Fitzgerald: Mahdi Bray: "It doesn't work here"

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:51 pm

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018229.php

"Mahdi Bray, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, which promotes Muslim civil rights, called the Holy Land documents "a throwback." He has attended portions of the Holy Land trial.

'If those documents talk about the establishing of Shariah law in America, I'm saying that's a lot of hype: wishful thinking from an immigrant perspective. ... It doesn't reflect genuine American perspective in terms of where we're heading,' Mr. Bray said.

He said members of MAS decided in 1993, when the organization was founded, that they would pursue political and nonviolent tactics.

'I wouldn't be candid if I didn't say there weren't some old-timers who want to hold onto the old way, who say that this is the way the Ikhwan did it, this should be our model," he said. "We said 'So what? It doesn't work here.' We've been very adamant about that.' -- from this article

He "wouldn't be candid" even if he thought he could get away with it. But Mahdi Bray knows when to pull in his horns. When the Boston mosque scandal just got too great, and the opponents had too much that they had discovered, then Mahdi Bray and others quickly adjusted. They showed up for the phoniest of staged events, a "reconciliation" with a handful of local Jewish "leaders" or those "taking a leadership role." These, of course, were the usual hopeless naifs and interfaith pietists -- the ones who are making pronouncements and attitudinizing about things they know little or nothing about, and presuming to speak for a great many. (And just what has happened in what should be a continuing investigation into the sale of Boston city land at a sweetheart price by the BRA, and especially into the role of that Muslim member of the BRA, the one who flew off on a mysterious trip to Saudi Arabia and came back, it appears, with the financing for the mosque guaranteed?)

Mahdi Bray does let slip a telling phrase in the article above, when he gives, in arguing against the "old-timers" who think they can behave in the well-known manner of the Muslim Brotherhood and demand that the Shari'a be imposed on the United States (the "Ikhwan" that Bray refers to, still no doubt smacking his lips over that Arabic word that still gives him a thrill to utter, as part of his new special vocabulary and that significance the whole thing gives to his life), but who must be informed by others that the means they have chosen are not the right means: "We said 'So what? It doesn't work here.' We've been very adamant about that.”

Right. The method of the Ikhwan "doesn't work here." So other methods, different and smoother methods, must be adopted. The goal -- the arrival and imposition of the Shari'a over the United States -- remains a goal of true Believers, and certainly of the converts like Mahdi Bray. It seems likely that Bray’s denial of such a goal can safely be ignored, for such a denial, expressed sincerely, cannot possibly be forthcoming from a true Believer, which Mahdi Bray by all appearances is. It is not facultative, but mandatory, to work for the dominance of Islam. And that certainly includes replacing the Infidel nation-state and Infidel laws with the Holy Law of Islam.

Don't believe a word Mahdi Bray says. Or do so only with extreme caution. But do look for a photograph of Mahdi Bray "distributing" goods -- a box or two did it for the photograph he had taken last year -- to some charity. That photo is supposed to demonstrate for Infidel audiences that -- just look, here we are, Muslims, now donating to non-Muslims. It's all for show, and all against the grain of, and despite the teachings of, Islam. Well, come to think of it, not entirely. For while zakat is supposed to be only for fellow Muslims, when such zakat, if given to non-Muslims, helps the position, the image, the spread, of Islam, then it may be allowed. And that is exactly what Mahdi Bray does -- for he does nothing that is not directed at spreading Islam until, of course, it dominates in this country, as by right it should everywhere. That is his goal. If you do not share that goal, if you regard the attainment of that goal with horror, then you must watch Mahdi Bray and his smiling I'm-just-a-country-Muslim-from-Norfolk-Virginia shtick with vigilant alarm.