This should come as no surprise, as there is an ideological overlap between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the most violent jihadist organizations. The MB’s ideology has influenced the policies and beliefs of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS). Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the late Islamic State caliph, Osama bin Laden, the late al-Qaeda leader, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current al-Qaeda leader, all belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood before their involvement with the jihad terror groups with which they are associated. Yet Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations operate freely in the United States and Canada.
“Corpus Christi Shooter Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda Sources,” by John Rossomando, Investigative Project on Terrorism, May 28, 2020:
Social media posts by Corpus Christi naval air station shooter Adam Alsahli indicate he supported key figures linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and attended a school in Saudi Arabia that has a decades-long link with Al-Qaeda figures.
Alsahli opened fire at the air station’s North Gate on May 21. A guard was shot, but survived with minor injuries thanks to the bulletproof vest she was wearing. Guards returned fire, killing Alsahli.
Alsahli publicly declared his support for Al-Qaeda last November.
This marks the second attack against a US naval installation on US soil since December. Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani previously went on a shooting rampage at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where he was attending a program, killing three US sailors. Alshamrani had repeatedly communicated with Al-Qaeda operatives, FBI officials revealed earlier this month.
Alsahli moved to the United States in 2014, according to Todd Bensman, a former manager with the Texas Department of Public Safety and Counterterrorism who currently serves as a national security senior fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. Alsahli obtained US citizenship while living abroad because his father was a naturalized American.
His Linkedin profile shows he attended Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a Salafist Islamic school with a long history of inspiring Al-Qaeda leaders. Muhammad Qutb, brother of Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb, taught at the school for years, inspiring his students with his brother’s jihadist ideology. Muhammad Qutb instructed his students that Muslims should hate infidels and have enmity toward them.
According to a report, Muhammad Qutb inspired Al-Qaeda leaders Ayman al-Zawahiri and Safar al-Hawali, who also taught at Umm al-Qura University. Al-Hawali, a student of Qutb’s, became an early bin Laden supporter. He accused the West of trying to undermine Islamic society from within after American troops were deployed to Saudi Arabia following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This same event helped trigger bin Laden’s animosity against the United States.
Al-Hawali published a book in 2018 called Muslims and Western Civilization that renewed the call for jihad against the West, including suicide attacks. The book’s publication led Saudi authorities to arrest him that year.
“It is part of jihad to revive martyrdom operations that spite the enemy greatly. They are kind of infiltrating the enemy and they display the courage of Muslims and their love of martyrdom, and they terrorize the hearts of their enemies,” Al-Hawali’s book said.
In an Arabic Twitter post last January, Alsahli quoted a statement Al-Hawali made after 9/11.
“The moral spirit is stronger than military technology,” it says. “The huge armies can defeat it with hundreds of those seeking Heaven. Technology no matter how developed cannot resist the moral spirit of the believers.”
Alsahli also complained about Saudi Arabia’s detention of Salman al-Odah, a close associate of Al-Hawali’s in the Muslim Brotherhood-inspired Saudi Awakening Movement of the early 1990s. Al-Odah spread anti-Western and antisemitic ideas as a leader of that movement. He was also a mentor of bin Laden’s.
“May Allah Bless him and grant him peace and his membership in the International Union of Muslim Scholars and the European Council for Fatwa. Do the scholars silence this crude audacity?” Alsahli wrote about Al-Odah…..
“Corpus Christi Shooter Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda Sources,” by John Rossomando, Investigative Project on Terrorism, May 28, 2020:
Social media posts by Corpus Christi naval air station shooter Adam Alsahli indicate he supported key figures linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and attended a school in Saudi Arabia that has a decades-long link with Al-Qaeda figures.
Alsahli opened fire at the air station’s North Gate on May 21. A guard was shot, but survived with minor injuries thanks to the bulletproof vest she was wearing. Guards returned fire, killing Alsahli.
Alsahli publicly declared his support for Al-Qaeda last November.
This marks the second attack against a US naval installation on US soil since December. Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani previously went on a shooting rampage at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where he was attending a program, killing three US sailors. Alshamrani had repeatedly communicated with Al-Qaeda operatives, FBI officials revealed earlier this month.
Alsahli moved to the United States in 2014, according to Todd Bensman, a former manager with the Texas Department of Public Safety and Counterterrorism who currently serves as a national security senior fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. Alsahli obtained US citizenship while living abroad because his father was a naturalized American.
His Linkedin profile shows he attended Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a Salafist Islamic school with a long history of inspiring Al-Qaeda leaders. Muhammad Qutb, brother of Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb, taught at the school for years, inspiring his students with his brother’s jihadist ideology. Muhammad Qutb instructed his students that Muslims should hate infidels and have enmity toward them.
According to a report, Muhammad Qutb inspired Al-Qaeda leaders Ayman al-Zawahiri and Safar al-Hawali, who also taught at Umm al-Qura University. Al-Hawali, a student of Qutb’s, became an early bin Laden supporter. He accused the West of trying to undermine Islamic society from within after American troops were deployed to Saudi Arabia following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This same event helped trigger bin Laden’s animosity against the United States.
Al-Hawali published a book in 2018 called Muslims and Western Civilization that renewed the call for jihad against the West, including suicide attacks. The book’s publication led Saudi authorities to arrest him that year.
“It is part of jihad to revive martyrdom operations that spite the enemy greatly. They are kind of infiltrating the enemy and they display the courage of Muslims and their love of martyrdom, and they terrorize the hearts of their enemies,” Al-Hawali’s book said.
In an Arabic Twitter post last January, Alsahli quoted a statement Al-Hawali made after 9/11.
“The moral spirit is stronger than military technology,” it says. “The huge armies can defeat it with hundreds of those seeking Heaven. Technology no matter how developed cannot resist the moral spirit of the believers.”
Alsahli also complained about Saudi Arabia’s detention of Salman al-Odah, a close associate of Al-Hawali’s in the Muslim Brotherhood-inspired Saudi Awakening Movement of the early 1990s. Al-Odah spread anti-Western and antisemitic ideas as a leader of that movement. He was also a mentor of bin Laden’s.
“May Allah Bless him and grant him peace and his membership in the International Union of Muslim Scholars and the European Council for Fatwa. Do the scholars silence this crude audacity?” Alsahli wrote about Al-Odah…..
