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Forwarded below is the Executive Summary of the Team B II Report. I highly recommend that you read this. It summarizes the 177 page report and should be read and forwarded on by every American who believes that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the God given right of each and every citizen of this great country in which we live. This Executive Summary is a must read for all Americans concerned about the security of their country.
E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
Sun Tzu stressed the imperative of warriors understanding both themselves and their enemy: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." The U.S. military has carefully followed Sun Tzu's guidance in the training and education of its warriors. Yet, today, America is engaged in existential conflict with foes that have succeeded brilliantly in concealing
their true identity and very dangerous capabilities. In this, they have been helped by our own willful blindness – a practice in which, given the real, present and growing danger, we simply can no longer afford to indulge.
The Threat is Shariah!
These enemies adhere to an all-encompassing Islamic political-military-legal doctrine known as
shariah. It obliges them to engage in jihad to achieve the triumph of Islam worldwide through the establishment of a global Islamic state governed exclusively by shariah, under a restored caliphate.
The good news is that millions of Muslims around the world – including many in America – do not
follow the directives of shariah, let alone engage in jihad. The bad news is that this reality reflects the fact that the imposition of strict shariah doctrine is at different stages across Muslim-majority and -minority countries. The appearance is thus created that there is variation in shariah. Of late, representatives of Muslim and Arab-American groups and their apologists have been claiming that there is no single shariah, that it is subject to interpretation and no one interpretation is any more legitimate than any other.
In fact, for especially the Sunni and with regard to non-Muslims, there is ultimately but one shariah.
It is totalitarian in character, incompatible with our Constitution and a threat to freedom here and around the world. Shariah's adherents are making a determined, sustained, and well-financed effort to impose it on all Muslims and non-Muslims, alike.
That effort is abetted enormously by several factors. Too many Muslims, to borrow a metaphor from
Mao, provide the sea in which the jihadis swim. By offering little meaningful opposition to the jihadist agenda and by meekly submitting to it, a large number of Muslim communities and nations generally project a tacit agreement with jihadis' ends, if not with their means. At the very least, they exhibit an unwillingness to face the consequences of standing up to shariah's enforcers within Islam. Such consequences include the distinct possibility of being denounced as an apostate, a capital offense under shariah. There are, moreover, Muslims around the world – including some in Europe and the United States –who do support shariah by various means. These include:
(1) by contributing to "charity" (zakat), even though, according to shariah, those engaged in jihad are among the authorized recipient categories for what amounts to a mandatory tax;10
(2) by inculcating their children with shariah at mosques or madrassas; and
(3)by participating in, or simply failing to report, abhorrent behavior condoned or commanded by shariah (e.g.,underage and forced marriage,11 honor killing,12 female genital mutilation,13 polygamy,14 and domestic abuse,15 including marital rape16).
Evidence of the extent to which shariah is being insinuated into the fabric of American society
abounds, if one is willing to see it. A particularly egregious example was the 2009 case of a Muslim woman whose request for a restraining order against her Moroccan husband who had serially tortured and raped her was denied by New Jersey family court Judge Joseph Charles. The judge ruled on the grounds that the abusive husband had acted according to his Muslim (shariah) beliefs, and thus not with criminal intent.
Fortunately, in this instance, a New Jersey appellate court overturned the ruling in July 2010, making clear that in the United States, the laws of the land derive from the Constitution and the alien dictates of shariah have no place in a U.S. courtroom.17 Still, the fact that such a reversal was necessary is instructive.
Misperceiving the Threat
Few Americans are aware of the diversity and success to date of such efforts to insinuate shariah into the United States – let alone the full implications of the mortal threat this totalitarian doctrine represents to our freedoms, society and government. Fewer still understand the nature of the jihad being waged to impose it here.
To be sure, since 9/11, most in this country have come to appreciate that America is put at risk by
violent jihadis who launch military assaults and plot destructive attacks against our friends and allies, our armed forces and our homeland. Far less recognizable, however, is the menace posed by jihadist enemies who operate by deceit and stealth from inside the gates. The latter threat is, arguably, a far more serious one to open, tolerant societies like ours. This report is substantially devoted to laying bare the danger posed by so-called "non-violent" jihadists, exposing their organizational infrastructure and modus operandi and recommending actions that must be taken to prevent their success.
The first thing to understand about the jihadis who operate by stealth is that they have precisely the
same dual objectives as the openly violent jihadists (including al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Taliban):global imposition of shariah and re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to rule in accordance with it. They differ only with respect to timing and tactics. In fact, the seemingly innocuous outreach tactics of dawa are merely part of the initial stages of what the U.S. military would call "Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield" that is calculated favorably to sculpt the terrain preceding the ultimate, violent seizure of the U.S. government and replacement of the U.S. Constitution with shariah.
U.S. national security leaders, academia, the media and society as a whole have been rendered all but incapable of recognizing this dimension as part of the enemy jihad. A number of factors have contributed to that lack of situational awareness. For one, it follows decades during which pride in American heritage, traditions and values steadily has eroded and pro-sharia sheikhs have poured millions into U.S. Middle East studies programs. At the same time, a massive information operation has targeted Western society. Its immediate goal is to obscure the fact that jihadist violence and more stealthy supremacism is rooted in the Islamic texts, teachings, and interpretations that constitute shariah. The net result of these combined forces is that the United States has been infiltrated and deeply influenced by an enemy within that is openly determined to replace the U.S. Constitution with shariah.
The Muslim Brotherhood
The most important entity promoting Islamic supremacism, shariah, and the caliphate through – at
least for the moment – non-violent means is the Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or in Arabic, the Ikhwan). The MB defined this form of warfare as "civilization jihad" in its strategic document for North America, entitled the Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group, which was entered into evidence in the 2008 United States v Holy Land Foundation trial. Written in 1991 by Mohamed Akram, a senior Hamas leader in the United States and a member of the Board of Directors of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, the Explanatory Memorandum declared
that the Islamic Movement is an MB effort led by the Ikhwan in America. It went on to explain that the "Movement" is a "settlement" process to establish itself inside the United States and, once established, to undertake a "grand jihad" characterized as a "civilization jihadist" mission that is likewise led by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Specifically, the document explains that the civilization jihadist process involves a "grand jihad in
eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated…." Author Robert Spencer has popularized the term "stealth jihad" to describe this part of the shariah adherents' civilization jihad, and the two terms are used interchangeably in this report. This commitment to employ whatever tactics are most expedient was expressed back in 1966 by one of the Brotherhood's seminal ideologues, Sayyid Qutb, in his influential book, Milestones: "Wherever an Islamic community exists which is a concrete example of the Divinely-ordained system of life, it has a God given right to step forward and take control of the political authority….When Allah restrained Muslims from jihad for a certain period, it was a question of strategy rather than of principle…:" Other, more contemporary affirmations of the Brotherhood's commitment to stealth jihad can be found in the words of some of the Ikhwan's most prominent operatives in America today. For example, Louay Safi, a leader of two Brotherhood fronts – the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has declared that, "The principle of jihad obligates the Muslims to maintain and achieve these objectives [i.e., the triumph of Islam and the institution of the caliphate]. The best way to achieve these objectives and most appropriate method upholding the principle of jihad is,
however, a question of leadership and strategy."
A particularly telling indication of the stealth jihad agenda comes from Omar Ahmad, one of the
founders of the Brotherhood's Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial for funding international terrorism from the United States: "I believe that our problem is that we stopped working underground. We will recognize the source of any message which comes out of us. I mean, if a message is publicized, we will know…, the media person among us will recognize that you send two messages: one to the Americans and one to the Muslims." In short, it is the enemy among us, disguised by deceit, that poses the greater long-term threat to our legal system and way of life.
As this report demonstrates, many of the most prominent Muslim organizations in America are front
groups for the Muslim Brotherhood. New Brotherhood entities are added each year. The fact that so hostile an entity enjoys such a large footprint and dominant position within our society speaks volumes about the Ikhwan's organizational and financial reach. The fact is that no other Muslim group in the United States has been able even remotely to rival the Ikhwan's resource base, organizational skill or financial resources. Multiculturalism, political correctness, misguided notions of tolerance and sheer willful blindness have combined to create an atmosphere of confusion and denial in America about the current threat confronting the nation. Of particular concern is the fact that political and military leaders in the United States find it difficult and/or distasteful to explain the true nature of the enemy to the public. Even when presented with detailed factual briefings and voluminous information about the essential linkage between shariah and violent acts of terrorism, most simply refuse to speak candidly about that connection. In fact, to the contrary, U.S. national intelligence, law enforcement and security leadership seems determined to hide the Islamic origins of jihadist terrorism from the public. Through internal policy as well as public statements, U.S. officials have devised and seek to impose purposefully obscure and counterfactual language, evidently selected to divert American attention away from the Arab/Muslim origins of shariah and
the Islamic doctrine of jihad.
Particularly worrying is the fact that, as counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole has put it: "Senior Pentagon commanders have labored to define the threat out of existence." Despite the rapidly expanding incidence of jihadist attacks and plots inside this country – whose perpetrators readily explain their Muslim identity and motivation – officials persist doggedly (and implausibly) in insisting on "lone wolf," "homegrown radical," or "isolated extremist" descriptions of our foes. The most recent example of this phenomenon was the Pentagon's final after-action report on the Fort Hood massacre.
Why would those sworn to support and defend the Constitution behave in a manner so detrimental
to national security? Perhaps it is out of fear and perhaps out of recognition that they have abdicated their professional duty to develop an appropriate national security response. Perhaps, as Poole says, "Pretending that the threat is random and unknowable gives them license to do nothing." Ikhwan pushback and allegations of racism and bigotry make it professionally difficult to challenge the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda and operations.
The Wellspring of Jihad
The truth is that today's enemy is completely comprehensible and can be professionally analyzed and factually understood in precise and specific detail. When analysis is so conducted, it is clear that conformance to shariah in America constitutes as great a threat as any enemy the nation has ever confronted. The Obama administration has nonetheless built upon the willful blindness-induced failures of previous administrations with respect to shariah. The incumbent president and his team have not only declared that there is no "War on Terror" for the United States. They insist – reductio ad absurdum and in conformance with the policy dictates of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second-largest multinational entity (after the United Nations) made up of 56 predominantly Muslim nations and the Palestine Authority – that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Such a statement can only be made because, as will be shown below, the OIC and others who adhere to and promote shariah do not define acts of jihad as "terrorism." The U.S. government line remains unchanged even as our enemies make plain the connection between their aggressive behavior and shariah-animated jihad. To cite but one example, Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad publicly describes the ongoing "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam," Yet, Obama's top counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, insists that the President does not accept that there is a "Global War" with Islamic terrorists.
Brennan further announced that the term "jihadists" will no longer be used to describe our enemies.
According to Mr. Brennan, to use the term "jihadists" in describing Islamic terrorists is a mistake because it is "a legitimate term, 'jihad' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal." He maintains that this use of the term to describe al Qaeda's ruthless operatives "risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek, but in no way deserve." The problem with this formulation is that jihad as a "holy struggle for a moral goal" may not be in conflict with al-Qaeda's "ruthless" operations.
At a speech in late May 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Brennan
expanded on the theme: "Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children." Unresolved is whether shariah classifies non-Muslims as innocent.
A Needed Reality Check
Brennan's statements reflect a common lack of understanding of the fundamentals of shariah, including the doctrinal basis of the Quran, hadiths, the role of abrogation, and that status of consensus in which it is rooted. In fact, Brennan's assertions directly contradict the teachings of leading Islamic scholars. For example, even a cursory review of the writings of Islamic authorities shows that "jihad" is warfare against non-Muslims. The top counterterrorism adviser to the President of the United States has a professional responsibility to know these facts.
Brennan is correct in one respect: America is not in a "War on Terror." Terrorism is indeed merely a
tactic, like aerial or naval bombardment, ambush, maneuver and other similar activities. But America is at war with a determined enemy who has yet to be honestly identified by anyone in a position of authority in the United States. It is also accurate to label jihad as a "legitimate tenet of Islam." But neither shariah nor its practitioners, our enemy, define it in terms that are even close to what Brennan used at CSIS. The shariah definition of jihad and that of the jihadis are the same.
This is not a partisan critique of behavior uniquely exhibited by the incumbent administration, or by
Democrats alone. For example, on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush noted on September 20, 2001 that "terrorists are traitors to their own faith" that "hijacked their own religion." Regrettably, this and similar statements subsequently issued by various Bush administration officials set the stage for the misleading comments being uttered by their successors today. Notably, these include President Obama's statement made on January 7, 2010, that, "We are at war; we are at war with al Qaeda." The President was discussing the results of an
investigation into the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit by a young Muslim from Nigeria named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Even some of the President's critics expressed relief that the Chief Executive was finally recognizing that the nation was indeed facing a genuine enemy (albeit one comprised of many elements besides al Qaeda). The problem is that Obama, like Brennan and most of the U.S. national security leadership since shariah emerged as a real threat, has failed to define or explain accurately the nature of an enemy that explicitly threatens the American way of life and the constitutional framework that drives the exceptionalism it sustains. In fact, the forces of shariah have been at war with non-Muslims for 1400 years and with the United States of America for 200 years. While the most recent campaign to impose this totalitarian code began in the late 20th Century, it is but the latest in a historical record of offensive warfare that stretches back to the origins of Islam itself.
When Army Major Nidal Hassan murdered thirteen people at Ft. Hood, Texas on November 5,2009, the media, as well as the FBI, searched for answers as to why this American-born military officer would commit such an unconscionable act – the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. While myriad theories and opinions were offered, few in the Administration, the media, academia or the rest of the elite seemed capable of comprehending the killer's motives – even as he expressly stated them for years leading up to the event. In fact, Hassan fully articulated his intentions to senior officers in the U.S. Army Medical Corps years before his rampage, and the warnings were ignored when brought to the attention of higher ranks. In a fifty-slide briefing
given to his medical school class in 2007, entitled "Koranic View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S Military," Hassan articulated the requirement that Muslims under Islamic Law conduct Jihad against non-Muslims, and he specifically defined the parameters within which Muslims must act. For Hassan, the relevant parameter was being deployed to the Middle East as this would put him in a status where he could be required to "kill without right." As can be demonstrated in detail, Hassan's presentation tracks exactly with Islamic Law – and he should know since, at the time of his massacre he was the acting Imam for Ft. Hood. Had anyone in the audience been taught the Enemy Threat Doctrine (i.e., shariah on jihad), Hassan's amazingly candid presentation, which thoroughly explained his concerns given the fundamental concepts of shariah, would have alerted authorities in time to prevent his attack. Furthermore, the briefing contained anexplicit declaration of Hassan's allegiance as a Muslim soldier in the Army of Allah. And yet, seemingly, none of the audience of senior medical officers recognized the threat that Hassan posed to his fellow soldiers.
Hassan announced himself an enemy combatant and no one was either able or willing to process that information properly.
The Enemy Within
Instinctively, even Americans who are unfamiliar with the term "shariah" understand that it poses a threat. For example, focus groups have shown that, when asked about "the law of Saudi Arabia," there is a considerable awareness about its brutal repression of those subjected to it and its aggressive designs on the rest of humanity. Most of the public believes that it is the terrorists who seek to advance shariah via violence who pose the greatest threat. While this may be an understandable conclusion, it also points to how uninformed the public actually is. Our intelligence community and law enforcement entities have disrupted roughly thirty terrorist attacks since September 11, 2001 and demonstrated laudable vigilance in pursuit of terrorists. Still, the community's failures – Major Hassan, the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad – highlight serious flaws that remain in our intelligence collection and understanding of the true nature of the threat we face. U.S. intelligence failed to act even when warned specifically in advance by the terrorist's own father.
Yet, al Qaeda and other Islamist groups who perpetrate terrorist acts are not the most dangerous threat. These threats, regardless of their brutality, cannot bring America to submit to shariah – at least were they to act alone. While the terrorists can and will inflict great pain on the nation, the ultimate goal of shariah-adherent Islam cannot be achieved by these groups solely through acts of terrorism, without a more subtle, well-organized component operating in tandem with them. That component takes the form of "civilization jihad." This form of warfare includes multi-layered cultural subversion, the co-opting of senior leaders, influence operations and propaganda and other means of insinuating shariah into Western societies. These are the sorts of techniques alluded to by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, when he told a Toledo, Ohio Muslim Arab Youth Association convention in 1995: 'We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through the sword, but through dawa." The prime practitioners of this stealthy form of jihad are the ostensibly "non-violent" Muslim Brothers and their front groups and affiliates. It must always be kept in mind that such tactics are "non-violent" not because the Brotherhood eschews violence out of principle, but rather because it has decided that this phase of battlefield preparation is better accomplished through stealthy means. The violence is always implicit in the overall strategy, albeit held in reserve for the final stages of the offensive. It is the combined effect of the
violent and pre-violent strains of jihad that constitutes the most serious threat to America and its free people. As the pages that follow document in detail, the Muslim Brotherhood has been in this country for decades and is an existential threat to American society and the fundamental liberties ordained and established by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution. Its own mission statement asserts that "the Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." This carefully articulated mission flows ineluctably from shariah, which holds that only Allah can make laws and that democratic rule whereby people legislate is impermissible. Therefore, the destruction of Western-style governments and subjugation of free societies to the Ikhwan's view of Allah's will is obligatory for the Muslim Brotherhood, as for other adherents to shariah.
Since America is the world's preeminent exponent of individual liberties and the most powerful democratic nation in the world, those who are fighting to establish the Islamic caliphate have targeted this nation for destruction – not necessarily in the military or physical sense of the word, but in the destruction of American society as we know it. Ultimately, the Muslim Brotherhood intends for America to live under shariah. This ambition was explicitly stated in 1996 by Abdurahman Alamoudi, at the time one of the top agents of the Muslim Brotherhood operation in the United States. Back then, Alamoudi enjoyed access to the Clinton White House since,
as the founder of the American Muslim Council and a director of numerous other Brotherhood fronts, he was considered a leading spokesman for the Muslim community in America. (He is currently serving a twentythree year federal prison term on terrorism-related charges.) At the Islamic Association of Palestine's annual convention in Illinois in 1996, Alamoudi declared: "I have no doubt in my mind, Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you, either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country."
The Tacit Supporters of Civilization Jihad
The Team B II Report details the Muslim Brotherhood's multi-phased plan of operations for the destruction of Western civilization. The successful execution of this plan depends on at least tacit support or submission from the Muslim population at large. While it is true that many Muslims do not follow the directives of shariah, let alone engage in jihad, too many of them – to borrow a metaphor from Mao – provide the sea in which the jihadis swim. By offering little meaningful opposition to the jihadist agenda, a large number of Muslim communities and nations generally project a tacit agreement with jihadis' ends, if not with their means. At the very least, this passivity signals their unwillingness to face the consequences of standing up to the Muslim Brothers and other enforcers within Islam. Those consequences can be quite severe, starting with social ostracism and sometimes ending with death. Since the Ikhwan's instrument of discipline and control over their fellow Muslims the fact that any criticism of shariah or the Quran can be considered to be apostasy, for which the penalty is death, enforcement through social pressure is simple and unseen.
There are, moreover, Muslims in Europe and the United States who do support shariah by various means. These include: (1) by mandatory contribution to certain "charities" (zakat), knowing full well that, according to shariah, jihad is one of the authorized recipient categories; (2) by inculcating their children with shariah at mosques or madrassas; or (3) by participating in or failing to report abhorrent behavior that is said to be condoned or commanded by shariah (e.g., underage and forced marriage, honor killing, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and domestic abuse, including marital rape). One appalling example offers an insight into the extent to which shariah is being insinuated into the fabric of American society: The 2009 case of a Muslim woman whose request for a legal restraining order against her Moroccan husband who had serially abused and raped her was denied by New Jersey family court Judge Joseph Charles. The judge ruled that the abusive husband had acted according to his Muslim (shariah) beliefs and thus not with criminal intent.
Fortunately, a New Jersey appellate court overturned the ruling in July 2010, making clear that in the United States, the laws of the land derive from the Constitution and the alien dictates of shariah have no place in a U.S. courtroom. Still, the fact that such a reversal was necessary is frighteningly instructive.
According to shariah, the Quran and hadiths (accounts of the actions and sayings of Mohammed) comprise the authoritative roadmap for Muslims and, hence, the Muslim Brotherhood. In accordance with that roadmap, its members – like other adherents to shariah – are engaged in a global war of conquest. One can see this battle campaign being executed in every part of the world. Europe is in a tremendous struggle with an ever-increasing and influential Islamic threat. Many Europeans are perplexed by what they see happening in their countries as Islam infiltrates every sector of their society. Notably, after the London subway bombing in 2005, many in the United Kingdom were astonished that British-born Muslims identified first and foremost with Pakistan and shariah, rather than with the nation where they were born and raised and its traditional values.
Like most Americans, these Britons fail to understand that the shariah-adherent Muslims do not identify with any sovereign nation. They see themselves as Muslims first and part of the future caliphate. Nowhere has this world view been more clearly enunciated than in the words of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spoken in 1980: "We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah....I say, let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant...."
The Need for Corrective Action
Given the gravity of this threat, it is simply astounding that the United States has, to date, neither developed nor adopted a strategy for defeating shariah's designs, and the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts to realize them. This information is not even being taught at a basic level to FBI Counterterrorism agents and analysts, nor is it taught at the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, the State or Defense Departments, or the CIA.
Amidst the increasingly heated assertion of First Amendment protections for the practice and promotion of shariah in America, almost entirely missing is any recognition of the fundamental incompatibility with Article VI's requirement that "this Constitution shall be…the supreme law of the land" inherent in efforts to insinuate Islamic law into the United States. Such a deplorable state of affairs helps explain why there is no strategy to defeat the shariah movement: That movement and its agenda are simply not understood within the ranks of the organizations legally charged with protecting America and its Constitution from such threats. It bears repeating: No such strategy can be put into place, let alone be successfully executed, as long as our national leadership refuses to define the enemy in realistic and comprehensive terms. If such ignorance is allowed to persist, the Muslim Brotherhood will continue infiltrating American society at every level and executing a very deliberate plan to manipulate the nation into piecemeal submission to shariah.
To discount the possibility that such a seemingly preposterous state of affairs will eventuate in America would be a serious mistake. It is one that many Europeans have been making for years. Experts like Bernard Lewis, the internationally acclaimed authority on Islam, are now saying that Europe will be an Islamic continent by the end of this century, if not before. While the proportion of Muslims to non-Muslims in the United States is much smaller than in Europe, America's accelerating submission to shariah documented in the following pages suggests that this country, too, is at risk of being fundamentally and unacceptably altered.
Heretofore, the United States has confronted primarily external threats. Today, we are facing an internal threat that has masked itself as a religion and that uses the tolerance for religious practice guaranteed by the Constitution's First Amendment to parry efforts to restrict or prevent what amount to seditious activities. In the process, the First Amendment itself is being infringed upon, as Muslim Brothers and others demand that free speech be barred where it gives offense to them – effectively imposing shariah blasphemy laws in this country. For these reasons, among others, it should be understood that shariah is fundamentally about power, namely the enforcement of a body of law, not faith. In the words of Sayyid Qutb: "Whenever an Islamic community exists which is a concrete example of the Divinely-ordained system of life, it has a God-given right to step forward and control the political authority so that it may establish the divine system on earth, while it leaves the matter of belief to individual conscience."
Shariah dictates a comprehensive and totalitarian system of laws, an aggressive military doctrine, an all-encompassing socio-economic program and a ruthless enforcement mechanism. It is, in short, a complete way of life. It is against this backdrop that the obligation shariah demands of its followers – namely, to conduct a global campaign to replace non-Muslim governments with Islamic states governed by Islamic law, to conquer Dar al-Harb (the House of War) for Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) – must be seen as an illegal effort to supplant our Constitution with another legal code, not a religious practice protected by that document. Majid Khadduri put it this way: "It follows that the existence of a Dar al-Harb is ultimately outlawed under the Islamic jural order; that the dar al-Islam is permanently under jihad obligation until the Dar al-Harb is reduced to nonexistence; and that any community accepting certain disabilities – must submit to Islamic rule and reside in the dar al-Islam or be bound as clients to the Muslim community.
The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political if not strictly military." Yet, many in this country – particularly in governmental, academic, and media elites – have shown
themselves susceptible to the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy for waging sabotage against the United States in order to destroy "its miserable house…by their own hand." They are enabling shariah's spread by enforcing a tolerance of that doctrine under the rubric of freedom of religion, instead of recognizing it for the seditious and anti-constitutional agenda it openly espouses. In the words of Shamim Siddiqi: "The movement may also seek legal protection from the court for fundamental human rights to propagate what its adherents believe to be correct and to profess the same through democratic, peaceful and constitutional means." (Emphasis added.)
Recent research indicates that in many mosques across the country the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution is being encouraged in the printed material offered on-site or in the textbooks used in children's classes, if not directly from the Friday pulpit. In addition, the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, Texas provided evidence that the majority of Islamic organizations in America are affiliates of or associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in some way and many of them are raising funds for jihad. The convictions in that case make clear that such behavior is not protected by the First Amendment. And yet, American elites still deal with shariah as just a religious system, when in fact it is as totalitarian a political program as ever were those of communism, fascism, national
socialism, or Japanese imperialism.
Military historians and combat veterans understand that it is far easier to defend against an attack that comes from an enemy outside one's defensive perimeter. In that case, the defending army need only train its fire outwards and have no fear of fratricide. By contrast, the most difficult attack to defend against is the one that comes from inside the defensive perimeter, because distinguishing the enemy from friendly forces is problematic. That is the situation in America today. We have an enemy inside our perimeter. But for this nation, the challenge is not just an inability to distinguish friend from foe. Rather, it is an unwillingness to do so.
As the succeeding pages establish in greater detail, accurate and highly relevant information is available concerning what the Muslim Brotherhood and other shariah-adherent Muslims are doing in America, their goals and strategy. Much of that information comes from the Brotherhood's own documents and leadership statements. Other insights can be obtained from those who were at one time part of the Muslim Brotherhood, but have chosen a new direction for their lives. For example, Walid Shoebat (formerly with the Palestinian Liberation Organization or PLO), Kamal Saleem (former Muslim Brotherhood), and Mosab Yousef (former Hamas and author of Son of Hamas)68 are proclaiming to all who will hear them that the Muslim Brotherhood is in America to destroy our Constitution and replace it with shariah. These brave men are helping to define the enemy. Their testimony, taken together with that available from other sources, leaves us with no excuse for remaining ignorant of the truth. Armed with that truth – as compiled and analyzed in the Team B II report – the American people and their leaders are in a position to comprehend fully the nature of the threat posed by shariah and by those who seek through violence or stealthy subversion to impose it upon us. This knowledge obligates one to take action.
Recommendations
While detailed recommendations for adopting a more prudential and effective strategy for surviving shariah's onslaught are beyond the scope of this study, several policy and programmatic changes are in order. These include:
• U.S. policy-makers, financiers, businessmen, judges, journalists, community leaders and the public at large must be equipped with an accurate understanding of the nature of shariah and the necessity of keeping America shariah-free. At a minimum, this will entail resisting – rather than acquiescing to – the concerted efforts now being made to allow that alien legal code to become established in this country as an alternate, parallel system to the Constitution and the laws enacted pursuant to it. Arguably, this is already in effect for those who have taken an oath to "support and defend" the Constitution, because the requirement is subsumed in that oath.
• U.S. government agencies and organizations should cease their outreach to Muslim communities through Muslim Brotherhood fronts whose mission is to destroy our country from within, as such practices are both reckless and counterproductive. Indeed, these activities serve to legitimate, protect and expand the influence of our enemies. They conduce to no successful legal outcome that cannot be better advanced via aggressive prosecution of terrorists, terror funders and other lawbreakers. It also discourages patriotic Muslims from providing actual assistance to the U.S. government lest they be marked for ostracism or worse by the Brothers and other shariah-adherent members of their communities.
• In keeping with Article VI of the Constitution, extend bans currently in effect that bar members of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan from holding positions of trust in federal, state, or local governments or the armed forces of the United States to those who espouse or support shariah. Instead, every effort should be made to identify and empower Muslims who are willing publicly to denounce shariah.
• Practices that promote shariah – notably, shariah-compliant finance and the establishment or promotion in public spaces or with public funds of facilities and activities that give preferential treatment to shariah's adherents – are incompatible with the Constitution and the freedoms it enshrines and must be proscribed.
• Sedition is prohibited by law in the United States. To the extent that imams and mosques are being used to advocate shariah in America, they are promoting seditious activity and should be warned that they will be subject to investigation and prosecution.
• Textbooks used in both secular educational systems and Islamic schools must not promote shariah, its tenets, or the notion that America must submit to its dictates. Schools that promote anti-constitutional teaching should be denied taxpayer funding and lose charitable tax status.
• Compounds and communities that seek to segregate themselves on the basis of shariah law, apply it alongside or in lieu of the law of the land or otherwise establish themselves as "no-go" zone for law enforcement and other authorities must be thwarted in such efforts. In this connection, assertion of claims to territory around mosques should be proscribed.
• Immigration of those who adhere to shariah must be precluded, as was previously done with adherents to the seditious ideology of communism. Such measures will, of course, be controversial in some quarters. They will certainly be contested by shariah-adherent Muslims committed to jihad and others who, in the name of exercising or protecting civil liberties, are enabling the destruction of those liberties in furtherance of shariah. Far from being dispositive, their opposition should be seen as an opportunity – a chance, at a minimum, for a long-overdue debate about the sorts of policies that have brought the West in general and the United States in particular to the present, parlous state of affairs. If this study catalyzes and usefully informs that debate, it will have succeeded.
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