Note that this Muslim Brotherhood leader speaks repeatedly about the necessity of “struggle,” which in Arabic is jihad. A Muslim Brotherhood document dating from May 1991, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” states that the Brotherhood in the U.S. is in “the process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions” (p. 7).
The idea that the Westerners would destroy their own civilization “by their hands” comes from the Qur’an: “It is he who has caused those among the people of the book who disbelieved to go forth from their homes to the first exile. You did not think that they would go forth, while they thought that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place they did not expect, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O you who have eyes” (Qur’an 59:2).
When the Explanatory Memorandum first began to be publicized, it became a new basis for wholesale defamation of foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression in the U.S. The Huffington Post sneered in 2018 that “the anti-Muslim chorus,” including me, “have written that ‘the Brotherhood lays out a plan [in the document] to do nothing less than conquer and Islamize the United States.’” Inconceivable! The Southern Poverty Law Center charged that those who called attention to this endeavor were “gripped by paranoid fantasies of foreign entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating and supplanting the U.S. from within.” The ADL dismissed warnings about the Muslim Brotherhood document as “anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.”
Will they retract and apologize? Don’t hold your breath.
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As I have warned many times here, Turkey may well be the Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38 and 39. Erdogan seems to be looking for an elegant excuse to enter the war against Israel.
Given Israel and America’s war with Iran, it is unsettling to contemplate the ramifications of any confrontation with Turkey. This is precisely why it isn’t prudent to enable obvious enemies of the West to escalate tensions with states that are our allies in the first place. Turkey as a member of NATO is one such an example.
Consider the following headlines:
Miki Zohar is not off base in his comments about Turkey, since Turkey has been escalating its hostility with Israel for years under its Islamic supremacist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Israeli minister says Turkey should be treated as ‘enemy state’
by Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye, May 20, 2026:
The Israeli minister of culture and sports has said Turkey should be treated as an “enemy state”, warning it could become Israel’s next major adversary.
Speaking to Israeli news outlet Srugim on Monday, Miki Zohar made the remarks during a discussion about the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, which sailed earlier this week from the Turkish port city of Marmaris and was later raided by Israeli forces.
“We must begin to treat Turkey as an enemy state,” Zohar said.
“If Turkey chooses the path of war with us, it will undoubtedly pay a very heavy price. Israel knows how to defend itself and how to harm those who harm it.”
The minister added that Ankara would “no doubt pay a huge price” if it went to war with Israel.
He also claimed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said he would build an army to conquer Israel. Although Erdogan has been a fierce and vocal critic of the Israeli government, he has not publicly declared any intention to go to war with Israel.
“There were Iranians who thought the same thing, and look where they are now. If the Turks think the same thing, they will be in a much worse situation,” Zohar said.
His comments came after Israeli forces intercepted several vessels in international waters after they departed from Turkey as part of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla mission…
