Muslim Brotherhood ‘Intimidates’ and ‘Bullies’ Other Muslims in Michigan and Minnesota

Phil Haney is a retired Department of Homeland Security officer and co-author of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad. The follow excerpt is taken from a one-hour interview on Secure Freedom Radio.

FRANK GAFFNEY: Phil, last year you spent a lot of time in Michigan and Minnesota during the mid-term elections last year speaking to members of the immigrant populations there. Did you notice that the Muslim Brotherhood had a role in these communities?

PHIL HANEY: One of the most amazing things I found during the five months I was there is that about 20 percent of the Muslim population in the whole country, including those two states, votes Republican. Many of the immigrants I spoke to came here to get away from the influence of Sharia. The immigrant community is fractured – it is far from a monolith. There are divisions between ethnicities, points of origin, different languages, different customs, and it creates a lot of stress and pressure. A common theme among the various groups I talked to is the problems the Muslim Brotherhood creates for them. It is the bull in the China shop. The Brotherhood barges into the community, takes over the mosque, and imposes a Salafi form of Islam. Anyone who disagrees is literally pushed out of the community.

FRANK GAFFNEY:  That ostracism can have profound societal and commercial implications for those that are being pushed out. I assume a large part of the reason the Brotherhood is able to silence dissent is due to the authority successive U.S. governments have granted Brotherhood front groups such as the Council on Islamic Relations and Islamic Society of North America. Has that legitimacy enabled them to claim to be leaders of the entire Muslim community?

PHIL HANEY: Yes, and they use it as a hammer. Brotherhood groups have an attitude of arrogance. They are endorsed by the US government and will tell people that they better listen to them or there may be bad consequences. Many in the non-Arab Muslim community think that Arab speaking Muslims feel that they are superior because their ancestors are the first Muhammad spoke to and they are bearers of the flag of Islam. The attitude of superiority is worst among the Brotherhood front groups. The Brotherhood is considered a bully, and the rest of the ethnic and immigrant community resent it greatly. But what can they say? What can they do? They have no allies.

FRANK GAFFNEY. Right, well, that’s where we come in.

Listen to the whole one-hour interview here.