Lis­ten to FTR #343 now: RealAu­dio | MP3 Side 1 Side 2

Al-Taqwa’s Youssef Nada

With ele­ments as dis­parate as advo­cates within the CIA and State Depart­ment on one hand and promi­nent per­son­al­i­ties on the pro­gres­sive Paci­fica Radio net­work on the other tout­ing the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood as a benign or even laud­able orga­ni­za­tion, it may prove use­ful to newer (and younger) lis­ten­ers to take a few weeks to reex­am­ine the true nature of the Broth­er­hood (“Ikhwan” in Arabic).

Rep­re­sent­ing itself as a civil rights orga­ni­za­tion and suc­cess­fully fronting for ele­ments of the Amer­i­can (and inter­na­tional) Mus­lim com­mu­nity as a “mod­er­ate” influ­ence, the Broth­er­hood is actu­ally fas­cist in nature and can only be prop­erly under­stood as part of what some ana­lysts have called “the fas­cist inter­na­tional,” before, dur­ing and after World War II.

The par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of Al Qaeda, the Mujahideen in the first Afghan war against the Sovi­ets, Hamas and Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad (among other orga­ni­za­tions), the Broth­er­hood was allied with the Axis in World War II and con­tin­ues to net­work with suc­ces­sor fas­cist ele­ments to this day. FTR #343 presents the Brotherhood’s pro­found and defin­i­tive alliance with Ger­man fascists–both those of the Hitler period and so-called “neo”-Nazis in the Fed­eral Repub­lic today.

Fran­cois Genoud (left) and Achmed Huber (Right)

Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance is the Brotherhood’s Bank al-Taqwa, founded by Nazi banker Fran­cois Genoud, headed by reputed for­mer Nazi spy Youssef Nada and includ­ing neo-Nazi Achmed Huber as a direc­tor. Al-Taqwa helped to finance and assist Al Qaeda, even after the 9/11 attacks. Genoud is the heir to the polit­i­cal last will and tes­ta­ment and col­lected lit­er­ary works of Adolf Hitler, Mar­tin Bor­mann and Joseph Goebbels! Huber is a pro­tege of Omar Amin von Leers (nee Johann von Leers), Nazi pro­pa­ganda chief Joseph Goebbels’ chief anti-Semitic the­o­rist, as well as an asso­ciate of the NPD (Germany’s top neo-Nazi party.)

The fol­low­ing week, FTR #377 will high­light the Brotherhood’s oper­a­tional and insti­tu­tional links with Ital­ian fas­cists. Inter­est­ingly and per­haps iron­i­cally, the “Ikhwan” as it’s known in the Arabic-speaking world over­laps indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions linked to the P-2 lodge. A masonic lodge that func­tioned as a crypto-fascist shadow gov­ern­ment of Italy for decades, the P-2 lodge was close to the Vat­i­can and pro­foundly influ­enced its poli­cies. Indi­vid­ual stock­hold­ers in the Bank al-Taqwa (the Brotherhood’s main finan­cial insti­tu­tion) are linked to the Alleanza Nationale–the Ital­ian fas­cist party descen­dant from Mussolini’s black­shirts, as well as Ordine Nuovo (a fas­cist ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion that authored numer­ous bomb­ings and assas­si­na­tions in Italy.)

The Brotherhood’s eco­nomic agenda is based on the “cor­po­ratist” model of Mussolini’s Italy.

Lastly, we’ll fol­low FTR #377 with a broad­cast illus­trat­ing how the Broth­er­hood sur­vived and pros­pered in the post­war period, in part due to its con­nec­tions to the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency. FTR #518 exam­ines the piv­otal role of Mus­lim Waf­fen SS vet­er­ans in the found­ing and per­pet­u­a­tion of the Munich Islamic com­mu­nity in Ger­many. Ulti­mately com­ing under the sway of the CIA, the Waf­fen SS-connected Broth­er­hood com­mu­nity in Munich became the epi­cen­ter of a Ger­man and global islamist net­work that func­tions to this day. This Ger­man Islamist com­mu­nity fig­ured promi­nently in the net­work that per­pe­trated the 9/11attacks.

With such an infa­mous his­tory, it should come as no sur­prise that the Brotherhood-controlled gov­ern­ment of the Sudan per­pe­trated geno­cide against its Chris­t­ian and ani­mist reli­gious minori­ties in the 1990’s and against its black African pop­u­la­tion in Dar­fur as this text is being writ­ten. The Ikhwan’s pre­tense to being a “civil rights” orga­ni­za­tion is belied by its ongo­ing efforts in Egypt to ban san­i­tary nap­kin dis­pensers from women’s rooms in pub­lic high schools and sup­port­ing female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion. (The Broth­er­hood seeks the ban of san­i­tary nap­kin dis­pensers in order to force female stu­dents to stay home when hav­ing their peri­ods, in accor­dance with the Koranic ban on men asso­ci­at­ing with men­stru­at­ing women–considered “unclean.” Female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion is a euphemism for the sur­gi­cal removal of women’s cli­torises in order to pro­tect them from “impure” thoughts and feelings.)