Here’s where we are with Gaza: the ceasefire holds though Hamas is behind schedule and it’s time that we stop using that name to describe it. Its real name is the “Muslim Brotherhood”. Hamas is a PR name the Brotherhood gave itself when it founded its branch in Gaza way back in 1987. Hamas is nothing more than a brand for popularity, all for show, much as the Palestinian keffiyeh comes from Iraq and Yasser Arafat was Egyptian, where by no coincidence the Muslim Brotherhood was born.

Therefore it’s the Muslim Brotherhood that’s refusing to release all remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza per the Trump ceasefire. It’s the Muslim Brotherhood that’s refusing to disarm and remove itself from Gazan politics.

It’s important that we do this now because the word “Hamas” (Resistance) is indeed a subterfuge, it suggests to the world that its goal is a struggle towards a Palestinian state. In reality it is a deliberate diversion from the Muslim Brotherhood’s true aim ironically written in its manifesto.

The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to build a global Islamic Caliphate based on Sharia law with its capital in Jerusalem. Yes, it seeks the downfall of Israel in this task but not through a Palestine, rather the defeat of Western democracy.

We need to say “Muslim Brotherhood” because it’s time the world wakes up to those seeking perpetual war.

The Brotherhood believes that the end of Western democracy will bring about the fall of Israel and the rise of Islam across the world.

It’s a strategy that has been many decades in the making, yet, without a time limit. But now that it’s in the open, having been unleashed with the horrors of October 7 2023, the clock has begun. It’s who will see it through first that’s the question.

The strategy is simple in essence: By continuing the war in Gaza, denying a Palestine as a Western achievement, the Brotherhood’s propaganda machine can ramp up the blame on Israel.

It’s the people who then eat this message that matters. With this manufactured outrage on the streets led by expert cadres of the Brotherhood’s cause and thrown about by the Brotherhood’s sympathetic (and sponsored) Western media, Israel becomes even more the wedge that pulls Europe and the US apart.

In the past two years it’s already happening. In the moral vacuum of a weak Western leadership that fears the mob violence seen with Black Lives Matter, the Brotherhood has managed to normalise antisemitism, also known as anti-Zionism, as the fulcrum of that wedge.

It’s no accident in other words. Nothing about it is organic. It’s a strategy of divide and conquer, carrot and stick, fear and retribution.

Its method has been audacious: the gradual testing of the bounds of anarchy the West is willing to accept. It’s seen Britons imprisoned for anti-Muslim social media posts while calls to kill Jews have been given deaf ears. It’s seen synagogues and Jewish schools burned and vandalised in Australia while governments declare Islamophobia. It’s seen mass Muslim prayers on public thoroughfares in Canada while Christians holding signs have been fined. It’s seen the burning of churches in France while the Pope has built a Muslim prayer room in the Vatican. It’s seen the mass killings of Christians in Nigeria while the BBC and Guardian call a genocide in Gaza.

It’s a strategy of Islamic strength versus Western political meekness, and the West is losing badly.

This PR machine is not just subverting the Abraham Accord countries in the Gulf some of whom fund or have funded the Brotherhood, but Indonesia that only weeks ago pledged “shalom” to Israel, and Pakistan that last week confirmed Trump’s Peace Plan as the region’s future; both leaders of which are now in fear.

We’re seeing the tangible fruits of the Brotherhood’s strategy in the mayorship of London, and the Islamist radicalisation of Birmingham, Dearborn, Toronto, Montreal, Sydney and Melbourne. It threatens to give New York an Islamist mayorship in two weeks’ time. At its most ridiculous level, it’s empowered Australia, Canada and the UK to break away from the US and declare a State of Palestine that is as fictional as it may ever be as the Brotherhood cares.

France too was lost long ago when it released the Ayatollah onto Iran in 1979. Just as damaging, the Brotherhood subverted the Arab Spring to the chagrin of young Egyptian secularists with hope in their eyes. The Brotherhood’s candidate Morsi won election only to be overturned in a coup by the moderate El-Sisi.

At its most insidious, every boat of illegal aliens hitting the West’s shores since the Spring’s end in 2014 is no accident either. They’re reinforcements for the Muslim Brotherhood’s clandestine army in the West.

It’s an insurgency fuelled by the very Western values that define humanity: of timidity, empathy and a belief in justice.

So, now it all makes sense. It’s time that we call out Islamist Extremism for what it is without the fear of the accusation of “Islamophobia”. For that term is of the Brotherhood’s PR making too.

It’s time that we say “Muslim Brotherhood” when pointing at the militancy of Gaza and obstruction of the Mideast peace process. It’s time that we do so given the misery in Sudan and Nigeria.

The West needs to follow Austria’s recent lead in banning the Brotherhood along with Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Syria until it accepts change. The Brotherhood has toyed with secularism but hardliners have always shouted it down. This explains the continued Sharia bluster of Iran, and more importantly Turkey today.

Therefore when we hear antisemitic rhetoric, accusations of Zionism and claims of famine and genocide in Gaza that’s the Muslim Brotherhood.

When we read of rape, child rape gangs and misogyny that’s the Muslim brotherhood.

When we read of two-tier policing, injustice and once respected media brands pushing news that just doesn’t make sense: yes, that’s the Muslim Brotherhood too.

We must be able to show that the West can defeat bullying no matter who’s funding it, the bribes driving it and the misdirection of a complicit media spreading it.

The game is real. Hamas is not. It’s been the Muslim Brotherhood all along. Can it abandon its caliphate for secular prosperity and peace?

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It will take a lot to bring about that change given the Brotherhood’s history.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, had close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood of the 1930s. The Third Reich is said to have inspired the Brotherhood’s strategic thinking. Indeed the Grand Mufti met with Hitler in 1941 while the Holocaust was underway.

Never before seen pictures sold in 2021 show him examining the concentration camp of Trebbin near Berlin in 1943 that served as a satellite of the major camp with its gas chamber at Sachenhausen. Here in a more notorious picture, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem reviews the 13th SS Mountain “Handschar” or “Moslem” Division made up of Muslim volunteers in Bosnia in 1943 too.

Bosnia and Berlin are as far away from Jerusalem as you can get. So, why was the Grand Mufti there? He’d fled to Germany in 1937 fearing arrest by the British for his role in the ongoing Arab Revolt in the Palestinian Mandate.

The flames of Jihad for the Muslim Brotherhood started burning early.

© 2025 Adam Parker.

Source: Stein, G.H. (1966). The Waffen SS. Cornell University Press, New York.

Picture credit: Wikipedia. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-036-05. Unknown author. CC-BY-SA 3.0. Public domain.