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Saudi Arabia says it will ban all Muslim Brotherhood books and purge its influence from schools and universities

Mar 23, 2018 12:03 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Three years ago, Saudi Arabia declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization “on par with Hezbollah and al Qaeda,” and the United Arab Emirates has done the same.

Now:

Saudi Arabia will purge its school curriculum of any influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as dismiss employees who chose to sympathise with the banned group

“The move comes after the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview with CBS television that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood…. had infiltrated Saudi schools.”

Likewise, the West is also infiltrated by damaging Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-linked lobbying groups, MB-linked individuals in government, and MB groups operating on university campuses.

Saudi Arabia will now “ban books attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood from all schools and universities and remove all those who sympathise with the group.” It is peculiar that Saudi Arabia is taking these measures while Westerners remain sitting ducks in the face of Islamic supremacist MB activities.

The mission of the Muslim Brotherhood for North America (and more broadly the world) “is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”

Back in 1995, Mustafa Mashhur, head of the MB in Egypt from 1996-2002, published a document, Jihad Is the Way, “which detailed MB’s determination to advance Islam’s global conquest, to reestablish an Islamic Caliphate, and to infuse all Muslims with a sense of duty to wage jihad against Israel. Masshur said that MB differed from al Qaeda only in its tactics, not in its goals.”

Saudi Arabia has been promoting an image of “reform” that is highly suspect, given its longtime exporting of the Wahhabi ideology globally. Nonetheless, the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood are well documented, and it is high time that Western countries also designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates as terrorist entities. The MB’s insidious work has been the foundation of the Islamization of Western countries, and the obsessive fear that Westerners have of being deemed “Islamophobic,” a term heavily pushed by the MB in its mandate to intimidate and subjugate unbelievers, and place Islam above all other faiths.

“Saudi Arabia to purge Muslim Brotherhood influence in schools”, Alaraby, March 22, 2018:

Saudi Arabia will purge its school curriculum of any influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as dismiss employees who chose to sympathise with the banned group, announced the education minister.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Issa said the government will “fight extremist ideologies by reviewing school curricula and books to ensure they are free of the banned Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda”.

It also seeks to “ban books attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood from all schools and universities and remove all those who sympathise with the group”, he added.

The move comes after the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview with CBS television that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Kingdom has designated as a “terror group”, had infiltrated Saudi schools.

The prince has vowed to return the country to “moderate Islam”, introducing a number of social reforms in a country dominated by hardline rhetoric.

Many members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood sought refuge in Saudi Arabia after persecution following regime crackdowns, beginning with Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s.

Some were later employed in education and public sectors.

Last september, Human Rights Watch said that the kingdom’s religious studies curriculum stokes intolerance with “hateful and incendiary language” towards religious minorities.

HRW said a comprehensive review of school books produced by the education ministry found violent and intolerant teachings, despite official promises to eliminate them.

This has been shaped by the country’s state-sanctioned, hardline Wahabbi interpretation of Islam.

The US considers Saudi Arabia a country of “particular concern” when it comes to religious persecution, but successive administrations have waived the potential sanctions that come with such a designation.

HRW has urged the US, a key Saudi ally, to end the waiver.

Saudi Arabia designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation in 2014. Hardline groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State group are also blacklisted.

Internal threat

The ruling Al Saud family has always regarded Islamist groups as a major internal threat to its rule over a country in which appeals to religious sentiment resonate deeply and an al-Qaeda campaign a decade ago killed hundreds.

Since the kingdom’s founding, the al-Sauds have enjoyed a close alliance with clerics of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam who have espoused a political philosophy that demands obedience to the ruler.

By contrast the Brotherhood advances an active political doctrine urging revolutionary action, and now, democracy, which flies in the face of Wahhabi teaching…..

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  1. Schrödinger says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    That’s great news. Then it’ll have to ban the Koran!

    Oops. It’s Saudi Arabia’s Constitution.

  2. Wellington says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    I don’t know. You get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood but keep Wahhabism. Hmmm.

    Here’s a thought: Get rid of Islam entirely. Yeah, yeah, I know, this is unrealistic with the family posing as a country but I would contend it’s a beautiful thought nonetheless (perhaps up there with other of Plato’s Ideals).

    • mortimer says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 1:16 pm

      Wellington has identified the MORAL DILEMMA of Islam: 1) if jihad is the most important part of Islam and would lead to world annihilation, then Islam is false 2) if Muslims cannot fully practice the ETERNAL, COMPLETE and PERFECT DECREES and COMMANDMENTS of Allah without destroying everything including Muslim countries, and thereby creating an unstable world where Muslims are unwelcome in most countries, and jihad cannot be practiced even in Muslim countries, then Islam is false.

  3. Jim E says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    Ah, the Taqqiya is strong with that one…

  4. elee says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    Quick poll: who believes this? Who believes anything a Muslim says in English?

    • Granddaddy says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      I believe the proverb is, How do you tell when a Muslim is lying?

      A:When their lips are moving.

  5. boakai ngombu says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    and how often has the BILL to declare MB to be a terrorist organization been tabled by our Congressional Leaders?

  6. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 1:35 pm

    “The ruling Al Saud family has always regarded Islamist groups as a major internal threat to its rule over a country….

    “Since the kingdom’s founding, the al-Sauds have enjoyed a close alliance with clerics of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam”

    They sure do use the word ‘islamist’ in a funny way don’t they….

  7. MFritz says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    In SA the ruling elite uses islam to control the population. So this is ONLY about competition. And pandering – a bit – to the West to show “how good” they are.

    But to this very day they have financed MOST islamic terrorism in the world. And will not stop to do so.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 2:26 pm

      True, MFritz.

  8. mgoldberg says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    What this indicates is that the reason for the Muslim Brotherhood, which was the Islamic compulsion to rid all other thoughts and beliefs from their culture is now finished. Islam is intact in most of the western and eastern nations and now, Saudi Arabia can hide it’s intension by claiming to be at odds with Jihadist MB.
    But that is just the latest idea of the hijrah. Now Saudi Arabia will continue to sell it’s Islam as wholesome,harmless and indeed worthy of being taken in by all other nations. Now that it’s been established and the Sharia enforcement which condemns all non muslim nations from it’s citizens criticizing Islam, is indeed predominant, it can hide it’s goals and merely work at taking influence in non muslim nations and that as they say…. is that, from where they sit. They hope to overwhlem by numbers
    all the other nations.
    Of course, Jihadists will always want to fulfill the real intension of Mohammed, and obtain their juicy
    virgins in heaven by killing unbelievers, so the battle will go on and on and on…. until we the non muslims see the Sharia and Jihad for what it is and wants.

  9. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 3:46 pm

    what has muslim brotherhood done to these idiot saudi monarchs to ban Its works ? muslim brotherhood never calls for shedding the bloods of anyone .They are dominant intellectuals in academic institutions, scientists, doctors, engineers and in other fields even in saudi Arabia,believing in political Islam. why not ban obnoxious backwarded wahhabism breeding terrorist groups ?
    may be evil saudi monarchs are not comfortable with muslim brotherhood for fear that the group is making Muslims to understand that monarchy system is not preferred Islamic system of government for people of Hijaz to overthrow them, get them running, track them down, retrieve Hijaz’s monies They have stolen and kept in the evil united states and bring them to justice.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 4:14 pm

      “muslim brotherhood never calls for shedding the bloods of anyone”

      Do unbelievers, harbis and Jews count as ‘anyone’ i wonder?

      Other than that, i’m ok if islam sorts itself out through infighting. Once the most evil form of islam (the true islam, that is) has taken charge, which is inevitable, then all freedom lovers in the world will have an easier time identifying and destroying the enemy, which by that time will have so obviously shown itself for what it is that even your and our most polished turd polishers will not be able to keep the shit from showing.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 4:16 pm

      Oh, and Ibrahim,

      Did you like what your brother in Paris said to that Jew?

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/ill-show-you-what-muslims-do-to-people-like-you-paris-muslim-cabbie-threatens-to-slit-throat-of-jewish-passenger

      Don’t you wish he’d been a better mohammad and carried out his threat?

      • Karen says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 1:05 pm

        Hmmm….wherever did he get that idea, I wonder, rhetorically. Was he perhaps taking the Koranic command to “strike at their necks” a bit too literally? He must have read a French translation, LOL.

    • mgoldberg says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 7:09 pm

      Oh ITM, The MB always calls for the submission of all others, and it’s entire program is devoted to that Jihad, it their own words… the words of Mohammed and his Qu’ran.
      And lying about it, is part of the Qu’ranic instructions.
      Just the usual Jihad.

    • Chand says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 5:00 am

      Don’t think there’s much of a doctrinal difference between Wahaabbism and Muslim Brotherhood-ism. Both fundamentalist Sunni Salafism.
      This book banning is all part of the political struggle for influence in the region between the Saudis and the Qataris.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 2:34 pm

      The Muslim Brotherhood has always called for takeover, as Ibrahim itace muhammed well knows.

      But in Saudi Arabia they are just rivals.

      As for absolute monarchy vs the “Islamic system of government”, they are basically one and the same–Ibrahim itace muhammed just wants to see his own gang in power in Arabia, rather than the Saudis. Otherwise, there is no difference.

  10. Bacherbazistan says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    Time for Trump to shut down CAIR.

    • Karen says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 12:57 pm

      Yes, yes, yes.

    • Ralph says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 1:00 pm

      It needed to have been shut down years ago.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 2:43 pm

      Absolutely.

  11. Darryl Kerney says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    it’s just subterfuge,
    they condemn certain factions but will not admit their faction is essentially the same,
    they try to look good by denouncing the most virulent strains that are in reality based on the same virus as their strain.

    • Karen says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 12:57 pm

      Exactly. And their strain could even be worse.

  12. kouldb says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 1:27 am

    Meanwhile Antifa & the venal, feminists continue their solidarity marches with it & those like it. To them, all religions are equal. Bar Christianity. Which must be purged at all costs.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 2:08 am

    Saudi Arabia says it will ban all Muslim Brotherhood books and purge its influence from schools and universities
    ………………….

    Hmmmm….just because the Muslim Brotherhood are rivals of the Saudis, or because they actually have a problem with Jihad and Shari’ah? I’m going to go with box #1…

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 2:13 am

      Could be ey.

    • Karen says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 12:56 pm

      LOL, you are no doubt right.

  14. Manos says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 4:26 am

    Ban Islam complete.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 5:53 am

      manos, you Will first witness the demise of pagan mithraist christianity throughout the West and replaced with Islam. Bad smells Will go away because women Will use water to clean private parts and m’en to remove those hard large foreskins . congratulations for getting freedom from the Satan(holy spirit).

      • Save Europe says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 11:28 am

        Western non Muslim women ‘wash their private parts.’ You’re probably assuming they don’t, as that’s what you’re accustomed to, in the Third World pit, in which you reside. You’ve also proved, once again that you are a pervert, as you always post comments regarding sex.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 12:58 pm

        How ridiculous Ibrahim.

        You are making me think that you are not a believer in God at all, such are your repeatedly vile sexual comments and infantile misapprehensions.

        Do you think you are doing a good job of representing your god or islam, if some who is amongst the People of the Book begins to regard you as an unbeliever?

        Straighten yourself out Ibrahim.

        • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:00 pm

          Leftruinigcanada, i am not a sexual pervert . I am Happily married and confined myself to my lovely wife. Cleaning private parts and male circumcision are very important matters affecting well being in family life discussed in sharia books without hidding.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:06 pm

          LeftisruiningCanada, I don’t think Ibrahim itace muhammed has any idea of how he exposes the ugliness of Islam. And why would he? Muslims have rarely believed that they must make Islam seem attractive; instead, it is imposed with the sword.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:18 pm

          Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

          Leftruinigcanada, i am not a sexual pervert . I am Happily married and confined myself to my lovely wife.
          …………………

          Wait…what? The Muslim who has lauded polygamy, the Triple Talaq no fault divorce for Muslim men, the one who has lauded “marrying” children no matter how young, and who has said that Muslims have the right to rape Infidel women and girls in Jihad and keep them as sex slaves is married to a single woman?

          I guess we should be glad that he is not putting all of his values into action.

          Although, given how enthusiastic he is about wifebeating, I rather worry about the spouse he does have. Poor thing.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:50 pm

          Ibrahim, don’t make me go back over the last few weeks worth of your posts and quote all your nastiness back to you.

          It’s not about discussing personal hygene matters ‘without hiding’, it’s your repeatedly graphic, and inappropriate, descriptions of sexual acts, bodily parts and perversions that is the problem.

          It’s good that you have just one wife.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:52 pm

          That’s true GI. Though so man muslims feel they must murder and destroy things at the slightest ‘insult’ of mohammad or islam for the honor of allah, it seems that being what we would call a good person at all other times doesn’t figure.

          This tells us much about what allah considers honorable.

      • Ralph says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 1:06 pm

        Mat 12:31 – Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost ( Holy Spirit) shall not be forgiven unto men – Jesus / Yeshua. // So ibrahim , mind what you say to the spirit of Jehovah .

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 5:04 pm

        Ibrahim itace muhammed has convinced himself that most civilized people actually want the naked savagery of Islam–but he is entirely mistaken. In fact, more Muslims are leaving Islam in the West than are converting to it.

        As for “bad smells”, Ibrahim itace muhammed makes this bizarre claim all the time, even though standards of hygiene are so much higher in the West than in Dar-al-Islam. What he really means is that civilized people are *ritually* unclean. As he sees it, a Muslim caked with fecal matter is clean; an Infidel just stepping out of the shower is not.

        And I see he is still obsessed with Infidel men’s foreskins–as well as woefully unclear on basic anatomy.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 5:57 pm

          You know, it’s not generally in Western nations where the traveler tends to contract the most illnesses. Try spending some time in islamic countries, see how long it takes to pick up a stomach or intestinal infection of some sort.

          (not long)

          On every scale of health, it’ll pretty much always be the West that comes out Best, with China doing very well too.

  15. IanB says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 5:48 am

    “War is deceit”.

  16. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:08 pm

    Could Saudi Arabia become the wiser and saviour of the Western world? How ironic! However, internal islamic forces would have something to say about that.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 5:42 pm

      Nope–just another case of Mohammedans trying to fool the hopeful Kuffar.

  17. Karen says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    Window dressing. Is the MB even a big political force in KSA? The problem with the textbooks is Wahhabism. But apparently KSA is trying to take the easy route of blaming a political entity instead of a religious one.

    How does one purge the hearts of the teachers who have spouted the vicious hatred of Wahhabism for decades? How does one pull it from the innocent hearts of generations of children exposed to it, who now have grandchildren of their own?

    Try discrediting Wahhabism, then I’ll be impressed.

  18. Manny says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    So it took three years? That’s hardly a commitment. I wonder what specifically they object to in the Muslim Brotherhood. Maybe they have a difference of opinion on which type of knife to use in cutting throats.

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