Brotherhood of Hate: Muslim Brotherhood's Hatred for Jews and Israel Flourishes in "New" Egypt
In Their Own Words
Posted: September 19, 2011
In the wake of the power vacuum that has engulfed Egypt following the revolution, there has been a steady escalation of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel themes in public discourse and by Muslim Brotherhood leaders in particular. Although the official platform of the Brotherhood and its new political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), is couched in terms of democracy and peace, the organization continues to lash out against Israel and Jews, and to express support for terrorist organizations dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state.
The following is a sampling of statements by Brotherhood leaders demonstrating the group's view that the entirety of historic Palestine is an Islamic waqf (religious endowment) that cannot be divided.
The following is a sampling of statements by Brotherhood leaders demonstrating the group's view that the entirety of historic Palestine is an Islamic waqf (religious endowment) that cannot be divided.
- "O you Zionists who usurp and act aggressively to our holy places… every drop of blood shed by the hand of the Zionist on the land of the beloved Palestine will be cursed by Allah no matter how long it takes or how many years: the blood of the Deir Yassin massacre, the massacre at the Ibrahim Mosque, Qana in south Lebanon, the blood of the prisoners in Sinai, the blood of the Golan Heights, in Gaza and the West Bank, and in every inch of the land of Palestine that has been irrigated in the blood of martyrs…" (Risalat al Ikhwan, October 11, 2012)
- Mohammad Badie, eighth General Guide of the Brotherhood
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"We see all those who are honorable and free in the world; Muslims, Christians and Jews, stand up against the crimes of the Zionist gangs in the raped lands [settlements] and Muslim and Christian sanctuaries, and their siege over the land and their killing [of the people] … The Muslims would be happy if the central goal of Muslim leaders was the recovery of the Al-Aqsa mosque and its liberation from Zionist filth, and the imposition of Islamic sovereignty throughout all of beloved Palestine." (Risalat al Ikhwan, July 5, 2012)
- Mohammad Badie
· "We reject normalization under any name, and refuse to visit Jerusalem while it is under Zionist occupation, even if the visit happens to be without visas from the Zionist entity" (IkhanWeb, April 20, 2012)
- Farid Ismail, Deputy of the National Security Committee of the Egyptian parliament and member of the parliamentary Commission of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)
· "We do not recognize Israel at all. It is a raping, occupying, criminal enemy entity. I shall never tolerate for myself to sit with a criminal and we shall not deal with Israel under any circumstances…The peace treaty absolutely does not obligate me and the people will give their opinion about this." (Al Hayat interview, January 1, 2012)
- Rashad Bayoumi, Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood
· "This [prisoner exchange with Hamas] proved that
Israel understands nothing but the language of force and resistance; and this language is capable, God willing, of liberating the Palestinian people suffering under Zionist captivity." (Risalat al Ikhwan, October 20, 2011)
- Mohammad Badie
· "Existence of a state for Jews is against all rules of states all over the world." (Radio Free Europe interview, August 15, 2011)
- Essam el Erian, Deputy President of the Freedom and Justice Party and former member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Council
· "The Egyptian nation supports and welcomes Iran's anti-Zionist stance because the two nations view the formation of the Zionist regime on the Palestinian territories as a brutal act and against the interests of the regional nations and Muslims."(Al Masry Al Youm, July13, 2011)
- Kamal al Halbawi, Brotherhood spokesman at the time, speaking during an official Brotherhood visit to Iran
· "Both nations [Iran and Egypt] underline the necessity for Muslim nations to maintain solidarity and unity to annihilate this cancerous tumor (Israel)… Every night when I go to bed, I pray to wake up the next day to see Israel is wiped off the map." (Al Masry Al Youm, July 13, 2011)
-Kemal al Halbawi
· "The Isra' (the prophet Muhammad's night journey to Jerusalem) demonstrates that the land of Palestine is the land of Arabism and Islam, which requires this area to be in the possession of its [Arab/Muslim] owners in order for the way to the Al-Aqsa mosque to be secure." (Risalat al Ikhwan, June 24, 2011)
-Mohammad Badie
· "The next victory – with God's permission – inevitably is the retrieval of Palestine and Jerusalem and the Golan and all lands occupied by Israel. This will no longer be a wild dream, rather a hope that's in sight after the people proceed and know their path to end Israeli superiority and doubt of Israel's continuation and survival will be a sure thing." (Risalat al Ikhwan, June 10, 2011)
-Mohammad Badie
· "My dream is to live together as we did before the state of Israel… Americans and Europeans exported the conflict created by Hitler to our land." (Washington Post interview, May 4,2011)
- Essam el Erian
Anti-Semitism has also been voiced by Brotherhood leaders during interviews and at several rallies.
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"The time has come for the Islamic ummah to band together for Jerusalem and Palestine since it has been dominated by the Jews and they have increased their corruption throughout the world, shedding the blood of the people, trampling sanctuaries and holy places, desecrating even either own sanctuaries through their actions, and crossing the limits of their tyranny by making the Al Aqsa mosque a place for Jewish prayer….this teaches and confirms to the believers that recovering the sanctuaries and preserving the honor and blood from the hands of the Jews will never cross the corridors of the United Nations or be heard in negotiations… the Zionists do not understand anything but force and won't back away from their aggression […] and they will never will, except through holy jihad and high sacrifices and all forms of resistance..."(Risalat al Ikhwan, October 11, 2012)
-Mohammad Badie
"[Muhammad] held treaty after treaty with the Jews... which the prophet and the Muslims adhered to faithfully, while the Jews breached all treaties. Then began the epic stories of jihad and fighting to protect the message [Islam] from the enemies…" (Risalat al Ikhwan, November 24, 2011)
- Mohammad Badie
· "Israel cannot tolerate peace… Because they
want to live in war. It is the history of Jewish people." (NBC interview, July 9, 2011)
- Essam el Erian
· "Allah has warned us the tricks of the Jews, and their role in igniting the fire of wars…The Almighty said: 'Every time they light the fires of war, Allah extinguishes them; and they labor hard to spread corruption on earth and Allah does not love the spreaders of corruption." (Brotherhood rally, June 2, 2011)
-Mohammad Badie
· "I do not imagine the Americo-Zionist alliance wants our blessed revolution to reach its objectives, in the forefront of which are: that we enjoy freedom in our land, that we be independent in our decision and that we have sovereignty over our homelands… it's a Jewish plot to divide Muslims, old and new, and that their intentions are evident from Napoleon to Zionism's founder Theodore Herzl." (Brotherhood rally, June 2, 2011)
-Mohammad Badie
Essam el Erian, Deputy President of FJP and former senior member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Council, has voiced his support for terrorist organizations bent on destroying Israel:
· "Hamas is a resistance group fighting for freedom and liberation of their lands from occupation. And the West must revise their knowledge about Hamas, [so] that war and terrorism come to an end. And mixing cards and putting Hamas and other resistance groups among terrorist groups, this was a fatal mistake of the West." (Radio Free Europe interview, August 15, 2011)
-Essam el Erian
· "They [Hamas] are fighters for liberty. Their land is occupied by the real terrorists. Real terrorists who kill innocent farmers in Qana and children in Egypt. They [Israel] killed children in school here in 1968. They are the real terrorists […] Israelis kill children. They killed 300 children in Gaza." (PajamasMedia Blog interview, July 14, 2011)
-Essam el Erian
Brotherhood leaders have also made conspiratorial accusations against Israel:
· "The Zio-American scheme will not rest when it sees signs of freedom shadowing Arab and Islamic societies. Thus the conspiracies started and an ambassador [U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson] was chosen, whose miserable history testifies of the crimes she committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to continue the march of sedition in Egypt." (Ikwanonline op-ed, February 15, 2012)
- Rashad Bayoumi
· "... All of Egypt considers Israel a strategic enemy… Israel never has nor will want any good for Egypt what with the exporting of cancerous pesticides and its conspiracies and spies and schemes to cause differences between the people and the military the list is endless." (FJP interview, November 29, 2011)
-Ashour Mohamed Al Halawany, Secretary General of the Freedom and Justice Party's Monofeya branch
· The deteriorating conditions of our Arab nation awakened the conscience and zeal of the people. It broke down the barriers, sparked revolutions, and uncovered the sensitive facts of the Zio-American plots. This weakened the dictatorial power [of the U.S.] which supported those rulers who neglected their country's national interests…" (Risalat al Ikhwan, September 23, 2011)
- Mohammad Badie
· "Our primary enemy is the Zio-American project which seeks to control the whole region in order to establish 'Greater Israel' and the new Middle East…" (Risalat al Ikhwan, October 7, 2011)
-Mohammad Badie
· "We know that you [the Supreme Council of Armed Forces] follow carefully the Zionist enemy's refusal toward any change to the humiliating and degrading relations equation, which made Egypt's president into a strategic treasure, and that they [the Zionists] are behind the gas pipeline bombings to demonstrate the weak grip of control over the country and they are sending spies after spies to sabotage and divide the revolution, and to pit the people against one another." (Risalat al Ikhwan, July 15, 2011)
-Essam el Erian
· "Those who allege that holding parliament elections first will cause bloodshed, citing security fears, are Zionists and remnants of the old regime…" (Al Masry Al Youm, July 4, 2011)
-Mohamed Morsi, chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party and former member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Council
While some Brotherhood members have either refrained from commenting or been vague about the group's outlook on the peace accord between Israel and Egypt, others have viewed the treaty and all that it entails as a crime against Egypt and its citizens.
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