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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “foreign terrorist organizations,” Robert Spencer notes, describing the brotherhood as a “transnational Islamist organization” dedicated to jihad, and deploying “all possible efforts,” including violence to “dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam.” Abbott, the first governor to issue such a proclamation, has gained additional support.
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has issued The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Strategic Analysis. The 200-page report synthesizes the Brotherhood’s “civilizational transformation strategy in North America,” deploying “policy influence, legal framework manipulation, institutional infiltration, and narrative control.” As citizens and public officials should know, the Muslim Brotherhood follows the strategy of the first Communist state. In 1919, the Soviet Union established the Communist International, better known as the Comintern, to spread Marxism-Leninism across the world. As Trotsky said in the Comintern Manifesto:
Our task is to generalize the revolutionary experience of the working class, to cleanse the movement of the disintegrating admixtures of opportunism and social-patriotism, to mobilize the forces of all genuinely revolutionary parties of the world proletariat and thereby facilitate and hasten the victory of the communist revolution throughout the world. . .
And so on, for more than 4,000 words and signed by, among others, N. Lenin for Russia, K. Gruber for Germany Austria, Henri Guilbeaux for France and American Boris Reinstein of the Socialist Labor Party of America. The manifesto inspired German Communist Hanns Eisler to compose the “Comintern March,” which proclaims:
The Comintern calls you,
Raise high Soviet banner,
In steeled ranks to battle
Raise sickle and hammer.
Our answer: Red Legions
We raise in our might
Our answer: Red Storm Troops
We lunge to the fight.From Russia Victorious
The Worker’s October
Comes storming reaction’s
Regime the world over
We’re coming with Lenin
For Bolshevik work
From London, Havana,
Berlin, and New YorkRise up fields and workshops
Come out workers, farmers,
To battle march onward,
March on world stormers
Eyes sharp on your guns
Red banners unfurled
Advance, Proletarians
To conquer the world
To achieve that goal, the Comintern established the national Communist parties, including the Communist Party USA, and controlled those parties from Moscow. During the Stalin Era, they enjoyed great success.
“The Communist movement was psychologically a movement of political colonists determined to place the world, or as much of it as possible, country by country, under the sway of their government in Moscow,” wrote Benjamin Gitlow, who ran for vice president as a Communist in 1924 and 1928. “We were volunteer members of a militarized colonial service, pledged to carry out the decisions of our supreme rulers resident in Moscow anywhere in the world but particularly in the land we were colonizing for Communism, the United States.”
The Communist Party enjoyed great success with “front groups,” organizations they controlled without being recognized. A major front group, the League of American Writers, managed to enlist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States. And FDR’s New Deal was a target-rich environment.
“The curiosity is not that there were undoubtedly many Reds that made government their vocation, but that the entire Communist Party was not on the federal payroll.” That is the judgment of actor Robert Vaughn (“Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” Bullitt) in Only Victims, his study of show business blacklisting. For former CPUSA member Eugene Lyons, this was not much of an exaggeration.
“Never before – or since – had all areas of American society been so deeply penetrated by a foreign nation and a foreign ideology,” wrote Lyons. “Never before had the country’s thinking, official policies, education, arts, and moral attitudes been so profoundly affected by the agents, sympathizers and unwitting puppets of a distant dictatorship.”
Compare that record with the Muslim Brotherhood, as Spencer notes, dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house, so that it falls, and Allah’s religion reigns supreme over other religions.” Even so, the composite character president Obama, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, backed the Brotherhood as a “moderate” group. His director of national intelligence, James Clapper, claimed the brotherhood was “largely secular.”
The Comintern worked three shifts during the Nazi-Soviet Pact, when Stalin and Hitler were allies. When the USA joined the conflict, Stalin changed it to the Cominform and the CPUSA to the Communist Political Association. After WWII, when Stalin targeted the USA, front groups such as the “Cultural Conference for World Peace” called for American disarmament while ignoring or defending Soviet atrocities. In recent times, the Muslims and Communists have affected something of a merger.
Barry Soetoro, stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965, attended the “mostly Muslim” Besuki school in Jakarta. In college he idolized Malcolm X and in his political career cozied up to Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, the nation’s leading anti-Semite. Obama’s beloved Frank Marshall Davis was a Communist whose pro-Soviet activities landed him on the FBI’s security index. “Frank” disappeared from the audio version of Dreams of My Father and the Communist makes no appearance in the rest of the Obama canon, including A Promised Land.
The composite character did his best to conceal his Muslim and leftist connections. By contrast, Zohar Mamdani shouts them out loud, and gained election as mayor of New York City, attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. Mamdani’s concern is that the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor made his “auntie,” actually his father’s cousin, afraid to wear her hijab on the subway.
CAIR called the election of Mamdani “a historic turning point for American Muslim political engagement” and “a historic rebuke of both Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism in politics.” The Islamic Comintern doubtless joined the jubilation.
Greg Abbot has outed the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations. Spencer wonders if the federal government will follow suit. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
