A short time back, we published a 4 page document from the Canadian CSIS on the threat posed to Freemasonry by Islamic extremists. 

Shortly after posting the paper, I recieved an email from a source who has had close dealings with the CSIS and is involved in International and Terrorist Intelligence Programs. 

In his email, he said:

This report, and the CSIS document upon which it was apparently based, simply confirms what most counterterrorists have long known: Islamic-extremist are hostile to Freemasons.  In this regard, please refer to the Hamas Charter, Articles 17, 22 and 28, below.  As you may know, Hamas, generally considered to be the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine arm, is a designated terrorist organization under the laws of various countries. 

They lump the fraternity of Freemasonry in with with several groups including Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rith, saying they are part of the various Zionist Organizations making consistent efforts by way of publicity and movies, and curricula of education and culture. 

This is of some interest as I can see where certain traffic frequently comes from to the site and notice every so often that large volumes of traffic comes from the middle east, specifically from countries that have generally been considered enemies of the West, or at best tacit allies in the war on terror.  Often the spikes in traffic are followed by requests of “how to join in my country”, “Where are lodges in my country”, and pleas of people who “want to “become members”.  With all this in mind, I often wonder what it was that sent them or what was behind the requests. 

As a Masonic community, what do you think about this?  With an enemy so far away, do you find there is any immediate threat, or is it just one of the many religious detractors towards Freemasonry? 

Included below are those portions of the Hamas Charter of 1988. 

Article Seventeen: The Role of Muslim Women

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation.  The enemies have understood that role, therefore they realize that if they can guide and educate [the Muslim women] in a way that would distance them from Islam, they would have won that war.  Therefore, you can see them making consistent efforts [in that direction] by way of publicity and movies, curricula of education and culture, using as their intermediaries their craftsmen who are part of the various Zionist Organizations which take on all sorts of names and shapes such as: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, gangs of spies and the like.  All of them are nests of saboteurs and sabotage.  Those Zionist organizations control vast material resources, which enable them to fulfill their mission amidst societies, with a view of implementing Zionist goals and sowing the concepts that can be of use to the enemy.  Those organizations operate [in a situation] where Islam is absent from the arena and alienated from its people.  Thus, the Muslims must fulfill their duty in confronting the schemes of those saboteurs.  When Islam will retake possession of [the means to] guide the life [of the Muslims], it will wipe out those organizations which are the enemy of humanity and Islam. 

Article Twenty-Two: The Powers which Support the Enemy

The enemies have been scheming for a long time, and they have consolidated their schemes, in order to achieve what they have achieved.  They took advantage of key elements in unfolding events, and accumulated a huge and influential material wealth which they put to the service of implementing their dream.  This wealth [permitted them to] take over control of the world media such as news agencies, the press, publication houses, broadcasting and the like. [ They also used this] wealth to stir revolutions in various parts of the globe in order to fulfill their interests and pick the fruits.  They stood behind the French and the Communist Revolutions and behind most of the revolutions we hear about here and there.  They also used the money to establish clandestine organizations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests.  Such organizations are: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rith and the like.  All of them are destructive spying organizations.  They also used the money to take over control of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many countries in order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread their corruption therein.  As regards local and world wars, it has come to pass and no one objects, that they stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate.  They collected material gains and took control of many sources of wealth.  They obtained the Balfour Declaration and established the League of Nations in order to rule the world by means of that organization.  They also stood behind World War II, where they collected immense benefits from trading with war materials and prepared for the establishment of their state.  They inspired the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their intermediary.  There was no war that broke out anywhere without their fingerprints on it: “…As often as they light a fire for war, Allah extinguishes it.  Their efforts are for corruption in the land and Allah loves not corrupters.”  Sura V (Al-Ma’ida—the Tablespread), verse 64 The forces of Imperialism in both the Capitalist West and the Communist East support the enemy with all their might, in material and human terms, taking turns between themselves.  When Islam appears, all the forces of Unbelief unite to confront it, because the Community of Unbelief is one. “ Oh ye who believe!  Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pain to ruin you.  Hatred is revealed by [the utterance of] their mouth, but that which their breasts hide is greater.  We have made plain for you the revelations if you will understand.”  Sura III, (Al-Imran), verse 118 It is not in vain that the verse ends with God’s saying: “If you will understand.” 

Article Twenty-Eight

The Zionist invasion is a mischievous one.  It does not hesitate to take any road, or to pursue all despicable and repulsive means to fulfill its desires.  It relies to a great extent, for its meddling and spying activities, on the clandestine organizations which it has established, such as the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions, and other spying associations.  All those secret organizations, some which are overt, act for the interests of Zionism and under its directions, strive to demolish societies, to destroy values, to wreck answerableness, to totter virtues and to wipe out Islam.  It stands behind the diffusion of drugs and toxics of all kinds in order to facilitate its control and expansion.  The Arab states surrounding Israel are required to open their borders to the Jihad fighters, the sons of the Arab and Islamic peoples, to enable them to play their role and to join their efforts to those of their brothers among the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.  The other Arab and Islamic states are required, at the very least, to facilitate the movement of the Jihad fighters from and to them.  We cannot fail to remind every Muslim that when the Jews occupied Holy Jerusalem in 1967 and stood at the doorstep of the Blessed Aqsa Mosque, they shouted with joy: “Muhammad is dead, he left daughters behind.”  Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. “ Let the eyes of the cowards not fall asleep.” 

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