Imam Mohammad Tawhidi
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You'll find them running for Congress.
And you have those who will simply engage in jihad.
And jihad can be categorized in many, many ways.
And I mean violent jihad.
I don't mean the struggle of the self against one's desires.
No, I mean going into a society and changing it, going into a community and hijacking their values and then preventing the host community from enjoying those values, free speech, freedom of religion, expression, and so on.
So I would advise that we need to separate, we need to draw a fine line between
The Muslim Brotherhood that was in the West first and the Muslims who came afterwards who just want to lead a normal life.
So there is no percentage that I can give you because we're not talking about the same issue.
We're talking about a group of people who have hijacked a religion.
And those people need to be understood because in Arabic we say, which means you're stirring beside the pot or beside the cup.
We need to stir in the cup in order to get the flavor of the sugar we put in it.
So that's exactly what the extremists want to do.
The extremist doesn't tell you he's an extremist.
And the Islamist doesn't tell you he's an Islamist.
They tell you we're Muslim.
Osama bin Laden, for example,
Many people do not know he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Qaeda came from the Muslim Brotherhood.
ISIS came from the Muslim Brotherhood.