankind and the ethnic cleansing of the white middle class is the glue that binds all of these fascisti together.
It’s simple, really.
Obama’s army of speechwriters is the biggest in the world. And his tele-prompters are bullet proof.
So, there!
It’s simple to anyone with an ounce of common sense Obama is part of the enemy. He’s not on our side !!
…but there are so many whores!
If it looks like a Muslim,….Talks like a Muslim,…Acts like a Muslim,…..Thinks like a Muslim,….It may not be a Muslim but it may be a US president that wants to have the US in a dangerous position so that marshall law can be enacted across the country. Think about it.
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Brian – You may have lost all of your military readers. Not because of any disagreement, but because AFAIK they’re still banned from any links to Wikileaks.
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James May – Huge props for your comment #5. Would you please re-print that on Michael Totten’s blog?
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this can’t be! these guys obviously didn’t talk to karen armstrong or mike scheuer. they may be muslim extremists but they don’t know anything about islam. just ask armstrong and scheuer. the karen armstrong/mike scheuer school of goofball realism said that shia and sunni hate each other, even more than they they hate the infidels. they could not cooperate. that’s what armstrong and scheuer say, and they know, don’t they?
That’s it. Mr. obama is a shiite like his father and is in the process of taking out all of the sunni leaders. Got bin laden didn’t he? Close connections. Duh. And Petreaus as CIA director, that whore should bring the Caliphate right in.
Remember gatesofvienna.com
Why is it that Muslims claim Moses was a prophet and the 10 Commandments given to Moses by OUR HEAVENLY FATHER on Mount Sinai clearly gives OUR HEAVENLY FATHER’s Commandment not to kill while they believe in killing those who will not convert, and killing for other various reasons under Shari’a Law? Do Not Kill; there are no ifs, ands, or buts. OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, who created all in Heaven and on Earth, made that Commandment expressly clear. Any prophets to come along later have supported all those Commandments given by OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. OUR HEAVENLY FATHER is greater than absolutely everyone and absolutely everything. Do Not Kill; there are no ifs, ands, or buts. We apparently are not to kill others; that is not our purpose. Supposedly Mohammed said something different. So either Mohammed agreed with those Commandments and didn‘t actually say what he supposedly said, or Mohammed wasn’t a prophet. And if Mohammed agreed that those Commandments came from OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, then Mohammed didn’t try to argue with them or change them to fit his own agenda. Maybe that ‘Book Burning’ in the 7th century A.D. (C.E.) wasn’t just to ‘standardize’ but to ‘cover-up’ the Truth. I’m not trying to argue religion here; or trying to argue doctrine. It just does not make any sense. If Christians and Jews killed people as Muslims kill people, then most of the world would kill each other off. Do Not Kill; there are no ifs, ands, or buts. May OUR HEAVENLY FATHER’s Will Be Done.
Is anyone paying attention? Our president is in bed with amedinajihadi.
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