Re: Anti-globalists Reach Out to Islamists
On Apr 10, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) prominent role in this conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood advocates the creation of Islamic governments =
eventually unified in Caliphate, believing that God has set out a =
perfect way of life and social and political organization in the =
Quran and Sunna. Their goal as stated by Brotherhood founder Hassan =
al-Banna was to reclaim Islam=92s manifest destiny, an empire, =
stretched from Spain to Indonesia.[14] The Brotherhood strongly =
opposes Western colonialism, and helped overthrow the pro-western =
monarchies in Egypt and other Muslim nations during the early 20th =
century.
It expresses its interpretation of Islam through a strict religious =
approach to social issues such as the role of women where its founder =
called for “a campaign against ostentation in dress and loose =
behavior,” “segregation of male and female students,” a separate =
curricula for girls, and “the prohibition of dancing and other such =
pastimes…”