A very important book for understanding Muslim Brotherhood ideology has been translated by Palestinian Media Watch. Jihad is the Way by Mustafa Mashhur explains the beliefs and aspirations of the Muslim Brotherhood. Particularly significant today are how the Brotherhood sees violent Jihad and the necessity of patience and timing in bringing about a world under Islam.
PMW has selected the following quotes from the book to illustrate the critical ideologies of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslim Brotherhood goal: Islamic world domination
– “…the Islamic Ummah [nation]… can regain its power, be liberated and
assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted
nation among men, as the teachers of humanity…”
– “…know your status, so that you firmly believe that you are the masters of
the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation…”
– “It should be known that Jihad and preparation for Jihad are not only for the
purpose of fending-off assaults and attacks against Muslims by Allah’s
enemies, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of
establishing an Islamic state, strengthening the religion and spreading it
around the world…”
– “…Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries.The Muslim homeland is one and is not divided. The banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and it shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, the State of Islam will be established…”
A few weeks ago, “the nation watched as Governor Scott Walker survived a recall effort in Wisconsin. After thousands of union members and tens of millions of dollars tried to punish Walker for taking away public union bargaining rights, the Governor beat Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by a greater margin than he did in 2010. Liberals and union members across the nation have been left with a feeling of betrayal and confusion. The comforting sound of President Obama’s voice from his campaign days ended up to be empty. Frustrated democrats have been asking each other “where was Obama?”.
The President’s excuse was that he was too busy with his responsibilities as the President. When his schedule was examined the truth was discovered. On June 1st the President flew over Wisconsin to Minnesota to attend a few different fundraising events, then he flew back over Wisconsin to Chicago to attend several more. Apparently President Obama’s responsibilities are centered around his campaign. The words in the official White House press release detailing his schedule for that day states the reason for going to Minneapolis and Chicago as attending “campaign events”.
The betrayal has left thousands of liberals disillusioned and discouraged. Democrats are beginning to threaten that they won’t vote at all this November.
NOTE: Pay close attention to the offices and positions of the involved parties. This is amazing! In the absence of truth, mysteries swirl into theories and questions.
Back in March 2008, the State Department launched an investigation of improper computer access to the passport records of Barack Hussein Obama, and days later those of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The investigation centered on one employee: a contract worker for a company that was headed by John O. Brennan who was a key Obama campaign adviser and who later became assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. (underline bb)
Then, a month later, the key witness in this case was murdered. Leiutenant (sic) Quarles Harris, Jr., 24, was shot in the head in his car, in front of his church. (accidently?)
During the 2008 presidential election, I ran a number of stories at my website, AtlasShrugs.com, on the breach of Obama’s passport. Fast-forward to four years later, and there is no new information. Why is this murder case not being pursued? Who at the State Department is covering up Obama’s passport breach? Lt. Harris told federal investigators before he was murdered that he received “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.” What became of the “co-conspirator”? Why wasn’t he/she brought to trial?
I always thought that the perpetrators rifled through Clinton’s and McCain’s files to make it look as if they were looking for dirt on all three, but that it was Obama’s passport records that they were actually interested in accessing. Thus, secondarily, almost as an afterthought, there were “violations” concerning Clinton and McCain. For who stood to gain from a tampering, and why?
There is no way to tell what might have been done to Obama’s passport records by those who accessed them. Key information could have been altered or destroyed. On April 8, 2008, after the breach became public, Obama confessed to having taken a trip to Pakistan in 1981. The then-candidate said: “I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college.” Journalist Jake Tapper was surprised and said: “This last part — a college trip to Pakistan — was news to many of us who have been following the race closely. And it was odd that we hadn’t heard about it before, given all the talk of Pakistan during this campaign.”
Did Obama confess to this trip, which he doesn’t mention in either of his autobiographies, because of the passport breach? While the oft-repeated charge that Americans were forbidden to travel to Pakistan in 1981 appears to be false, questions remain about why Obama took the trip at all, and what he did there. Indian counterterrorism expert Bahukutumbi Raman asked pointed questions about this trip:
Why did he keep mum on his visit to Pakistan till this question was raised? Has he disclosed all the details regarding his Pakistan visit? Was it as innocuous as made out by him — to respond to the invitation of a Pakistani friend or was there something more to it? As I read about Obama’s visit to Pakistan in the 1980s, I could not help thinking of dozens of things. Of the Afghan jihad against communism. Of the fascination of many Afro-Americans for the jihad. Of the visits of a stream of Afro-Americans to Pakistan to feel the greatness of the jihad. Of their fascination for Abdullah Azzam[.]
It bears noting that John Brennan has made some incredible pro-terror remarks — some in Arabic no less — about the beauty of jihad.
Raman acknowledged that these were “morbid” speculations but said they were “understandable when one has a feeling that one has not been told the whole story, but only a part of it.” > > > READ MORE
ADDITIONAL NOTE: If one isn’t enough, Globe – Obama Caught Up In Gay Murder Probe It’s the mainstream media’s coverage of these mysterious situations that fascinates me, too? How about you?
Obama appears court-side at a Team USA event in London.
NOTE: As one engulfed in literature of all genres since I transferred to the English Literature dept, I couldn’t escape this fascinating and revealing article. I hope you enjoy it, also!
Barack Obama has been President of the United States for nearly 4 years, and still we know very little about him. His past is “sealed” from public view. No transcripts, no valid SSN, no old friends coming forward. And now, after 4 yrs, all we know is what he has done in office, and that is exactly what?
He has increased the national debt in his almost 4 yrs MORE than the previous 41 Presidents put together. Now, think for a minutes about that. Even if this was the only problem, it is sufficient to look to another candidate.
Add to that the “Fast & Furious” debacle in which he defends AG Holder with “Executive privilege indicating that Obama was either directly involved or he knew about the operation from the beginning. (Otherwise the use of EP would not be applicable)
How about his many deliberate lies? The longer he “reigns,” the more audacious his lies to you and me become. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty peeved at this man’s attitude toward ME! These men and women in Washington are hired BY We-the-people to work FOR us, so why does it seem the other way around?
Anyway … that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. This is about CHARACTER. Enjoy!
The ghost of William Faulkner has appeared in the oddest of places ever since Barack Obama entered the public consciousness. The president’s speech writers and others have purposely summoned Faulkner to aid them in developing Obama as a transcendent racial figure.
The 2008 election was all about race, so who better to invoke the nation’s legacy of slavery than a guilt-ridden white southern Nobel-prize winning author. The president’s handlers, who still surround him, hammered away at the racism meme knocking Hillary Clinton out of the competition.
They plunged the accusation of ‘racist’ into the heart of white America; and catapulted a “creepy” narcissistic collectivist into the White House.
Faulkner’s presence in the campaign may sound elitist to Middle America but it played to the white professionals and moderate-minded, middle-class liberals. No doubt the literary aficionados Bill Ayers and David Axelrod had a hand in the resurrection.
Now it’s 2012 and once again the race-baiters are hoping to conjure up long dead slaves and zero in on Holder’s “people” from the civil rights era.
I must state right off the bat I am no fan of William Faulkner and did not go looking for him. He popped up by accident in 2010 when I was looking for a line from The Audacity of Hope for a NewsRealBlog article; the one where Obama describes himself as a “blank screen.”
In the 2006 prologue of The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.”
As I searched for the quote, one link led to another until I clicked on a 2005 SparkNotes analysis of Faulkner’s 1932 novel Light in August. The description of one of the main characters, Joe Christmas, came eerily close to various journalists’ post-2008 election accounts of Obama’s weird personality traits.
The SparkNotes writer, whom I later discovered came from a pool of Harvard students, used the phrase “blank slate” as a metaphor for Joe Christmas.
The following is a description of the inverted, biracial and “foreign” Christ figure, Joe Christmas from SparkNotes:
An angry man, he is a shadow figure who walks the fringes, treading neither lightly nor comfortably in both the black and white worlds. When Joe first appears, he provokes a healthy amount of curiosity on the part of the mill workers, accompanied by contempt for his smug aloofness and other disarming qualities.
Though Faulkner provides many details of Joe’s life and character over the course of his tale, Christmas still remains a distant, inscrutable figure, closed and elusive. At the mill he is a cipher, a blank slate onto which others project their own biased and subjective notions of who they think the mysterious man truly is.
The similarities prompted me to look up the origins of the 1932 novel.
Faulkner changed the title from Dark House to Light in August at the last minute when his wife noticed a peculiar feature of the sunlight in August. Faulkner called it a “foretaste of fall a lambence…as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times…-from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere.”
Spooky. Obama was born on August 4. And who can forget the Greek columns rising behind him as he accepted the Democratic nomination in Denver. Did Faulkner’s genius extend into prophesying the future election of a biracial and virtually unknown Chicago radical?
One day after Obama won in 2008, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham sat down with Charlie Rose to discuss the first black president. Meacham referred to the blank screen metaphor and used the SparkNotes word “elusive” to describe Obama.
Meacham: he is very elusive — It’s fascinating. He says, ‘I am a screen on which people project their visions, their hopes,’ and he could be a redemptive figure as long as race was implicit and not explicit
Thomas: He would spend a lot of time searching for himself, and deciding that he was a black man –
Thomas: There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all of this
In a 2001 book review of Bill Ayers’ Fugitive Days: A Memoir, Mark Webster mentioned Ayers and Faulkner’s Light in August in the same sentence. Webster references Ayers’ “poetic jabbering” about memory similar to a technique “William Faulkner used more effectively in Light in August.”
Webster’s observations prompted me to look for more Faulkner references relating to Obama.
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