Cartoonoorlog: URL Iraanse Holocaust Cartoon Contest

[Henk Elegeert]

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Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks wrote:

> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
>
> De cartoons waarmee Iraanse Moslims terugslaan naar Deense cartoons (de
> 'Holocaust Cartoon Contest') staan op,
>    http://www.irancartoon.com
> Deze site is extreem traag (veel bekeken, grote files).
>
> In het geval dat de Amerikaanse overheid deze site sluit (de site bevindt
> zich in de USA), zal de site uitwijken naar,
>    http://www.adlroom.com
>    http://www.irfp.ir
>    http://www.sharifnews.com
>
> De reactie van Iraanse cartoonisten op ('het culturele terrorisme' van) de
> Deense cartoons staat op,
>    http://www.irancartoon.com/110/indexp.htm
> De cartoon van vandaag staat ook op de site van het Algemeen Dagblad,
>    http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00048/cartoon_48022h.jpg
> Dat zal het AD dus wel weer een klacht van het CIDI opleveren.


http://memri.org/bin/media.cgi?ID=162606
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MEMRI Research Cited in the Media

February 20, 2006, The Weekly Standard, "The Cartoon Jihad; The Muslim
Brotherhood's project for dominating the West" , By Olivier Guitta.


IT IS NOW ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the recent murderous protests over
cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last
September were anything but spontaneous. The actions of Islamist
agitators and financiers have deliberately drummed up rage among
far-flung extremists otherwise ignorant of the Danish press. The usual
suspects--the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran--have profited
from the spread of the disorders, and even the likes of tiny Kuwait has
reportedly offered funds to spur demonstrations throughout France.
More important, however, and perhaps less widely understood, the cartoon
jihad is tailor-made to advance the Muslim Brotherhood's long-term
worldwide strategy for establishing Islamic supremacy in the West.

As first reported by the Italian terrorism expert Lorenzo Vidino on the
Counterterrorism Blog, one of Denmark's leading Islamists, Imam Ahmed
Abu-Laban, led a delegation late last year to visit influential figures
in the Muslim world. He took with him a dossier of cartoons, both those
that had been published and others, much more offensive, of dubious
provenance. One place he took his road show was Qatar, where he briefed
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood
and a star of Al Jazeera.

Even after the riots began, Abu-Laban continued his meddling. On
February 4, he told Islamonline.net that Danish demonstrators were going
to burn Korans in the streets of Copenhagen, a falsehood that
nevertheless added fuel to the fire.

Abu-Laban's extremist connections are well established. A Palestinian
who is close to the Muslim Brotherhood, he was expelled from the United
Arab Emirates in 1984 for his fiery sermons and denunciations of local
leaders. According to Vidino, he served as translator and assistant to
Talaal Fouad Qassimy, top leader of the Egyptian terrorist group Gamaa
Islamiya, in the mid-1990s. During the Iraq war, he called the Danish
prime minister "an American puppet." In August, he told the Washington
Post that the Danes "have made immigrants pay the price. Muslims have
become the scapegoat. They think we will undermine their culture and
their values."

Abu-Laban's labors were not in vain, and everywhere the loudest protests
have come from the Muslim Brotherhood. On February 3 in Paris, Larbi
Kechat, an imam linked to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, said, "The most
abject terrorism is the symbolic kind, which spreads unlimited
violence." Meanwhile, in Qatar, al-Qaradawi was calling for an
"international day of anger for God and his prophet," describing the
cartoonists as "blasphemers" and Europeans as "cowards." Acknowledging
the latter's role, the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat, in London, stated
on February 8, "The issue disappeared from the radar until Sheikh Yusuf
al-Qaradawi, the mufti of Al Jazeera TV, seized upon it and called for
Muslims worldwide to protest."

Finally, according to the Moroccan daily Le Matin, the U.S. branch of
the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim American Society (MAS), called on
Muslims everywhere to use their economic power to punish European
countries where the cartoons were published. After French and German
newspapers reprinted the controversial cartoons, MAS executive director
Mahdi Bray commented, "Denmark has already paid an economic price for
disrespecting Islam. If France and Germany want to be next, then so beit."

THAT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD would seek to inflame this controversy makes
perfect sense, given the organization's Islamist philosophy and past
links to al Qaeda. What may not be sufficiently appreciated, however, is
the extent of the Brotherhood's deliberate planning for an Islamist
takeover of the West--and how neatly the cartoon jihad conforms to its
strategy.

A new book published by Le Seuil in Paris in October may further Western
understanding of this reality. Written by the Swiss investigative
reporter Sylvain Besson and not yet available in English, it publicizes
the discovery and contents of a Muslim Brotherhood strategy document
entitled "The Project," hitherto little known outside the highest
counterterrorism circles.

Besson's book, La conquête de l'Occident: Le projet secret des
Islamistes (The Conquest of the West: The Islamists' Secret Project),
recounts how, in November 2001, Swiss authorities acting on a special
request from the White House entered the villa of a man named Yusuf Nada
in Campione, a small Italian enclave on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano
in Switzerland. Nada was the treasurer of the Al Taqwa bank, which
allegedly funneled money to al Qaeda. In the course of their search of
Nada's house, investigators stumbled onto "The Project," an unsigned,
14-page document dated December 1, 1982.

One of the few Western officials to have studied the document before the
publication of Besson's book is Juan Zarate, named White House
counterterrorism czar in May 2005 and before that assistant secretary of
the treasury for terrorist financing. Zarate calls "The Project" the
Muslim Brotherhood's master plan for "spreading their political
ideology," which in practice involves systematic support for radical
Islam. Zarate told Besson, "The Muslim Brotherhood is a group that
worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas
but because it defends the use of violence against civilians."

"The Project" is a roadmap for achieving the installation of Islamic
regimes in the West via propaganda, preaching, and, if necessary, war.
It's the same idea expressed by Sheikh Qaradawi in 1995 when he said,
"We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not by the sword but
by our Dawa [proselytizing]."

Thus, "The Project" calls for "putting in place a watchdog system for
monitoring the [Western] media to warn all Muslims of the dangers and
international plots fomented against them." Another long-term effort is
to "put in place [among Muslims in the West] a parallel society where
the group is above the individual, godly authority above human liberty,
and the holy scripture above the laws."

A European secret service agent interviewed by Besson explains that "the
project is going to be a real danger in ten years: We'll see the
emergence of a parallel system, the creation of 'Muslim Parliaments.'
Then the slow destruction of our institutions will begin."

One point emphasized in "The Project" is that Muslims must constantly
work to support Islamic Dawa and all the groups around the globe engaged
in jihad. Also vital is to "keep the Ummah [the Muslim community] in a
jihad frame of mind" and--no surprise here--"to breed a feeling of
resentment towards the Jews and refuse any form of coexistence with
them." (On February 2, At-Tajdid, a Moroccan Islamist daily close to the
Brotherhood, explained to its readers that the Danish cartoons were "a
Zionist provocation aimed at reviving the conflict between the West and
the Muslim nation.")

By inflaming a controversy such as the current one, the Muslim
Brotherhood attempts to widen the rift between the West and Islam. It
specifically targets Muslim communities living in the West, aiming to
radicalize their moderate elements by continually pointing out the
supposed "Islamophobia" all around them. Right on cue, the Saudi daily
Al Watan reports that the Council of Islamic Countries decided in
December to create a worldwide Islamophobia watchdog organization that
will lobby for the adoption of "anti-Islamophobia" laws, as well as
promoting a common position against states or organizations it sees as
attacking Islam.

Under the scheme outlined in "The Project," the Muslim Brotherhood would
seek to become the indispensable interlocutor of Western governments on
issues relating not only to Islam but also to international issues
touching the Islamic world, notably the Israeli-Arab conflict, the war
in Iraq, and even the war on terror.

The same approach turns up in Qaradawi's 1990 book Priorities of the
Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase. Qaradawi sees the presence of
large Muslim populations in the West as a major opportunity. For him,
"the Islamic presence" in the West is necessary "to defend the interests
of the Muslim Nation and the land of Islam against the hostility and
disinformation of anti-Islamic movements." He actually calls on Western
Muslim communities to reform their host countries.

The cartoon jihad has been a godsend for Islamists throughout the world.
For the past year, Muslim lobbies in Europe have been pushing for the
adoption of blasphemy laws by the United Nations, the European Union,
and the nations of Europe. Predictably, Qaradawi endorsed this cause in
his sermon of February 3 (translated and posted on the web by the Middle
East Media Research Institute):

"The governments must be pressured to demand that the U.N. adopt a clear
resolution or law that categorically prohibits affronts to prophets."
[MEMRI TV Clip # 1026 - Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi Responds to Prophet
Muhammad's Caricature: Whoever Is Angered and Does Not Rage in Anger Is
a Jackass; We Are Not a Nation of Jackasses]

Like the cartoon jihad, it is a ploy straight out of the Muslim
Brotherhood playbook--and, most worryingly, a move likely to have strong
appeal to Muslim moderates.
"

Henk Elegeert

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