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From: "Henk Elegeert" <HmjE at Home.nl>
To: <D66 at nic.surfnet.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Cartoonoorlog: URL Iraanse Holocaust Cartoon Contest


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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
> "
> 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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