In "Appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood" at
FrontPage today, Nonie Darwish exposes his closest Islamic adviser, Dalia Mogahed:
When President Obama spoke to the Muslim world in Cairo last
June, a large portion of his guests were leaders and members of the
Muslim Brotherhood. The speech was designed to please them more than
supporting the reformist movement in Egypt and across the Muslim world.
The Obama administration has hired the first White House Muslim
advisor, Dalia Mogahed, who helped with writing Obama's speech. Mogahed
is herself an Islamic ideologue who supports Islamic Sharia and denies
any connection between radical Islam and terrorism. Mogahed, who was
born in Egypt, has also been a firm defender of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA). Both of these US groups are tied to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
As an American of Egyptian origin myself, I can tell who is a
reformist and who is a radical Muslim sympathizer, and I do not think
that Ms. Mogahed's views are in any way supportive of a reformation in
Islam or of its concept of jihad. To the contrary, she denies the
existence of any problem with Islamic ideology and she acts in total
harmony with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Her excuses are the
same old excuses we Egyptians learned day in and day out in defense of
Islamic jihad and in blaming others for misunderstanding of Islam. Her
answers are always given with total confidence and conviction, as she
tells her audience that any violent actions by Muslims have nothing to
do with Islam. Never mind that Islamic mosques, education, art and songs
all glorify jihad as a holy war for the sake of Allah.
Mogahed brings nothing new to Islamic propaganda but she certainly
sounds interesting to Americans who are unfamiliar with this same old
Islamic propaganda and who find it hard to question a religion. The
truth about Mogahed is that she combines the good old Muslim sheikhs
rhetoric with a better presentation that Americans can understand.
Sheikhs never take any kind of criticism of Islam and they ridicule
those who question Islam with statements like: "Who are you to speak for
Islam? Leave the analysis to the experts on Islam." Mogahed's logic is
very similar and, coincidentally, her book is entitled: "Who Speaks for
Islam." It is a meaningless title showing statistics that are designed
to show that Muslims are different and are not all terrorists, which is
no news.
Of course among Muslims there are good and bad people, like in any
other group. What Mohahed refuses to admit is that reputable critics of
Islam have nothing against Muslim people, but they correctly decipher
that the problem stems from the ideology of Islam and its scriptures and
commandments. What Mogahed refuses to discuss are the actual laws of
Sharia, the history of jihad, the ideology and education that produced
9/11, Islamic imperialism, oppression of human rights, women and
minorities. Her answers are usually simplistic, such as the argument
that Sharia cannot be bad to women because the majority of Muslim women
allegedly support Sharia? The bottom line of Mogahed's propaganda is the
same old complaint: that Islam is misunderstood and that Muslim
people's anger and violence is triggered by politics and not by
religion. The problem with the West is all a misunderstanding, she
argues, and with some education and sensitivity training the West will
accept Islam as a religion of peace. Her position in the White House has
given her a powerful opportunity to enhance the standing of radical
Islamist groups in the eyes of our government instead of the reformists
and anti-Sharia Muslims....
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