PolitiFact.com has researched Glenn Beck's statement that the Muslim Brotherhood “openly stated they want to declare war on Israel” and found the statement false. From PolitiFact's article:

We decided to check Beck's claim that the Brotherhood has “openly stated they want to declare war on Israel,” because so much of the debate in the United States revolves around the Muslim Brotherhood's' intentions toward the main U.S. ally in the region.

Beck neglected to name a source in that Feb. 4 broadcast, so we took a look through the rest of his transcripts for the week. Sure enough, three days earlier he informed viewers that “a top official in the Muslim Brotherhood has just said that ... 'The people should be prepared for war against Israel.'”

Who was that top official? Beck's website pointed to a Feb. 1, 2011, item in the Jerusalem Post that had a “leading member” of the Brotherhood, Muhammad Ghannem, declaring that “the people should be prepared for war against Israel.” The next day a Washington Times editorial picked up the quote, saying it “succinctly summed up” the Muslim Brotherhood's foreign policy. Then Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., repeated the fiery words in a floor speech.

The Jerusalem Post piece cited an interview Ghannem gave to an Arabic-language Iranian network, Al-Alam. With deft use of Google Translate we were able to verify that Ghannem was quoted saying something along those lines in a Jan. 31, 2011, piece on Al-Alam's website. The key question then becomes whether Ghannem can speak for the sprawling Muslim Brotherhood.

“I have never heard of him,” said Dr. Jason Brownlee, a scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. “It's a big organization, and there may be people who say things like that, but that doesn't mean it's policy. It doesn't jibe with my experience visiting Egypt and doing research on the Muslim Brotherhood for over a decade.”

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So some members of the Muslim Brotherhood may be calling for war. But the ones who say that don't speak for the group; and the ones who do speak for the group, don't say that. We rate Beck's claim False.

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