Mustafa Mashhur was in charge only 15 years ago, so this work cannot be written off so easily as an alleged relic of the Ikhwan's "past." Nonetheless, the Brotherhood, which railed against corruption in Mubarak's regime, is already putting its own inclination to lie and defraud on full display. If this work attracts sufficient attention now, will they throw it under the bus?
The title of Mashhur's book, by the way, comes from the Muslim Brotherhood's motto: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." PMW provides the full translation in .pdf format and at the link immediately below. Their summary and significant quotations are reproduced here.
The translation of this work is a tremendous service by PMW. "Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Ideology: PMW translation of "Jihad Is the Way'," by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, December 4:
Central messages:
1- Muslims are "masters of the world"
2- Islamic nation's "rightful position... the teachers of humanity"
3- "There is no other option but Jihad for Allah
4- Fighting Israel is "Jihad against the criminal, thieving gangs of Zion"
5- Has the [Muslim] Brotherhood grown weary of the challenges, thrown down their guns and abandoned Jihad?!! No!"
The Muslim Brotherhood took first place in Egypt's first round of elections last week with 40% of the vote and the Salafist Islamists received 20%. In order to understand the implications, Palestinian Media Watch is redistributing our translation of the book Jihad Is the Way, written by Mustafa Mashhur, who was the official leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 1996-2002. The book is the fifth volume of his work called The Laws of Da'wa (Islamic missionary activity).
In the book Jihad Is the Way the fundamental concepts of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology are explained, including, the Muslim Brotherhood's goal of establishing an Islamic state, world domination under Islam, the public and personal religious duty of military Jihad, and the necessity of timing the ultimate Jihad properly. The book warns Muslims not to rush to Jihad until Jihad is prepared and timed fully for maximum benefit. The current period is seen by the Muslim Brotherhood as one of obligatory preparation for that coming Jihad.
PMW has selected the following quotes from Jihad is the way to illustrate central ideas of Muslim Brotherhood ideology. PMW's translation of the book follows below.
Muslim Brotherhood goal: Islamic world domination
- "...the Islamic Ummah [nation]... can regain its power and be liberated and assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men, as the teachers of humanity..."
- "...know your status, and believe firmly that you are the masters of the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation..."
- "It should be known that Jihad and preparation towards Jihad are not only for the purpose of fending-off assaults and attacks of Allah's enemies from Muslims, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state and strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world..."
- "...Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries, since the Muslim homeland is one and is not divided, and the banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and it shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, the State of Islam will be established..."
Means: Jihad - a mandatory religious duty
-"Then comes the power of arms and weapons,... and this is the role of Jihad."
- "Jihad is a religious public duty... incumbent upon the Islamic nation, and is a personal duty to fend off the infidels' attack on the nation..."
- "And the youth should know that the problems of the Islamic world, such as Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, or the Philippines, are not issues of territories and nations, but of faith and religion. They are problems of Islam and the Muslims, and they can be resolved neither by negotiation nor by recognizing the enemy's right to the Islamic land he stole. Rather, the only option is Jihad for Allah, and this is why Jihad is the way."
- "The symbol of the [Muslim] Brotherhood is the book of Allah [the Quran] between two swords. The swords symbolize Jihad and the force that protects the truth represented in Allah's book."
- "...that is, go out to battle, oh believers, young and old, by foot or with animal, under all circumstances and conditions..."
Timing: Don't rush, prepare carefully for Jihad
- "... despite this, the [Muslim] Brotherhood is not rushed by youth's enthusiasm into immature and unplanned action which will not alter the bad reality and may even harm the Islamic activity, and will benefit the people of falsehood..."
- "... one should know that it is not necessary that the Muslims will repel every attack or damage caused by the enemies of Allah immediately, but [only] when ability and the circumstances are fit to it."
- "Prepare yourself and train in the art of warfare, and embrace the causes of power. You must learn the ways and manners and laws of war. You must learn them and embrace them and adhere to them, so that your Jihad will be the one accepted by Allah."
- "... there exists an unavoidable personal duty for every Muslim to equip himself and prepare and gear-up towards Jihad..."
Personal goal: Aspire to Shahada - Death for Allah
- "Allah is our goal, the Prophet is our leader, the Quran is our constitution, the Jihad is our way, and the death for Allah is our most exalted wish."
- "The Jihad is our way and death for Allah is our most exalted wish, this is the call which we have always called, ... Many of our beloved ones have already achieved this wish, ... We ask Allah to accept all of them,... and may He join us with them ..."
Jihad against Israel:
- "Honorable brothers have achieved Shahada (Martyrdom) on the soil of beloved Palestine, during the years 47' and 48', [while] in their Jihad against the criminal, thieving, gangs of Zion. The Imam and Shahid (Martyr) Hassan Al-Banna is considered as a Shahid (Martyr) of Palestine, even if he was not killed on its soil."...
Mustafa Mashhur was in charge only 15 years ago, so this work cannot be written off so easily as an alleged relic...
Mustafa don't need to worry. He can lay back on his Jannat-like throne, knowing full well ain't nobody gonna axe that his writings be reconciled to our current policy. Nobody anywhere near the visible center of the news entertainment bandwidth pipe, at least.
The Muslim Brotherhood took first place in Egypt's first round of elections last week with 40% of the vote and the Salafist Islamists received 20%.
When the Mo-Bro-Hood is cast into the role of the moderates, you know trouble is cooking. Big trouble. Bad seed = bad produce. This agrarian ain't optimistic.
The Muslim Ummah is, by definition, the enemy of everyone else.
The Muslims' loyalty to the Ummah trumps and overrides all other loyalties and obligations, including any loyalty to their country of residence and obligation to obey its kafir 'man-made' laws. Islam is not really a religion, it's more an international criminal conspiracy. Islam has more in common with the Mafia than with Methodism.
The Ummah as one enormous Fifth Column within the West.
Muslim leaders make no secret of their plans to use the Ummah's mob-loyalty and swarm-solidarity as a means of conquest of the West from within, as shown by the following extract from a speech by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the sinister Organization of the Islamic Conference:
'The Muslim Ummah, means the “community of the faithful”. It is a unique bond that has no similar example under any other political or religious system in the world. It is a belonging to ideals which bring Muslims together in an eternal brotherhood lock which transcends all other consideration of allegiance or loyalties or barriers of nationhood, ethnicity, geography or language.'
You’ll never see it stated more plainly than that: Islam transcends any loyalties of nationhood. Muslims carry no obligation save to the Ummah; anything else is a temporary strategy, to be discarded as soon as it is expedient to do so... http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/brothers-and-sisters-in-islam-muslim.html
A few years back, a Muslim scholar wrote a book titled "The Cleansing of Bukhari and Muslim from Useless Hadiths" in which he argues that 653 hadiths as written in these two books are incorrect and should not be accepted. His name is Jamal al Banna, the brother of Hasan al Banna(the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood).
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/fall-of-islam-la-chute-de-lislam.html
Here, there, and everywhere, the Ikhwan are bad news. In Cairo, Egypt, in the White House and State Department, and across the globe. The Brotherhood go to perdition!
Ho! Ho! Ho! - Festival of Lights - Festival of Frights
It's XMAS time now, the question is, who's gonna get exed out? Axed that?
The answer is apparent, it'll be the Jews who get exed, hey we all know that.
But who cares about the Jews? Jews don't, hell, don't they produce the news?
Eid ul-Adha to Hannukah to XMAS, all asunder, somebody's lighting a fuse.
- the Holy Prophet APF
But where's Christmas? Not the retailing program, the real thing, the one where we receive the ideas of truth. Maybe that's what's missing. Also MIA are the Jews. Sure, there's the occasional Eliot Abrams here and there, but most work in the other direction. So maybe Hannukah is daid too, unless those men I see in yarmulkes lighting candles are dosed on acid.
"masters of the world" - such modesty. Why not masters of the galaxy or masters of the universe? Not mentioned in the queer'un I expect.
I'm not one to use bad language however, at the risk of offending some, I'll forego my normal mode of language and respond to Mustafa Mashhur's writing by saying "horse shit"
Really when I read about this supremacist ideology I wonder if the Third World War is going to be caused by Islam! It is a slow invasion and why the politicians are so oblivious?
The UK has since 2001 had its "Stop the War Coalition".
The Muslim Brotherhood is a "Start the War Coalition".
Isabella, I s'pose 'cause when you're invaded by a uniformed army, or a bullet or knife, you know you're being invaded, and when a bacterium, virus, or prion, invades, they are beneath the visability of the scope, and you don't know you've been invaded by the latter, until too late, when "ye know them by their works" of the invasion, the results, the sickness that ensues, and your weakened state.
Thus the danger of musloids in high and sensitive places, already working against us, like taking down the formerly proper education to our security forces, of what our enemy, the criminal organized gang of islam is fully about, the dangerous existence of Hillary's little musliod girl friday, lieing hussein himself and his apologies and iftar food fests, and countless others following the well laid out jihad invasion plans! Hell, the act of teaching Marines to pee and eliminate away from the direction of mecca, the criminal enemy, should be called treason.
And yes, one way or the other, without intelligent determined and patriotic POTUS to root the enemy out and correct and vaccinate against further invasion, whom we have not got with this regime of traitors, the invasion will go too far, and lead to a horrible consequence, likely number 3. It likely will be the old pendulum adage, of allowing the pendulum to swing too far one way, and a war on the rebound. History has usually operated that way, including with the lieing criminal gang of islam's invasions, leading to the Crusades, Tours, and Vienna, and so many numerous other battles.
These criminal islams have been deceiving people and destroying people far too long, getting away with murder and all mass and individual criminal acts imaginable, including unlimited hate, and it is overdue eliminating them from existence globally, and teaching the public the real truth about the sick criminal islam.
My favorite part is how they're going to recover the land in the Philippines that was "stolen" from the Muslims.
Uhhhh....yeah. More thorazine, please.
Honestly, this is a translation of Islam for Dummy Media-and-Interfaith-Unicorn-Lovers.
Is there anything here we didn't already know or intuit?
If you had told us Kennedy was slain by a grudge-holding communist loser we couldn't be less surprised.
"...I'll forego my normal mode of language and respond to Mustafa Mashhur's writing by saying "horse shit""
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Hilarious.
They aren't exactly "masters of the world" yet but they are well on their way and if we don't step up our efforts it's only a matter of time.
Masters of the world? Try more like masterbaters of the world.
So sick of Islam.
A "Muslim" means the one who peacefully surrenders
oneself to God as mentioned in Quran 2:112, 3:20,
4:125, 31:22 & 40:66. ("Salam" means peace in Arabic).
Quran 2:112
"Indeed whoever surrenders (aslama) his face to
God while doing good he'll have his reward with
his Lord, and no fear upon them nor do they grieve"
Quran 3:20
"And if they argue with you say I surrendered (aslamt)
my face to God..
Quran 4:125
"And who has a better religion than he who surrendered
(aslama) his face to God while doing good..
Quran 31:22
"And whoever surrenders (Yoslim) his face to God
while doing good, he has held the trustworthy grasp.."
Quran 40:66
"Say: I was forbbiden to worship those whom you call
from beneath God when clear signs have come to me;
and I was ordered to surrender (Oslima) to the Lord of
worlds."
So Amro, does a Muslim peacefully surrender to Allah while he is violently raping a little kid?
Does he peacefully surrender to Allah while he is burning down Christian churches?
Does he peacefully surrender to Allah while he is cutting off somebody else's hand for stealing a loaf of bread?
Does he peacefully surrender to Allah while he is divorcing his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times and taking the kids and leaving her with nothing?
Does he peacefully surrender to Allah while he is spilling other people's blood to further the spread of Islam?
When he beats his wife, as Sura 4:34 directs him to do if he fears disobedience from her, does he peacefully surrender to Allah?
Just wondering.
In medieval Europe and the American colonies it was lawful to mary young girls as old as seven and even younger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent#History_and_social_attitudes
and in Judiasm as young as three
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage#In_Judaism
Burning Chrurches is unislamic
Cutting the hand for theft is metaphorical, i.e., loosing his/her freedom.
Divorce and custody is cultural
The Quran is in Arabic for Mecca and whoever is around it
6:92 & 42:7
The "rule of thumb" was for wife beating in America in the 1800s
That being said, I personally vote libral, but equilibrium is necessary here.
Amro, we're not in medieval Europe or Colonial America but even if we were, no Christian country has ever advocated the sexual abuse of young children that is intrinsic to Islam, conveniently labeled "marriage" to give it a wholesome cover. Men who lusted after children were treated as the pedophiles they were, not worshiped as wonderful innovators. But then, the innovation that any man can have sex with pretty much any female and that the female can't do anything about it is the big draw in Islam, isn't it? It's very convenient indeed that Muslim men can rape or forcibly marry any girl they set their eyes on and if she balks or tries to protect herself the other Muslim men in the Ummah will support him in getting rid of her. Nice aberration if you can get it.
I don't know much about the marital habits of an Ashkenazi Jewish three year old in Medieval times but I do know that according to Islam's "holy men", like the Ayatollah Khomeini, Muslim men may have sex with children as young as infants in the form of anal intercourse, oral intercourse and thighing, which is a particularly repulsive practice and honestly, makes Muslim men look really pathetic. As to the marital habits of Colonial Americans the research I've seen shows girls marrying in their mid teens and being considered an old maid if not married by their mid twenties. The idea that Middle aged
Colonial men married little tiny girls is wishful thinking. 'Sorry, that's a Muslim practice and has been since your pedophilic prophet used Aisha to masterbate with when she was the equivalent of a first grader. You guys own that one.
Ruh-roh. Somebody better tell Muslims that it is un-Islamic to burn down Christian churches. But since Sharia directives on dhimmitude require Christians living in Muslim majority countries to not repair or rebuild their churches, or face the consequences, you're lying.
http://www.persecution.org/ethiopiacrisis/2011/03/14/inside-ethiopias-crisis/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/muslim-mobs-burn-egyptian-churches-12-killed/
http://www.persecution.org/2011/05/02/muslim-mobs-burn-down-288-churches-kill-hundreds-in-nigeria/
http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/flames.htm
Muslims also set shops on fire. You'd better tell these guys how un-Islamic that is.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/iraq-attacks-and-threats-continue-against-christians-world-looks-the-other-way.html
I guess you're also lying about the metaphorical aspect of chopping one's hand off under the Sharia.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/10/iran-man-convicted-of-theft-loses-hand.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pickpockets-hand-amputated-for-mecca-mosque-theft/2007/11/06/1194117985052.html
http://english.islamweb.net/emainpage/index.php?page=articles&id=134425
Divorce and custody is cultural? You really want to go with that one? Islam allows men to run women's lives. Islam demands men rule women with an iron fist. Islam is spiteful and encourages vengeance, not forgiveness and turning the other cheek. What better way to emotionally destroy your ex-wife and get your way, all in one fell swoop, than marrying somebody younger and taking the kids away from wife #1? Allah is merciful, all knowing. Bullshit.
Nice try on the rule of thumb "law".
Wife beating has never been legal in the U.S. The Massachusetts Bay Colony prohibited it in 1655, religious groups campaigned against it, and vigilantes occasionally horsewhipped men accused of it. Most states had explicitly outlawed it by 1870. Islam has never outlawed it.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2550/does-rule-of-thumb-refer-to-an-old-law-permitting-wife-beating
Just the fact that you believe that your post above provides "equilibrium" shows that there is no way that you vote "libral".
"Cutting the hand for theft is metaphorical, i.e., loosing his/her freedom."
you are mistaken....Cutting the hand for theft is Sharia law...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOdlzNcQ48
"Divorce and custody is cultural"
You are mistaken, the Qur'an says a lot about marriage and divorce and custody...
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_top_ten.htm
"Burning Chrurches is unislamic"
You are mistaken...Shar'ia law says a lot about persecuting Infidels...and that includes Christians and Jews...Muslims often quote from Qur'anic passages and quote Shar'ia law when they attack Christians and burn their churches....
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4knxp_islamic-hate-speech-compilation_news?ralg=thefilter#from=playrelon
Amro:
"Cutting the hand for theft is metaphorical, i.e., loosing his/her freedom."
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Amro. It's not "loosing", it's "losing", as in...
You're a loser. Oh, and chopped-off hands are not so metaphorical anymore, once they're chopped off.
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Have a nice night with your 7-year-old rape victim.
Isabellathecrusader, excellent replies to Amro.
Amro wrote:
"Cutting the hand for theft is metaphorical, i.e., loosing (sic) his/her freedom."
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Here's how "metaphorical" amputation is in Islam (WARNING: graphic images)
From Taliban-era Afghanistan, displaying cut-off hands and feet:
http://www.hraicjk.org/handcut0.jpg
http://laws.justsickshit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/chopped-hands.jpg
A man convicted of theft with his right hand and left foot cut off:
http://www.rawa.org/handcut4.jpg
From Nigeria, more hand-chopping:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QfVWU-2pVL4/S8OKzd6GDJI/AAAAAAAANcM/k_XWUiI_oIo/s640/court+convicted+Mohamed+Omar+Ismael+of+the+offence+he+committed+and+ordered+his+right+hand++amputated+gacan-goys-kismayo.jpg
Note: in this case, the butchers hold up a Qur'an beside the severed hand, just so no one misses the fact that this barbaric horror is prescribed in Islam's "holy book".
More crap:
Burning Chrurches (sic) is unislamic
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Muslims have burned or otherwise destroyed churches recently in Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Indonesia.
Just as with amputations, perhaps you should take up these terrible "misunderstandings" with your vicious coreligionists...
As for your To Quoque arguments above, what is your point?
Even if it were true that laws in Medieval Europe were less than fully civilized, *those laws were changed*—in many cases, centuries ago. No one in the West is legally beating his wife or marrying school-age girls.
This, however, is widespread in Islam, on the express model of the vile "Prophet" Muhammed. In parts of Dar-al-Islam where it is not lawful, pious Muslim are clamoring to legalize it.
There have been recent cases of child marriage in Iran, in Yemen, in Indonesia, and in Saudi Arabia.
Here is one such disturbing image:
http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/child-bride-afghanistan1.jpg
Over all, it seems that "peacefully surrender[ing]
oneself to God" in the Islamic sense is a pretty violent process...