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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21866/muslim-brotherhood-global-threat

According to the Department of Justice, in the early 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood, planned to establish a network of organizations in the US to spread a militant Islamist message and raise money for Hamas. The Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) became the chief fundraising arm for the Palestine Committee in the US, created by the MB to support Hamas. In 2008, HLF leaders were convicted of crimes, including providing material support for Hamas.

“Jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols.” — Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasssan al Banna, The Way of Jihad.

Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups and networks are also exceedingly active in Europe and are richly funded by EU institutions.

The question is not whether the US government should list the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The answer to that is clear: yes, it should. A more pressing question is why these pro-jihad, Islamic supremacist organizations affiliated with the MB have been allowed to operate on the US soil for all those years.

US Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, on July 16 introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025. This bill implements a new, modernized strategy for designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a terrorist group.

Cruz said:

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, and it provides support to Muslim Brotherhood branches that are terrorist organizations. One of those branches is Hamas, which on October 7 committed the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which included the murder and kidnapping of at least 53 Americans. They are committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests. American allies in the Middle East and Europe have already labeled the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and the United States should do the same, and do so expeditiously.”

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/qed/where-we-are-in-the-west/

On July 9, 2024, Axel Rudakubana stabbed to death three young girls, ages 6, 7 and 9, at a dance class in Southport in the northwest of England . I know the town well. I stayed there only a few years ago when visiting my sister and niece in Liverpool. My dad often took us there for an outing. It is a very pleasant seaside town less than 20 miles from Liverpool, where I was born and grew up.

This is a description of the crime from the Doughty Street Chambers in the UK:

On 13 July 2024, aged 17 years old, he [Rudakubana] purchased a large knife. On 29 July, he travelled to the Hart Space on Hart Street, Southport. He targeted a dance workshop for young girls, mostly aged 6 to 11 years old. There were 26 children at the workshop. Within 15 minutes, he killed three of those girls, and attempted to kill eight more. He attempted to kill two adults who tried to stop him.

The girls who were killed were aged 6, 7, and 9. Elise, who was 7 years old, suffered 85 sharp force injuries to her body. Bebe, who was 6 years old, suffered at least 122 sharp force injuries to her body. The children who survived suffered between one or two to 32 stab wounds. 

Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in prison in January this year. This sentencing note from the Liverpool Crown Court gives a more comprehensive account of the horrific events, if you can handle reading it. Because he was seventeen and not eighteen at the time he avoided a whole-of-life sentence. Where is capital punishment when nothing else remotely fits the bill? ‘Executed and in everlasting Hell’ would seem a fitting epitaph.

If you look up the killer you will find that he was born in Cardiff in 2006 to Rwandan parents who had been admitted to the UK in 2002. You will also find a good deal of emphasis given to them being evangelical Christians. At the same time, one of the charges against Rudakubana was possession of an Al-Qaeda training manual. Put that together with killing girls dancing and it has the fetid smell of Islamic terrorism, though the authorities found nothing corroborating that connection — apparently. How can that be trusted these days is a separate question. What is clear is that Rudakubana is no evangelical Christian.

The police, in their monumental incompetence and loyalty to the compromised political class, gave out no information on the killer. Thus rumours spread. A popular variant of which was that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker. A Muslim? I wonder why? Just a thought. Could it be anything to do with teen girls’ legs being blown off at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017, in Manchester? Or the killing and attempted beheading of British Army soldier Lee Rigby in 2013? Or the London bombings of 2005? Or any of the 48,000+ deadly Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11? (See religionofpeace.com)

Riots followed the rumours about Rudakubana which followed the killings. Starmer came down hard on the rioters. What else would you expect from Western politicians these days who represent no-one but themselves or perhaps, which comes to the same thing, some evil force or other. Over emotional? Maybe. But how else to explain them flooding their respective countries with culturally discordant refugees and asylum seekers, and then persecuting those among their own citizens who are driven to object.

Lucy Connolly, intelligent, personable, a mum and child-minder, wife of an engineer and Conservative councillor, objected. She had an immediate and impassioned reaction to the depraved murder of three young girls and the cruel wounding of others. Who wouldn’t? She posted this message on X:

 “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.”

Thinking better of it, she deleted the post 3½ hours later. Though to me it is nothing more than a common or garden emotional reaction that you could have heard in any pub. She plead guilty to inciting racial hatred. She did not obtain legal advice and lacked an understanding of what it might mean to plead guilty, as she explains here. Obviously she did not expect to be sent to prison. She was sentenced to 31 months imprisonment. Jailed in October last year, she was freed in late August this year, having served the required minimum ten months.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21829/the-woman-behind-the-veil

When I ask my mother why she decided to wear the niqab, she looks at me, puzzled. “Decide?” she repeats, as if I’d asked why she “decided” to speak Arabic.

She manages her own stock portfolio entirely in Arabic… she notes that “wars slow things down, yet when there are wars, gold goes up.”

When asked what she thinks of interest, she explains that interest has multiple meanings. When someone is desperate or helpless and needs a loan with interest, that is unacceptable — it exploits the needy. But interest on her own deposits? That is her money “working” to bring more money.

She does not trust foreign stocks. Even locally, she is selective about private ventures, such as new hotels. “It’s never clear what they’re doing exactly,” she says. “They could be financing prostitution.”

Watching so many politicians talk about my mother’s niqab, I do not see bad intentions. I see concern. People want to protect their culture. They worry that foreign customs might slowly replace their own. It is true of people in the West, as well, who might worry that people could be in their midst who wish to replace miniskirts with burqas.

This response is not prejudice. What people are picking up on — sometimes without knowing how to name it — is that people wish to protect what matters to them…. Like church bells in Salzburg or kimonos in Kyoto, they belong to a place, and they deserve to be protected.

In the end, my mother’s story is not really about the niqab. It is about how to stay rooted in a world that keeps shifting.

This means being yourself within the world as you find it, not demanding the world to change for you. That is the kind of wisdom we do not talk about enough.

When most of the world sees a woman in a niqab, a face veil that covers everything except the eyes, the assumptions are predictable — and harsh.

Recently, in Dubai, a tourist filmed a woman in a niqab eating at a restaurant. The tourist and her friend were treating the woman as if she were entertainment for them, rather than as a person trying to enjoy her dinner. Eventually, when the video clip went viral on social media, the Dubai Police issued a statement that they were investigating the matter.

Even in a Muslim-majority country, the woman could not simply be out in public without becoming a spectacle.

In 2017, Australian Senator Pauline Hanson wrote about the burqa, which covers the whole body and face:

“I have long believed that full face coverings, such as the burqa, were oppressive, presented barriers to assimilation, disadvantaged women from finding employment, were causing issues inside our justice system, presented a clear security threat and has no place in modern Western society.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpfwBY5gPI

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US policy should condition the lifting of sanctions and the resumption of diplomatic ties on ending hate education, halting inciting sermons, stopping hateful official media, and publicly disavowing the vision of establishing a global Islamic society governed solely by Islam.