"One of the leaders, according to Eisenhower’s appointment book, was “The Honorable Saeed Ramahdan, Delegate of the Muslim Brothers.”* The person in question (in more standard romanization, Said Ramadan), was the son-in-law of the Brotherhood’s founder and at the time widely described as the group’s “foreign minister.” (He was also the father of the controversial Swiss scholar of Islam, Tariq Ramadan.) Eisenhower officials knew what they were doing. In the battle against communism, they figured that religion was a force that US could make use of—the Soviet Union was atheist, while the United States supported religious freedom. Central Intelligence Agency analyses of Said Ramadan were quite blunt, calling him a “Phalangist” and a “fascist interested in the grouping of individuals for power.” But the White House went ahead and invited him anyway."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
5 February 2011 Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood by Ian Johnston of The New York Review of Books
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Said_Ramadan
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Said Ramadan
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Said Ramadan →
Related Quotes
"Four have pleaded not guilty while four are being tried in absentia. The Chief accused, Saeed Ramadan, is among those…"
"The contribution to this article of S. Ramadan's writings is gratefully acknowledged."
"One of the more extensively researched episodes in this early relationship revolves around Muslim Brotherhood figure …"
"According to Saeed Ramadan in his book Ḍawābiṭ al-Maṣlaḥ and Muslehuddin in The Philosophy of Islamic Law, any ruling…"
"However, the fact that Khan is a Sharia scholar and an expert on Islamic jurisprudence makes it even clearer that Kha…"
"He founded the Islamic Society of Munich in Germany and headed it from 1958 to 1968. He also participated in the esta…"
"This, in a way, would be exceeding odd And almost justify man’s ways to God— If, by the healing of these hills, the b…"
"The question is often asked, "What do women want?" We want men "to stand out of our sunshine"; that is all."
"The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recogni…"
"...I would rather have this new woman - even in her occasional perversity, exaggeration, and revolt - than the female…"