The tag 'al-Taqwa' is associated with 177 posts.

Muslim Brotherhood/Islamist Coup Attempt in Bangladesh

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 26, 2012 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: It appears that an Islamist coup attempt in Bangladesh has been foiled (at least for the time being).
Note that the Jamaat-e-Islami (a Mus­lim  Broth­er­hood off­shoot) was a major ele­ment in the coup attempt. If such an future attempt  were to be suc­cess­ful, it would flank India with hos­tile Mus­lim nations–a devel­op­ment that would move the [...]

Dominating New Egyptian Parliament, Muslim Brotherhood Controls that Body’s House Speaker

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 20, 2012 ⋅ 6 comments

COMMENT: Hav­ing gained 45 % of the seats in the new Egypt­ian par­lia­ment, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood has now maneu­vered the sec­re­tary gen­eral of its Free­dom and Jus­tice Party into the posi­tion of house speaker.
Por­trayed as “mod­er­ate,” the Broth­er­hood is, of course, noth­ing of the sort.  Allied with the Axis in World War II, the [...]

Al Taqwa Imam Mediating Talks with Taliban?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: The Indian media report that Youssef al-Qaradawi is medi­at­ing talks with the Tal­iban. Closely linked to the Bank al-Taqwa, Qaradawi may well be the most impor­tant of the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s reli­gious the­olo­gians.
In part, this devel­op­ment (if true) may well be an out­growth of the State Department’s alliance with the Broth­er­hood, delin­eated in the [...]

Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: The appar­ent cap­ture and down­ing by Iran of a U.S. drone air­craft raises a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions.
If the account pre­sented in “Debka” can be believed, the pos­si­bil­ity of some sort of “inside job” is one to be care­fully con­sid­ered. (“Debka” is an intel­li­gence newslet­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in Mid­dle East­ern and Israeli national security [...]

Egyptian Army and Muslim Brotherhood Join Forces

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 28, 2011 ⋅ 16 comments

COMMENT: While the euro­zone debt cri­sis pro­pels Europe toward German-dominated fas­cism, the “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring” seems poised to bring war and/or fas­cism (“cor­po­ratism”) to the Mid­dle East.
The Egypt­ian army and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood have appar­ently joined forces, amid reports that the Broth­er­hood con­tin­ues to agi­tate for war with Israel.
(The Broth­er­hood is an Islamic fas­cist organization, [...]

Anonymous vs. The Muslim Brotherhood: Hacktivists Deploy against Islamic Fascists

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 12, 2011 ⋅ 12 comments

COMMENT: A fas­ci­nat­ing story comes to us from the  vig­i­lant “ter­rafractyl.” The Anony­mous hack­ing milieu has declared war on the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Egypt. I don’t know how tech-savvy the Ikhwan is, or how vul­ner­a­ble their 0perations are to the sorts of gam­bits that can be employed by Anony­mous, but this is a remarkable [...]

Update on “A Night in Tunisia”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 30, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: In the long For The Record series deal­ing with Wik­iLeaks and the Piggy-Back Coups in the Mid­dle East, that tor­tu­ous jour­ney began with the coup in Tunisia, believed by some observers to have been trig­gered by the dis­clo­sure of State Depart­ment cables crit­i­cal of the Ben Ali regime.
As noted by the vig­i­lant “Terrafractyl”, [...]

Turkish Foreign Minister Pursues Ottoman Irredentist, Islamist and Revisionist Policy Course

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 7, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

COMMENT: In past pro­grams, we’ve asked whether the newly invig­o­rated pan-Turkist move­ment and Islamism might con­verge. Just such a devel­op­ment appears to be gain­ing momen­tum, with Turk­ish for­eign min­is­ter Ahmet Davu­to­glu hav­ing observed  the Mus­lim hol­i­day of Eid el-Fitr in Bosnia/Herzogovina.
In addi­tion to the fact that this for­mer Yugosla­vian province was part of [...]

S and P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating: “Hail Victory” for the SS Kampfgruppe Norquist

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 7, 2011 ⋅ 16 comments

COMMENT: Well, folks, they’ve done it. The GOP’s Tea Party fas­cists (with a gen­er­ous assist from an appar­ently clue­less and def­i­nitely gut­less Barack Obama) have suc­ceeded in caus­ing S & P to down­grade the U.S.‘s credit rat­ing from AAA–the first time in his­tory that this has been done.
In FTR #412, we out­lined the strat­egy of [...]

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood advancing Pro-Business Agenda

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

COMMENT: Although the Egypt­ian polit­i­cal scene remains in flux, with the elec­tions being delayed (as requested by many sec­u­lar inter­ests involved in the over­throw of Mubarak), the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood is advanc­ing its cor­po­ratist agenda. Recall that the Brotherhood’s eco­nomic the­o­reti­cian–the 14th cen­tury thinker Ibn Khal­dun–is regarded by the World Bank as the first advocate [...]

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