Originally published by FrontPageMagazine.com |
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Part 1
One might be led to think that if international law
enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a
twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest
Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the
world to launch a program of “cultural invasion” and eventual conquest of the
West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two
decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages
and above the fold of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Le
Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica.
If that’s what you might think, you would be wrong.
In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in
November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11. Since that time information
about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as “The Project”, and
discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of
Western intelligence communities. Only through the work of an intrepid Swiss
journalist, Sylvain Besson of Le Temps, and his book published in October 2005
in France, La conquête de l’Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (The
Conquest of the West: The Islamists’ Secret Project), has information regarding
The Project finally been made public. One Western official cited by Besson has
described The Project as “a totalitarian ideology of infiltration which
represents, in the end, the greatest danger for European societies.”
What Western intelligence authorities know about The Project begins with the
raid of a luxurious villa in Campione, Switzerland on November 7, 2001. The
target of the raid was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano,
who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50
years and who admitted to being one of the organization’s international leaders.
The Muslim Brotherhood, regarded as the oldest and one of the most important
Islamist movements in the world, was founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928 and
dedicated to the credo, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader.
Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest
hope.”
The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the White
House in the initial crackdown on terrorist finances in the immediate aftermath
of 9/11. US and Swiss investigators had been looking at Al-Taqwa’s involvement
in money laundering and funding a wide range of Islamic terrorist groups,
including Al-Qaeda, HAMAS (the Palestinian affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood),
the Algerian GIA, and the Tunisian Ennahdah.
Included in the documents seized during the raid of Nada’s Swiss villa was a
14-page plan written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982, which outlines a
12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth” – identified as
The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss authorities by Nada, the
unsigned document was prepared by “Islamic researchers” associated with the
Muslim Brotherhood.
What makes The Project so different from the standard “Death of America!
Death to Israel!” and “Establish the global caliphate!” Islamist rhetoric 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. The following tactics
and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:
Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist
organizations;
Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to
maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them
towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it
doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally,
that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the
West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West,
including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data
storage capabilities;
Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn
Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment
of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to
legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist
movements;
Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology
throughout the world;
Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable
organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for
Muslims in the West is constant;
Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected
institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private
organizations and labor unions;
Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be
converted and put into service of Islam;
Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual
implementation;
Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the
development of processes for conflict resolution;
Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share
similar goals;
Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame
of mind”;
Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching,
propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an
Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and
rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror
movement;
Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad
around the world;
In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982
when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still
very nascent. In many respects, The Project is extremely prescient for outlining
the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or
outright terror groups, over the past two decades.
At present, most of what is publicly known about The Project is the result of
Sylvain Besson’s investigative work, including his book and a related article
published last October in the Swiss daily, Le Temps, L’islamisme à la conquête
du monde (Islamism and the Conquest of the World), profiling his book, which is
only available in a French-language edition. At least one Egyptian newspaper,
Al-Mussawar, published the entire Arabic text of The Project last November.
In the English-language press, the attention paid to Besson’s revelation of
The Project has been almost non-existent. The only mention found in a mainstream
media publication in the US has been as a secondary item in an article in the
Weekly Standard (February 20, 2006) by Olivier Guitta, The Cartoon Jihad. The
most extensive commentary on The Project has been by an American researcher and
journalist living in London, Scott Burgess, who has posted his analysis of the
document on his blog, The Daily Ablution.
The lack of public discussion about The Project notwithstanding, the document
and the plan it outlines has been the subject of considerable discussion amongst
the Western intelligence agencies. One US counterterrorism official who spoke
with Besson about The Project, and who is cited in Guitta’s Weekly Standard
article, is current White House terrorism czar, Juan Zarate. Calling The Project
a Muslim Brotherhood master plan for “spreading their political ideology,”
Zarate expressed concerns to Besson because “the Muslim Brotherhood is a group
that worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas but
because it defends the use of violence against civilians.”
One renowned international scholar of Islamist movements who also spoke with
Besson, Reuven Paz, talked about The Project in its historical context:
The Project was part of the charter of the international organization of the
Muslim Brotherhood, which was official established on July 29, 1982. It reflects
a vast plan which was revived in the 1960s, with the immigration of Brotherhood
intellectuals, principally Syrian and Egyptians, into Europe.
As Paz notes, The Project was drafted by the Muslim Brotherhood as part of
its re-chartering process in 1982, a time that marks an upswing in its
organizational expansion internationally, as well as a turning point in the
alternating periods of repression and toleration by the Egyptian government. In
1952, the organization played a critical support role to the Free Officers
Movement led by Gamal Abdul Nasser, which overthrew King Faruq, but quickly fell
out of favor with the new revolutionary regime because of Nasser’s refusal to
follow the Muslim Brotherhood’s call to institute an ideologically committed
Islamic state. At various times since the July Revolution in 1952, the
Brotherhood has regularly been banned and its leaders killed and imprisoned by
Egyptian authorities.
Since it was rechartered in 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood has spread its
network across the Middle East, Europe, and even America. At home in Egypt,
parliamentary elections in 2005 saw the Muslim Brotherhood winning 20 percent of
the available legislative seats, comprising the largest opposition party block.
Its Palestinian affiliate, known to the world as HAMAS, recently gained control
of the Palestinian Authority after elections secured for them 74 of 132 seats in
the Palestinian Legislative Council. Its Syrian branch has historically been the
largest organized group opposing the Assad regime, and the organization also has
affiliates in Jordan, Sudan, and Iraq. In the US, the Muslim Brotherhood is
primarily represented by the Muslim American Society (MAS).
Since its formation, the Muslim Brotherhood has advocated the use of
terrorism as a means of advancing its agenda of global Islamic domination. But
as the largest popular radical movement in the Islamic world, it has attracted
many leading Islamist intellectuals. Included among this group of Muslim
Brotherhood intellectuals is Youssef Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born, Qatar-based
Islamist cleric.
As one of the leading Muslim Brotherhood spiritual figures and radical
Islamic preachers (who has his own weekly program on Al-Jazeera), Qaradawi has
been one of the leading apologists of suicide bombings in Israel and terrorism
against Western interests in the Middle East. Both Sylvain Besson and Scott
Burgess provide extensive comparisons between Qaradawi’s publication, Priorities
of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase, published in 1990, and The Project,
which predates Qaradawi’s Priorities by eight years.
They note the striking similarities in the language used and the plans and
methods both documents advocate. It is speculated that The Project was either
used by Qaradawi as a template for his own work, or that he had a hand in its
drafting in 1982. Perhaps coincidentally, Qaradawi was the fourth largest
shareholder in the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, the director of which, Youssef Nada,
was the individual in whose possession The Project was found. Since 1999,
Qaradawi has been banned from entering the US as a result of his connections to
terrorist organizations and his outspoken advocacy of terrorism.
For those who have read The Project, what is most troubling is not that
Islamists have developed a plan for global dominance; it has been assumed by
experts that Islamist organizations and terrorist groups have been operating off
an agreed-upon set of general principles, networks and methodology. What is
startling is how effectively the Islamist plan for conquest outlined in The
Project has been implemented by Muslims in the West for more than two
decades.
Equally troubling is the ideology that lies behind the plan: inciting hatred
and violence against Jewish populations around the world; the deliberate
co-opting and subversion of Western public and private institutions; its
recommendation of a policy of deliberate escalating confrontation by Muslims
living in the West against their neighbors and fellow-citizens; the acceptance
of terrorism as a legitimate option for achieving their ends and the inevitable
reality of jihad against non-Muslims; and its ultimate goal of forcibly
instituting the Islamic rule of the caliphate by shari’a in the West, and
eventually the whole world.
If the experience over the past quarter of a century seen in Europe and the
US is any indication, the “Islamic researchers” who drafted The Project more
than two decades ago must be pleased to see their long-term plan to conquer the
West and to see the Green flag of Islam raised over its citizens realized so
rapidly, efficiently and completely. If Islamists are equally successful in the
years to come, Westerners ought to enjoy their personal and political freedoms
while they last.
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Part 2
Towards a worldwide strategy for Islamic policy
(Points of
Departure, Elements, Procedures and Missions)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent and Merciful
S/5/100 report
1/12/1982 [December 1,
1982]
This report presents a global vision of a worldwide strategy for Islamic
policy [or "political Islam"]. Local Islamic policies will be drawn up in the
different regions in accordance with its guidelines. It acts, first of all, to
define the points of departure of that policy, then to set up the components and
the most important procedures linked to each point of departure; finally we
suggest several missions, by way of example only, may Allah protect us.
The following are the principal points of departure of this policy:
Point of Departure 1: To know the terrain and adopt a scientific methodology
for its planning and execution.
Point of Departure 2: To demonstrate proof of the serious nature of the
work.
Point of Departure 3: To reconcile international engagement with flexibility
at a local level.
Point of Departure 4: To reconcile political engagement and the necessity of
avoiding isolation on one hand, with permanent education and institutional
action on the other.
Point of Departure 5: To be used to establish an Islamic State; parallel,
progressive efforts targeted at controlling the local centers of power through
institutional action.
Point of Departure 6: To work with loyalty alongside Islamic groups and
institutions in multiple areas to agree on common ground, in order to “cooperate
on the points of agreement and set aside the points of disagreement”.
Point of Departure 7: To accept the principle of temporary cooperation
between Islamic movements and nationalist movements in the broad sphere and on
common ground such as the struggle against colonialism, preaching and the Jewish
state, without however having to form alliances. This will require, on the other
hand, limited contacts between certain leaders, on a case by case basis, as long
as these contacts do not violate the [shari’a] law. Nevertheless, one must not
give them allegiance or take them into confidence, bearing in mind that the
Islamic movement must be the origin of the initiatives and orientations
taken.
Point of Departure 8: To master the art of the possible on a temporary basis
without abusing the basic principles, bearing in mind that Allah’s teachings
always apply. One must order the suitable and forbid that which is not, always
providing a documented opinion. But we should not look for confrontation with
our adversaries, at the local or the global scale, which would be
disproportionate and could lead to attacks against the dawa or its
disciples.
Point of Departure 9: To construct a permanent force of the Islamic dawa and
support movements engaged in jihad across the Muslim world, to varying degrees
and insofar as possible.
Point of Departure 10: To use diverse and varied surveillance systems, in
several places, to gather information and adopt a single effective warning
system serving the worldwide Islamic movement. In fact, surveillance, policy
decisions and effective communications complement each other.
Point of Departure 11: To adopt the Palestinian cause as part of a worldwide
Islamic plan, with the policy plan and by means of jihad, since it acts as the
keystone of the renaissance of the Arab world today.
Point of Departure 12: To know how to turn to self-criticism and permanent
evaluation of worldwide Islamic policy and its objectives, of its content and
its procedures, in order to improve it. This is a duty and a necessity according
to the precepts of shari’a.
THE FIRST POINT OF DEPARTURE:
Know the terrain and adopt a scientific methodology for [The Project's]
planning and execution.
a- Elements:
Know the influential factors in the world, whether they act
as Islamic forces, adverse forces, or neutral forces.
Use the necessary scientific and technical means for planning, organization,
execution and follow-up.
b- Procedures:
Create observation centers in order to gather and store
information for all useful purposes, if need be relying on modern technological
methods.
Create centers of study and research and produce studies on the political
dimension of the Islamic movement.
c- Suggested missions:
Draw up a map of [religious and ideological]
doctrines in the world to have a global vision from 100 years ago to our era,
and analyze the current situation in light of that configuration, taking account
of changes both happening and predicted.
Draw up a map of doctrines of the Muslim world.
Draw up a map of Islamic movements in the Muslim world.
Carry out successive political and scientific studies in varying Islamic
areas, those which apply more particularly to current events.
Carry out a scientific study which addresses the history of contemporary
Islamic movements, and use it.
THE SECOND POINT OF DEPARTURE
To demonstrate proof of the serious nature of the work.
a- Elements:
Clarity of the principal objectives of the dawa in the eyes
of all, as well as clarity of the temporary objectives, necessitates
exploitation, channeling and orientation of the energies.
Devote sufficient effort to the service of the workers [for Allah] and
coordinate their efforts to the sole and same objective.
Devote sufficient time.
Spend money to the extent possible.
b-Procedures:
Exploit all the energies of the workers to the service of
the dawa, each at his level (the criterion of efficiency, given that each must
be devoted to the task to which he’s assigned).
Mobilize the greatest possible number of supporters and officials.
Collect money efficiently, control expenses and invest in the general
interest.
c- Suggested missions:
Carry out a survey of workers (appropriate men and
appropriate location)
Establish schedules with the hours of workers and specialists and use their
efforts with good judgment and on time (appropriate effort at the right
time).
An engagement with economic institutions adequate to support the cause
financially.
THE THIRD POINT OF DEPARTURE
Reconcile international engagement with flexibility at the local level.
a- Elements:
To define the guidelines that everyone [worldwide] must
follow.
To leave a margin that provides sufficient flexibility at the local level for
the issues that do not conflict with the general lines of the global Islamic
policy.
b- Procedures:
The Movement, at a global level, will define the Islamic
domain and issues in a general way which will require the engagement of all
according to previously defined priorities.
The local leadership will define local issues that come within their
prerogative, according to the principle of flexibility and according to
previously defined priorities.
c- Suggested Missions
Worldwide Islamic engagement for a total liberation
of Palestine and the creation of an Islamic state is the mission which falls to
the global leadership.
To establish a dialogue at a local level with those who work for the cause
according to the global political lines of the Movement. It is up to the local
leadership to define the shape of that dialogue.
THE FOURTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To reconcile political engagement with the necessity of avoiding isolation,
on the one hand, with permanent education and institutional work on the
other.
a- Elements
Liberty to function politically in each country according to
local circumstances, without however participating in a process which makes a
decision which would be contrary to the texts of Shari’a.
To invite everyone to take part in parliament, municipal councils, labor
unions and other institutions of which the membership is chosen by the people in
the interest of Islam and of Muslims.
To continue to educate individuals and generations and to guarantee the
training of specialists in various areas according to a previously designed
plan.
To construct social, economic, scientific and health institutions and
penetrate the domain of the social services, in order to be in contact with the
people and to serve them by means of Islamic institutions.
b- Procedures
To study the varied political environments and the
probabilities of success in each country.
To plan specialized study missions which will concentrate on useful areas
such as communications, the history of Islam, etc.
To conduct feasibility studies concerning various institutions and create
them according to priorities established in each country.
c-Suggested Missions
To conduct studies relating to the experiences of
political Islam and to draw lessons from them.
To give an Islamic policy perspective on the pressing questions of the
day.
To keep questions of local importance such as issues concerning workers,
unions, etc. within an Islamic framework.
To create a certain number of economic, social, health care and educational
institutions, using available means, to serve the people within an Islamic
framework.
THE FIFTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To dedicate ourselves to the establishment of an Islamic state, in parallel
with gradual efforts aimed at gaining control of local power centers through
institutional action.
a- Elements
To channel thought, education and action in order to establish
an Islamic power [government] on the earth.
To influence centers of power both local and worldwide to the service of
Islam.
b- Procedures
To prepare a scientific study on the possibility of
establishing the reign of God throughout the world according to established
priorities.
To study the centers of power, both local and worldwide, and the
possibilities of placing them under influence.
To conduct a modern study on the concept of support for the dawa and Islamic
law, and more particularly on the men of influence in the State and the
country.
c- Suggested Mission
To draw up an Islamic Constitution in light of
efforts deployed up to now.
To draw up Islamic laws, civil laws, etc.
To work within various influential institutions and use them in the service
of Islam.
To use the work of economic, social, and other specialized Islamic
institutions.
THE SIXTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To loyally work alongside Islamic groups and institutions in various areas
and in agreement on a common ground in order to “cooperate on points of
agreement and put aside points of disagreement”.
a- Elements
To coordinate the Islamic work in a single direction as will
permit the laying of the foundations of the growth of Muslim society and
dedication to the power of God on Earth.
For each to work according to his capacities in his chosen field and to
master it, with loyalty and coordination of effort.
b- Procedures
To study the true nature of Islamic movements, to evaluate
their experiences and draw up plans to initiate collaboration among them.
To avoid creating new Islamic movements in a country which already has one;
there will be but one movement, serious and complete.
c- Suggested missions
To coordinate the efforts of all those working for
Islam, in each country, and to establish good contact with them, whether they
work in individuals or in groups.
To reduce the differences that exists between workers for Islam and to
resolve their conflicts according to shari’a.
THE SEVENTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To accept the principle of temporary cooperation between Islamic movements
and nationalist movements in the broad sphere and on common ground such as the
struggle against colonialism, preaching and the Jewish state, without however
having to form alliances. This will require, on the other hand, limited contacts
between certain leaders, on a case by case basis, as long as these contacts do
not violate the [shari’a] law. Nevertheless, one must not give them allegiance
or take them into confidence, bearing in mind that the Islamic movement must be
the origin of the initiatives and orientations taken.
a-Elements:
To combine all efforts against the supreme forces of evil in accordance with
the principle that one must “battle one evil with a lesser evil”.
To limit the collaboration to the leadership or to a limited number of
individuals in order to maximize the benefit and minimize the possible
drawbacks.
To work from perspective of the objectives previously defined for the
dawa.
b-Procedures:
To make a study to evaluate the areas with the object of mutual assistance
between Islamic and other movements and draw lessons from it.
To study the areas which allow cooperation, and define the boundaries.
To study the philosophy and plans of other movements.
c- Suggested Missions:
Each country should study the possibility, in the future, of strengthening
internal collaboration.
THE EIGHTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To master the art of the possible on a temporary basis without abusing the
basic principles, bearing in mind that Allah’s teachings always apply. One must
order the suitable and forbid that which is not, always giving a documented
opinion [according to shari’a]. But we should not look for confrontation with
our adversaries, at the local or the global scale, which would be
disproportionate and could lead to attacks against the dawa or its
disciples.
a- Elements:
To evaluate the education of individuals and not to excessively use typical
modern education that does not correspond to reality, which is devoid of
flexibility and could have grave consequences such as the conflict between
individuals for a simple comment or a simple failure.
To give a documented and scientific view, in the form of speeches,
communiqués and books, that bears on events important to the Ummah.
To avoid the Movement hurting itself with major confrontations, which could
encourage its adversaries to give it a fatal blow.
b-Procedures:
To carry out a study to evaluate the experiences of Islamist movements in
order to avoid their fatal errors.
To develop educational methods that are at the same time exemplary, realistic
and true to our principles, in order to bestow a flexibility sufficient to
permit the facing of reality.
c-Suggested Missions:
To develop initiation programs for the faithful and proceed with sensitivity
to the foundation of past experience.
To prepare individuals according to modern educational methods.
THE NINTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To construct a permanent force of the Islamic dawa and support movements
engaged in jihad across the Muslim world, to varying degrees and insofar as
possible.
a-Elements:
To protect the dawa with the force necessary to guarantee its security at the
local and international levels.
To make contact with all new movements engaged in jihad, everywhere on the
planet, and with Muslim minorities, and to create links as needed to establish
and support collaboration.
To maintain jihad and awakening throughout the Ummah.
b-Procedures:
To form an autonomous security force to protect the dawa and its disciples
locally and worldwide.
To study movements engaged in jihad in the Muslim world, as well as among
Muslim minorities, to better understand them.
c-Suggested Missions:
To build bridges between movements engaged in jihad in the Muslim world, and
between Muslim minorities, and to support them insofar as possible within a
framework of collaboration.
THE TENTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To use diverse and varied surveillance systems, in several places, to gather
information and adopt a single effective warning system serving the worldwide
Islamic movement. In fact, surveillance, policy decisions and effective
communications complement each other.
a-Elements:
To make the policy decisions to collect important and precise
information.
To diffuse Islamic policy so that it is largely and efficiently covered by
the media.
b-Procedures:
To create a modern surveillance system by means of advanced technology
(possibly created at the research centers mentioned earlier).
To create an effective and serious media centre.
c- Suggested Missions:
To warn Muslims of the dangers that threaten them and the international
conspiracies directed at them.
To give our views on current events and future issues.
THE ELEVENTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To adopt the Palestinian cause as part of a worldwide Islamic plan, with the
policy plan and by means of jihad, since it acts as the keystone of the
renaissance of the Arab world today.
a-Elements:
To provide an Islamic view on all areas, problems and solutions relative to
the Palestinian question, based on the precepts of Islam.
To prepare the community of believers for jihad for the liberation of
Palestine. [One can lead the Ummah to realize the plans of the Islamic movement
above all if victory is ours], if God wills it.
To create a modest nucleus of jihad in Palestine, and to nourish it in order
to maintain the flame that will light the road toward the liberation of
Palestine, and in order that the Palestinian cause will endure until the moment
of liberation.
b-Procedures:
To collect sufficient funds for the perpetuation of jihad.
To conduct a study of the situation of Muslims and the enemy in occupied
Palestine.
c-Suggested Missions:
To conduct studies on the Jews, enemies of Muslims, and on the oppression
inflicted by these enemies on our brothers in occupied Palestine, in addition to
preaching and publications.
To fight against the sentiment of capitulation among the Ummah, to refuse
defeatist solutions, and to show that conciliation with the Jews will undermine
our Movement and its history.
To conduct comparative studies on the Crusades and Israel, and [the victory
that will be that of Islam].
To create jihadi cells in Palestine, and support them in order that they
cover all of occupied Palestine.
To create a link between the moujahadin in Palestine and those throughout the
Islamic world.
To nourish a sentiment of rancor with respect to the Jews and refuse all
coexistence.
THE TWELFTH POINT OF DEPARTURE
To know how to turn to self-criticism and permanent evaluation of worldwide
Islamic policy and its objectives, of its content and its procedures in order to
improve it. This is a duty and a necessity according to the precepts of
shari’a.
a-Elements:
To conduct constructive self-criticism, in order to avoid pitfalls.
To proceed with constant evaluation, on a scientific basis, to permit the
further construction of policies.
To improve Islamic policies and to take profit from past experiences must be
a clear and essential objective.
b-Procedures:
To evaluate current practices and profit from past experience.
To ask officials in the various countries to give their views on direction,
methods and results.
c-Suggested Missions:
To produce an official document on global Islamic policy.
To make the countries, the officials and the people aware of that policy.
To begin to apply the policy, to evaluate it annually and to improve it if
need be.
The so-called Arab Spring
has brought the Muslim Brotherhood to the threshold of power and influence in
the Middle East. Their only aim is to control the world with Islam. They know
they cannot use force to convert the West, so they use deceit (taqiyya). They
have managed to deceive a lot of Western politicians into believing
them.
Al-Kubaisi said Brotherhood leaders told him
they have a plan to take over Norway and the rest of Europe as a part of
bringing the whole world under Islam. “The Muslim Brotherhood has a practice.
The have learned to speak with two tongues,” he told CBN News.
Al-Kubaisi also
interviewed Gamal al-Banna, the brother of Hassan al-Banna, the man who founded
of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Al-Banna had surprisingly harsh words for the
modern Muslims Brotherhood movement, saying it does not believe in freedom “in
any way.” “They do not believe in freedom at all,” he said. “There is no
Islamic authority that respects freedom or democracy.” Al-Banna also
condemned the state of modern Islamic culture.
The Arab Spring has turned
into an Islamist winter. Contrary to the administration’s claims, the popular
uprisings have not led to a rebirth of freedom – the emergence of liberal
democracies. Rather, Muslim fundamentalists have used street protests against
corrupt, autocratic regimes as a Trojan horse to expand Islamic
militancy.
Still, Mr. Obama’s greatest failure is Iraq. He
has ordered all U.S. troops to be withdrawn from that country by the end of the
year – except for about 150 soldiers to protect our huge embassy in
Baghdad. He is hailing the decision as a fulfillment of his 2008
campaign pledge. It is a betrayal of the more than 4,400 Americans who died in
the war as well as the tens of thousands maimed and crippled. A power vacuum
will result with Iraq falling under Iran’s sphere of influence. Tehran seeks a
Shiite vassal state. It is meddling in internal Iraqi affairs. Iraq is
splintering along religious and ethnic lines. Iraqi Christians have been
decimated by Islamist insurgents. Iran’s mullahs are on the verge of exporting
their radical Shiite revolution – even at the risk of inflaming Iraq’s Sunnis
and Kurds. Americans did not bleed to benefit Iran’s fascist theocracy. They
fought – and died – to establish a pro-Western Iraq.
ultivated better relations with our Kurdish allies in
northern Iraq, Baghdad would have capitulated. America then could establish
several military bases, especially in Iraqi Kurdistan, from which to project
regional power.
