Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Essence of the Jihadist Evil
- 1 Nazi Ideology and Jihadist Echoes
- 2 Modern Jihadist Ideological Foundations
- 3 The Nazi Seed in Islamic Soil
- 4 The Evil Spreads: The Muslim Brotherhood
- 5 Jihadist Brothers: The Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas
- 6 “Religious” Offshoots: The Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda
- 7 “Secular” Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO
- 8 Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Jihadist Brothers: The Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Essence of the Jihadist Evil
- 1 Nazi Ideology and Jihadist Echoes
- 2 Modern Jihadist Ideological Foundations
- 3 The Nazi Seed in Islamic Soil
- 4 The Evil Spreads: The Muslim Brotherhood
- 5 Jihadist Brothers: The Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas
- 6 “Religious” Offshoots: The Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda
- 7 “Secular” Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO
- 8 Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Our conflict with the Jews is central. It was never a conflict just of three hundred kilometers of land, or over water rights. Every Muslim in the world is with Hamas.
Abdullah al-Akailah, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, 1994 interview with Kenneth TimmermanMatthias Küntzel points out that after 8 May 1945, the Nazi evil “found its most fruitful exile in the Arab world, where the Muslim Brothers now disposed of a million followers.” Perhaps more to the point, the Nazi evil found its most fruitful exile in the Arab world precisely because the Brotherhood by then had a million followers. We have glimpsed the vast influence that the Muslim Brotherhood has had on Jihadist movements throughout the world. To be sure, Islamic Jihadism might never have taken on its defining elements, such as exterminationist Jew hatred and a rabid disdain for the West, had it not been for the Muslim Brotherhood. According to Bassam Tibi, “militant fundamentalists are far more familiar with Sayyid Qutb's main writings than with the text of the Koran.” As a religious movement, the Ikhwan's broadest appeal is found among Muslims who are passionate about their religion. What makes the Brotherhood and its Jihadism a religious movement, however, lies not in a devotion to God but in an appropriation of God.
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- A Genealogy of EvilAnti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad, pp. 147 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010