Yet in Washington, the Muslim Brotherhood is widely regarded as “moderate,” and those who point out that its ideology does not differ from that of the Islamic State are dismissed as “Islamophobes.”
“Former Kuwaiti Minister Of Information Saad Bin Tefla: The Ideology Of ISIS Has Already Been Preached By The Muslim Brotherhood In Sayyid Qutb’s Writings – The Movement Has Never Renounced These Ideas,” MEMRI, August 20, 2021:
Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Saad bin Tefla said that the ideology of ISIS did not come from thin air, and that it has already been preached by the Muslim Brotherhood in Sayyid Qutb’s writings. He made his remarks in an interview that aired on Asharq TV (Saudi Arabia) on August 20, 2021….
Saad bin Tefla: “There is a big lie that is being promoted, which says that we tried socialism, Baathism, pan-Arabism, Marxism, leftism, and liberalism, and all we got from this was destruction. But that is not true. They say: ‘Let political Islam have its chance for once.’ But it is not true that it never had its chance. [Political Islam] rules Afghanistan to this day through Taliban. It has ruled Iran since 1979. It has ruled Iraq since 2003. It dominates Lebanon, and we can see the outcome. It rules Gaza since 2007. It ruled Sudan – the biggest Arab country geographically – since 1989, after a coup against an elected government. And what was the outcome? One third of Sudan – 600,000 sq. km – were lost, and Sudan, as we can see today, unfortunately, was on the verge of becoming a failed state. In Tunisia, as you said, there is a problem. This is because the Muslim Brotherhood represented by the Ennahda movement, does not want for the Tunisian secular development project to move forward. Therefore, I believe that most of the problems – I’m not saying all of them because one needs to be objective – most of the problems Tunisia is experiencing today are because of political Islam.
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“The reality is that the ideology of ISIS did not appear out of thin air. The ideology of ISIS has already been preached by the Muslim Brotherhood [in such books as] ‘Milestones,’ and ‘In the Shade of the Quran,’ by Sayyid Qutb. The Muslim Brotherhood has never renounced these books and these ideas. My second point is that they might pronounce you a kafir [unbeliever] because of a single tweet, but they have never renounced the atrocities perpetrated by ISIS, and never said that it is absolute kufr [unbelief] that has nothing to do with Islam.”
gravenimage says
Former Kuwaiti minister: ‘Ideology of ISIS has already been preached by the Muslim Brotherhood’
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This is true. Of course, Kuwait is opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood because they are political rivals. The Islam that Saad Bin Tefla follows is not actually different–this is orthodox Islam.
mortimer says
Exactly, GI. The Islam of Kuwait is not different from that of Muslim Brotherhood, but they differ on the issue of political organization. ISIS and MB want a caliphate. Kuwait doesn’t.
Kuwait, MB and ISIS all espouse the same Sharia law which mandates warfare against disbelievers.
Infidel says
Kuwait is actually midway b/w Saudi Arabia and Qatar as far as islamic fanaticism goes. Saudi Arabia has been quietly dismantling the hatred of non-muslims in schools, and how far they go before either MbS is overthrown or that country has a full blown civil war is still an open question. Qatar is not just the only other Wahabi country (Bahrein too is, even though the bulk of their population is shi’a), but the only country that fully embraces the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the only Arab country very friendly w/ both Turkey and Iran. Kuwait was the one country, aside from the US State Department (Trump actually supported the Saudi moves against Qatar) that tried to mediate b/w Saudi Arabia and Qatar
While Qatar is pro-Iran (despite their last commitments to Saudi Arabia), Kuwait has a policy of appeasing Iran and has been pointed in its support for the jihad against both Israel and India. The country that was momentarily grateful to us for saving their hide from Saddam in the 90s is dead
mortimer says
As we keep writing here: “IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID.” That’s the message for anyone who doesn’t know the secret of political Islam.
A real expert on political Islam, Fr. Henri Boulad of Alexandria wrote the following:
“The radical Islamism that has been loosed in Syria and Iraq (i.e. ISIS) is not a deviation or a perversion of an alleged ‘true Islam’, whose orientation might be purely spiritual and religious. In fact, it (ISIS) is the most traditional form of Islam.” – Fr. Henri Boulad SJ.
“L’islamisme radical qui se déchaîne en Syrie et en Irak (ISIS) n’est pas une déviation ou une perversion du véritable islam, dont l’orientation serait uniquement spirituelle et religieuse, c’est de fait l’islam le plus traditionnel”, lâche le Père Henri Boulad.
Our motto: “It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.”
mortimer says
It is obvious what former minister Saad Bin Tefla is doing: he is creating his own, personal ‘new-improved’ Islam with jihadism removed from its heart. This is an Islam that includes a version of the universal Golden Rule … Now at last, Muslims will be able to enjoy socializing with the dirty kufaar … well, maybe they ‘pretend’ that the kufaar are not ‘dirty’ anymore.
I wonder how many serious Muslims will accept this ‘new-improved’ Islam and how many will correctly see it canonically as ‘bida’ (i.e. an unacceptable and blasphemous ‘innovation’)
OLD GUY says
New and improved islam, don’t think so. Islam has always been political and always will be. Islam is the ideology of world domination.
Rarely says
I suspect that the ruling dynasties in Saudi Arabia and most of the Gulf States are most interested in promoting islam in whatever form and to whatever degree is necessary to keep their populace in line with them and their families in power in perpetuity. For us it’s been “better the devil you know” politics. Dubya forgot about that regarding Iraq and Libya.
Infidel says
At this point, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates have been pulling back any monetary backing of islam promotion, be it dawa, foreign mosques or jihad, given the budget crunches their countries have been in. Most reports of Saudi Arabia that I’ve read suggest that they’ve completely turned off the spigot to any of this, and there has also been recent trends of them banning unauthorized dawa activities to non-muslims, and ending the hatred of non-muslims in their education curriculum. In fact, today, Saudi Arabia might well be a more hospitable place than Pakistan or Turkey
Qatar and Kuwait, otoh, has still been supportive of all this, so it’s important to start distinguishing b/w the various Gulf countries