A window on the muslim brotherhood in america

RYAN MAURO: A WINDOW ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA

An Annotated Interview with DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary

guidelines⁵⁰ that warned that “trainers who are self-professed ‘Muslim reformers’ mayfurther an interest group agenda instead of delivering generally accepted unbiased in­formation.”

Elibiary (cont’d): That’s my way. There are other Muslim advocates ofreform who have instead publicly chosen to politically-demonize, in conservative media outlets, mainstream Muslim community organiza­tions as “Islamists.” Labeling these or other Muslim community organi­zations as either “Muslim Brotherhood-associated” or “Muslim Broth-erhood-legacy” in my opinion is counterproductive and has largely mar­ginalized those “anti-Islamist” activists in Muslim communities and mainstream media outlets, thereby leaving many to question what theirvalue is after all is said and done to the real cause of reform.

In short, Elibiary evinces a clear affinity for and pattern of activism on behalf ofIslamists and hostility towards Muslims who oppose them and their shariah agenda forAmerica. Most Americans would find unbelievable the idea that their government re­gards such an individual, and others like him, as its preferred interlocutors with MuslimAmerican community.

4. Elibiary’s Influence and “Islamophobia”

In this part of the interview, Elibiary admits that the US Muslim Brotherhood ex­isted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but tries to downplay its presence and influencein subsequent years. For proof, he cites its internal communications complaining aboutthe group’s inability to control the Muslim-American community. When I pointed outthat those communications were decades ago, Elibiary asserts that subsequent devel­opments have made “the concept of a US Muslim Brotherhood becomes even more ofan absurd overreach.”

Mauro: Why do you think concern about the US Muslim Brotherhood,whose existence was proven during the Holy Land Foundation trial, is“Islamophobia” and what do you think should happen as a result?

Elibiary: American Muslim Brotherhood leaders themselves, as far back as the late 1980s and early 1990s in publicly-available documents fromthe HLF trial, lament the fact that the American Muslim communityhad grown way too large for them to influence it. Add to that another