TIME names Muslim Brotherhood pal of Osama bin Laden their Person of the Year 2018
Source: TIME Person of the Year 2018: The Guardians | Time.com
What TIME Magazine and the Washington Post, among most other mainstream propaganda outlets, did not tell their readers can be found below.
via Jamal Khashoggi: The Media Fights for a Muslim Brotherhood Pal of Osama Bin Laden
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
“We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,” Khashoggi reminisced
about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood. “We believed that
the first one would lead to another, and that would have a domino effect
which could reverse the history of mankind.”
The friendship endured with Jamal Khashoggi following Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan. Khashoggi credited Adel Batterjee, listed at one time
as one of “the world’s foremost terrorist financiers” by the Treasury
Department, with bringing him to Afghanistan to report on the fighting.
The media calls Khashoggi a journalist, but his writings from 80s Afghanistan read as Jihadist propaganda with titles like, “Arab Mujahadeen in Afghanistan II: Exemplifies the Unity of Islamic Ummah”.
And when Osama bin Laden set up Al Qaeda, he called Khashoggi with the details.
After Afghanistan, Jamal Khashoggi went to
work as a media adviser for former Saudi intel boss, Prince Turki bin
Faisal, alleged to have links to Al Qaeda. Those allegations came from,
among others, Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged twentieth hijacker.
When the other 19 hijackers perpetrated the attacks of September 11, Khashoggi wrote that the Saudis would not “give in” to American “demands” for “unconditional condemnation” and “total cooperation”.
“Saudis tend to link the ugliness of what
happened in New York and Washington with what has happened and continues
to happen in Palestine. It is time that the United States comes to
understand the effect of its foreign policy and the consequences of that
policy,” he declared.
“A Muslim cannot be happy with the
suffering of others. Even if this suffering is that of Americans who
neglected the suffering of Palestinians for half a century.”
That’s the real Khashoggi, a cynical and manipulative apologist for Islamic terrorism, not the mythical martyred dissident whose disappearance the media has spent the worst part of a week raving about.
Jamal Khashoggi was not a moderate. Some describe him as the leader of the Saudi Muslim Brotherhood. The
Islamist network admires Hitler and seeks to impose Islamic law around
the world. Nor was he a supporter of freedom of the press. In one of his Al Jazeera appearances, he complained that the Saudi government was allowing some journalists to report positively on Israel.
His final project, DAWN or Democracy for the Arab World Now was meant to aid Islamists. According to Azzam Al-Tamimi,
an old Muslim Brotherhood ally aiding Jamal, “The Muslim Brothers and
Islamists were the biggest victims of the foiled Arab spring.” Al-Tamimi
has endorsed suicide bombings.
But unlike Osama bin Laden, Khashoggi did
not use the Muslim Brotherhood as a gateway drug to the pure and uncut
violence of Al Qaeda or ISIS. He was still betting on a political
takeover.
As he recently put it, “Democracy and political Islam go together.”
Khashoggi went on making the case for the
Islamic state of the Muslim Brotherhood. He went on making that case
even as the Saudis decided that the Brotherhood had become too
dangerous.
Like his old friend, Jamal Khashoggi went
into exile in a friendly Islamist country. Osama bin Laden found refuge
in Pakistan and Khashoggi ended up in Turkey. The Khashoggi family had
originated from Turkey. And Turkey was swiftly becoming the leading
Sunni Islamist power in the region. Living in Turkey put Khashoggi at
the intersection of the Turkish-Qatari backers of the Brotherhood and
the Western media.
His disappearance has touched off fury and
anger from the Islamist regime that harbored him. And it has also set
off an unprecedented firestorm of rage and grief by the American media
which adored him.
Media spin describes Khashoggi as a dissident. And he certainly was that. But so was Osama bin Laden.
What Khashoggi wasn’t, was a moderate. No
more so than the Muslim Brotherhood. He wasn’t a proponent of human
rights, but of Islamic rule. He could be found on Al Jazeera, Qatar’s
Jihadist propaganda network, bemoaning Saudi opposition to the
Brotherhood and its friendliness to Israel.
“Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should
get rid of his complex against the Muslim Brotherhood and stop treating
them as the enemy or a threat to Saudi Arabia,” he complained, and urged
the Saudis to fight Israel instead.
Jamal Khashoggi’s career of spouting
Muslim Brotherhood propaganda for his new Turkish and Qatari masters
came to an end in a curious way.
More via the Arab Weekly, The Looming Tower: Jamal Khashoggi’s little-known past comes to light:
Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,
couldn’t have imagined one of the other characters in his book was
going to be at the centre of a huge political and diplomatic
controversy, no less than the book’s central character, namely Osama Bin
Laden.
The book was adapted for television as a
series with the same title and tells the story of Al-Qaeda’s infamous
attacks on New York and Washington. In one paragraph, Wright mentions a
close friend of Bin Laden’s who shared the latter’s ambition to
“establish an Islamic state anywhere.” That friend was Jamal Khashoggi.
Both Bin Laden and Khashoggi were at the time active members of the
Muslim Brotherhood and later Bin Laden would split from the Brotherhood
to form with Abdullah Azzam Al-Qaeda, the most dangerous organisation in
the world. Khashoggi, Bin Laden, and Azzam, were all the merry
companions of the same extremist group.
On page 78 of his book, Wright quoted
Khashoggi as saying that he and Bin Laden believed that “the first one
[Islamic state] would lead to another, and that would have a domino
effect which could reverse the history of mankind.” The noun phrase looming tower in the book’s title was taken from Surah An-Nisa in the Holy Quran and clearly refers to the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
Today, the world is busy keeping up with
the news of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, journalist and Human
Rights activist in Saudi Arabia, but very few know the man’s past and
his affiliation with Al-Qaeda during the war in Afghanistan. He promoted
Saudi Mujahedeen focusing on his friendship with Bin Laden.
And despite what the Left says, or fails to say, Yes, Jamal Khashoggi Was a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood
As to what Khashoggi believed at the time of his death, he left a copious body of work behind expressing his views. He defended
the Muslim Brotherhood as a force for democratic reform in the Arab
world and criticized U.S. policymakers for their irrational “aversion”
to the organization. The title of his August 28 post was “The U.S. Is
Wrong About the Muslim Brotherhood – and the Arab World Is Suffering For
It.”
And yes, as of three months ago, Khashoggi
was still a true believer in the Brotherhood’s philosophy of Islamism
and firmly convinced most of the Arab world shared his beliefs:
There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it. A significant number of citizens in any given Arab country will give their vote to Islamic political parties if some form of democracy is allowed. It seems clear then that the only way to prevent political Islam from playing a role in Arab politics is to abolish democracy, which essentially deprives citizens of their basic right to choose their political representatives.
Claiming that Khashoggi turned his back on
the Muslim Brotherhood is absurd. The real argument here is about the
nature of the Brotherhood itself. Most of the commentators lying about
Khashoggi’s association with the MB are simply taking cheap shots at
President Trump or parroting former President Barack Obama’s pro-Iran
foreign policy agenda, but some of them are interested in whitewashing
the Brotherhood and pushing Khashoggi’s view of it as a benevolent
organization. They claim Jamal Khashoggi outgrew the Brotherhood, but
what they’re really saying is that the Brotherhood grew and evolved along with him.
And he was not a U.S. citizen, according to one of Khashoggi’s U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood pals, who we’ve reported on previously, as he told Reuters:
Mohamad Soltan, an Egyptian-American activist who sees Khashoggi regularly in Washington, told Reuters that Khashoggi was in the United States on an O-visa, a temporary residency visa awarded to foreigners
“who possess extraordinary ability” in the sciences, arts, education,
and other fields and are recognised internationally, and had applied for
permanent residency status.
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