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Slate whitewashes Muslim Brotherhood ties of Malaysian pol “fanatically” supported by pilot of missing plane

Mar 17, 2014 12:54 pm By Robert Spencer

anwaribrahimqaradawiHere is reality: “Anwar Ibrahim’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood run deep. Ibrahim helped establish the International Institute for Islamic Thought, or IIIT, a Muslim Brotherhood front group in the United States. IIIT has come under fire for their connections with terrorist organizations. In 2002, Anwar Ibrahim’s IIIT was included in a lawsuit by victims of 9/11 seeking damages from organizations linked to ‘rendering material support to radical Islamism.’ In 2003, US government prosecutors ‘submitted court documents detailing financial support (PDF) from the IIIT for convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad fundraiser Sami al-Arian.’ They also found that Taha Jaber al-Alwani, the president of IIIT had once stated via a fatwa that ‘jihad is the only way to liberate Palestine.’ A US Customs official said that the government is also looking into the possibility that IIIT was involved in ‘terrorism-related money laundering activities.’”

Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a “fanatical” supporter of Anwar Ibrahim. Pictured is Anwar Ibrahim with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In January 2009, during a Friday sermon broadcast on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed that Allah would kill all the Jews: “Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.” He also declared: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by [Adolf] Hitler.”…

Here is Slate’s fantasy version of the facts. Why are Americans generally so woefully ignorant of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat? Because of misleading stories like this one: “The Malaysia Airlines Pilot’s Politics: Zaharie Ahmad Shah supported Anwar Ibrahim. That’s common sense, not zealotry,” by William J. Dobson for Slate, March 17:

…A fanatical supporter of Anwar Ibrahim does sound scary—as long as you know nothing about him.

Anwar is the 66-year old opposition leader who is the principal thorn in the side of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) that has ruled Malaysia for 56 years. Anwar heads a coalition of parties, which includes his own multiethnic party, that has made the greatest inroads against the country’s corrupt masters. In 2008, the opposition won more than a third of the seats in parliament—the first time that UMNO lost its supermajority that allowed it to change the constitution at the prime minister’s whim. Anwar, who had been a political prisoner for six years, most of it in solitary confinement, won his seat in a landslide, and the opposition won five of the country’s 13 state governments. Last year, his opposition party claimed to have won the election against the ruling party, a contest that many say was marred by widespread fraud. Anwar supported the massive protests that followed the ruling party’s supposed victory, but he never called for a toppling of the government.

Anwar is trying to defeat Malaysia’s authoritarian regime through elections—not terrorism, let alone revolution. So, to be clear, what we know is that the pilot of MH370 is a fanatical supporter of a nonviolent man who supports a pluralistic and democratic Malaysia….

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  1. jewdog says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    Sure, another fighter for democracy. Please.

  2. tpellow says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    Just as sections of the political ‘left’ think it’s “common-sense” to support the Muslim Brotherhood in Malaysia, so too, sections of the political ‘left,’ including much of West’s MSM, campaign for pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera journalists, on trial in Egypt.

  3. Medina says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    The Daily Beast has also piled on the very idea that the pilots’ religious leanings could be suspect. The same leftist rag that blamed a video for the Benghazi massacre.

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    Elision is perhaps the key operating technique of supporting a fake reality. If it doesn’t fit your narrative, simply ignore it. Doing this is effective so long as everybody else in the news entertainment biz does it, and even better if backed by the Professoriat and the gubmint bureaucrats, which elision of facts about Moslems always is.

    Just as important, reportorial elision is much less risky than openly lying about something.

  5. bobm says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    the media dance around the whole issue of suspects and jihad is totally unbelievable.. .They just refuse to SEE the elephant in the room… sound familiar?

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Typically SUPERCORRUPT Islamic governance based on TAQIYYA and bribery.in
    “Transparence” is not an Islamic virtue according to Mohammed.

  7. Truthseeker says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    Greetings,

    My hunch is that pilot ZA Shah was pretty emotional about the conviction of his party’s leader and on the spur of the moment conceived the possibility of trying to create a way to ransom the plane and passengers for the leader? Why else we he have risked his whole life at that moment?

    He would not have gone to areas just West of China as that would have been too accessible to the gentle Chinese commandos. He would have aimed for MB strongholds in Bangladesh???, Preshara area of Pakistan??? or Saudi Arabia???, unless there was an enclave of supporters in the Andaman Islands?

    The fact that not a peep has come from the plane, either from the pilot or panicking passengers firing off their cell phones is foreboding and a good indication the plan failed? (But martyrdom was likely achieved?)

    Respectfully yours, TS

    • Mazo says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 10:53 am

      Bangladesh and Pakistan are not run by the MB and Saudi Arabia is anti-Muslim Brotherhood.

  8. RCCA says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    I happen to agree with the conclusion by Slate this time. Not denying the Brotherhood connections you have documented, but when you compare the politics of Ibrahim with the politics of the UMNO he is actually more moderate and progressive. In fact they criticized him for not being sufficiently anti-Israel.
    The inference that the pilot would engage in an act of terrorism to defy the UMNO is not believable.

    • wtd says

      Mar 17, 2014 at 8:05 pm

      MH370’s Captain Zaharie is reportedly a supporter of Anwar Ibrahim’s PKR party which had a platform for a non-racial economic policy to replace the existing race-based “New Economic Policy”.

      Anwar advocated a free-market approach to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis including foreign investment and trade liberalization. wiki.

      Bear with me . .. two financial considerations:

      Mar. 5, 2014: Iranian traders boycott Malaysian goods over Umno’s anti-Shia campaign

      Malaysian Muslims are mainly Sunnis and have been strongly discouraged from following Shia Islam.

      Local ulama have also delivered talks in mosques and surau, attacking the Shias as the enemies of Islam, while referring to the current civil war in Syria which saw Iran at loggerheads with its Gulf neighbours.

      KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24, 2014 — Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) RM1.17 billion loss in 2013despite a 9 per cent rise in revenue shows that the ailing flag carrier is saddled with “legacy issues” — despite a touted turnaround — that may require a drastic bankruptcy to jettison, Singapore’s Business Times said today.

      The Captain of Flight MH370 was with MAS for over 30 years. His pension and investments were on the line with this news from both the financial as well as political events. When considering the reports of his wife and three children leaving the family home the day prior to MH370 disappearance link . . .draw your own conclusions.

      • RCCA says

        Mar 17, 2014 at 9:08 pm

        So the wife and children left the house, perhaps to go on a vacation or visit the wife’s relatives. The media reports them leaving the house and people assume that means the marriage breaking up? No follow up on that and no follow up on what the police discovered after examining the homes and computers of the pilots. And the Malaysian government refuses to involve the FBI or share information so the investigation will dry up. Sounds like a cover up to me.
        How long before we hear the Zionists did it?

        • RCCA says

          Mar 17, 2014 at 9:13 pm

          PS, the airlines is owned by the state so there is very little likelihood of it declaring bankruptcy. Furthermore, since its financial problems are largely due to kickbacks and corrupt business contracts bankruptcy would not fix anything. They have to change their business practices.

    • umbra says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 5:26 am

      anwar only appears moderate and progressive. The reality is that he is more islamic than najib (the current PM). anwar was a former islamic youth member with association to PAS (pan islamic party of malaysia) who was recruited by the former PM mahathir. While in the mainstream UNMO party, anwar played the role of a moderate, but he never changed inside. As education minister, he restructured the malaysian education system to be more malay (malay=muslim=islamic). This eventually led to instances where Christian schools were specifically prohibited from run bible classes, but explicitly required to provide koranic classes. The media and journalists should do more homework and check anwar’s past more thoroughly before giving him a glowing commendation of his moderate credentials.

      as for the missing MAS plane, the malaysian authority would be the least capable and least competent (in that region) to run a S&R operation and subsequent investigations. How is it possible to lose radar (both civilian and military) tracking of 777 jet flying through its airspace? If the 777 jet was tracked, why weren’t military jets sent in to intercept a suspicious (radar signature, but not transponder nor communications) and unidentified jet flying through its airspace? …. a case of all the sophisticated hardware staffed by all the necessary incompetence to cancelled them out.

  9. Mazo says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 11:06 am

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/democracy-is-dead-pilot-of-missing-malaysian-airliner-was-fanatical-supporter-of-muslim-brotherhood-linked-politician/comment-page-1

    Show some respect to the pilot before using their deaths as propaganda

    http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/257232

    http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/tributes-pour-in-for-captain-1.505044

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1444738/web-tribute-page-lauds-mh370-captain-zaharie-ahmad-shah

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-who-was-captain-zaharie-ahmad-shah-1440228

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/16/malaysia-flight-missing-pilots/6484249/

  10. POL says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    Gee, I wonder why people would be so quick to call BS on you Philip Jihadski and Jihad Watch for slandering the pilots name with unsubstantiated claims.

    Thats right. The pilot was a “fanatical muslim”, thats why his youtube favorite list is filled with atheist videos, and why he subscribed to Richard Dawkin’s channel. Thats why all the political gatherings he attended for a secular leader, he can be seen acting mild mannered, and the gatherings themselves were pretty calm and uninteresting. Thats why it all makes sense that a mild mannered pilot with decades of experiences will just randomly decide to pull off a complex operation, hide the plane and take it somewhere to leave the rest of the world mystified, because he was mad that the Malaysian authorities used trumped to jail a man months ago. Thats why George Zimmerman killed Trayvon, because he was just an evil racist because he was just a white hispanic….yeah no. That line of reasoning is so stupid, that it borders on disgusting.

    Slate is right on this one, even a broken clock can be right, but its clear that both Slate and Jihad Watch enjoy perpetuating half truths that people like you eat up with even thinking about it.

    Maybe you should wait until more evidence shows up. After all, Jihad Watch seems to have stopped reporting that those Iranians are behind it all, I guess even pushing the idea that a 19-20 years old with no flight experiences would have pulled all of this off seems a little farfetched.

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 19, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    POL wrote:

    After all, Jihad Watch seems to have stopped reporting that those Iranians are behind it all…
    ………………………….

    What absolute crap. Jihad Watch has always made it quite clear that there is not conclusive evidence yet for what happened to Flight 307.

    But the fact that there were passengers traveling on stolen passports *is* news, and is grounds for investigation—the mainstream media has acknowledged this as much as Jihad Watch.

    The pilots having links to “Islamists” is certainly news as well.

    What has Philip Jihadski said that is “slanderous”? He simply asked Mazo how he knew conclusively that the pilots were dead, which is an entirely reasonable question.

    In fact, Jihad Watch has been very measured in its coverage of this flight’s disappearance—unlike yourself, who has been tossing around false imprecations at this site.

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