Of course, it was never a war on “terror” anyway; as many have pointed out, terror is a tactic, not an enemy. We weren’t waging a War on Blitzkrieg in World War II. And terrorism was never the only threat posed by our Islamic enemy, which Obama limits to “al Qaeda and its affiliates”; in fact, our focus on violent jihad has left us vulnerable to the subversive Muslim Brotherhood’s more insidious “civilization jihad,” which continues apace.
Obama himself has been supportive of the Brotherhood’s rise to political power internationally and has opened the door for them at home. He has literally welcomed them into the White House (at least his predecessors made them work for such access by infiltrating), pretending that we are now partners in the political process instead of enemies. But while the Obama administration trumpets this and the waning influence of al Qaeda as the end of the ill-named War on Terror, Frank Gaffney declares that we are no closer to victory than we were on 9/11.
Gaffney runs the Washington D.C.-based Center for Security
Policy (CSP), a nonprofit organization for national security research and
policy advocacy founded in 1988. In 2010 Gaffney and CSP published Shariah: The Threat to America,
a highly acclaimed report on
the dangerous reality of political Islam. Now he and his team have rolled out a
free, ten-part, online “video briefing” entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood in
America: A Video Course,” designed to educate American citizens about “a
threat most Americans are unaware even exists within our country, let alone the
peril it represents”:
The threat is the totalitarian,
supremacist doctrine its adherents call shariah, and the organized,
disciplined, and increasingly successful efforts of such adherents – most
especially the Muslim Brotherhood – to bring it here.
Gaffney describes the course as a “distillation of all we’ve
learned” in the 24 years since the CSP’s inception. Narrated by the quietly
intense Gaffney himself, the videos range from fifteen minutes to two hours in
length (eight hours total), and define how and why our very civilization is in
danger.
Part 1 lays the groundwork in “The Threat Doctrine of
Shariah & the Muslim Brotherhood.” Part 2 elaborates on the Brotherhood’s
plan to “eliminate Western civilization from within” in “The Brotherhood’s
‘Civilization Jihad’ in America.” In Part 3, the course takes a closer look at
the Brotherhood’s penetration and manipulation of the Republican Party and the
conservative movement in America – a development which will come as a shock to
those who are concerned only about the complicity and naiveté of the left.
In Part 4, the course examines a case study in such infiltration,
the story of a Brotherhood-linked conservative activist named Suhail
Khan. Part 5 offers examples of the many ways in which Khan’s mentor, influential
tax reform advocate Grover
Norquist, and his team are actively promoting the Islamist agenda, and Part
6 scrutinizes how Norquist’s Islamist protégés are running for office as
Republicans. In Part 7, Gaffney et al examine
how Norquist’s ongoing Islamist influence operation is advancing the agendas of
the civilization jihadists.
In “Part 8: Team Obama & the Islamists,” the course
looks at “Brotherhood-associated individuals who have been allowed access to –
and, in some cases, given prominent positions in the Obama administration” –
figures like the influential Daliah
Mogahed. Then in “Part 9: Team Obama & the Islamist Agenda,” the course
takes a hard look at Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” this country, in
a “a two-hour deep drill-down into the disastrous policies of the Obama White
House, its State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department, Department
of Homeland Security, and more.”
The course isn’t solely educational. It also seeks to
empower American citizens “to take myriad steps to counter this civilization
jihad.” It concludes with “Part 10: What’s to be Done?” in which Gaffney offers
practical suggestions on “how to defeat the most serious and imminent of such
dangers in our time,” the attempt to impose shariah through violence or
stealth. Those suggestions include educating others, engaging the media and
elected representatives, and developing a support network. Some of these steps can
be undertaken as individuals, some through organized efforts, and others as a
nation.
The website also provides Endnotes for
documentation, and Resources
which include links to books and films on the subject, like Robert Spencer’s Stealth Jihad and Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
The Resources section contains links as well to organizations like CSP and the David Horowitz Freedom Center
and to activist groups such as Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT for America and Stop
the Islamization of Nations.
The site also lists 16 “Key Findings” about shariah and the
Muslim Brotherhood, in light of which “there is an urgent need for rigorous congressional
oversight and investigations aimed at exposing the extent of the civilization
jihad – and the need for corrective action aimed at countering it.” A sampling
of those findings:
2. Shariah is principally about
power, not faith. Accordingly, acting to realize its political end of
overthrowing the U.S. government is seditious and must be prosecuted, not
treated as protected religious practice…
15. The conduct of seven key
federal agencies suggests the considerable success of the Muslim Brotherhood in
destroying us from within by our own hands – starting with the policies and
directives emanating from the Oval Office…
A unique and monumental
project by Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy, “The Muslim
Brotherhood in America: A Video Course” is both an essential guide to comprehending
the depth and breadth of the threat posed to America by the Muslim Brotherhood,
and a useful plan of action to counter that threat.
(This piece originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 5/4/12)
