How George Soros funds the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
It is well known that some extremely wealthy US citizens work to tackle critical problems of the planet and the human race. Bill Gates, for instance, finances a number of initiatives to fight diseases, promote family planning and women empowerment, and solve sanitation problems in developing countries.
George Soros pretends to be one of them and pursue Karl Popper’s idea of an open society. He has donated over USD 32 billion to the Open Society Foundations (OSF), This, in turn, finances dozens of organisations allegedly dedicated to defend and promote free speech, human rights, democratic practice, gender equality, anti-discrimination, and minority rights. At least in theory.
His support of an open-door migrant policy (also known as Soros law) has gained notoriety during Europe’s refugee crisis, although it contradicted his own statements. In 2016, Soros accused Angela Merkel of bringing ‘chaos’ to Europe through her open-door immigration policy, although the German Chancellor was just following OSF’s recommendations.
This pro-refugees policy is in fact in contradiction with all that the OSF allegedly promotes for at least two reasons. One is that it does not address the problems in the countries expelling migrants: weak institutions, growing population, desertification, a culture of violence against women and children, a critical brain drain, lack of education, to name a few. Instead, OSF is just transferring the problem to the EU and to the United States and fostering the rise of the extreme right.
The second one is that OSF has provided at least USD 1.4 million to organizations closely associated to the Muslim Brotherhood for their campaigns. Thus, Soros has been indirectly financing an organization known for its ties with terrorism, violence, sexism, and religious intolerance. Moreover, he seems to ignore the ties of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West to terrorist groups, as reported by the Wall Street Journal: “The Muslim Brotherhood… calls for the Muslim religion to dominate all aspects of life… the Brotherhood has also inspired some of the deadliest terrorist movements, such as Hamas and Al Qaeda.”
Let’s take a look at some of the recipients of OSF funding, as mentioned in OSF reports:
· ENAR (European Network Against Racism) has received over USD 1.1 million from OSF since 2011. Co-founder Michaël Privot publicly admitted he had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. Another member, Intisar Kherigi, is the daughter of Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder of the Ennahdha Party, the Tunisian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Rached Ghannouchi attended the funeral of his late friend Hassan Turabi, Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood leader and Sharia law supporter who hosted Osama bin Laden.
· Inssan EV, a German association founded in 2001, received USD 100,000 from OSF. It operates from the premises of the Muslim Youth of Germany (MJD), chaired by Bilal El Zayat. He is the brother of Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim Farouk El Zayat, former chair of Islamic Relief Worldwide and board member of the Islamic Society of Germany (IGD), formerly chaired by Muslim Brotherhood leader Ali Ghaleb Himmat. Ibrahim El Zayat’s brother-in-law is the nephew of Necmettin Erbakan, late founder of Milli Görüş — the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
· In 2015, OSF gave USD 97,180 to Ibn Rushd Studieförbund (Ibn Rushd Study Association) for its combat against Islamophobia in Sweden. An active member of this association, Helena Benaouda, chairs the Muslim Council of Sweden. Her daughter Safia Benaouda was arrested in Somalia (2007), Pakistan (2009), and Denmark (2010) for alleged ties with terrorists. On 30 December 2010, Helena’s son-in-law Munir Awad was arrested in Denmark on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that published a number of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Ibn Rushd director Omar Mustafa Siala has served as vice-president of the Swede branch of Islamic Relief and president of the Islamic Association in Sweden. Mustafa was expelled from the Socialist Party amid allegations of anti-gay bias, sexism, and anti-Semitism.
· The EFOMW (European Forum of Muslim Women), received some funding — less than USD 16,000 — from OSF to run an “anti-islamophobia” campaign. Not as much as other advocacy groups against Islamophobia managed mainly by men. EFOMW is the sister organization of the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE). It was co-founded by Lamia El Amri, acting chair of trustees of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) and is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. EFOMW’s current chairperson is Noura Jaballah, a relative of Ahmed Jaballah, the former chairperson of UOIF, a former director of Europe Trust and former dean of European Institute of Human Sciences (EIHS), three organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
If Soros is honestly aiming to build a more open society as he claims, he should ask Bill Gates for advice. Thus far, he is blatantly helping the open society’s foes.
