Jamaat al-Muslimeen Background Study
(from our Idol Breaking Think Tank)
Egyptian Regime Violates Islamic Women to Crush Opposition
Symbiotic Relationship of Mubarak and White House
Late in March 2000, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak slipped
quietly into the White House, held secret sessions with President Clinton and
left. He came and went as if he was visiting his relatives, without fanfare
and fuss.
Before him came Egypt's Foreign Affairs Minister Amr Moussa. He
met the U.S. press corp and business leaders. He also met his people in the
U.S. Muslim community. Some of the points he made indicate that Egypt's ruler
is the spearhead of U.S.A.'s moves against the Islamic movement in Egypt and
around the world. The key points Amr Moussa made (as recorded by C-Span on
March 24 and screened on March 27) were as follows:
1. Moussa indicated that the Mubarak regime has played a key role in
the so-called Peace Process meant to legitimize the Israeli occupation of
Palestine and to sell it to the Muslim public. In Moussa's words: "Achievements of the peace process are crown
jewels of our relationship."
2. The Gulf War. 3. Somalia. 4. Sudan (sanctions). 5. Iraq
(sanctions). In all these Amr Moussa pointed out that there has been close "Egyptian American
cooperation."
3. The war against "terrorism" (that is attempts to destroy the
Muslim ability to fight back) is again an area of common work between Mubarak
and Clinton.
MUBARAK: Slick Operator: While the Mubarak regime is working with
the U.S. to destroy the Muslim ability to fight back and is working for
recognition of Israel by every Muslim country, Mubarak never attacks Islam
directly. On the one hand, he permits night clubs, liquor and prostitution in
Egypt, on the other he sends reciters of the Qur'an (qaris) (strictly
non-political) to Muslim communities around the world.
Not surprisingly, both Mubarak and Amr Moussa have their own Muslim
supporters in America. On this trip Amr Moussa spoke to such an audience in
Los Angeles. At a higher level, Dr. Maher Hathout, "Advisor" to a group
called Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), met first with Medeleine
Albright and Amr Moussa and then with Mubarak and Clinton. (Source: The
Muslim Observer, edited by Aslam Abdullah, which supports MPAC.)
Following the railroading of Shaikh Omar by a Jewish judge in New
York (with Mubarak's regime hidden in the background), Al-Amoudi, leader of a
funded group set up in Washington called AMC (American Muslim Council)
attended a conference called in Cairo by Mubarak himself. Al-Amoudi then went
on to publicize the Mubarak conference and his own presence there in the
AMC's own newsletter.
Thus Mubarak's Muslim front is quite successful.
After decline of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt saw the uprising of Al
Gamaa al-Islamiyya, whose spiritual guide, Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman is now in
solitary confinement in Rochester, Minnesota. The mass appeal of the Gamaa'
can be seen in the fact that 60,000 of its members and supporters remain in
Mubarak's dungeons where torture is routinely perpetrated on them. According
to Amnesty International 10,000 of the Gamaa' supporters were arrested in the
last three years. (Nearly 300 Muslim Brotherhood were also arrested to
prevent their participation in Egyptian 'Elections')
GAMAA' could not be defeated through arrests, torture and state
terror. Mubarak's security forces even attacked mosques and arrested people
worshipping there. Yet the combined Egyptian security, Mossad and CIA/FBI
could not defeat the Gamaa. (Mubarak has a big FBI security unit in Cairo
from where it supposedly monitors terrorists, a name for Islamic activists.)
Then, learning from the Hindus in Kashmir, the Jews in Palestine and
the Serbs in Bosnia/Kosova, Mubarak started something unknown in Egyptian
history, the VIOLATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN. The violation of any woman is a crime
against humanity, but Mubarak's crimes have been carried out against the
veiled women who stay away from men other than their relatives and are known
for their chastity, worship of Allah and total devotion to the cause of Islam.
There are many reports about Mubarak's campaign against Islamic women
aimed at breaking the men who are fighting his regime to stop the recognition
of Israel and the bastardization of Egyptian society.
We will choose a segment from a book by a non-Muslim woman who was
sympathetic to Mubarak and who went to Egypt because of her concern about the
victorious upsurge of Gamaa' al-Islamiyya. She was particularly shocked by
the slaughter of tourists at Luxor by the six young mujahideen who gave their
lives to stop one of the biggest sources of Mubarak's income from the
exploitation of Pharoahnic traditions. She wanted to know why these young men
gave up their lives in such a ferocious attack. (They were educated and had
many prospects in life.) Here is her description of what Mubarak is doing to
Muslim women: the process is degrading but must be understood by those who
meet Mubarak and still call themselves Muslims.
The narration is from the mother of one of these great Muslim women
whom Mubarak's thugs have violated. The book is: A PORTRAIT of EGYPT by Mary
Anne Weaver. This is what Um Mohammed, the mother of a Muslim woman told
Weaver:
"The screams of her twenty-eight-year old daughter, Amal Farouq,
had kept her awake every night for months, she said. The nightmare was always
the same since Amal's arrest by the SSI, which had held her hostage in a
damp, dark room as they attempted to collect evidence against her husband,
Ahmed, Um Mohammed's favorite son-in-law. The government's new strategy of
targeting women in its increasingly ugly war, even some of its officials
admit, is an exceedingly unpleasant one, but it is meant to break the spirit
of male militants."
"Amal was arrested only hours after Ahmed (who is now serving a
twenty-five-year prison term for his alleged role in an assassination attempt
against the Minister of Information) was captured by the police. The SSI
wanted Amal to tell them about Ahmed's friends and to denounce him on
government-controlled television as a terrorist. Amal refused. Then slowly,
over a period of days, the beatings began, and became progressively worse."
" 'They tore off her veil and blindfolded her," Um Mohammed said. "Then
they stripped her down to her underwear and hung her from a hook in the
ceiling by her hands. They taunted her; whipped her with cable wire; kicked
her in the stomach; and, with razors, they sliced open her back. They were at
least seven men in the room, Amal said, and some of them chanted, as they
beat her, how much they would enjoy raping her.' "
" From the next room, Amal heard Ahmed screaming in pain. 'You bastards!
I don't know anything. Leave her alone!' "
"Amal was held, incommunicado, for ten days."
"On the morning of the last day, an officer named Mahmoud Hosny took
her into a tiny room and stripped her naked. As she lay shivering on the
floor, attempting to conceal herself, he promised her her freedom and a large
sum of money if she signed a confession implicating Ahmed as a terrorist.
When Amal refused, Hosny called another man into the room and told him, 'The
bitch is all yours. Rape her' "
" When the man began to undress, Amal started to scream: 'All right,
I'll sign whatever you want.' That evening, she was released without being
charged."
"Weeks later, Amal applied for permission to attend Ahmed's trial, in
a military court, and to testify that her 'confession' against her husband
had been made under torture. For 'security reasons', the government refused."
"Montasir al-Zayyat subsequently filed a complaint on Amal's behalf,
with the Ministry of the Interior, against Mahmoud Hosny and the other men
involved. the authorities responded by taking Amal into custody again."
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A portrait of Egypt. A journey Through the World of Militant Islam by Mary
Anne Weaver was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1999. If your local
public library does not have it, recommend it.)
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen asks Americans to realize that the U.S. gives $2.8
billion every year to the criminal regime of Hosni Mubarak. This torturer is
leading the "peace process" and is a frequent visitor to the Clinton White
House.
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The Committee to Free Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman has been reformulated.
Inshallah it will help the American people to realize why this outstanding
scholar, teacher and freedom fighter is being kept in a cell in Rochester,
Minnesota.
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