DID YOU SAY JIHAD ?

The Muslim Brotherhood’s virtual expansion

Posted on July 11, 2010
by creepingsharia

An update on Muslim Brotherhood launches new wiki, social media sites we posted this past February.

The Ikhwan is expanding and taking their social media and technology efforts to new levels.

Before that, recall the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic goal in North America, being implemented by its U.S. entities:

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. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

Back to the last, the Virtual Brotherhood, via The Arabist blog:

The National’s Matt Bradley has a story on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Facebook clone:

IkhwanBook joins a veritable suite of Brotherhood-affiliated (“Ikhwan” is Arabic for “Brotherhood”) websites, such as IkhwanWiki, IkhwanWeb, IkhwanGoogle – a “Cusotmized [sic] search engine specialized in searching muslim botherhood’s [sic] websites” – and IkhwanTube. Many of the sites are published in English and each of their functions is tailored to Brotherhood-related content.

The article then wonders why the Ikhwan bothers: IkhwanBook is after all technologically extremely inferior to the real Facebook, and the other sites are not that sophisticated either. And there are plenty of young Brothers on Facebook — anyone who’s ever met them can expect to be friended within 24 hours, after all.

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The first reason for having all these sites — and believe me, there are a LOT of Ikhwan sites out there, practically one for every governorate of Egypt plus many more on specific issues before you reach the Facebook and Wikipedia clones — is that there simply is enthusiasm to build them. Beyond the apparent correlation one notices between tech-savvy and religious inclination (just visit any of the computer malls on Midan Sphinx in Cairo), there are a lot of young talented programmers in Egypt who would love to show their enthusiasm for the gamaa by building websites for it. And there are a lot of young people in the Brotherhood, no matter how elderly the leadership is, for whom these websites may be a way of expressing their views as well as gain practice in the art of political and religious rhetoric.

The second reason is that this resonates with the groupthink and in-group mentality that the Muslim Brotherhood cultivates. These sites won’t replace Facebook or Wikipedia, they are a virtual gated community (gated, that is, by strong symbolic references and imagery that are likely to alienate those not already versed in the Ikhwan universe) for like-minded people, where they can create a more orderly version of the sites that they copy and where the membership is self-selecting. The Muslim Brothers tend to socialize together, marry within each others’ families, work together (or for each other) and a whole lot more. It’s a support group as much as a political organization. It makes sense that, online, they will tend towards a closed ecosystem — alongside the open internet, not instead of it.

It’s just the way online forums thrive: through community-building. That’s true for computer geeks and religious geeks.

“…a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands…” and leveraging their technology to complete their “work.”

Update: Muslim Brotherhood Leader: Those Who Die Well Shall Be Rewarded via MEMRI

In his weekly sermon, Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Dr. Muhammad Badi’ once again called the Muslims to jihad, and explained that a nation who excels at death and knows how to die with honor is rewarded by Allah with valuable life in this world and eternal pleasure in the world to come.

Source: www.ikhwanonline.com, July 9, 2010

Lest we forget that Hamas, as stated in their own Covenant, is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood:

Article Two:

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgement, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.

Article Eight:

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

Article Thirteen:

Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement…

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.

Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.

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