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Beck Right? Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Is Covertly Working With Marxists In Alleged Thirst for Islamist Power

 

Syrias Muslim Brotherhood Is Covertly Working With Marxists In Alleged Thirst for Islamist Power

Wherever there has been turmoil in the Middle East over the past year, the Muslim Brotherhood has sought to dig its heels in deeply for power. In Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco — even Libya — the decades-old Islamist group is seeking to ensure a powerful resurgence. A fascinating and potentially-disturbing article about the Syrian Brotherhood was published by Reuters this weekend, as the political chaos in the nation continues to take form.

The first few paragraphs provide curious information about the nature of the Brotherhood’s work in Syria as well as the connections it has to leftists, among others:

At a meeting of Syria’s opposition, Muslim Brotherhood officials gather round Marxists colleagues, nudging them to produce policy statements for the Syrian National Council, the main political group challenging President Bashar al-Assad.

With many living in the West, and some ditching their trademark beards, it is hard to differentiate Brotherhood from leftists. But there is little dispute about who calls the shots.

From annihilation at home 30 years ago when they challenged the iron-fisted rule of Hafez al-Assad, the Brotherhood has recovered to become the dominant force of the exile opposition in the 14-month-old revolt against his son Bashar.

Careful not to undermine the council’s disparate supporters, the Brotherhood has played down its growing influence within the Syrian National Council (SNC), whose public face is the secular Paris-based professor Bourhan Ghalioun.

Syrias Muslim Brotherhood Is Covertly Working With Marxists In Alleged Thirst for Islamist Power

Symbol for the Muslim Brotherhood.

Clearly, the Brotherhood is active in meeting with Marxists. The massive political collective is seeking power and prominence just as it has in other embattled localities. But beyond the powers being sought, it’s interesting to point out that the journalist who wrote the piece, Khaled Yacoub Oweis, also notes that “many” Brotherhood members are now living in the West.

While this information will surprise some, Glenn Beck has warned about the connections between socialists and Islamists before. Back in early 2011, he stated his case that these two ideological movements would converge due to shared interests.

“I want the left to know, I plant my flag in this soil.  If I’m wrong, so be it,” Beck said on his radio show. “And you can discredit me all you want for the end of time, but I’m telling you I’m not wrong on this one.  And there are three points that I want to make sure are very clear.”

The three points he presented were as follows:

  • Groups from the hardcore socialist left,  and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of Israel.
  • Groups from the hardcore socialist left and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of capitalism.
  • Groups from the hardcore socialist left, and extreme Islam will work together to overturn relative stability, because the in the status quo, they are both ostracized from power and the mainstream in most of the world.

Watch Beck discuss these issues, below:

Aside from corroborating Beck’s past statements, these events obviously sound a global alarm — specifically when teamed with other Brotherhood victories.

It seems that the Islamist group — at least according to the article — has learned the power of watching its words and protecting its image. In Egypt, among other nations, it has pledged not to govern with an iron fist and has attempted to re-brand itself as moderate and practical. In Syria, the Brotherhood is attempting to keep its powerful role under wraps — perhaps to avoid fears among those who recall its antics decades ago.

These sentiments are corroborated in a video featuring former Brotherhood leader Ali Sadreddine al-Bayanouni. The clip is making its rounds, as opponents of the Islamist movement attempt to showcase the power the Brotherhood is working so feverishly to gain.

“We chose this face, accepted by the West and by the inside. We don‘t want the regime to take advantage if an Islamist becomes the Syrian National Council’s head,” al-Bayanouni says in the video. ”We nominated Ghalioun as a front for national action. We are not moving now as Muslim Brotherhood but as part of a front that includes all currents.”

Syrias Muslim Brotherhood Is Covertly Working With Marxists In Alleged Thirst for Islamist Power

Syrian President Bashar Assad (AP)

Strategy, it seems, is at the center of this paradigm. Reuters continues, providing more information on the Brotherhood’s background in the country and its intentional attempt to market purported moderation:

The Syrian Brotherhood is a branch of the Sunni Muslim movement founded in Egypt in the 1920s. It was a minor political player before a 1963 Baath Party coup but its support grew under the authoritarian 30-year rule of Hafez al-Assad, as his minority Alawite community dominated the majority Sunni country.

Mindful of international fears of Islamists taking power, and of the worries of Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities, the Syrian Brotherhood portrays itself as espousing a moderate, Turkish-style Islamist agenda. It unveiled a manifesto last month that did not mention the word Islam and contained pledges to respect individual rights.

With backing from Ankara, and following the political ascendancy of the Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya since Arab Spring revolts broke out two years ago, the group is poised to be at the top of any new governing system in Syria.

As the political drama drags out in Syria, it will be interesting to see how the Brotherhood manages its urge for power. While there are certainly ramifications for being more blatant about its role in the SNC, the political movement has gained major power points in other nations, despite initial fears. There’s no telling where the situation could lead in Syria.

(H/T: Reuters)

Comments (39)

  • SourceMaster
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:44am

    The Muslim Brotherhood is part of the Obama plan to give access to our security, including the FBI and Homeland Security and more. Get informed before it is to late http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/ This is a 10 video course that covers how the Muslim Brotherhood has been given key positions in our government by Obama. In fact the FBI had to remove 700 pages of their manual on terrorist, because no longer can Islam and Terrorist be put together in the same sentence.

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    • haplyss
      Posted on May 19, 2012 at 9:35pm

      All I’ve heard and read has been talk, talk, talk… With all the knowledge of what Obama has been doing, is doing, and will be doing, when is anything going to be done to stop him? Obama has broken the Constitution of the United States so many times. I can’t believer it.

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  • SourceMaster
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:43am

    The gutting of America, the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the Obama plan to give access to our security, including the FBI and Homeland Security and more. Get informed before it is to late http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/ This is a 10 video course that covers how the Muslim Brotherhood has been given key positions in our government by Obama. In fact the FBI had to remove 700 pages of their manual on terrorist, because no longer can Islam and Terrorist be put together in the same sentence.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:12pm

    Gog and Magog and Persia and Libyia and the list goes on and on will unite. God will put a hook in their Jaw Russia and Iran.

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  • 2barbraw
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 8:49pm

    This must be read!!
    We are next!! http://www.howieunveilsgodsshield.com/The-Project.html

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  • Spqr1
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:48pm

    Once again, the TeaBeckians collectively urinate on people who are seeking their freedom from what is functionally, a Fascist State. What? Don‘t brown people who don’t worship Jesus deserve freedom like we do?

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  • inferno
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:16pm

    Marxists have become the very tool they have used to promote their causes over the years. By joining forces with Islamists, the Islamists have turned them into useful idiots. If this struggle plays out the way Radical Islamists plan, only one of these two movements will survive. The Marxists, (the Infedels, )will literally lose their heads. This will come as quite a surprise to the Marxists, since through history, they have been the killiers of their preceived enemies.

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  • snrar
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Whhaaattttttt Glen Beck right again ! Of course he has been right more than he has been wrong , Yet you wont hear about it from the Main stream media or MSNBC , ABC and even CNN . Because to admit that they simply have blown it is to admit that they HAVE SUPPORTED A FAILED PRESIDENT and FAILED POLICIES . They simply don’t care they have the guy who they support in the White House and he walks on water as far as they are concern , Who cares if the country goes down the toilet .

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  • ms2020
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:06pm

    Of course he was right. The writing was on the wall, not to mention coming out go the mouths of so many in the middle east and Europe.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:53pm

    Each… sees the other… as Useful Idiots; Both… are right!

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  • happ77
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:29pm

    Drill now, Frack now, screw them.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:18pm

    murdering MUSLUMS fail at every end.. NO heaven only HELL awaits them they are in a man made cult of hate n death.. thier god a FALSE STONE IDOL thier prohpet FAKE.. they will beat wonem rape them kill boys elderly anything that suits them they will do in the FASLE name god allah.. MUSLUMS MURDER FACT N TRUTH

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  • TrueAmerican66
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:06pm

    Be Aware Be Informed Be Prepared Be Safe

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:45pm

      Here comes the Caliphate. Could Sweet Old Barack be the 13th Imam???
      After all didn’t Sweet Old Barack and Hilrod tell us tha the Brotherhood was an organization we could work with because they were so reasonable. Sweet Old Barack has had some of them to the White House (to discuss forming the Calihate???) recently?
      Remember WATCH THE OTHER HAND!!!

      OMG 2012

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  • Jumper
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 3:03pm

    Right there in the headline of the story: more lies!! STOP IT!!! Stop calling it or them Islamist/s. It’s Islam and Islamics!! Islamist is nothing more than PC speak for the actual word: Islamic/s. Spineless, weasels. The word Islamist didn’t even exist 10 years ago. And stop calling it “radical” Islam. ALL Islam is radical. Political correctness is the tool of Marxists,keep walking that walk. The Country is already on the way down, due in a good measure to PC speak, all you do when you engage in speaking that way is mash on the gas pedal. Have the spine to call things what they are D&$@#T!!!!!!

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    • tzion
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Personally I always read Islamist as Islamic Supremacist. It sounds like your problem is you don’t believe Islam can exist separate from Islamic Supremacy. You may be right about that but even if you‘re wrong that doesn’t change what has to be done.

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  • SerikFox
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:33pm

    I’m always sad whenever Beck is right :(

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  • Atilla
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:06pm

    Sure Beck was correct about that as he is on almost all things political France now going socialist even without the Muslim Brotherhood to cause the chaos. Beck predicted that 6 months ar more ago. Spain is likely next on the Marxists agenda.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:59pm

    so far Mr Beck is bowling 300s. he sure must have both insight and inside tracks straight to the Truth.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:18pm

      That is why Beck is one of the Democrat Character Assassination Squad’s favorite targets. They hate him because he lifted the mask from their little political theater of ” Hope and Change : ” Not a change from partisanship but a change in the very fabric of America : from rugged individualism/ rights of the individual to a New Big Brother is now IN CHARGE and watching every step you take America !

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:57pm

    Another one of Beck’s fairy tales I suppose…..

    This has the CIA’s fingerprints all over it again….they specialize in destabilization of foreign countries without having to resort to the much more expensive option of full military intervention:

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    “The 1953 Iranian coup d’état (known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup) was the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States under the name TPAJAX Project. The coup saw the transition of Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi from a constitutional monarch to an authoritarian one who relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.

    In 1951, Iran’s oil industry was nationalized with near-unanimous support of Iran’s parliament in a bill introduced by Mossadegh who led the nationalist parliamentarian faction. Iran’s oil had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). Popular discontent with the AIOC began in the late 1940s, a large segment of Iran’s public and a number of politicians saw the company as exploitative and a vestige of British imperialism.”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:12pm

      Oh, that nasty ” imperialism.” That nasty habit of people to explore, to settle and to develop new countries. To invent new discoveries. To bring their more advanced cultures , medicines, and education to new places. Now we have the Morales-types taking over companies and claiming it for the “native people.” The Morales thinking is : Screw those people in the past who invested with their money and their lives in new places. Screw them and take back what the native people never could have built on their own . That’s the New Order : take what you can now because you CAN. Oh, yes YOU CAN ! So now today’s unjust stealing is to make up for the injustices/ sins of the past. Oh, this could go on for years ! ( wonder who will run and maintain the newly stolen companies ? hmmmmm )

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    • tzion
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:43pm

      @Barber2
      You are right that there is nothing wrong with people seeking out new places to live and do business. That’s just migration and immigration at work, not imperialism. Imperialism is the act of a government controlling a foreign territory for the purpose of benefiting the homeland. The incident quoted above was from the 1950s, at the height of the British Empire and only a few short years after FDR, so I wouldn‘t be too sure that there weren’t imperial motives at hand.

      Half of the Middle East has been the victim of European imperialism. For example, prior to Nasser, a socialist, waging a coup in Egypt in 1951, the vast majority of land in Egypt was owned by a tiny number of landowners, most of whom had ties to Britain (essentially making Egypt an unofficial oligarchy). This was all by British design. When Nasser promised land reform he easily won popular support of the people. Syria underwent a similar process.

      It is true that what most people call American “Imperialism” isn’t wrong, but true, big government, totalitarian imperialism has happened.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:30pm

      barber2
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:12pm

      Oh, that nasty ” imperialism.” That nasty habit of people to explore, to settle and to develop new countries. To invent new discoveries.
      ===========================

      That’s the most elaborate rationalization of theft and the imposition of totalitarianism that I have ever heard before:

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      “After the coup, Pahlavi ruled as an authoritarian monarch for the next 26 years, until he was overthrown in a popular revolt in 1979. The tangible benefits the United States reaped from overthrowing Iran‘s elected government included a share of Iran’s oil wealth as well as resolute prevention of the slim possibility that the Iranian government might align itself with the Soviet Union, although the latter motivation produces controversy among historians. Washington continually supplied arms to the unpopular Shah, and the CIA-trained SAVAK, his repressive secret police force. The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to anti-American sentiment in Iran and the Middle East. The 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the Shah and replaced the pro-Western royal dictatorship with the largely anti-Western Islamic Republic of Iran.”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

      Somehow though it was “different” though when Stalin and Kruschev invaded and looted the Eastern European countries throughout the 1950‘s and 1960’s.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:57pm

    time for us with the WHAT IF BECK IS RIGHT bumperstickers to black out the WHAT IF part.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Of COURSE Beck is right. Why do you think they wanted him OFF the air?

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    • chazmo
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:15pm

      That is what worries me the most about our country… it’s chilling and frightening..

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Marxists and Radical Islamacists go together like peas and carrots.

    Pay attention to what is happening in the EU folks. History is repeating itself and the US is on the same road.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:05pm

    We already knew the Muslim Brotherhood was working with Marxists…they’ve been to the White House.

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  • barber2
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:03pm

    So given our present Democrats’ International Marxist sympathies , what do you suppose they will do about Syria ? and when ?

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:52pm

      O..Just wait a few years ….The new world map will have one giant green blob on it called the Muslim Brotherhood…Thanks to weakness, not having the stones to do what needed to be done and the commies we have in office now. Of course at that point we will be nothing more than a toilet to flush a bunch of broken junk into and probably won’t even be able to feed ourselves. We will be what the left has always wanted .a dead pile of crap.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 2:03pm

      VOICE: yes. The so-called “social justice ” crowd – which is really their PC way of saying “ The I Hate America Club” – is determined to “punish” us Americans. Especially their favorite target : the nasty ” rich.” And , like their angry, suicidal , social misfit, religious- fanatic , sicko bombers – they will get flushed with the rest of our society. But guess they will be satisfied just to get their “ revenge” for past injustices done by long dead people. Weird , dysfunctional, and sick. But, then, so are they. Brainwashed by haters to become haters.

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  • CatB
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:40pm

    Obama’s PEOPLE

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:57pm

      That is correct CATB…Barry owns this and all the subjugation, carnage and death that will surely follow will be blood on his and his ‘cohorts’ hands.

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    • barber2
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:20pm

      And did you notice that Obama is spewing the same Socialist rhetoric as his international buddies : Tax the rich. Spend our way to prosperity. Public jobs paid for by the taxpayer. Big Brother increases. The individual decreases. Am sure this was all bought and paid for by George Soros and his Media Matters, Center For American Progress ( that’s a LIE ) , and purposely to install his international Lefty Agenda. Good-bye, American interests. Hello , United Nations. Here’s the real HOPE and CHANGE Obama promised. But how many Americans really understood ? Is Michele having another one of those days when she can be really proud of her country ?? Or can America still be saved in the November election ?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:23pm

      All too true.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:31pm

      doesn’ barry also get credit for egypt and lybia…….they are killing the christians in these location and we send them money to help…………..

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:56pm

      the very first phone call obama as “president” after being placed in the WH by the communist party was to the hamas arm of the muslim brotherhood, his buttbuddies from his indonesian “islam in the most beautiful sound on earth” childhood and gay pakistani-lover college days.

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