Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Comes to Edmond, Oklahoma
Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Comes to Edmond, Oklahoma
EDMOND, Okla. — There is a controversy in Edmond involving the expansion of a local mosque. The small mosque, which has been in Edmond for 20 years, sits across from the University of Central Oklahoma. Officials have requested permits to expand the building to five times the size it is now.
When neighbors were notified about the expansion plan, letters of complaint began coming in. In a hand-written note the writer asked planning commissioners to look at recent events in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and “what our grandchildren are going to face.” In one letter the sender called the mosque near UCO, “a headquarters for terrorist affiliate organizations.”
The letter describing the proposed mosque as a terrorist threat was accompanied by a flier circulated by an organisation called Oklahomans for Responsible Government (“This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. This is about treason and sedition”). As you can see from their website, the campaign draws its inspiration from Frank Gaffney’s paranoid Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy theories.

Here is an interesting story from Egypt though it has nothing to do with this story except the worries stated about the Muslim Brotherhood in the story.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_SECTARIAN_CLASHES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-27-14-53-51
Muslims started burning the homes of Coptic Christians after a Coptic Christian working in a laundry burnt a Muslims shirt. Are these people so used to violence and terror that they are going to burn a group of people out of their homes because a shirt was ruined in the laundry? Does being Muslim even slightly modify ones behavior so as to respect the life and property of others. Let me put it another way: are there moral imperatives in Islam that decry such behavior? If so, what is it about these various groups of Muslims that just throw their religion out the window and engage in such immoral acts? Acts like this make people nervous, is it any wonder that various groups oppose the building of Islamic religious structures in their community. Is this type of behavior going to be exported to other countries? To some extent it has as evidenced by the murder and attack on those in European countries that have been critical of Islam or made fun of it in some way. Whatever leadership there is in Islam is going to have to get a handle on these behaviors as it makes the critics of Islam credible and provokes a repeated backlash against followers of Islam who actually behave like civilized people.
28 July 2012 at 1:48 am