Hassan al-Banna

The Muslim Brotherhood has a hierarchy.

It's, you know, as you mentioned, it was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt.

And there's also the Hamas in 1988.

They had their charter, which was basically saying that they are part, they're a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

And they are a group who, the name given to them is meaning a group that elevate the 12 Imams because they have 12 Imams that they elevate and elevate to a state, to Uluhiyya, and saying that they know the unseen and so forth.

And the head of them was Ali ibn Abi Talib, رضي الله عنهم, and then Hassan ibn Ali, was the second one, and then Husayn ibn Ali was the third one, and then Ali Zayd al-Abideen ibn Husayn, up until Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Askari.

Now, they held these 12 Imams to be from Ahl al-Bayt, from the prodigies of Ali ibn Abi Talib, and they held them to have certain qualities that were not given to them by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And they worshipped them, they said that they knew the unseen and so forth.

Um, there was a story in the Washington Free Beacon today, a- and it- the headline is "Meet Abdul El-Sayed's Academic Inspiration: A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering the U.S. Over Terror Ties." Guy's name is Tariq, uh, Ramadan, known for diatribes against Jewish intellectuals, recently sentenced to 18 years in prison in France.

Uh, and Abdul El-Sayed said he drew inspiration from the excellent works of this disgraced Oxford professor and grandson of Of the Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Banna, uh, best known for diatribes against Jewish intellectuals and being sentenced, you know, to jail, as I just told you.

I mean, it, it's just, you know, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you know what? It is.

And it is very, very bizarre.

So s- so let's do a little bit of background as to what the Muslim Brotherhood is.

The Muslim Brotherhood, whose technical name is Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun, is a transnational Sunni Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by school teacher Hassan al-Banna, whose stated aim was government by Sharia and ultimately a global Islamic order.

The Muslim Brotherhood's motto declares, quote, "The Quran is our constitution.

Jihad is our way.

And his tariqa was a tariqa of Sufiya.

Again, similar to what we mentioned regarding Hassan al-Banna.

Now...

And so within them, uh, this is the man that established it.

Death for the sake of Allah is our wish.

Al-Banna's doctrine of Tamkeen, which means empowerment, lays out a stage path for reforming individual Muslims to building loyal communities, to taking state power.

Brotherhood members assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nakrashi in 1948 and tried to kill Egyptian President Nasser in 1954.

And the writings of Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb later supplied the theological framework for both al-Qaeda and ISIS.