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The Grand Jihad

By: Ben Howe (Diary)  |  February 3rd, 2012 at 06:03 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I’ve written about the Muslim Brotherhood before at RedState and while researching that post, one thing became abundantly clear: it is a scary organization with a complicated history.

Bill Whittle narrates this excellent video from Encounter Books to help us understand the threat the Brotherhood poses.  Watch and learn.




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  • Rudy

    Is all the Christians in these countries are being persecuted and even killed. Especially in the west bank. There are lots of peaceful Palestinian Christians that don’t want anything to do with their Muslim leadership. :(

    • anjinconsulting

      Suffer and likely be killed before the scourge of religious intolerance is stomped out. But I sincerely doubt Obama has been played for a fool; no I suspect Obama knows full well what will happen when sharia law becomes ingrained in the U.S. and becomes “protected” by the Constitution. My only hope is that Mooch and his girls get to enjoy the fruits of his efforts.

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        is ENTIRELY caused by Islam. Now that the fighting between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland is over, there is no other examples which do not include aggression by Islam.

        You never hear about Christians killing Jews, Buddhists killing Hindus, Hindus killing Sikhs, Jews killing Baha’i.

        But you do hear countless accounts of Moslems killing Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and even minority sects like Baha’i and Jainists.

        And also killing each other, Sunni vs Shia, and attacks on Suffists.

        There is no real religion problem in the world today, there is an Islamic problem

        • lizzie

          Islam fails as a religion once they get past the Five Pillars.

          Tha Salafist version of Sunni, and Twelver Shi’a (Iran and Hezbolah) are Intolerant, Imperialistic Ideologies that refuse to reconcile with modernity and the concept that laws made by men can be effective government.

          Thanks for the video embed, Ben Howe. Obama’s worldview was formed through the lens of postmodern transnational multiculturalism, which is why he appeases the Islamists. I have no idea what forms Ron Paul’s worldview.

          I would like to point out that the schisms within Islam that DO try to live with modernity and accept the “just rule by men” have historically been the migrants to western democracies, e.g., Ahmadis in the US, Alevis in Germany; and Ismailis –
          and that in America, many of your Arab neighbors are Christians who fled persecution in their home countries.

          It is a disgrace that American media continually fail to acknowledge the persecution of Christians of the Middle East.
          Will CNN cover the assualt on Coptic St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai the way CNN covered the twitterers of Tahrir Square? I think not.

          • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

            Because then people would get ticked off and want to deal with the problem…

          • aesthete

            and, increasingly, the average American, is not proud of our country and its institutions, and does not see any reason to perpetuate them. It was not always the case that a Supreme Court Justice would speak of the Constitution disparagingly as a model for new democracies to avoid. Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg did just that a few days ago, and recommended instead the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and South Africa’s Constitution as models for the modernizers behind the Arab Spring.

            The Iraqi and Afghani Constitutions are absolute statist, centralized trash. There is no comparison between them, and the Constitution that we wrote up for Japan after WWII. Elites are all too willing to look at our institutions as anachronistic antiquities from a more embarrassing era, preferring to look towards Europe or (God forbid) authoritarian Asiatic countries for their cues.

            Until we as a nation have some self-respect and commitment to our founding principles, we will lose out in all cultural conflicts.