The Muslim Big Brotherhood By Jim Fletcher Prophecy Matters February 7, 2011 ************************************ Does anyone really believe that Barack Obama doesnt understand exactly what the M uslim Brotherhood is? In his drive to push Hosni Mubaraks political wheelchair down a flight of stairs, Obama is pushing a White House-led plan to remove Mubarak from office. Of cours e, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state is tasked with carrying this plan to Mu barak. No one is also naïve in thinking that Mubarak is anything but a strongman, a dicta tor who values self above all. His three decades of ruling Egypt with an iron fi st (like Syrias Hafez Assad and Jordans King Hussein) has left Egypt with a shiny new American-equipped army, and a Third World economy. But I dont believe for a minute that the revolt in Egypt is driven by disaffected youth. It is the most radical form of Muslim jihadist mentality that is driving the car now. The Muslim Brotherhood The Brotherhood is a radical strain of Islam, born in Egypt in 1928, and the for erunner of both the PLO (formed in 1964) and Al Qaida. Needless to say, this ban d of true believers in Allah hated Israel from the beginning. In the early years of Israels existence, one of the worst problems the Jews dealt with was cross-border raids from the Egyptian mujahideen, or freedom fighters.Th ey continuously struck civilian targets in Israel, crossing through the Sinai an d elsewhere. For years, Israel sent its own commandos back in retaliation. And, in one of those odd, ironic twists of history, the Brotherhood engaged an o pportunity just after World War II that is still having ramifications for our wo rld today. In the late 40s, a young Yasser Arafat was agitating to fight the Jews and the Br itish in Palestine. Incredibly, when he visited the former Mufti of Jerusalem in Lebanon, the radical cleric advised him instead to pursue university studies in the U.S.! Arafat equally incredibly applied for a visa. Had the process not dragged-on, th e future terrorist chieftain might have been engulfed in Marilyn Monroe films an d Buicks. Instead, he teamed-up with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was now encou raged subtly by Egypts King Farouk to engage in terror activities. From there, one can trace Arafats involvement with the Brotherhood, and in 1964 t hree years before Israel took territories in the Six Day War the PLO was formed. By 1968, Arafat was named chairman. When Arafat was organizing his terror activities early on, his para-military gro up, Fatah (today the official political party of Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen), was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. At the time, the Saudis also c laimed that the groups were tied to international communism.
