Thread by @JoshJPhilipp

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The Muslim Brotherhood is a system for theocratic socialism, and it's very much a terrorist organization. I'll explain.

Column here: theepochtimes.com/the-muslim-bro…

As the Trump administration moves to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, it’s important to know it’s roots and what it’s really about. (1)

The reason socialist movements support the Muslim Brotherhood and its international model—despite the fact that it opposes every “progressive” trend they claim to believe in—is because they all believe in the same basic theories of totalitarian governance. (2)

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a form of traditional Islam. It started in 1928 as a “modernization” movement, which merged Islam with the ideas of socialism.

It promotes a system of theocratic socialism and “offensive jihad” to spread this system of totalitarian governance. (3)

This model of socialist theocracy was the invention of Sayyid Qutb, who is considered to be the founding father of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He was also an advocate for “offensive jihad,” which helped spur the creation of tyrannical regimes under this new form of “Islamism.” (4)

His books, “Milestones” (1964) and “In the Shade of the Quran” (written 1951–1965), played a large role in creating the new Islamic regimes that have swept the Arab world. (5)

According to Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Qutb’s revisions to Islam warped the concept of sharia (Islamic law) to merge socialist politics into a system of theocratic government. (6)

He explained in a previous interview that Qutb “evokes a lot of Islamic ideology to push for theocracy.”(7)

Jasser explained that, under this model, criticisms of the government become synonymous with attacks on the religion.

This allows the socialist tyrants to kill critics and political opponents, under the guise of defending religion. (8)

It’s likely because of its political roots that socialist tyrants in the West push for the Muslim Brotherhood’s acceptance, despite the fact that its model violently opposes everything that “progressive” politicians claim to believe in. (9)

Beneath the surface, they have the same drive for social control and political power. (10)

This new brand of Islam “concerns itself with communism, socialism, nationalism, liberalism, and all the currents from the West,” according to the 2005 book “The Saudi Enigma: A History” by Pascal Ménoret, which cites leftist Islamic scholar Ali al-Umaym. (11)

This blend of socialism and Islam was a key factor behind modern Islamist terrorism. Part of this was the Soviet “liberation front” movements, such as Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Front. Another key part was from the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence behind al-Qaeda. (12)

Qutb’s brother mentored Osama Bin Laden, and Qutb’s ideas helped inspire the terrorist group al-Qaeda. (13)

If you look at countries like Iran and Afghanistan before this new form of socialist theocracy took root, you may notice something interesting: the cities looked like Western countries. Women dressed much like they did in the United States in the 1970s. (14)

And have you noticed that, despite the fact that socialists in the West support international Islam, they seem to oppose the Saudi model? This is likely because the Saudis never fully adopted socialist Islam. It mainly kept the conservative model. (15)

During the 1950s, the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Egyptian model” for Islamism came to the doorstep of Saudi Arabia under the banner of “modernization.” (16)

Socialist and communist movements were spreading in Saudi Arabia, with the calls for “Egyptian reforms” to replace the traditional form of conservative monarchy. (17)

Among these were the Central Committee of Arabian Workers, the Organization of Saudi Communists, and National Liberation Front which later became the Communist Party of Saudi Arabia. (18)

A group of Saudi princes joined these movements, which led to the “Free Princes” movement. The head of it was the father of modern Saudi progressivism, Alwaleed Bin Talal, who was known as “The Red Prince.” (19)

They were labeled as a form of veiled communism, and their attempted coup was thwarted. Despite this, however, individuals like Alwaeed Bin Talal were still pushing for its agenda. (20)

Saudi Arabia has since designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, as have Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. The United States may soon do the same, despite heavy pushback from legacy news outlets and socialist politicians. (21)

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement, “The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process.” (22)

Muslims who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood theocratic model have backed the decision. Mohamad Tawhidi wrote: “If President Trump designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist org, it will be the biggest hit to the global Islamist movement." (23)

He adds, "MB has the most organized network of institutions, politicians & banks. This will shake their empire. Do it. Asap." (24)

https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1123228044947120128

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But for those looking for more info on this, I explained a lot of this in more detail in a piece about the 2017 arrests in Saudi Arabia. There was a lot more to it than what was seen on the surface.

theepochtimes.com/recent-arrests…