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Anti-India narrative: Jamaat-e-Islami says no ties with Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood (MB), a transnational Islamist organization, had launched a boycott campaign against India in September last year to dent its image and discredit its prominent figures…reports Asian Lite News

Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday refuted linkages with Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist organization which launched an anti-India campaign in September last year.

Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, which has its headquarters in Srinagar, India, also denied any link to Russell’s Tribunal on Kashmir that was held recently at Sarajevo, Bosnia. It said no member or representative had participated in the Bosnian conference and that it “was not involved in the conduct of any conference”.

“All the queries raised about the participation of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir in the conference Russell Tribunal on Kashmir held at Sarajevo, Bosnia openly or tacitly are not justified at all. Jamaat before the ban was a social-religious organization working for the betterment of humanity at large in accordance with the divine guidance of Islam,” Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir said in a statement today.

“Organizations and individuals should not claim to be part of Jamaat and try to malign the image. We are not involved in the conduct of any conference,” it added.

Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir had been banned for five years in 2019 on grounds that it was “in close touch” with terror outfits.

Muslim Brotherhood (MB), a transnational Islamist organization, had launched a boycott campaign against India in September last year to dent its image and discredit its prominent figures, all in name of human rights, according to a media report.

This anti-India campaign, launched in collusion with domestic elements, tried to replace the non-violent image of India with a “radical narrative”.

The campaign is initiated with the larger aim to create a conflict space in the conflict industry, using the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction, Movement model.

Certain anti-India narratives that have been built in the last few years are building blocks for this conflict industry, which runs into billions of dollars, according to reports.

Backed by Turkey and Pakistan, it was a campaign by Muslim Brotherhood through the new emerging nexus of Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan, to target India via a malicious Kashmir narrative.

The key features of such an industry are that it involves different states and different religions or ethnicities.

Another important feature is that most vocal faces and organizations would generally have nothing to do with the conflict situation, would have no direct experiences, and yet would be the foremost noisemakers.

Experts and fact-checkers say Kashmir is not new to the conflict industry.

Previous reports have revealed how scores of fund-raisers are being run in the name of Kashmir by random ‘activists’ and ‘NGOs’ and ‘humanitarian relief’ organizations.

Several of these organizations do not have the basic capabilities to carry out any actual work. (ANI)

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Muslim Brotherhood has complex network in Europe, reveals report

Its attitude toward violence is also utilitarian, and jihad is embraced when conditions make it convenient, the report said…reports Asian Lite News.

The Muslim Brotherhood has a complex network in Europe and understanding the group in the region is difficult due to deliberate secrecy surrounding the organisation, the Policy Research Group (POREG) said citing a report by Europe a Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

The survival instinct of the organisation also makes it operate more as an ideal than a formally structured political organisation. This has obscured understanding by Europe and policymakers, according to the ECR.

The report by the ECR released in October pointed towards the dangers associated with ignoring the gradual rise in Brotherhood’s membership and its activities across Europe, said POREG.

Warning against falling for purported ideals of the group as a supporter of liberal democracy or western values, the report pointed out that while Muslim Brotherhood means are pragmatic including tactical alliances with progressive movements, its ultimate goal remains acquiring power (tamkin) to build an Islamic state based on Sharia.

Its attitude toward violence is also utilitarian, and jihad is embraced when conditions make it convenient, the report said.

Muslim Brotherhood in Europe is not a single, centralized organisation, the report said, adding, the group is a starfish of different branches formally independent from one another, but linked by ideological patterns, common umbrella organisations and individual ties. It also examines the most relevant Muslim Brotherhood-related NGOs in Europe, with a specific focus on Islamic Relief. The ECR report argues that the EU should call a moratorium on all funding to Islamic Relief Worldwide and its constituent organisations while an investigation into its problems with extremism, and the precise nature of its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, is conducted, according to POREG.

The research group further stated that the evolving situation requires policy response by other European states to recent reports by ECR and other groups so that they can safeguard their citizens from such incidents on their soil.

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Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood targets South Asia

MB is a religio-political and radical organisation based out of Egypt. It has been alleged to be linked to a number of violent acts, including bombings and political assassinations, in the past…reports Asian Lite News

Muslim Brotherhoods (MB) distance from South Asia could also be possibly out of turf respect to Jamaat-e-Islami, which carries the agenda of radical Islam in this part of the world.

A report by Disinfolab says that MB and its various fronts have been providing support to the Jamaat narratives, and several of the Jamaat fronts are well-entangled with the MB fronts in the US and elsewhere such as Palestine, Jordan and Egypt (where it originated). So far, MB did not take the matter of India in its hands.

This is about to change, it seems.

The anti-India trend seems to be led by MB, though a significant number of Pakistani 5th Gen Warfare (5GW) soldiers, who are perpetually rearing to go against India, have also contributed to this trend.

And it is not MB’s foot soldiers (key-board warriors), but some of the who’s who of MB who have participated in the campaign. The fact that the campaign was constantly targeting Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron shows that despite targeting India, the MB did not lose sight of its core objectives.

Terrorism.

As it turned out, most of the prominent handles pushing this narrative were related to the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun).

MB is a religio-political and radical organisation based out of Egypt. It has been alleged to be linked to a number of violent acts, including bombings and political assassinations, in the past.

Muslim Brotherhood members have been accused of supporting/abetting terror activities, including the 9/11 attack.

Several top functionaries of the organisation are in the US Terror Watch List, and many members remain on the sanction list. MB is believed to have inspired the formation of as many as 13 terrorist groups in Egypt. The organisation is banned in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

However, what is not so much acknowledged and appreciated is that the MB in essence was conceived as an instrument to �infiltrate’ Western society and provide an intellectual framework to radical discourse.

The objective has been to monopolise the discussion of the Islamic world and Muslim affairs by drowning other voices. It has done so by adopting the �appearances’ and �mannerisms’ of the Western world, including Western costumes (though essentially men). This was one of the core philosophies of its founder, Hassan Al Banna.

Muslim Brotherhood also has off-shoots in the US and constitutes organisations like ISNA, MSA, CAIR and ICNA, to name a few.

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