Suppression of Human Rights

The Muslim Brotherhood “is believed to be the principal organization from which modern terrorist groups, including Hamas, were established” (1) and Human Rights Watch is indignant about how Egypt is dealing with them.

Egypt: Crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood Deepens: (Cairo, October 26, 2006) – In a new round of arbitrary arrests, the Egyptian government has expanded its crackdown against members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The government should immediately release all members of the nonviolent organization imprisoned in the government’s months-long campaign, Human Rights Watch said today.

The war on terror, or more correctly the war against Islamic Jihadists, is being fought in ways which we probably know little about, but undoubtedly involve money and support of Muslim governments willing to suppress their internal Jihadist movements. Human Rights Watch apparently believes the legitimate front organization has renounced and severed all connections with their violent past.

Wikipedia: The Muslim Brotherhood … is a world-wide Islamist movement, which has spawned several religious and political organizations in the Middle East dedicated to the credo: "God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations." As stated on its charter and its website, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to install a just Islamic empire and a worldwide Caliphate, through stages designed to Islamicize targeted nations by whatever means available. Although the Brotherhood itself renounced violence in the 1970s, many of its branches continue to practice violence through terrorism and assassination.

What is clear is that the movement has an effective political arm which is consistent with their expressed goal of controlling every aspect of human life. From the group’s official English website link via Wikipedia:

The Muslim Brotherhood has gone through the latest legislative elections on the basis of a clear-cut program under the slogan “Islam is the Solution”, given the fact that Islam, as Imam el-Banna said, is a comprehensive program that encompasses all aspects of life: it is a state and a country, a government and people, ethics and power, mercy and justice, culture and law, science and justice, resources and wealth, defense and advocacy, an army and an idea, a true belief and correct acts of worship (Imam el-Banna’s Teachings Message).

The "message" is a call for absolute uniformity of belief in all aspects of life, which strikes me as completely inconsistent with the very human rights being watched. Maybe someone versed in the tricks and techniques of progressive explanations can clarify this paradox.