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'''Founding of the Muslim Brotherhood'''

'''Founding of the Muslim Brotherhood'''

The Muslim Brotherhood was launched in March, 1928, barely one year after Al Hassan completed university.  The impetus in Al-Banna’s mind seems to have been his devastation over the abolition of the last caliphate of the Ottoman Empire by Kernal Atatürk in 1924.<ref>http://counterjihadreport.com/history-of-muslim-brotherhood-penetration-of-the-u-s-government/ Accessed March 30, 2015</ref>  He wanted to revive political aspects of Islam that had declined under British rule.<ref>Spencer, Stealth Jihad, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2008, p. 14</ref> But his goals transcended politics.  There were not just about anticolonialism or the renewal of Islam.  Rather, they were about a world revolution establishing Islam as the dominant religion of the world.<ref>Online Middle-East Encyclopedia, “Hassan Al-Banna”</ref> He said, “We will not stop at this point (freeing Egypt from secularism and modernity) but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam are spread throughout the world.  Only then will Muslims achieve their fundamental goal…and all religion will be exclusively for Allah.”<ref>Habeck, Knowing the Enemy, p. 120.</ref>   

The Muslim Brotherhood was launched in March, 1928, barely one year after Al Hassan completed university.  The impetus in Al-Banna’s mind seems to have been his devastation over the abolition of the last caliphate of the Ottoman Empire by Kemal Atatürk in 1924.<ref>http://counterjihadreport.com/history-of-muslim-brotherhood-penetration-of-the-u-s-government/ Accessed March 30, 2015</ref>  He wanted to revive political aspects of Islam that had declined under British rule.<ref>Spencer, Stealth Jihad, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2008, p. 14</ref> But his goals transcended politics.  There were not just about anticolonialism or the renewal of Islam.  Rather, they were about a world revolution establishing Islam as the dominant religion of the world.<ref>Online Middle-East Encyclopedia, “Hassan Al-Banna”</ref> He said, “We will not stop at this point (freeing Egypt from secularism and modernity) but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam are spread throughout the world.  Only then will Muslims achieve their fundamental goal…and all religion will be exclusively for Allah.”<ref>Habeck, Knowing the Enemy, p. 120.</ref>   

'''Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the time of Al-Banna'''

'''Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the time of Al-Banna'''