Britain to Crack Down on Muslim Brotherhood

Screen-Shot-2013-07-10-at-11.41.34-AM-620x406Britain’s The Telegraph reports that Britain is aiming to take serious measures against the Muslim Brotherhood. The situation contrasts notably with the one in the U.S., where—among much else—the Obama administration has cut back ties with the current, geopolitically moderate Egyptian government because—backed by the most massive popular protest in world history—it came to power by overthrowing a Muslim Brotherhood regime that the administration favored.

As The Telegraph describes it:

Downing Street is to order a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and a network of Islamist groups accused of fuelling extremism in Britain and across the Arab world. 

[Prime Minister] David Cameron launched an inquiry into the Brotherhood earlier this year, prompted by concerns it was stoking an Islamist ideology that had encouraged British jihadists to fight in Syria and Iraq.

Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), is an adviser to the inquiry and “is reported to have described [the Brotherhood] as ‘at heart a terrorist organization.’”

The Telegraph adds that:

A senior source close to the inquiry said its report—compiled but not yet published—had identified “an incredibly complex web” of up to 60 organisations in Britain, including charities, think tanks and even television channels, with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which will all now come under scrutiny. 

The inquiry, aided by the security services, has also investigated its network abroad. One expert said that the Brotherhood was now operating from three major bases—London, Istanbul and Doha, the capital of Qatar. 

That the Brotherhood operates out of Turkey and Qatar is, of course, not news to politically sentient people in the Middle East, who are well aware of the Turkey-Qatar-Brotherhood-Hamas axis.

As for what Britain plans to do about its domestic Brotherhood terror base:

The Government crackdown will stop short of outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood but action is expected to include: 

Þ Investigations into charities that are effectively “fronts” for the  Brotherhood; 

Þ Inquiries into funding of the organisation and links to jihadi groups abroad; 

Þ Banning clerics linked to the group from countries such as Qatar and Turkey from coming to Britain for rallies and conferences.

In other words, the British government has come around to viewing the Brotherhood the way it is viewed in the U.S. by people who are considered Islamophobic and bigoted for raising such issues.

Politically incorrect U.S. conservatives have for years been calling attention to the role of Brotherhood-linked officials in the administration, the stealth jihad practiced by Brotherhood front organizations, the domestic Brotherhood’s ties to foreign terror, and the Obama administration’s very problematic sympathy and support for the Brotherhood.

As Andrew McCarthy, writing in 2012, described the situation back then:

  •  The State Department has an emissary in Egypt who trains operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations in democracy procedures. We’re helping them get elected. 
  •  The State Department announced that the Obama administration would be “satisfied” with the election of a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government in Egypt….
  •  On a just-completed trip to Egypt, Secretary Clinton pressured the ruling military junta to hand over power to the newly elected parliament, which is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and to the newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is a top Brotherhood official.

Last month on Breitbart Katie Gorka noted that: 

On June 13, 2012, five members of Congress called for an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood influence operations in the Obama administration. The five members—Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Tom Rooney (R-FL), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)—were widely criticized for doing so, even by their own Republican leadership, including John McCain (R-AZ), John Boehner (R-OH), and Mike Rogers (R-MI).   

Meanwhile, Gorka points out, it is none other than the New York Times that has published a major exposé of foreign governments’ influence-buying at U.S. think tanks—focusing especially on Brotherhood-patron Qatar’s large donations to the Brookings Institution and other centers. The Times observed that these think tanks “push…United States government officials to adopt policies that often reflect the donors’ priorities….”

Gorka also recalls the Justice Department’s “sweeping review” in 2011 of

all counter-terrorism trainers and materials used throughout federal law enforcement and every branch of the military.  Hundreds of training slides were reviewed by an anonymous panel of reviewers. Many trainers were forbidden from future training and material that used terms like “jihad,” “Islamic terrorism,” or “Islamist violence….”   

The general purge of “incorrect” terminology led famously, of course, to the administration’s dubbing the 2009 Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence.”

The administration’s ongoing affinity for the Brotherhood camp was well evident this summer during the Gaza War when Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Israel negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas under Turkey’s and Qatar’s auspices. Israel’s (along with Egypt’s) refusal to do so was one of the factors that led the administration to embargo all arms to Israel for days.

That Britain has come to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist, jihadist nature is encouraging news. It can be hoped that, by 2016, a U.S. administration will—unlike the present one—be able to as well.

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  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    ‘The Polite British Way’ why not ban the MBRO…HOOD ? If they are into all these Western-destroying ideas, JUST BAN THEM,THEN FIGHT THEM !!!

  • kiwi41

    Considering that the black and isl oom loving, anti-semitic, PC MC Nazis ( in fact they are more evil that the Nazis, as Hitler was not carrying out ethnic replacement and slow genocide against the GERMAN people) that are systematically destroying the UK, are implementing the same Muslim Brotherhood that inspired Hitler, I would be sceptical of any concrete actions, just empty rhetoric

    • Daniel_Dennett

      Evolution will cause future Brits to be born without a spine, because they have no use for it. It used to be said that the sun never sets on the British Empire today it can be said that the sun doesn’t even rise on the extinct empire.

  • Docs357

    It’s about time they did something. Question is will it be action or talk ?

  • StanleyT

    I’m a little confused. If Britain plans to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood, how on earth do they justify – less than 2 weeks ago – voting to recognize a “Palestinian” state that will be led partially, and after the next election (if an election is held; if not, after the next coup), probably in full, by the Muslim Brotherhood?

    • Edward E

      Mass foreign race immigration did not happen “with mutual consent”.

      It was FORCED.

      No White country was EVER given a vote on whether it wanted to become multiracial.

      Foreign race Assimilation is FORCED in EVERY & ONLY White countries
      in employment, law, education, housing, healthcare, sports, policing
      etc.

      An “all-White” anything is illegal in White countries.
Combine mass
      immigration and FORCED assimilation and you have a clear policy of White
      geNOcide.

      Anti-racist is a >code< for Anti-White.

    • http://www.opensuse.org/en/ Mic van Weede

      u r trying to confuse them with facts :o

  • David Gray

    Too little too late? The British Isle is infested with rats that are worse than the bubonic plague and have given them their own sharia enclaves.

    • Manial

      The Moslems are breeding at levels in Europe that will make them the majority by 2050. Europe is a goner, they know it, we know it but the political correctness doesn’t allow it to be spoken. Sharia Law anyone?

      • DB1954

        The worst part of it is that the political left has convinced most native Brits that they have nothing to fear from Muslims or from the mushrooming Muslim population. They claim that the Muslim population will top off at about 15%. Not only is that an unproven claim, but they’re not even taking into account native Britons who have converted to Islam and the children they’ve already producing.

        • Damaris Tighe

          15% can make a big difference to a country when (1) it’s pushy & aggressive (2) the country’s leaders cow tow to it, & (3) the majority religion is an empty husk.

  • AnneM040359

    A little bit LATE folks in the UK?

  • mtnhikerdude

    My guess is Crack Down in Britain translates to “Slappy Hannies” .

  • mtnhikerdude

    The PMs will be wearing burkas in a week or so.

  • katarina broman

    Britain isn´t going to do anything! It´s all lies, and they are counting on that the Brits will buy the BS. The Brits will never, ever get a referendum, or have any say whatsoever, if they don´t throw Tory and Labour out!

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      The UK is already a Failed State.

      See the BBC/academia – all kowtowing to Islamofascistphilia.

  • DB1954

    About 30 years too late, IMO.

  • Pericles

    “That Britain has come to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood’s
    terrorist, jihadist nature is encouraging news. It can be hoped that, by
    2016, a U.S. administration will—unlike the present one—be able to as
    well.”

    Egyptians wasted little time in ousting the Brotherhood from government. For some reason Great Britain was very slow to recognize its pernicious nature. America is even slower still in doing so.

  • Lastango

    Amazing what a Tory can bring himself to say when he feels UKIP rising in the background.

    But I’m not optimistic. We’ve heard all this before from the UK. Back during the London attacks, the Blair government vowed to crack down on radicalism. That would of course be the same radicalism the Blair government had been encouraging and funding inside Britain. Blair vowed to throw the bums out, but in the end not a single Islamist was deported. That’s the UK Way… issue lots of blather, then let the issue melt away into the swamp of bureaucratic process and posturing. Multiply the number of officials issuing statements, heap up the blather until no one can identify the focus, and walk away from the matter after a complicit press helpfully stops discussing it.

    • Damaris Tighe

      Exactly. It has got so bad that when I read reports like this I just don’t believe anything will really change.

  • cajunwarthog

    It is like taking a aspirin for brain cancer. The PC crowd rules the UK and will see it burn to the ground by islam.

  • EamonnDublin

    I am embarrassed to say it, but I feel I must. If Britain has a problem (which of course it has) with Islamist terrorists planning for God knows what, I dread to think what these fanatical murderers are doing here in Ireland. It is my belief that they use Ireland as a “safe house” where they can plot and plan, and then slink in the “back door” to the United Kingdom. We don’t seem to have any proper anti-terror squad, nobody in “authority” talks or appears in the slightest interested in the possibilities, nobody “in the street” seems interested in it. If one talks about it – as I do frequently – one is looked at as if one has two heads, or even five!! The ONLY thing our politicians are interested in is getting elected next time around. So, they don’t rock the boat by talking about crises or potential problems. The Irish equivalent of “let sleeping dogs lie” is “Ah, shure, it’ll be grand”. Suicide. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  • watsa46

    Too little but never too late. The 1st step is always the hardest.

  • ed_in_tx

    Saying “If only His Imperial Executiveness would take action against the Muslim Brotherhood, like Britain.”, is similar to “If only pigs could fly.” Neither will happen in this universe.

  • Hellosnackbar

    After years of nauseating behaviour by Musloons ,the Tories have finally arrived at the conclusion that more effort needs to be applied to their corrupt culture!
    The latest is a Repeat of Rotherham rot in Sheffield!
    I shall be delighted when I read about the denigration of PC police and bureaucrats and the jailing of the sexual abusers of little girls!

  • kevinstroup

    The British SAY they will crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood. I doubt it. The left in Europe uses the Muslims as their shock troops on the native populations. Nothing of substance will be done.