A Fool's Alliance

Harry's Place via David Thompson:

There is a comment piece in yesterday’s Times by Andy Hayman, formerly the most senior anti-terrorist officer in the Metropolitan Police. It amounts to a partial defence of the strategy of cultivating and assisting Muslim Brotherhood connected Islamists, pioneered by the (now retired) police officer, Bob Lambert.

Here's the core of the faulty thinking behind such policy:

What made the Muslim Contact Unit’s decision to partner with Islamists respectable, was the thesis that there is a “good Muslim Brotherhood” and a “bad Muslim Brotherhood”.

Assuming the good and the bad exist, then the difference is merely their timing and approach; the goals are the same:

Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.

Comments

[Mike T]

It sounds like he was thinking of the old saying "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Too bad he didn't have the wisdom to find out if the house was truly divided before working with it.