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http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/30365Imam Ossama Bahloul of the Murfreesboro Islamic Center is a graduate of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He received an MS in Da' awah, proselytizing for Islam, and he is currently working on a Ph.d in Comparative Religious Studies. Ordinarily this would seem rather innocuous if it were not for the historical record that explicitly denotes the radical Islamist agenda exported across the globe by this Islamic "center of education."
Al Azhar University is the foremost leader in Islamic education, and it is the progenitor of the pan-Islamic movement or Islamist movement. From as early as 1897, long before U.S. involvement in the Middle East or the creation of the sovereign Jewish state of Israel, a great number of Islamic scholars were already advocating, at the very least, an Islamic caliphate extending from the Balkans across the entire Middle East to the Far East. Many of the violent "jihadist" (holy warriors) radicals operating today actually mentored under imams who were students of these early radicals at Al Azhar, and currently, we now hear the leaders of the Islamist movement calling for Shari'a Law being spread across Europe and the U.S.
From its inception in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) set forth on a mission to infiltrate Al Azhar University as well as Middle Eastern and world governments. Hassan al-Banna was the founder of the MB; much of his ongoing philosophy came directly from his father, Sheikh Amad al-Banna, who was mentored by Mohammed Abduh; Abduh was a teacher at Al Azhar and became the Grand Mufti of Egypt by 1899. Mohammed Abduh was also the most important disciple of the founder of the pan-Islamic movement ("Salafiyya"), Jaamal al-Din al-Afghani. When Afghani died he left behind numerous writings that influence the modern Islamist movement and terrorists.
Sayeed Qutb was the MB's chief ideologist after al-Banna was assassinated in 1949 by Egyptian secret police, who were retaliating for the 1948 assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Pasha by the MB. Qutb developed the doctrine that according to Islam the modern Arab states are too heavily influenced by "Jahiliyyah" or barbarity and Western culture. Qubt wrote: "It is not the function of Islam to compromise with the concepts of (Western culture) which are current in the world or to co-exist in the same land...It (Western culture) derives its system...from a source other than Allah...Islam cannot accept any mixing with (Western culture). Either Islam will remain or the (Western culture); no half-half situation is possible."
Qutb authored 24 books and a 30 volume commentary on the Qur'an, including 'Milestones' which led Egypt's President Nassar to have him executed in 1966. Qutb advocated the violent overthrow of political systems in order to install Islamic theocracies and inspired Muslim fundamentalists around the world. Qutb was the principle inspiration for Ossama bin-Laden, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and Dr. Abdullah Azzam.
Dr. Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian, became convinced that Qutb's militant interpretation of Islamic Jihad offered the solution to social and economic problems, while studying at Al Azhar. During this period Azzam mentored a 24 year old Ayman al-Zawahiri who went on to become an inspiration to Osama bin-Laden and his second in command. Qutb's writings eventually convinced Azzam to found the organization that would later become al-Qaeda.
Sayeed Abdullah Maududi, the founder of Jaamat-e-Islami, was also inspired by Qutb while attending an Al Azhar funded and heavily influenced Kabul University. Maududi became a leading Islamist theorist in post-independence Pakistan. In 1939, Maududi emphasized, "The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology...regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State."
Throughout the 20th century, thousands of radical imams associated with the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jaamat-e-Islami and numerous other terror organizations have graduated from Al Azhar. Among Al Azhar's most notorious graduates is Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader. He is admired by Ossama Bahloul, although he once wrote that Hitler was Allah's manner of rendering judgement upon the Jews and that "Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of believers." Another is the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, who is affiliated with the al-Farouq mosque and stands convicted in the 1993 WTC Bombing. Rahman offered this motto to his followers, "Jihad and the rifle alone...no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogue." Another is Sheikh Abdul Hassan who headed the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar in February 2003 when he issued a fatwa stating that Muslims had an "obligation" to kill American and British soldiers if they entered Iraq, and that any dead Muslims would be considered martyrs. Two more Al Azhar graduates are Imam Faizul Khan, who ministered the Ft. Hood Shooter, also sits on the board of the radical Islamic Society of North America that was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror financing case in U.S. history in 2009 and Dr. Mustafa Ceric, who supports Bosnian Wahhabism and a growing Islamic extremism throughout Europe, has made it clear that he views Great Britain as the first conquest in the Islamization of Europe!
Imam Ibrahim Dremali, who studied under Grand Imam Tantawi, further exemplifies Al Azhar's radical indoctrination and agendas. Tantawi supported violent jihad against America and suicide bombings. In 1998 Dremali co-founded the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, and not long afterwards he was organizing pro-Palestinian protests in front of from the Israeli Embassy in Miami and stating, "With Jihad we'll claim our land, Zionist blood will wet the sand." Dremali fled Boca Raton as he anticipated the arrest of one of his followers, a proven al-Qaeda operative. Also, it just so happens that Dremali and Ossama Bahloul both belong to the North American Imam Federation.
Sayeed Maududi and many other Islamic scholars have never accepted Islam as simply a "religion," a term generally used in all cultures, when referring to divine guidance. Instead, Maududi focused on the Qur'anic term "addin" (the way of life). Muadudi stated that the Qur'an never used "din" (way of life) alone; whenever the Qur'an speaks about Islam, the Qur'an calls Islam "the way of life." The inescapable historic truth is that Hassan al-Banna, Sayeed Qubt and Sayeed Abdul Maududi strongly influenced the 20th century progression of Islam, and they were the modern revivalists of an ideology based on the belief of Islamic superiority with its desire for world domination. It was later that Saudi and Iranian oil wealth allowed the promotion, finance and export of radical Wahhabi, Shari'a Law and Khomeini-style armed jihad to nations across the globe. Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood and Al Azhar University are indisputably the progenitors of all modern Islamist groups. Hassan al-Banna was fond of stating, "We need three generations for our plans...one to listen, one to fight and one to win." One should ask, "Did Ossama Bahloul avoid accepting or being indoctrinated by the Islamists' worldview so prevalent at Al Azhar University?
