The Muslim Brotherhood and jihad part two

Part 2

Continued from last week

So, the question was this: Where else is the supposed non-violent Muslim Brotherhood active in helping Islamic jihad and Hamas? Everywhere in the world.

The only difference between the nonviolent Muslim Brotherhood versus al-Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic jihad is that the three practice violence to oppose us while the other preaches the Dao of Mohammed and evangelism to promote the overthrow of our society from within and nurtured the three secretly. All have one aim: the takeover of our society, to replace the Bill of Rights and the Constitution with the Koran and Sharia law, and that we be governed by imams.

When looking out for potential enemies, we are used to searching for military groups who oppose us (al-Qaeda), or political organizations that spout anti-democratic rhetoric (Cold War communism), or people who steal our secrets (commercial and military).

In the 1930s we missed the evil of Nazism precisely because they appeared to be focused on economic development and national democratic growth. The real signs were all there; read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,� written in 1925.

How did we miss the anti-semitism and greed to create a greater German world? Simple. We could not then believe that the power of rhetoric, just words, would seed society toward such evil. Surely that was unthinkable. At the time our observation techniques had not advanced to encompass radio and propaganda — a new world the Nazis had already professionally embraced.

Similarly, we are now myopic to the Islamic power of belief and indoctrination to promote death and destruction. Surely that is unthinkable; the Middle Ages are long past.

But we have only to look to some of the religious groups this nation has spawned (think Jonestown) to know the power some humans have over others, power that goes way beyond reason. Most Americans simply cannot fathom how someone can blow themselves and innocent people to smithereens, so we try and rationalize it with jokes about virgins in heaven.

Professionally applied belief systems are the most powerful weapons in the hands of evil humans. And indoctrinated humans can be the most misguided, capable enemies imaginable.

No good German could ever have committed the atrocities of the concentration camps, no good Rwandan could ever be capable of such barbarity with machetes, no good Jew could ever undertake the Massacre of the Innocents (as did Herod), no good Christian could have perpetrated the Spanish Inquisition and certainly no good American could ever be guilty of the My Lai Massacre … could they?

When pushed, or indoctrinated, humans are undoubtedly the most dangerous animals. We need to stop looking for traditional infrastructure within enemies’ organizations — especially where there is no need of such corporate organization within the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas or Islamic jihad.

We are in the midst of a very real war; a jihad is being undertaken globally against us by extremist, powerful, misguided Muslims. We must start looking at the motives, plans, needs and beliefs of those individuals who are, already, opposed to everything we stand for and enjoy.

Not to do so, as we once erred in 1935, is to begin to fail in the protection of the Constitution and the way of life of all free peoples. And, no doubt, could lead to a much greater conflict in the decades to come.

Peter Riva, formerly of Amenia Union, lives in New Mexico.