Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unloaded on the Muslim Brotherhood on the campaign trail in Michigan, branding the radical network a “death cult” hell-bent on extermination.
Speaking to a fired-up crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday alongside Republican gubernatorial hopeful John James and GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers, the former independent-turned-Trump ally pulled zero punches when addressing radical Islam. Rogers is running against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who has faced scrutiny over his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and has supported the radical group’s actions in Egypt in the past.
Kennedy insisted that calling out the Sunni Islamist movement is not bigotry, but plain truth.
“I want to say this, that talking about the Muslim Brotherhood is not Islamophobia,” Kennedy declared. “The Muslim Brotherhood was started in 1928, and it launched a new ideology that departed from traditional Islam in a very, very dangerous way.”
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He also declared that the systematic purging of ancient Jewish and Christian communities across the Arab world is the “real genocide” in the Middle East.
Kennedy argued that while the group is “seeking to exterminate” non-Muslims, the primary casualties of its radicalism are actually the people under its thumb.
“Its worst victims are not Jews or Christians. … It’s the Palestinian people and the people who live in the countries that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over,” he said. “They live inside of a death cult. They are immersed in an ideology of victimization, of murder, of genocide. … They’re atrophied and stagnant.”
Contrasting modern extremist rule with Islam’s “Golden Age,” which he described as a nearly thousand-year era of a “foundation for art and literature and science and engineering,” Kennedy claimed the rise of “Islamism” snuffed out Arab progress.
“That is the core of the Muslim Brotherhood’s toxic ideology: a hatred of Jews, a hatred of America, and a hatred of all Western civilization,” Kennedy warned. “They want to obliterate democracy. They want to install Sharia law, where the only arbiter is a caliphate, the one guy who will interpret it for all of us.”
Kennedy then took direct aim at the near-total disappearance of religious minorities across the Middle East and North Africa over the past eight decades.
“In 1948, there were 950,000 Jews (in Arab lands). How many of them are there today? Maybe a couple hundred,” Kennedy told the audience, rattling off a grim roll call of regional demographics. “There are no Jews in Egypt. There were 250,000 in 1948. There are no Jews in Iraq; it was 100,000. … There’s four Jews in Syria. There are no Jews in Jordan; there are no Jews in Saudi Arabia. There are no Jews in Tunisia, Libya, or Algeria. They’ve all been exterminated. That is the real genocide in the Middle East.”
The slaughter and displacement did not stop at Jewish enclaves, Kennedy noted, turning his focus to the precipitous collapse of Middle Eastern Christianity.
“And what happened to the Christians? There were millions and millions of Christians. Those were all Christian countries,” he stressed, pointing to the heritage of Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. “The Christians have been expelled; they’ve gone from 20% of the population to 4% of the population. These are genocides.”
Kennedy charged that the agenda is baked straight into Islamist doctrine.
“It’s in the charter documents,” he added. “It’s in the lectures of the imams; it’s in the sermons; it’s in the teachings at Al-Azhar university, which is the epicenter.”
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