Moncef Zenati is a board member of the UOIF (French Union of Islamic Organisations). He is in charge od “teaching and presentation of Islam” Moncef Zenati was born in France and grew up in Tunisia. He gratuated in Mathematics and then decided to shift into Islamic curiculum at IESH of Château-Chinon . He is a teacher in Islamic law and also in charge of Islamic sciences distances studies at IESH . He has translated several major texts such as the Muslim Brotherhood Hassan Al Banna and Youssef Al Qaradawi.
Jamal Badawi is director of the Islamic Information Foundation in Canada. He teaches management at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax).
He has written several books and participated in many films to explain Islam to Canadians.
Jamal Badawi is a board member of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Fiqh Council of North America. This organization was put on the terrorist list in 2014 by the United Arab Emirates.
From 2001 to 2013, Jamal Badawi was one of CAIR-CAN managers.
He is also a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Yusuf Al Qaradhawi, the highest theologian of the Brotherhood on Sharia and jurisprudence (fiqh). This organization was also put on the terrorist list in 2014 by the United Arab Emirates.
Jamal Badawi says in this video he campaigned for the restoration of a caliphate without borders.
Threats Of Attacks Against Foreign Diplomats, Workers In Egypt On Turkey-Based MB TV, Calls For Jihad And For Assassination Of Al-Sisi, Regime Heads
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has recently escalated its statements and activity against the Egyptian regime, to the extent of explicitly calling for using terrorism and violence against it, and even for assassinating President ‘Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi. These calls included an MB communique calling on movement activists to prepare for a lengthy and uncompromising jihad and to hunger for a martyr’s death; clear incitement to violence on MB TV channels broadcasting from Turkey; and an ultimatum also on a Turkey-based MB channel, to foreign workers to leave Egypt by February 20, 2015 and to foreign diplomats by February 28, 2015 or else be targeted for attack.
Furthermore, there is an upsurge in reports of violent movements in Egyptthat could be tied to the MB, the most prominent of which is the Revolutionary Retribution Movement. This movement, which emerged in advance of the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 revolution and now has branches in provinces across Egypt, calls for armed revolution against the Al-Sisi regime and has taken credit for a large number of attacks and violent incidents in Egypt carried out in the last week of January 2015; Egyptian authorities have attributed these attacks to the MB. While the MB has denied any connection to the movement, pro-MB television channels and social media indicate the existence of such a link.
This report will review calls by the MB and other organizations for jihad and for assassinating President Al-Sisi, and MB threats to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt.
Turkey-Based MB TV Channel Threatens Terrorist Attacks Against Foreign Nationals And Diplomats
On January 29, 2015, a broadcaster on the Turkey-based MB-linked channel Rabea TV read out “Communiqué No. 7 From the Leadership of the Revolution Youth,” which called on Arab and Western foreign nationals to leave Egypt immediately and stated that those who are not gone by February 11, 2015 could become a target of attacks by the revolutionary retribution movements. The statement also called on all foreign firms to finish their work in the country and leave by February 20, 2015, and on all diplomats and ambassadors to leave by February 28, 2015, lest they be targeted by the rebels. In addition, it notified all tourists planning on visiting Egypt to cancel their plans, claiming that they were currently unwelcome there. The statement urged countries that supported the “coup” to cease their support within a month at most, otherwise all their interests in the Middle East would be targeted.[1]
For a MEMRI TV video clip of excerpts of this statement, click below.
Clerics On Turkey-Based MB-Linked TV Channels Call For Assassinating Al-Sisi, Journalists Close To Him
On January 10, 2015, the cleric Salama ‘Abd Al-Qawi received thunderous applause from the studio audience on a program on the Turkey-based MB-linked Rabea TV channel, when he said that it would not be at all bad if someone were to assassinate President Al-Sisi. He added that anyone who did so would be doing “a good deed” that brings him “closer to Allah,” and that if he died in the process, he would be considered a martyr. He further said that this also applies to anyone who assassinates other “criminal leaders,” because, he explained, this is a tenet of Islam.
Wagdi Ghoneim, a preacher close to the MB, appeared on the Turkey-based MB-linked Misr Alan TV on January 26, 2015, saying that anyone who produces the severed heads of journalists close to the Egyptian regime – journalists whom he called “dogs” and “Hell-dwellers” – would be rewarded by Allah. An analyst on the channel claimed that journalists who support the Al-Sisi regime are accessories to all the crimes that it commits, and that their punishment should be execution – which Al-Sisi and his gang also deserve.
For a MEMRI TV video clip of excerpts of this program, click below.
MB Communique: We Should Prepare Ourselves For Lengthy Jihad, Hunger For Martyr’s Death
Another manifestation of the escalation of the MB’s statements and violence is a communique posted on the movement’s Arabic-language website on January 27, 2015. The communique, released against the backdrop of the upsurge in protests and violent incidents surrounding the fourth anniversary of the fall of the Mubarak regime, called on MB supporters to prepare for lengthy jihad and the use of force.
The heading of the communiqué, which is titled “Letter to the Revolutionary Ranks: Prepare,” features the movement’s emblem, in which the word “prepare” is situated between two crossed swords and refers to Koran 8:60: “Prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and other besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.”
The MB emblem
The communiqué reads: “My revolutionary brother and sister: Two crossed swords, and between them [the word] ‘prepare,’ and below them [the slogan] ‘the voice of truth, power, and freedom’ – this is the symbol of MB da’wa. All the elements of this symbol signify power: the two swords, the word ‘prepare,’ which is the symbol of power in the venerable Koran, and the three words written under the two swords, which also mean [power] – since ‘truth’ requires power to protect it, and ‘freedom’ is not given but rather taken by power. That is why the word ‘power’ appears between ‘truth’ and ‘freedom.’
“The [MB’s] founding imam [Hassan Al-Banna] diligently established [the MB’s] Scouts [movement] which epitomizes [the values of] decency and discipline, and also [the MB’s] ‘special apparatus,’ which is the most prominent representation of power. Imam Al-Banna established the jihad brigades, which he sent to Palestine to fight the oppressive Jews. The second [MB] general guide, Hassan Al-Hudaybi, reestablished the ‘special apparatus’ units to wage a war of attrition against the British occupiers.
“Imam Al-Banna said: ‘We know that the first level of power is the power of faith, which is followed by the power of unity and commitment, and after that comes the power of forceand weapons. A movement cannot be described as powerful unless it includes all these motifs. If [a movement] uses the power of force and weapons but its elements are not united, then its organization is destabilized, its faith is weak, and its fate will be doom and destruction.’ In order for Allah to grant us victory, there is no way but to fulfill the conditions of victory, as expressed by [Allah’s] words [in Koran 47:7]: ‘Oh you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet…’
“The process of preparing power means, first and foremost, [preparing] the emotional state or what is termed morale… Second, physical strength… Imam Al-Banna told the brothers: ‘…A nation well-versed in the craft of death, which knows how to die honorably – Allah will grant it a powerful life in this world and an eternal afterlife of peace. What is the lethargy that disgraced us if not the love of this world and the hatred of death[?] Therefore, prepare yourselves for a mighty act, yearn for death, and you will be granted life. Act for an honorable death and you will be fully successful. May Allah grant us and you the honor of dying a martyr’s death for His sake.’ [Al-Banna] said further: ‘The MB will use active force [only] when no other means is effective, and when it is certain that it has prepared for it on the levels of faith and unity.’
“Everyone must realize that we are on the verge of a new stage, which will require the power hidden within us, in order to use it to bring back the ideas of jihad. We must prepare ourselves, our wives, our sons, our daughters, and those who follow in our path for a lengthy, uncompromising jihad, in which we seek [to gain] the status of martyrs.
“‘And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might. [Koran 22:40]'”[2]
The Revolutionary Retribution Movement Takes Responsibility For A Series Of Attacks In Egypt
Egypt has in recent weeks seen the rise of new violent organizations, some of them linked to the MB, that call on Egypt to take vengeance against the Al-Sisi regime. These groups use names that aren’t necessarily identified with the MB, such as Students Against the Coup, The Unnamed, The Free, The Popular Resistance, and the Revolutionary Retribution Movement. While MB representatives have denied that the movement is behind these new groups, there is evidence of a connection between them.
Particularly prominent is the Revolutionary Retribution Movement, which advocates violent struggle against the regime and uses firearms. It has stated that it aims are to wage all-out war against the Egyptian government and security forces, and has already taken responsibility for a series of attacks in cities throughout Egypt.
It should be mentioned that the movement’s few official statements focus on highly secular discourse, and are not religious in nature. Its communiques speak in the name of the revolution, the people, or the popular struggle, and do not justify violence by citing the principle of jihad or Koranic verses. However, the movement calls the Egyptian regime “The Camp David Army” and implies that it is an agent of the West and Zionism.
“We’ve Had Our Fill Of Slogans About A Peaceful Revolution”; The Regime Understands Only The Language Of Bullets
A video clip tweeted by the Revolutionary Retribution Movement features two masked men armed with AK47 rifles, one of whom reads out a communiqué on behalf of the movement. The communiqué states that the current Egyptian regime is just a continuation of the Mubarak regime, and that the political situation in the country leads to bloodshed among the Egyptian people. It also stresses that the movement is not affiliated with any political stream and that it advocates armed revolution as the only possible option: “Today we inaugurate the Revolutionary Retribution Movement, which will serve as a new platform for sincere and genuine revolutionary action to purge the homeland of tyrants. We’ve had our fill of slogans about a peaceful revolution against an armed regime that understands only the language of bullets. Across the world, revolutions succeed only if they use force to protect themselves.” The communiqué states further that “no criminal or bloodletter will escape being punished for his actions. The murderers can expect surprises from us. Revenge will come.”[3]
Screenshot from the video
In a series of tweets on the anniversary of the revolution and on the following days, the movement took responsibility for attacks on security forces and government buildings in Cairo, Alexandria, Bani Swaif, Port Said, Faiyum and other Egyptian cities. The attacks involved gunfire, the planting of improvised bombs, or both.[4]
On January 29, 2015, the movement posted a communiqué taking responsibility for 32 attacks and promising further attacks. It said: “A new phase of genuine revolutionary action has begun in practice, [action] which terrifies the occupying Camp David army… The Revolutionary Retribution Movement hereby announces the [creation] of a division comprising 1,000 fighters who have placed their lives at the service of this homeland in order to end the occupation of the Camp David army and punish anyone involved in the killing of Egyptians. This, by attacking police and military targets and carrying out security ambushes in various provinces… Wait [and see] the sincere revolutionary action, far from the slogans and high-flown speeches, which knows only force and believes that the voice of the gun will drown out every other voice in the campaign to liberate the homeland and avenge the holy martyrs.”[5]
The Revolutionary Retribution Movement’s MB Connection
MB spokesman Muhammad Muntasir denied any link between the MB and the Revolutionary Retribution and Popular Resistance movements, saying that it was the Al-Sisi regime that gave rise to them with its own actions.[6] In a phone interview with Al-Jazeera TV, Muntasir said: “The MB has no connection to any of these organizations. The coup [regime] created these organizations because every action has a reaction… It is the ones who kill people indiscriminately in the streets who created these organizations. The ones who rape women and girls in prisons created these organizations. The ones who are violent towards the Egyptian people and abuse it day and night created these organizations. Do not blame these organizations before blaming the regime that gave rise to them.”[7]
Nevertheless, there are numerous indications that the MB is linked to the Revolutionary Retribution Movement.
As mentioned above, a January 29, 2015 communique on the Turkey-based MB Rabea TV called on foreign nationals to leave Egypt or else be targeted the revolutionary retribution movements. In addition, on the “Rabea Pulpit” program on that channel, the program’s host, cleric and MB member Muhammad Al-Sagheer, hosted cleric Muhammad ‘Abd Al-Maqsoud. In their discussion, the two praised Egyptian “revolutionaries” for advancing to the stage of “revolutionary retribution,” which they said constituted “an essential turning point” in the struggle against the Egyptian regime, “turning the hand of retribution against anyone who dared to attack the revolution again and again,” and taking vengeance against the “thugs” in the Egyptian security forces. The two clerics used Islamic law to justify the move to the new phase and portrayed attacks on Egyptian security forces and regime symbols as self-defense on the part of the “revolutionaries.”[8]
Muhammad Al-Sagheer
A Facebook page called “Revolutionary Retribution,” which was deleted a few days after it was created,[9] included a link to an eponymous website with a list of Egyptian officers and security forces personnel marked as targets for revenge because of their participation in the August 2013 dispersal of the MB sit-down strike at Rabi’a Al-‘Adawiyya Square in Cairo.[10] It should be mentioned that the Revolutionary Retribution Movement had tweeted on Jan 25, 2015 that it had no accounts on any social network besides Twitter; its Twitter account (Twitter.com/el3qab) was opened January 23, 2015, two days before the January 25 anniversary of the revolution.
Screenshot of the Revolutionary Retribution Facebook page taken on February 8, 2015
Another Facebook page with a similar name, “The Egyptian Revolutionary Retribution,” includes content associated with the MB, such as praise for ousted president Muhammad Mursi, photos of Egyptians giving the “Rabi’a sign” – that is, holding up four fingers – and links to other pages associated with the MB. In one post, the page’s administrators praised the ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the MB-affiliated Hamas, as a model of how to educate youth on the values of jihad.
Additionally, MB-affiliated clerics, as well as many MB supporters, praised the Revolutionary Retribution Movement. For instance, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sagheer tweeted: “To the decisive Revolutionary Retribution movements: [Coptic businessman Naguib] Sawiris declared that it was he who was financially supporting the Tamarrud movement [which worked to topple the Mursi regime]. I hereby tell you that his property and institutions are a legitimate revolutionary target. Rebellion [Tamarrud] will encounter retribution.”[11]
An MB supporter named Muhammad ‘Adel tweeted: “The Revolutionary Retribution people attacked a Central Security force in Faisal, and there are injuries among the force. The slogan of the day is revolutionary retribution. May our Lord grant them victory.”[12]
Following the death of dozens of Zamalek SC fans in rioting in Cairo on February 8, 2015, the pro-MB “Cars AntiCoup” tweeted: “Soccer fans should take vengeance in the form of popular resistance and revolutionary retribution in order to topple the coup [regime] before cheering on any team.”[13]
The Revolutionary Retribution Movement is also considered an arm of the MB among the ranks of Salafi-jihadis. Abu ‘Abeida Al-Gharib, an Egyptian Al-Qaeda activist in Syria, tweeted: “If my intuition is correct and the Egyptian MB is behind the Popular Resistance and Revolutionary Retribution movements in Egypt, then we are at the start of a revolution in the MB’s ideology and methodology.” In response to the tweet, another activist wrote on the same account that the movements did belong to the MB, and that the latter was using them as a bargaining chip to pressure the Egyptian regime.[14] Source : Memri Endnotes:
[1] See also MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 5959, Muslim Brotherhood Operatives in Turkey Call For Killing Egyptian Officials, Threaten Egypt; Turkish MP: Turkey Shelters ‘Many MB And Hamas Members,’February 6, 2015.
[6] The Popular Resistance took responsibility for a series of violent acts against security forces in several provinces in late January 2015, which authorities had attributed to the MB. Aljazeera.net, January 27, 2015.
[7] Facebook.com/M.B.SPOKESMAN1, January 27, 2015.
[8] YouTube.com/watch?v=4_GzIkt55aQ, January 30, 2015.
Since the 1960s, the Muslim Brotherhood presents itself as a victim of totalitarian regimes and maintains that it never resorts to violence. The following Facebook text was posted by the spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood. These are therefore official statements. The spokesperson says two thing:
We should exterminate all oppressors from Egypt. That is, government and opponents of the Muslim Brothers. In other words, the millions of people who demonstrated against president Morsi.
Lex talionis should be applied meaning and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
The spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood clearly called here for the elimination of every political opponent. These words written only in Arabic did not surprise those who know the Muslim Brotherhood well. They are aware of their double language. Peaceful and diplomatic for the media. Warlike for their faithful followers. The strategy of double language works very well. Today in the West, the Muslim Brothers are welcomed in chancelleries. They have a special aura in the media, which allows them to say that whoever accuses them of being violent is either ill intentioned or racist.
This post simply brings us back to reality.
For years we explained, repeated…risking our lives at times, that the Muslim Brotherhood is an authoritarian political movement that kills freedoms while pretending to defend them.
This post and, even more so, this website, have one ambition, to confront fantasy with reality.
Spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood
May 17th 2015
Damned be the words said in this situation …Damned be any attempt to express one’s views or make any verbal declaration…since no voice should be louder than retaliating an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, no voice should be louder than the blood of martyrs that was unjustly shed by assassins who understand nothing but this: an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth…the only thing that works with them is a revolution that pulls off these heads on top their rotten bodies.
Oh you revolutionaries in Egypt, oh you free and honorable revolutionary, march towards every field in Egypt, march towards a revolution that does not spare those who pour injustice onto Egyptian land, march, rebel, and put on your shroud or else we will all wear the clothes of humiliation and mediocrity.
I swear to God that the execution of the innocent and pure youth will not go unpunished…their blood will not flow in vain.
And the revolution will not stop until all oppressors are exterminated….Glory to the revolution and death to the murderers and oppressors.
World Assembly of Muslim Youth was founded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1972. According to a letter signed by WAMY Assistant Secretary General Dr. Hameed al Shaygi, WAMY has offices in London, Washington DC, Kuala Lampur, Auckland, Dhaka, Nairobi, Dakar, Moscow, Cordoba (Argentina), and headquarters in Riyadh. WAMY’s US website, http://www.wamyusa.org, says “WAMY has 66 regional, local offices and representatives in the five continents.” WAMY’s US office was incorporated in Falls Church, Virginia in 1992 by Osama bin Laden‘s brother, Abdullah bin Laden.
WAMY’s goal, according to its pamphlet “Islam at a glance” is to “arm the Muslim youth with full confidence in the supremacy of the Islamic system over other systems.”
While claiming to Western audiences that it seeks coexistence with the West, WAMY has a comprehensive program for supporting the Jihad. WAMY literature and lectures teach young people that non-Muslims are abhorrent to God, WAMY pays for promising students to continue their Islamic education at radical madrassahs in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and the affiliates of WAMY have been used provide cover or logistical support to Islamic terrorists.
WAMY’s Support for Terror
Spreading its message, WAMY supports jihad in Israel, Kashmir, Bosnia, and the Philippines, among others.
Terrorism against Israel
WAMY supports terrorist attacks against Israel financially and ideologically. WAMY invited Khaled Mishaal, Political Head of HAMAS, to be the featured guest at the “Muslim Youth and Globalization” conference on October 29, 2002. According to Agence France Presse, “[Mishaal] was hugged and kissed by hundreds of participants.”
The Arab News of April 12, 2002 reported, “The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has decided to raise its monthly contribution to Palestinian Intifada from [$800,000] to [$2.7 million]…” The increase in monthly aid to the Intifada was “in addition to the over $70 million they had collected from donations through WAMY offices abroad and on special occasions.” In addition, WAMY, according to intelligence sources, has provided financial assistance to Hamas.
Terrorism Against India
According to a Pakistan Government website WAMY is located at PO Box 1055 is Peshawar. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lists PO Box 1055, Peshawar, Pakistan as an address of the Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization, Benevolence International Foundation (BIF).
The Associated Press and CBS News report that WAMY’s Peshawar office was raided in November, 2001 in a joint FBI-Pakistan intelligence operation. A WAMY employee was subsequently questioned for hand delivering a recorded message from Osama bin Laden to local media. In that tape, Bin Laden praised various terrorist attacks, including the Bali nightclub bombing that killed over 200 people, and the Chechen takeover of a theatre in Moscow that led to over 150 deaths.
Nazir Qureshi is assistant Secretary-General of WAMY. He has been accused by the Indian government of supplying money to Kashmiri terrorist groups headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
The Pakistani paper The News reported on March 25, 2001 that the Pakistani youth organization Jamiat Taleba Arabia is the only Pakistan-based member organization of WAMY. The article continued, “WAMY is also involved in religious and Jehadi training for its member organizations.” According to The News, Jamiat Taleba Arabia, the WAMY member-organization, was:
involved in Afghanistan from the very beginning. It joined the Jehad in Kashmir as soon as the Kashmiris started their armed struggle in 1990 and was fully involved by 1993. The members of the Jamiat Taleba Arabiafought under the umbrella of Gulbadin Hakmatyar‘s Hizbe Islami in Afghanistan and, in Occupied Kashmir, under the discipline of the hizbul Mujahideen…Jehad has become the focus of the Jamiat’s activities in the last two decades.
According to the Indian magazine Frontline, Mohammed Ayyub Thukar, President of the World Kashmir Freedom Movement, was a financier of Hizbul Mujahideen, a Kashmiri terror organization. During his exile in Saudi Arabia, Thukar was affiliated with Muslim World League, WAMY, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sardar Ija Afzal Khan, Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami since early June, 2002, “highlighted [the] freedom struggle of the Kashmiris at the forums of World Assembly of Muslim Youth…”
The Indian government contends that “90 percent of the funding [for Kashmir militants] is from other countries and Islamic organizations like the World Association of Muslim Youth…”
Terrorism Elsewhere
Beyond the Middle East and India, WAMY works to immerse its students in its hateful ideology. For example, Philippine resident Zam Amputan told the Christian Science Monitor that WAMY paid for him to attend a madrassah in Peshawar in 1987. According to the Monitor, “There he was exposed to the Wahhabi ideology.” Amputan told the Monitor he returned to the Philippines “thinking of ways to create a separate Islamic state in the Southern Philippines.” The Washington Quarterly reports that “IIRO is not the only charitable organization in the Philippines suspected of financing terrorism. Manila is investigating five other Muslim charities active in the Philippines [including] the World Alliance of Muslim Youth…”
Similarly, according to Professor S.V. Seshagiri Rao, the organization Deendar Anjuman“was involved in militant activity in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya through the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi Arabia based fundamentalist outfit.” Deendar Anjuman is banned by the Indian government.
Likewise, the Romanian newspaper, Bucharest Ziua, reported on February 12, 2002 that “the Muslim Brotherhood organization operates under the screen of the Islamic and Cultural League in Romania [LICR], the ‘al-Taiba‘ humanitarian foundation, the Crescent humanitarian society, and the ‘As Salam’ association. The vast majority of its funds come from the World Association of Muslim Youth [WAMY], with its headquarters in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, and from the al-Taiba humanitarian foundation, with its headquarters in the United States.”
The Global Anti-Aggression Campaign (GAAC) is an anti-Western coalition of Islamist leaders affiliated with al Qaida, the Ummah Conference and/or the Muslim Brotherhood. GAAC’s platform closely mirrors the Ummah Conference’s objectives of confronting western and foreign aggression through political activism and jihad.
GAAC’s founding statement sets forth the goal of confronting the west:
“The Muslim ummah – in this era – is facing a vicious aggression from the powers of tyranny and injustice, from the Zionist power and the American administration led by the extreme right, which is working to achieve control over nations and peoples, and is stealing their wealth, and annihilating their will, and changing their educational curriculums and social orders.
…And in resistance to this aggression, the signatories of this statement announce the Global Anti Aggression Campaign as a vessel uniting the efforts of the children of the ummah, and to remind [the ummah] of its obligation for victory, and to raise [the ummah’s] awareness for its right of self-defense, and to combat the aggressor in a legal manner through effective tools.”[1]
Rabih Haddad was the executive director of the GAAC.[2] Haddad co-founded the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) in Illinois, which was designated by the U.S. and UN for providing support to al-Qaida. Haddad was subsequently deported from the United States.[3]
In a March 2010 interview, Haddad clarified GAAC’s name and purpose, responding to a question asking why GAAC uses the Arabic word Qawim (meaning resist) in its name, rather than Jihad:
There is no doubt that the desired purpose is jihad for the sake of Allah, but during the last year and due to the influence of the western media and misperception of a great number of Muslims regrettably by this media, the word (jihad) and the word (jahid) sparked an emotional and mental reaction when mentioned, and I am speaking here of all people generally. For that reason, we wanted to go beyond that limitation to communicate our message of awareness in order to revive the children of the ummah and inform them of the plans of our enemies, and to appeal to their efforts and recruitment into the resistance against this aggressor. With this I do not mean to dismiss or halt the jihad, or to substitute one term with another, but rather it’s a media tactic nothing more.[4]
The Secretary General of GAAC, Abd al-Rahman al-Nuaimi, also serves as the president of Alkarama in Geneva.[5]Ummah Conference leader Hakim al-Mutairi serves on GAAC’s board of trustees,[6]and Hassan al-Diqqi is a founding member of GAAC.[7]
Other founding members of GAAC include the following leaders from Islamist movements around the world:[8]
○ Abbas Arwa: Secretary of Alkarama[9] and a leader of the Ummah Conference’s Rachad Movement in Algeria.[10]
○ Yousef al-Qaradawi: a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated religious leader who advocates for violent jihad including in Syria, Iraq and Palestine. Qaradawi established and led the Union for Good–a group designated by the US government for providing financial support to Hamas.[13]
○ Abd al-Majid al-Zindani: a Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood leader and Bin Laden loyalist who was designated by the US and UN for support al-Qaida.[25]
[1] Global Anti-Agression Campaign Founding Statement, ar.qawim.net, May 17, 2006, http://ar.qawim.net (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 130).
[2] Rabih Haddad, interview with Al-Bashra Network on March 27, 2010 [in Arabic], (translated August 2013), http://www.albasrah.net (Exhibit 165).
[3] “Narrative Summaries of Reasons for Listing: QE.G.91.02. Global Relief Foundation (GRF),” The Al-QudsSanctions Committee,” September 7, 2010, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQE09102E.shtml, (Exhibit132); U.S Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Department Statement Regarding the Designation of theGlobal Relief Foundation,” U.S Department of the Treasury Press Center, October 18, 2002, (Exhibit 171);Soojung Chang, “Haddad deported, A2 rallies to his support,” Michigan Daily, July 20, 2003, http://www.michigandaily.com/content/haddad-deported-a2-rallies-his-support, (Exhibit 172).
[5] Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Board of Trustees [in Arabic], ar.qawim.net, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 131); Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Board of Trustees, (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 168);“Who heads Alkarama?” en.AlKarma.org, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 129).
[6] Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Board of Trustees [in Arabic], ar.qawim.net, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 131); Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Board of Trustees, (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 168).
[7] Hassan Al-Diqqi’s biography Ikhwan Wiki biography (translated August 2013), [in Arabic], http://goo.gl/zHVrjY (Exhibit 34).; Hassan al-Diqqi biography [in Arabic], Ikhwanwiki.com, last updated January 23, 2012,
[8] Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members [in Arabic], ar.qawim.net, accessed August 2013, omana.qawim.net/files/moasisoon.html, (Exhibit 47); Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members, (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 167).
[9] “Who heads Alkarama?” en.AlKarma.org, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 129).
[10] “Le Mouvement Rachad” [in French], rachad.org, January 13, 2011, (Exhibit 88).
[11] “Who heads Alkarama?” en.AlKarma.org, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 129).
[12] Susan Schmidt, “Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S.; Network of Wahhabi Mosques, Schools, Web Sites Probed by FBI,” Washington Post, October 2, 2003, Lexis Nexis, (Exhibit 133); Stephane Lacroix Awakening Islam (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011), Pages 199-200, (Exhibit 181).
[14] “Saudi prince sacks TV chief for Muslim Brotherhood ties,” BBC News, August 18, 2013, (Exhibit 163); Kuwaiti Preacher and Al-Risala TV Director Tareq Al-Suwaidan Declares He’s a Muslim Brotherhood Leader — And is Fired by boss, Saudi Prince Alaweed Bin Talal,” The Middle East Research Institute, August 19, 2013, (Exhibit 173).
[16] Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members [in Arabic], ar.qawim.net, accessed August 2013, omana.qawim.net/files/moasisoon.html, (Exhibit 47); Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members, (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 167).
[17] “U.S Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Designates Individuals and Entities Fueling Violence in Iraq,” U.S Department of the Treasury Resource Center, September 16, 2008, (Exhibit 169).
[18] U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Designations Target Terrorist Facilitators,” U.S Department of the Treasury Press Center, December 7, 2006, (Exhibit 139).
[19] “Huge crowd attends funeral of Hamas Parliamentarian,” Middle East Monitor, April 7, 2012, (Exhibit 134).
[20] “Contact Us, Al Quds International Forum, accessed August 2013, (Exhibit 135); U.S Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Sanctions Two Hamas-Controlled Charities,” U.S Department of the Treasury Press Center, October 4, 2012, (Exhibit 136).
[21] Jay Bushinsky, “Area Resident Called Terrorist Commander,” Chicago Sun Times, October 23, 1993, Lexis Nexis, (Exhibit 137); United States of America v. Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah and Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, Case no. 1:03-cr-00978, accessed on investigativeproject.org in August 2013, (Exhibit 138).
[22] Rabih Haddad, interview with Al-Bashra Network on March 27, 2010 (translated August 2013), http://www.albasrah.net/ar_articles_2010/0310/m3adidi_270310.htm, (Exhibit 141); U.S Department of the Treasury, “U.S Designates Five Charities Funding Hamas and Six Senior Hamas Leaders as Terrorists Entities,” U.S Department of the Treasury Public Affairs Office, August 22, 2003, (Exhibit 178); U.S Department of the Treasury, Executive Order 13224 U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Designates the Union of Good,” U.S Department of the Treasury Press Center, November 12, 2008, http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/hp1267.aspx, (Exhibit 175).
[24] Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members [in Arabic], omana.qawim.net, accessed August 2013, omana.qawim.net/files/moasisoon.html, (Exhibit 47); Global Anti-Aggression Campaign: Founding Members, (translated August 2013), (Exhibit 167).
A precocious child, he learnt Urdu, Persian and Arabic then, later on, English. He lost his father at the age of 16 and had to provide for himself. He started a journalistic career in Delhi, and was namely editor, from 1924 to 1927, at Al-Djam’iyyat, the media outlet of Djam’iyyat-i ‘ulama’-i Hind. During that period, Maududi participted in the movement that aimed to restore the Khalifa (or Khilafa) (political and spiritual) who was abolished by Atatürk in 1924.
For Maududi the separation of Pakistan and India is an obstacle to his conception of a universal Islamic state. He finally reconciled himself to the idea of partition in the early 1940s, under one condition, that the Muslim state be strictly Islamic in order to gather strength before reconquering the world.
Maududi develops a fundamentalist thought. He distinguishes the cult, which he considers of lesser importance, since it differs according to the regions, and political Islam, which aims to conquer.
Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme. (…) the objective of the Islamic ‘ Jihād’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.
For Maududi, the Sharia has to be built first, within the borders of Pakistan then expand to the whole of the Indian sub-continent.
He is the first, since 1939 to launch campaigns against the Ahmadis. A terror movement that resulted in the law calling for the expulsion of the Ahmadis from the community of believers.
Western education aimed, according to Maududi, at corrupting Muslim moral standards.
Organised attempts to de-Islamise the people are taking place in all the Muslim countries. Education is the backbone, which has been designed to eliminate Islam from people’s lives and alienate the future generations from their Islamic legacy. At the same time, new cultural values are being spread and promoted which are naturally designed to corrupt the Islamic morals. Western thinking and disciplines are being introduced and encouraged. But all that this can achieve, is to reduce the Muslims into character-less individuals; it can never succeed in persuading the Muslims as a whole, to abandon Islam and opt for a secular state instead.
A « democracy » needs to establish itself according to the principles, goals and Islamic civilization”.
In Europe, these books were initially distributed by the Islamic Foundation of Leicester then by the publishing house Tawhid thanks to Tariq Ramadan.
Mawdudi died in 1979, he was a fundamentalist theologian very popular and influential in Pakistan. He is the founder of Jamaat e Islami.
Habib Ellouze was elected October 23, 2011 in the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia on the behalf of Ennahda.
He was born in Sfax in 1953. Working as a contractor in the 1970s, he was known for his activism in the mosques of Sfax. He is a founding member of Ennahda. He chairs the decision-making body, the Shura Council, between 1988 and 1991 and the movement itself from June to September 1991. He was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison.
At no time did Habib Ellouze regretted the practices of the Islamist party of the late 80’s Bab Souika particular case: a night guard of the ruling party headquarters burned alive by young activist of hod party. Or the acid attacks countryside.
In its articles, Martine Gozlan, Tunisia specialist said that Habib Ellouze is not anonymous in the Islamist movement. It has a large influence in the Shura Council. “When the political crisis that has divided the party, it was the hottest trend supporter of hard grouped around Rached Ghannouchi. Ellouze had no words strong enough to wilt the proposal of the former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali who demanded a new non-political government. Jebali, for him it was a “antirevolutionary”! “
Habib Ellouze even, according to Martine Gozlan, cited to appear before a judge to have directly threatened the leader of the Popular Front Chokri Belaid, shortly before his assassination? Undaunted in the least, it reiterates its call for murder against another member of the PDU, Mongi Rahoui in January 2014 calling him “enemy of Islam”. Following these statements, Mongi Rahaoui was placed under police protection.
“I am Muslim, my mother is Muslim, my father is Muslim, my grandfather was a Muslim (…) and I do not need you to find out. Sheikh You are liars, as said Chokri Belaid martyrdom “(Mongi Rahaoui)
Following this case, the ANC in revised Article 6 on the freedom of conscience by adding an amendment which had however been rejected. By 131 votes in favor, 23 against and 28 abstentions, the ban on wearing charges of apostasy (“takfir”) is now enshrined in the Constitution. The charge of apostasy is one of the essential elements of the propaganda of the Muslim Brotherhood.
On 10 March 2013, in the columns of Arabic daily “Al Maghreb” Habib Ellouze states that female circumcision is a matter of aesthetics.
“What he is excised in addition to, but it is not true that circumcision removes the pleasure in women, it is the West that has exaggerated the issue. Excision is a cosmetic procedure for women “
Excision is not at all a Tunisian practice. His remarks triggered an outcry. Soon, we learn that Habib Ellouze was relying on theories preacher Wajdi Ghonim, an Egyptian Muslim Brother who was then living in Qatar.
What does the Union of Islamic Organisations of France? Media and politicians agree to explain that the UOIF is the first representative of French Muslims and give them a large place according. But in the reality of how activists is there ? This is what we wanted to know.
The Union of Islamic Organisations of France would count more than 200 associations. The conditional is required because this figure, taken by all observers, comes from the Union itself and has never been verified. On its website, the UOIF publicize a list of 59 names and said: “For a more complete list, contact us.” On several occasions, I asked the UOIF the list of associations in question. We ended up reply that this list was confidential. So I limited my first inquiry to this list which basically is probably much the UOIF has since decided to make his window [1]. Most of all small structures, thoughts about the same mode, to represent the Union in a region. Yet again? French law allows any citizen to ask the prefecture laws a legally registered association. What I did for each one. Of the 59 associations: 12 are listed anywhere, either in the prefecture, or even in the directory. Of the 47 remaining associations, seems to have only a dozen a reality other than spectral.
Most of the articles of associations such satellites are built on the same basis. Membership status is lost under certain conditions, which is common, but possible grounds for exclusion are still quite original: almost all allow themselves the ability to exclude a member for apostasy. For the Association of Muslims of Picardy, for example: “membership is lost by radiation pronounced by the Board of Directors for failure to implement Islam and this Statute.” Islam Without Borders Association considers that to be a member, one must “be a practicing Muslim.” Member status is lost in case of “denial of values that relates the Muslim.” We do not know more about how apostasy is pronounced. In case of dissolution of the association, most statutes provide that “movable and immovable property of the association will be automatically transferred to the benefit of the UOIF”. Another feature hits from reading these documents: no women are present in association offices (that is to say in decision-making). Another excludes even a woman can be a member. In Article 9, it says :
“any female person is excluded from the association of any age.”
The formulation is fun. The “regardless of age” is written on a non-discriminatory fashion … in a discrimination formulation . Speaking of “exclusion” is also fun. Because to be excluded, you must first have had the right to incorporate the association!
Other associations, those which militate converts or level members of higher studies, feature more elaborate statutes, feigning more respect for republican principles. This is for example the case of the Muslim Association of Picardy. The President and the Secretary are both teachers. The treasurer, Pascal Vanlanduyt, is a convert. Article 2 of the Articles of Association of the AMP says it wants to “organize periodic interreligious dialogue seminars, lectures and discussions for a better understanding of Islam away from fanaticism and extremism devoid of foundation. To establish and improve relations with associations, (…) to defend Islam and Muslims against the implications of this amalgam of religious tolerance and extremism. ” Note the very pretty “far from fanaticism and extremism devoid of foundation.” Not to be confused with the fanaticism that draws on “foundations” as fundamentalist fanaticism for example …
More seriously, many associations are declared at the limit of legality. According to the 1901 law, an association must hold an annual general meeting and a report, even partial, must be sent in the prefecture. Or almost no satellite organization of the UOIF has fulfilled this obligation. Some associations claimed by the UOIF have not even been declared prefecture. This is the case, for example, the Association of Education and Ahlluin teaching, or the socio-cultural and educational Association of Thuir. Unknown to the battalion. Note however that if the 1901 law is very flexible, it has the merit of allowing some control in exchange: it is the responsibility of prefectures to ensure the application of the law and the refusal of incitement to hatred . Radiation for “breaches of sacred principles of Islam” – which is to treat an apostate member and thus to appoint him to a punishment that should be death according to Islamic law – could go into this framework. It is the same for associations that have not held elections for nearly ten years, while its statutes require in one per year. [2]
This brings us to the question of the number if the UOIF has swelled the number of satellite associations, it can just as easily exaggerate the number of its supporters. We shall see below, the annual Congress of the Bourget – which serves as a rallying point for its members but also to his supporters and even the curious – does not meet 60,000 people but more likely 10 000. This figure is undoubtedly a wide estimation of the network that really represents the Union of Islamic Organisations of France. Its strengths, they are concentrated around ten associations having a real existence, and a few mosques.
Fiammetta Venner
[1] Other associations around the UOIF played to circumvent the law. This is the case of the Union of Young Muslims (UJM), the association of Lyon under coach Tariq Ramadan, who has created a one-man company with limited liability. This, as the name suggests, is for individuals, not to legal entities, so the associations. Better, UJM can now call SODELIM but continue to receive subsidies as qu’UJM.
[2] Association culturelle éducative et sportive La Madrassa, A.S.C.C.M.T, Association musulmane Foi et unicité de Sarcelles, Association cultuelle musulmane vietnamienne, Association des Français musulmans de Villiers le Bel, Association éducation culturelle enfants Africains, A.I.A.E.L.A, Association musulmane africaine en France, Association de coopération islamique de la communauté africaine, Association islamique et culturelle du Calvados, Association culturelle musulmane de Saint-Nazaire et sa région, Association musulmane de Sully/Loire, Association culturelle islamique, Association islam sans frontières, Association islamique d’Alençon et sa Région, Association socio-culturelle des musulmans de Haute-Normandie, Association islamique de l’Ouest de la France, Communauté musulmane du Loiret, Ligue islamique du Nord, Association de la mosquée et du Centre islamique de Reims, Association des musulmans de Lorraine, Association islamique clémence, Association des musulmans de Picardie, Association islamique de l’Est de la France, Association cultuelle islamique de Laon, Association des musulmans en Alsace, Association de la solidarité islamique des Ardennes, Association culturelle Islamique de Dole et sa Région, Association islamique, Association solidarité musulmane, Association de l’éducation et l’enseignement, Centre culturel et mosquée des musulmans de Tourcoing, Croissant de l’Islam, Association “ASSALAM”, Association espoir, La jeunesse musulmane de France en Bourgogne, Centre culturel islamique de Franche-Comté, Association soleil pour la culture et l’éducation de la jeunesse, Association de la fraternité islamique, Centre islamique, Association musulmane de Saint Chamond, Association action espoir, Association islamique culturelle de la Haute-Loire, Association socioculturelle et éducative de Thuir, Association pour la promotion culturelle des familles d’Orange, Association culturelle islamique, Association d’orientation islamique, Association culturelle les amis du Maghreb, Association des musulmans des Alpes Maritimes, A.C.E.P., Association des musulmans de Libourne, Association des musulmans de la Gironde, Association activités recherches culture et sport, Association des musulmans de Limoges pour la Fraternité, Association des musulmans de la Charente, Association culturelle islamique de la Charente-Maritime, Association des musulmans de la Réole, Association mosquée de Pau, S.O.S. jeunes.
Not only the UOIF is inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, but the UOIF works in a network almost exclusively formed by the Muslim Brotherhood : Ghannouchi, Mawlawi and Qaradhawi. References which must be added the Ramadan family and the Islamic Center of Geneva, with which the UOIF is working very closely. The Islamic Center of Geneva is one of the European headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Islamic Center of Geneva was founded in 1961, with Saudi money, to Islamize the old continent and unite against “atheistic materialism” by Said Ramadan, exiled leader of the international branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Nicknamed the “little Banna” because he was the favorite disciple of Hassan al-Banna, Said Ramadan married Banna’s favorite daughter, Wafa, and together they dreamed of seeing the triumph of the totalitarian Muslim Brotherhood political islamism from Europe. The Old Continent has even become a challenge in itself for the next generation, when the children of Said Ramadan and Wafa al-Banna were old enough to take over. The two youngest son born inEurope, Hani and Tariq Ramadan, have particularly taken over from his father’s death in 1995.
The official director of the center, Hani Ramadan, is one of the most requested speakers by the various associations of the UOIF. He even wrote several pamphlets collection of Islam, did you know?, Leaflets published by the UOIF to be distributed to Congress Bourget and serve as the basic theoretical corpus militants. One of them, The Meaning of the bid, insists that a good Muslim is totally submitted to God.
The other, Islam and Democracy, says that Islam is incompatible with democracy as understood Western [1]. One can easily imagine the influence exercised by the director of the Islamic Center of Geneva, successor to the small and large Banna, the activists of the Union. Like his grandfather, Hani Ramadan is haunted by the idea of being contaminated by the decadence of the West,
“Do we not observe this day in fact, that in our modern societies, despite the progress of Science and material comfort, we are invaded by all sorts of ailments that reflect a constant drift to worship Taghut in all its aspects? Would not that at the level of unbridled sexuality that is expressed in relationships outside marriage, prostitution, homosexuality, harassment, rape, pedophilia, incest? “[2].
Sexual liberation is one of his obsessions. In interviews, director of the Geneva Islamic Center never loses an opportunity to remind that in Islam “homosexuality is a stalemate, both from the point of view of the law revealed that the logic is not opened a door with two key “[3]. In 1998 he published a book, Women in Islam, in which he defends the right to polygamy as the best way to fight against the risk of adultery and obvious vis-a-vis secular hatred wishing to ban the veil at school: “The veil in Islam is a sign of submission to the belief in the divine commandments. Why try to prevent a young high school girl to express their conviction? The compulsion to reveal, is not to repeat the gesture of the ruthless Inquisition and communist executioners? (…) Against the secular extremists, Islam will remain in any case a school of wisdom and tolerance:
“No compulsion in religion, “says the Koran. Lesson that lay torturers have not taught us! “[4]
This book caused a scandal in Switzerland. But Hani Ramadan was dismissed from the Swiss National Education after having published an article in the newspaper Le Monde, in which he justifies stoning as “a punishment, but as a form of purification” and AIDS as a divine punishment:
“Who created the AIDS virus? Observe that the person who adheres strictly to divine commandments is immune from this infection, which can not be achieved, unless an error of blood, an individual who maintains no extramarital relationship, which has no homosexual practice and preventing drug use. ” Moral: “Muslims are convinced of the need, at any time and any place, to return to the divine law” [5].
That, in a few sentences, the thought of an Islamist theorists serving as a model for the faithful of the UOIF. Often occurring at his side, his brother, Tariq Ramadan [6], is a model for all young people of the Union since 1992, when he intervened for the first time at the Annual Congress of Le Bourget, then answered all invitations satellite associations of the UOIF. That year at Le Bourget, the young preacher is expected as the Messiah by all participants. He has just returned from a quick training on Islamic issues in Egypt, but the public has heard much about him through his relationship with Hassan al-Banna and Hani Ramadan. The public immediately falls in love. Since then, Tariq Ramadan had a decisive influence on the strategy and rhetoric of the UOIF – out of the separatist confinement to become more political, and therefore more effective, on contact. In 2003, we will come back, executives of the UOIF will quarrel with Tariq Ramadan about the CFCM, but the preacher has never ceased to be admired and associations invited by the satellites of the UOIF. Moreover, when France 2 program critically Special Envoy on the preacher in November 2004, the UOIF goes immediately into the breach to defend him and asking the chain to deprogram this documentary. Proof that the links are not so distended it. Between Brothers, the division can never last very long, though short-term strategies may differ punctually. Although any dispute on the form is often interpreted hurriedly, as a war on the bottom showing independence of thought of the UOIF vis-a-vis the Muslim Brotherhood. This is what the EU would like to believe.
Fouad Alaoui, general secretary, wants to prove its independence: “We do not feel the need to belong to a foreign school of thought. We see ourselves as a school of Islam of France “. Yet when pushed into a corner, he confesses willingly be in regular contact with al-Houweidi Syrian, one of the official ambassadors of the brotherhood. [7] This means that the end of the formal tutelage vis-a-vis the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is not an ideological break and all of emancipation, aimed primarily efficiency nationally. But this formal independence and do not advertise this refocusing provided an ideological change. The UOIF remains an organization whose model of thought and method of Hassan al-Banna, taking as reference preachers trained by the Muslim Brotherhood, networking with the Muslim Brotherhood and, above all, defending the same as Islam Muslim Brotherhood.
Fiammetta Venner
Taken from takeover of Islam in France: The ambitions of the UOIF
[1] Prospectus published by the UOIF and distributed to Congress Bourget in 2003.
[2] Hani Ramadan, Aspects of Islamic monotheism Tawhid, Lyon, 1998, p. 98.
[3] “The impasse of homosexuality”, interview by Le Nouvelliste, January 25, 2003.
[4] Hani Ramadan, Woman in Islam, Lyon, Tawhid, 2000.
[5] “The Sharia misunderstood,” published by Le Monde on 10 September 2002.
[6] Despite the decisive influence on the UOIF Tariq Ramadan, I will not elaborate more here about the character. His career and his speeches were perfectly decrypted in Caroline Fourest, Brother Tariq, Paris, Grasset, 2004 425 p.
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