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Will the US Help the Muslim Brotherhood Take Jordan?

It would be illuminating to know what further communication there has been, and is today, between the U.S. administration and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood.
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Controller General Sheikh Hamam Sai'd

Controller General Sheikh Hamam Sai'd
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It might be helpful now to start wondering what sort of ideas Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, and its leader, Controller General Sheikh Hamam Sai’d, will advance if they seize power in Jordan — possibly with the blessing and encouragement of the United States.

Sheikh Sai’d, of Palestinian origin, was elected to the leadership of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood in 2008 by its hardline faction. They support a partnership with Hamas and the overthrow of Middle Eastern leaders who side with the United States.

The prominent Jordanian journalist, Osama Al-Rantisi, published an article on July 14, 2011, in the Jordanian daily newspaper, Al-ghad, in which he alleged that Sai’d had held a meeting in Turkey with “recently-retired officers from the CIA and the internal counter-intelligence and security agency, the MI5.”

This was followed by Al-Arabiya TV Network, which also ran an article on its website on May 22, 2012, detailing allegations made by Al-Rantisi that:

Dr. Hammam Sai’d and former Egyptian Brotherhood leader Dr. Kamal Halbawi had met last June [of 2011] in Istanbul, Turkey with former CIA deputy director Steven Kappes, and former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller.

Al-Rantisi goes on to say that both Kappes and Manningham-Buller pledged in the meeting that, “The U.S. government and its intelligence services will support the Muslim brotherhood goals of coming to power,” and “urging them [Muslim Brotherhood members] to fight terrorism and to establish peace with Israel.”

Presumably, each side thinks it will co-opt the other, and neither side will budge. After all, if the U.S. has tolerated the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, why not also in Jordan?

Not surprisingly, the Muslim Brotherhood dismissed Al-Rantisi’s claims and sued him for damages. Nonethless, Al-Rantisi stuck by the claims he had made when questioned by Al-Arabiya, alleging his information was based on “unofficial minutes of that alleged meeting” between Hamam Sai’d and the officers mentioned above.

Sheikh Sai’d's son, Anes Sai’d, recently released a video on YouTube speaking of his woes with his father and with the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. The video provides a nightmarish glimpse of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top man in Jordan, and only intensifies the fears of the liberal and secular Jordanians of an Egyptian-like Muslim Brotherhood takeover.

In the video, Anes describes his father as “an unfair, licentious and corrupt person;” he also details cruelties to which his father allegedly subjected him. He goes on to describe the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan as “trading in religion.”

Anes starts by affirming his identity and exhibiting his academic qualifications:

Peace on all, my name is Anes Hammam Sai’d, an architect. I graduated top of my class from the University of Jordan in 1996; I run a design office with a partner and I have passed the qualifications exam of the Union [of Jordanian Engineers].

Anes then describes himself as a Baathist – from the secular pan-Arab nationalist movement, which shares the Islamists’ hatred for Israel, but opposes the establishment of an Islamist state.

Shortly after that, Anes starts criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization his father in Jordan controls.

The Muslim Brotherhood movement in Jordan is political child’s play; in Egypt they [the Muslim Brotherhood] were tortured, executed, beaten and imprisoned; here the Jordanian Muslim brotherhood uses the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the Jordanian regime’s tolerance for them, to gain popularity…In Egypt, the basic thing to do is either to stay at home or do something useful that changes things for the best. But here, joining a protest or a march to say, ‘I am the Muslim Brotherhood, I am the opposition,’ this is the utmost stupidity, nonsense and children’s play; it is trading with religion, they [the Muslim Brotherhood] are trading with religion, they have not been elected, they were appointed.

Anes concludes by affirming that he thinks he would be hurt by the Muslim Brotherhood:

All that I said here, they [the Muslim Brotherhood] know is true. I swear to God if I am to say this in public I would be hanged, they would hang me in downtown Amman; all the harsh conditions I have endured and the hard days I have been through have made me cling more to life, and God is my witness that I forgive the Muslim Brotherhood in this life and the afterlife.

To verify the video, the author contacted one of Hamam Sai’d's family friends, who now resides in the United Kingdom, and who went to school with Anes. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he confirmed that the person in the video was actually Hamam Sai’d's son, Anes, and added that he was not shocked at all by the video: “His father has always been harsh and crude to him and everyone else who enters his circle, and he is indeed a very manipulative man who plays well on words.”

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About the Author: Mudar Zahran is a Palestinian writer and academic from Jordan, who now resides in the UK as a political refugee.


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  1. Rc Fowler says:

    The Marxist anti-Semite Barack Obama and his renegade administration–want the Muslim Brotherhood to take over in Jordan just as they did [from the beginning] in Egypt and in Libya–and they wanted this because–they wanted to completely aline these nations against Israel with the intent of destroying Israel!

  2. Liad Bar-el says:

    Yes, Barack Hussein Obama will help the Muslim Brotherhood as he has since he has been president and it may be that if this prophesy is correct, he will continue because he may not have finished his tasks.

    In Yechezkel 38:2, "Gog, of the land Magog, Prince…" The word 'Nasi / Prince' ends with an Alef. Count every 7th letter and you get Vav, Bais, Alef, Mem, Hay; which spells Obama.

    Here it is in Hebrew:
    http://yehudiyerushalmi.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-gog-hint-in-yechezkel-38.html

    Is Barack Hussein Obama the "promised warrior" coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?
    The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.

    According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a "tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West." Commanding "the strongest army on earth," the new ruler in the West will carry "a clear sign" from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: "Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us."

    In a curious coincidence Obama's first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean "the blessing of Hussein" in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means "he is with us," the magic formula in Majlisi's tradition.

  3. Liad Bar-el says:

    Yes, Barack Hussein Obama will help the Muslim Brotherhood as he has since he has been president and it may be that if this prophesy is correct, he will continue because he may not have finished his tasks. Time will tell.

    In Yechezkel 38:2, "Gog, of the land Magog, Prince…" The word 'Nasi / Prince' ends with an Alef. Count every 7th letter and you get Vav, Bais, Alef, Mem, Hay; which spells Obama.

    Here it is in Hebrew:
    http://yehudiyerushalmi.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-gog-hint-in-yechezkel-38.html

    Is Barack Hussein Obama the "promised warrior" coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?
    The question has made the rounds in Iran when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.

    According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a "tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West." Commanding "the strongest army on earth," the new ruler in the West will carry "a clear sign" from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: "Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us."

    It is interesting to note that Obama's first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean "the blessing of Hussein" in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means "he is with us," the magic formula in Majlisi's tradition.

  4. Arie Rosenrauch says:

    Given the MB's control of hillary, and bama's fealty to them, especially in light of his cover up of their complicity in the Bengazi Massacre, no surprise that they will push an overthrow in Jordan, as they have in Egypt and are doing in Syria and Lebanon.

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