Everybody Wants to Rule the World (But Islamists Are Planning for It!)

"I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America, because Islam has logic and a mission.” – Muhammad Mahdi Othman ‘Akef, Muslim Brotherhood General Guide and Supreme Leader

One present area of study for me are the many cultural strategies developed by Islamists for the eventual Islamization of the West and the rest of the world. I have previously written about the Muslim Brotherhood "Project" and have provided for the first time an edited translation of that document for American readers. The Project, drafted by MB "researchers" in 1982 when the organization was rechartered, is part of an entire genre of Islamist literature of that period dedicated to the strategic takeover of the West inspired by the birth of the Islamic "Republic" of Iran and the reinstitution of shari'a law there.

In my analysis of The Project, I described it thus:

What makes The Project so different...is that it represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the “cultural invasion” of the West. Calling for the utilization of various tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and terrorism, The Project has served for more than two decades as the Muslim Brotherhood “master plan”. As can be seen in a number of examples throughout Europe – including the political recognition of parallel Islamist government organizations in Sweden, the recent “cartoon” jihad in Denmark, the Parisian car-burning intifada last November, and the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London – the plan outlined in The Project has been overwhelmingly
successful.

Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West.

While some have questioned the authenticity of The Project (one critic responding to my analysis of dubbed it "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Mecca" and therefore an apparent fake), the fact that a number of these Islamist strategic plans have been documented coming from several different organizations should give some evidence that acknowledging the existence of such is hardly conspiratorial. Rather than revealing some secret cabal exercising power globally, this genre of Islamist cultural strategic studies is dedicated to obtaining power. The Project is no more conspiratorial than Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals was for the New Left in America during the 1960s (it is worth noting that 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton dedicated her senior thesis at Wellesley College to Alinky's political and social thought - a thesis that is currently under seal thanks to Wellesley administrators).

In Europe, of course, they are much more aware of the intentions of the Islamists since the large Muslim communities throughout Western Europe have attained much greater social and political influence there than here in America, where the Muslim population is still quite small (around 1 percent of the overall population). One recent analyst of the present situation in Europe is Egon Flaig, who had an article published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled, "Islam Wants to Conquer the World" (English translation thanks to Western Resistance; the original article in German can be found here at the FAZ site). Flaig's article (which was banned in Egypt) provides some historical context from the history of Islam itself, from the rapid conquest and domination of North Africa, followed by Islamization efforts in Spain, Anatolia, and the Balkans - all at the expense of Christianity. Despite the revisionist attempts by 19th Century European scholars to whitewash this history, Islam has plenty of experience transitioning from minority community to ruling community through the escalating use of violence against non-Muslims. In his conclusion, Flaig warns against ignoring this reality:

To ignore the past means to re-live it. He who keeps on spreading the fairytale of Muslim tolerance, stands in the way of those Muslim intellectuals, who seriously work towards a reformation of islam, which started out so promisingly in the 19th century. He steals away their chance to overcome a past, which threatens to become a horrible present. If the reformers could achieve a radical de-politicization of Islam, the Muslims could become real citizens of their states.

Another scholar that presents the European dilemma in stark detail is Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, an Anglican cleric and Christian convert from Islam. In his August 2005 article, "The Islamization of Europe", he cites a book published in 1980 by the Islamic Council of Europe, Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States, which offers a comprehensive program for the eventual domination of Muslims throughout Europe:

When Muslims live as a minority they face theological problems, because classical Islamic teaching always presupposed a context of Islamic dominance; hence the need for guidance on how to live in non-Muslim states. The instructions given in the book told Muslims to get together and organise themselves with the aim of establishing a viable Muslim community based on Islamic principles. This is the duty of every individual Muslim living within a non-Muslim political entity. They should set up mosques, community centres and Islamic schools. At all costs they must avoid being assimilated by the majority. In order to resist assimilation, they must group themselves geographically, forming areas of high Muslim concentration within the population as a whole. Yet they must also interact with non-Muslims so as to share the message of Islam with them. Every Muslim individual is required to participate in the plan; it is not allowed for anyone simply to live as a “good Muslim” without assisting the overall strategy. The ultimate goal of this strategy is that the Muslims should become a majority and the entire nation be governed according to Islam.

Regardless of the means and ends they recommend, as an outside observer, I have to give Islamists credit for their shrewd cultural strategy and the effectiveness and discipline they have demonstrated in implementing their agenda in Europe and America. They are well ahead of the game, aided in no small part to the spiritual vacuum created by militant secularism and the decline of the Christian faith.

In coming weeks I hope to expand on this theme of Islamist cultural strategic studies and discuss other variants on the theme of the Islamist takeover of the West in addition to The Project of the Muslim Brotherhood, including similiar plans by the Islamic Foundation (UK)/Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is part of my preparation for the speech I will be delivering at the upcoming International Intelligence Summit, March 5-7, in St. Petersburg, FL. Stay tuned!