Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Why Virginia must understand who Esam Omeish is

Documents:
1. Muslim Brotherhood Goals (HTML / PDF)
2. Esam Omeish's own words on how Muslim Brotherhood has been "instrumental" on his views on justice and human rights (HTML / PDF)
3. Barack Obama defining the "enemy" as those who seek to create a "caliphate" (HTML / PDF)

A. SUMMARY

-- Muslim Brotherhood seeks to create a Muslim World (caliphate/Khilafa)
-- We believe there is ONE world, called Earth - with equal rights and liberty for all humanity
-- Barack Obama on "the war we need to win": America's enemies "seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for."

-- Muslim Brotherhood seeks to implement Sharia law
-- We seek freedom for all - regardless of religion, race, or sex - and oppose Sharia's gender apartheid and war on women

-- Muslim Brotherhood thinks Muslims come first
-- We believe humanity comes first

-- Muslim Brotherhood seeks to impose Islam on all
-- We believe humanity has freedom of conscience and religion

-- MAS has supported Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and groups that call for Islamic surpemacist rule
-- We reject supremacism in every form in favor of equality and liberty for all

-- MAS's Esam Omeish: "The influence of Muslim Brotherhood ideas has been instrumental.... [on MAS] values of human dialogue, tolerance and moderation"
-- We believe that human dialogue, tolerance, and moderation begins with rejecting all supremacist organizations, including the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, and that supremacist organizations never teach tolerance or moderation

-- MAS's Esam Omeish: "The influence of Muslim Brotherhood ideas... has been instrumental in defining our worldviews of justice and human rights"
-- We believe that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of Liberty defines our worldview of the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty for all -- that supremacist groups deny. We believe without such universal equality and liberty, freed from supremacist restraints, there will never be justice, nor will all of humanity have human rights.

-- The Muslim Brotherhood matters in Esam Omeish's campaign because he says so they have defined his worldview of "justice" and "dialogue." Esam Omeish has stated that "influence of Muslim Brotherhood ideas has been instrumental" in his views on human rights and values
-- We believe that an effective Democratic candidate for the 35th district would have values based on the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty for all, not a supremacist worldview


B. WHAT ESAM OMEISH SAYS ON MAS VALUES AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD:

Esam Omeish: "The influence of Muslim Brotherhood ideas has been instrumental in defining our understanding of Islam within the American and Western context in order to espouse the values of human dialogue, tolerance and moderation"

Esam Omeish: "It also has been instrumental in defining our worldviews of justice and human rights"


C. SUMMARY PERSPECTIVE OF ESAM OMEISH:

Esam Omeish: "The influence of Muslim Brotherhood ideas... has been instrumental in defining our worldviews of justice and human rights"


D. WHAT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD VALUES ARE:

-- Reinstatement of the caliphate ("Khilafa") and reunite the "dar el Islam," "building the Khilafa," and "Mastering the world with Islam" -- supporting "Creed and state, book and sword, and a way of life"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#Primary_goals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ikhwan_Al-Muslimoon
http://web.archive.org/web/20071029093256/http://www.ummah.net/ikhwan/
-- "Supporting the establishment of the global Islamic State"
-- Document 20, page 19
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf
HLF Exhibit GX 3-85 -- "An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group" - Mohamed Akram - May 22, 1991

One citation from the document "General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America"makes the objectives of the MB clear: "The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
-- Document 20, page 21
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf
HLF Exhibit GX 3-85 -- "An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group" - Mohamed Akram - May 22, 1991

Chicago Tribune:
"They have this idea that Muslims come first, not that humans come first," says Mustafa Saied, 32, a Floridian who left the U.S. Brotherhood in 1998.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0409190261sep19,0,5695696.story

The Egyptian government legalized the Brotherhood again in 1948, but only as a religious organization; it was banned again in 1954 because it insisted that Egypt be governed under shari'a (Islamic law).
http://fas.org/irp/world/para/mb.htm

MB Founder Hassan al Banna worked with Adolf Hitler
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood

The Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna in
response to the then-recent collapse of the Muslim Caliphate. Al-Banna called for establishment of a world Islamic state governed by Koranic law, ruled by a single caliph.
-- NEFA page 2
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaikhwan1007.pdf

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." -- Muslim Brotherhood
http://fas.org/irp/world/para/mb.htm

Barack Obama:
Remarks of Senator Obama: The War We Need to Win
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php
-- The enemies "seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for."


E. GROUPS THAT MAS HAS SUPPORTED

In the past, MAS' national website provided links, under Islamic resources, to:
-- Hizb ut-Tahrir
-- Al-Manar
-- The Muslim Brotherhood
-- Jamaat-i-Islami
-- Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP)

-- Document 85, Part VII, pp. 37 and 38
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/85.pdf