Muslim Brotherhood and PLO's Hamas: What You should Know About

Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

                                 Muslim Brotherhood on the offense 

    Bank of the Nile River in Cairo today, Egypt where Pharaohs go back 6,000 years 

We of the West first heard of the Muslim Brotherhood as some Islamic organization in Egypt that was outlawed, and being a Muslim group, had no idea why.  Here's why. But first, one needs to know this:  

After Islam entered Egypt under the leadership of the noble companion Amr ibn Al-As in the year 640 CE/AD, Egypt soon became Umm Al-Dunya .  Islam lit the candles of institution and learning, which was matched by none, so they think.   It was the  beacon of Muslim scholarship and achievement.                        

      Camel Caravans 

 Mohammed (570-632) who developed Islam, had been in touch with Jewish "preachers" who would be outside the tents in Medina telling the story of our Jewish beginnings and how we believed.  Mohammed lived in Medina (Yathrib) in Arabia, where he encountered a significant Jewish population, after migrating there from Mecca; this is where he interacted with Jewish tribes like the Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza, establishing a pact with them known as the Constitution of Medina.   

According to the Bible, the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years. This is based on a passage in Exodus 12:40. Explanation  The Bible's Book of Exodus attempts to ground the exodus in history. The Septuagint (LXX) [70] --A Greek translation of "Bible" records a variation of the verse, stating that the Israelites lived in Egypt and Canaan for 430 years.    70 Jewish scholars were held to translate the bible for them.    

 At any rate, he thought it would be nice if his people also were also a people of the book; but he changed morality quite different  to fit his ideas.  

Mohammed thought he could convince Jews to become Muslims, and they refused.

These bad experiences with the Jews of Medina changed Muhammad’s view of Jews. He had hoped that they would all become Muslims, or that they’d at least assimilate enough that it wouldn’t matter. When he came to Medina, the Muslims had been facing Jerusalem to pray, to emphasize their Abrahamic origin. But after the Bani Qaynuqa siege, there was a revelation that now they should face Mecca, which Abraham had also established. That became the qibla, the prayer direction, from them on. Muhammad hadn’t declared all Jews to be evil, far from it. But he had realized that they did not view his new faith as either the same as theirs or better. They began to stand out among his enemies as the ones that would never give in, and they could work to undermine him. He began to see the Jews as a fifth column, an enemy in their midst.                           

The same thing happened with Judaism and its leadership with Moses  during the Exodus (1579 BCE ) that they knew nothing about, evidently.  This also reminds me of the studious rabbis of Worms in Germany, where Jews arrived in the 10th century after 70 CE when  Rome occupied and burned down Jerusalem along with their Temple of Solomon, a structure of religious life in Judaea/Judea.                

  Worms, being in the Rhineland of Germany, housed many Jewish communities after arriving there, and rabbis would gather together and hold classes, seminars, debates, and come to understand the 613 law of Moses much better in a more unified way.                                                                         

Many religious and political leaders were either born or worked from Egypt, including the likes of Imaam Ash-Shafi, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, At-Tahawi, Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi and, more recently, Shaykh Rashid Rida and Shaykh Hasan Al-Banna, founder of the al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn movement.

Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna ( 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian schoolteacher and Imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, a political party, and  in 1928, one of the largest and most influential global Islamist movements, and for his putative martyrdom at the hands of the Egyptian government.  Al-Banna's teachings spread far beyond Egypt, influencing various Islamist movements from charitable organizations to political parties.  

His religious/belief system was the basis of his party, like how Israel started being a Jewish state.  However,  At age 12 Hassan al-Banna joined the Society for Moral Behaviour, thus demonstrating at an early age the deep concern for religious affairs that characterized his entire life.                                          

January 1, 1922;  Distinguished visitors  eating near the tomb of King Tut

Egypt's independence movement in the early 20s: The 1920s were colored by a wave of anti-colonial resistance and nationalist sentiment that sought to confront British rule and shake the imperial yoke.  You see, the history of Egypt under the British lasted from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 1956 after the Suez Crisis, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954.  

                          January 1, 1900

The Brits had also been awarded the 30 year mandate to rule over Palestine in which during that time, they promised the Jewish contingent who met many times with them to make much of Palestine a Jewish holding to be the Jewish Homeland.  They must have hated themselves for that as they then discovered oil in Arabia and so also made promised to the Saudis, making the Prince Feisal II  the king of Iraq and the king of Syria at another point in time. 

                                     Feisal I of Iraq

Feisal Ibn Hussein (1885-1933) was king of Iraq from 1921.  He was the oldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca, appointed by a Jewish ambassador of Britain ironically.  He led the Arabs against Turkey (Ottoman Empire who had held Middle East for 400 years) or (This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for more than 600 years.. ) 

 Faisal II ; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.

"The British signed the Treaty of Darin in 1915 with Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman, also known as Ibn Saud, which made the lands of the House of Saud a British protectorate. The treaty also acknowledged the rights of Abdulaziz's sons to rule. In 1932, Abdulaziz unified the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Kingdom of Nejd into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was proclaimed king (malik) of Hejaz in 1926, and raised Nejd to a kingdom in 1927."

In 1923 he enrolled at the Dār al-ʿUlūm, a teacher-training school in Cairo, which maintained a traditional religious and social outlook.

 In 1927 he was assigned to teach Arabic in a primary school in the city of Ismailia (al-Ismāʿīliyyah), near the Suez Canal, which was a focal point for the foreign economic and military occupation of Egypt. There he witnessed scenes that acutely distressed him and many other Muslims. 

In March 1928, with six workers from a British camp labour force, he created the Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), which aimed at a rejuvenation of Islam.

Al-Banna considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran and Sunnah as the only acceptable constitution. He called for Islamization of the state, the economy, and society. His idea for all was complete immersion in Islam, interpreted in his way, no doubt.  

 He declared that establishing a just society required development of institutions and progressive taxation, and elaborated an Islamic fiscal theory where zakat would be reserved for social expenditure in order to reduce inequality. 

Al-Banna's ideology involved criticism of Western materialism, British imperialism, and the traditionalism of the Egyptian ulema. He appealed to Egyptian and pan-Arab patriotism but rejected Arab nationalism and regarded all Muslims as members of a single nation-community.

So, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Islamist religious, political, and social movement, becoming terrorists, with adherents estimated to number between 2 and 2.5 million.

              Former Egypt President Mohamed Morsi, (8 August 1951 – 17 June 2019) 

was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who was the fifth president of Egypt, from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.

Within months of the coup against Morsi, Egypt's President, the Egyptian military took several measures to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood—banning it in September 2013 and declaring it a terrorist organization in December. These efforts corresponded to a view of the Brotherhood’s power as being concentrated in an elite cadre that made strategic decisions and passed them on to the wider organization through top-down communication. The military-backed regime assumed that if this pyramidal setup was debilitated, the strains on the Brotherhood would lead to its disintegration.                                                  

At the same time, Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1929.  He organized another group called the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization.   He attended Cairo University, evidently the hotbed of change, like in the USA.  He founded FATAH in 1959 as a political movement,   formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement.  It also  is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).  

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah. Another year and he'll be 90 years old.  From Fatah has sprung a smaller group more fanatic and that is HAMAS.  The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist political organization with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.                                                                          

It is now 2025 and Donald Trump is President of the USA, stating that they must beremoved and that a nice piece of real estate in either Jordan or Egypt would be a good place for them, which is being denied by those presidents in charge.  Trumpseems to have taken  control of the Middle East and this is like music to Israel's earswho have been fighting against Hamas ever since its birth.  No other president hasoffered so much help to Israel in its dealings with people who deny their presence. In fact, the countries involved had a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, Africa after the 1967 War when Israel won  against the mighty band of nations' attacks and even gained land in the defense of theirs, and they decided they would never make peace with Israel, stating this withtheir 3 NO, No, Nos.  Trump was there when the Abraham Accords came about.  I'm afraid that the Arabs thought this would be the ticket to having a  Palestine Statebut that's not going to happen.  After Oct 7th, all the world can see what Hamasallows and is capable of.  They are worse than murderers.  They have standardsto live by that are worse than the animal kingdom.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt#:~:text=In%20Egypt%2C%20the%20Muslim%20Brotherhood,between%202%20and%202.5%20million.

The Battle Islam is Fighting

Nadene Goldfoot                                

Afghanistan Jews living in a Muslim Country

Jews turned to Islamic countries when they found that Christian ones had turned against them as strongly as they had when their newly-found religion was in full blossom in about the year 300 when rules came out of a meeting in Constantinople as to how to view Jesus and what to do about the Jewish religion.  This grew into situations like the period of the Crusaders taking Jerusalem away from Muslims who had taken it from the Romans who had taken it from the Jews.  
                                                   

The Crusaders were slashing away with their swords at Jews as they rode their horses through Europe on the way to the Holy Land and then continued killing both as they could not see or care about their differences.  Both were an abomination to these cocky Crusaders.  It was in 1096 that German Crusade massacres against Jews happened in European towns.  That was followed up with the 1099 Jews of Jerusalem being massacred by the Crusaders who had arrived.  
                                                  

Then in the late 1300s  when in 1355 there were 12,000 Jews that were massacred by the mob in Toledo, Spain,  and in 1391 the Jews of Spain were forcibly converted to Christianity.    and by 1492, Spain was in full control of attitudes towards Jews by putting out a law that Jews had to leave their country or accept baptism, becoming fully Christianized in the Catholic faith prevailing at the time.  1492 saw the expulsion of 180,000 Jews from Spain with 50,000 converted to Christianity who were allowed to remain in Spain.   Those that could, moved over to Portugal (3) on the map above, but within a year or two, by 1497, faced the same dilemma as they passed the very same laws about Jews, too. 
                                                        

Jews living in Palestine in the Mt. Zion area before 1948
where Arabs also lived.  The Ottoman Empire had held
the land for 400 years up to 1917 but did not live there;
only taxed the population.  it was a holding of theirs, like stock.
Jews and Arab got along fine, except for the outbursts of Arabs instigated by the Grand Mufti, according to Mimi Padrow of Tel Aviv, whose parents owned a hotel there.  She was my neighbor who arrived in Portland after 1929's riots in Jerusalem by the Mufti's political uprising. Mimi's husband, Matthew,  was a dentist and a druggist. What a husband he was!   It was he who mopped their kitchen floor every week.  Their son, Ben, was a university professor at Portland State U.  I was lucky enough to hear her stories of life in Tel Aviv from about age 5 onwards.  Mat was way ahead of his time as far as treatment of women.  Mimi didn't work outside the home, either.  

                                                    

Aleppo, Syrian Jews
The city has collapsed since the Jews left, rescued from
cruel treatment by the Syrian officials.  

 Jews everywhere found themselves seeking new lands to live in but if they couldn't face the unknown seas, would wind up converting, and becoming the anusim we find today, people who regaining their roots in Judaism once again.  The Inquisition traced down people who had been Jews and had converted, only to continue some form of Jewish practice, and would torture them, even burn them at the stake to get confessions leading to an inevitable death as it was, anyway.  Those who even made it to Mexico were known to be hunted by the Inquisition.                                          
                                                        

Bagdadi Jews of India,
Many have made aliyah to Israel.  

This is why so many were able to move to Islamic lands and find solace in living as 2nd class citizens, paying taxes others didn't have to for being of a different religion.  Sometimes a few were even able to enter into the leadership of the lands with the Muslims.  The name for the Jewish people's class distinction were the Dhimmis.               Definition of dhimmi
: a person living in a region overrun by Muslim conquest who was accorded a protected status and allowed to retain his or her original faith.  
The word literally means "protected person",^[3] referring to the state's obligation under sharia to protect the individual's life, property, and freedom of religion, in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax, which complemented the zakat, or alms, paid by the Muslim subjects.^[4] Dhimmis were exempt from certain duties assigned specifically to Muslims, and did not enjoy certain privileges and freedoms reserved for Muslims, but were otherwise equal under the laws of property, contract, and obligation.  
                                                   

Moroccan Jews

     Jews didn't have is as easy and rosy as it sounds, but even so, it was much better than living in Poland or Lithuania where pogroms were going on constantly against Jews.  Yes, there were even a few happening in the Middle East against the Jews there too, but not as frequently.  
                                                      

Emir Feisal on the right in a meeting about
the creation of Israel that he was for until
the Grand Mufti enraged the people of Palestine so much
and the British and French went against their promise to Feisal.  

Today, all this protection for Jews is gone.  It left when Israel was declared a state again, even though one of the greatest Muslim leaders of the day, Emir Feisal, was for the creation of Israel.  He had met with the leaders of the Jewish team many a time, and he himself became king of Iraq and Syria at different periods.  His nemesis was the Palestinian Haj Amin al- Husseini, the Sharif of Jerusalem, who also went by the title of the Grand Mufti.  This is a man who didn't want to lose his position and feared he would with the influx of Jews entering the land.  He was a big fish in a little pond with a small mind full of jealousy.  

That was Islam then, kinder than early Christianity.  What has happened to it today with Salafists and ISIS emerging within their own people, acting not only against other religious groups, but their own people because they aren't towing the mark as these radical groups interpret their islamic religion?  

                                                        

Morsi of Egypt: , was head of the Muslim Brotherhood:   "As 5th president of Egypt for a short while, Morsi issued a temporary constitutional declaration in late November that in effect granted him unlimited powers and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts as a pre-emptive move against the expected dissolution of the second constituent assembly by the Mubarak-era judges." "Mohamed Morsi is an Egyptian politician,  President of Egypt, from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed Morsi from office in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after the June 2013 Egyptian protests.

                                                       

Hillary and Morsi
Obama backed Morsi in this episode

"Morsi's government condemned the Israeli Operation Pillar of Defense and called for a ceasefire. Morsi sent Prime Minister Hesham Qandil to Gaza to express solidarity with Gaza and Hamas, a stark contrast to Hosni Mubarak's treatment of Hamas as an enemy in the 2008–09 Gaza War. Egypt, along with the United States mediated the ceasefire with Hamas and Israel. "

" Morsi had declared "The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine. What they took before 1947–48 constitutes plunder, and what they are doing now is a continuation of this plundering. By no means do we recognize their Green Line. The land of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not to the Zionists." In September 2010, calling the Israelis "blood-suckers", "warmongers" and "descendants of apes and pigs", Morsi said "These futile [Israeli-Palestinian] negotiations are a waste of time and opportunities. The Zionists buy time and gain more opportunities, as the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the Muslims lose time and opportunities, and they get nothing out of it. We can see how this dream has dissipated. This dream has always been an illusion... This [Palestinian] Authority was created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests." White House spokesman Jay Carney tried to downplay Morsi's remarks, saying that U.S. policy is focused on actions, not words. Morsi later contended that his remarks were "taken out of context", and his exchange with a delegation headed by John McCain was made public:"  No, he was caught telling how the Muslim Brotherhood viewed Israel, that's all.  
                                                        

The Muslim Brotherhood was viewed as " The organization that gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work", and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011. However, it faced periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates."  
During this period Obama was president and did not see it as a terrorist
 organization while those Middle Eastern States affected by it did.   
                                                                         

al Qaeda's Bin Laden
The group is gaining strength again.  

Al Qaeda, and Islamist groups nurtured by ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence, Afghan rebels through Pakistan's main spy  agency), have turned on their own Pakistani state.  They had been subcontracted for aid by America's CIA.  In 1989  the service was a strong force in Pakistan.  It is said that they manipulated politics for the army and promoted armed groups of Islamists, including Arab volunteers.   They have used suicide bombings that have taken over 600 lives in 2007.  "In their capital, their armed revolutionaries threatened the government and carried out vigilante assaults to enforce religious morals. "  When a people resort to killing their kinfolk to force them into being moral according to their wishes, something definitely is wrong.   Think of it.  To kill someone for killing someone.  Well, we actually use that as part of our court system, don't we?  We're getting away from it, though, seeing how silly it is, and saving the death penalty for atrocious multiple killings.  That's how Israel has viewed it, not using the death penalty at all except for a few rare exceptions.  
                                                       

Taliban are another group.  Pervez Musharraf,  a Pakistani politician and retired four-star army general who was the 10th President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering his resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008, was also called the Former dictator and 10th President of Pakistan. 
                                                      

Taliban fighter

"He had drawn a line between Pakistani policy toward the Taliban before 2001 and today and said that Pakistan no longer sees the Taliban as representing Pashtuns."  Pashtuns are a 50 million population group who follow their own laws of Pashtunwali first, Islam 2nd, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India.  Many are found to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, some of the 10 tribes that were taken away from Israel by the invasion of Assyrians in 722-721 BCE.  They are amazing fighters who had taken on the Russian invasion and have evidently won. We have found that many families still have ancient practices of Judaism from that period of time, that have identified them as such.  They also have the history of their origins, many claiming to have come from Israel's first king, Saul, and Joseph's line.  
                                                        

Taliban fighters-Afghanistan, Pakistan

 Many have become the Taliban, unfortunately, and have attacked their own people.  What does the Taliban offer to them that Islam hasn't, we ask?  "The Taliban is an ultra-conservative religious and political militant organization that attempts to enforce Sharia law and Islamic government throughout the Middle East and in other lands. The group is known to excommunicate or kill those who do not follow their radical interpretation of Islamic beliefs."  Again, this the belief that it is okay to force people to follow your morality and punish those who disagree with death.  We who follow the Mosaic teachings know that killing is a sin, but we don't kill someone for it. We hold a jury hearing and if found guilty, they are in prison.  One has no chance at all with the Taliban position.

"The Taliban is a religious dictatorship. Those under Taliban rule are not free to practice their own religion, nor can they criticize the regime’s governing policies. The Taliban applies a severe interpretation of Islam and the Koran; the group believes that Islamic law must be strictly followed." 
                                                    

Salafist islam. is a movement of going back to the original practices of Mohammad (570-632).  The Salafi movement, also called Salafist movement, Salafiya, and Salafism, is a reform branch or revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Egypt in the late 19th century as a response to Western European imperialism, with roots in the 18th-century Wahhabi movement that originated in the Najd region of modern day Saudi Arabia. It advocated a return to the traditions of the salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, which include the generations of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his companions (the Sahabah), their successors (the Tabi‘un), and the successors of the successors (the Taba Tabi‘in)." If you remember your history of the Middle East, they proselytized by the sword and took parts of Europe.  They seem to be the instigators of creating ISIS.  
                                                  

"In the 1990s, extremist jihadists of the al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya were active in the attacks on police, government officials and tourists in Egypt, and Armed Islamic Group of Algeria was a principal group in the Algerian Civil War.The most famous jihadist-Salafist attack is the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda.While Salafism had next-to-no presence in Europe in the 1980s, Salafist jihadists had by the mid-2000s acquired "a burgeoning presence in Europe, having attempted more than 30 terrorist attacks among E.U. countries since 2001."^[ While many see the influence and activities of Salafi jihadists as in decline after 2000 (at least in the United States), others see the movement as growing, in the wake of the Arab Spring and the breakdown of state control in Libya and Syria."

                                                   

  
ISIS:  Stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Salafi jihadist is a  militant group that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. They also are following the old ways of conversion with the sword and cutting off heads of people that don't give into their demands or moralistic behavior.  If you want to become as immoral as this group and be dead yourself to any moralistic virtues, you would join this group.  They have ruined the name of Islam.  

                                                 

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, officially known as the Islamic State and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh, is a Salafi jihadist militant group.

                                                         

Manassah dancing in Israel
Happy to return
Further afield, in northeast India, the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to emigrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Judaism in accordance with halachic standards.

Judaism took place with Moses around 1311 BCE, and Christianity started in about the year 37.  Islam started before Mohammad died in 632.  Both newer religions borrowed much from its parent religion, Judaism.  Pashtunwali has much of Judaism's teachings in it that I have already just had a brief encounter with.  The new religions are having one heck of a time serving the huge multitudes they are addressing and getting them to adhere to some basic principals of civilization, like the 10 Commandments. 

 We're all forgetting to address these important issues in our wrestling with problems like survival in our different economies and cultures.  There are some things that may be old, but have survived the years in serving mankind well.  Dig them out, dust them off, and start being more civilized.  

Resource:  Facts about Israel, Division of Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, publishers
Book: DIRECTORATE S, by Steve Coll, p. 281,  
https://www.reference.com/world-view/taliban-s-beliefs-16191305c10c236d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_jihadism
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-balfour-declaration-real-facts.html with info about Ben Padrow and family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Manasseh