New Report Available on the Historic Links Provided by the Holy Land Foundation Trial
A new report is available for download from the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation website, titled
“The Ikhwan in North America”, co-authored by NEFA consultant Douglas Farah and NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee.
This report is intended to offer readers a short history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in the United States-as well as its goals and structure-as revealed by evidence recently presented during the ongoing criminal trial in the Northern District of Texas (Dallas): United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The prosecution in the case has presented many internal Muslim Brotherhood documents from the 1980’s and early 1990’s that give a first-ever public view of the history and ideology behind the operations of the Muslim Brothers (known as the Ikhwan or The Group) in the U.S. over the past four decades. For researchers, the documents have the added weight of being written by the Ikhwan leaders themselves, rather than interpretations of secondary sources.
It is not new if you are regularly reading this site and the Counterterrorism Blog, but it puts a lot of things together in one place, and, I hope, coherently.
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Well done Doug; great report!
— Dale in Atlanta Aug 24, 09:31 #
Douglas,
I haven’t read the Holy Land documents yet but I know that Everyone’s Internet of Houston, Texas was the Internet provider for Holy Land Foundation. As I recall, arguments with Everyone’s Internet with re: to the American sponsorship of Internet terrorism went on over a number of terrorist sites e.g. Qalah or the Fortress to name one. The Bush Administration seemingly gave terrorist groups carte blanche access to the Internet – even with an Internet provider from his own home state— Philip Henika Aug 24, 16:28 #
I want to add the following perspective to my recent comments.
Globalization has replaced the Cold War. The opportunists have exploited this historical trend while public service has been diminished to a nonsequiter. We do not get accurate assessments of global issues from global leaders. Instead we have come to rely on people like Douglas Farah, The Counterterrorism Blog, blogs, private email Groups etc. There is no address to the global citizen. In fact, there is no such entity.
— Philip Henika Aug 24, 16:44 #
There is no organization for Ikhwan in America any more, what existed in these documents is long gone and a very deep paradigm shift has completely overhauled existing Islamic organizations with ideas that are contrary to many of the issues you raised.
— esam Aug 25, 18:59 #